As we usher in the new year, it’s time once again to showcase some of the species that will be on Fauna & Flora’s radar in ...
Interested in a career working in wildlife conservation? Three Fauna & Flora staff share how they came to work in ...
It’s the botanical equivalent of bumping into a bird of paradise. A series of expeditions to a remote mountain top in West Papua in search of a legendary blue orchid have hit the jackpot. Joint ...
From a young age we are taught the importance of forests. We learn that trees take up carbon dioxide and convert it into oxygen. Forests are depicted as essential ecosystems and rightly so. Their ...
With their incredible ability to absorb vast amounts of carbon dioxide, mangroves have recently been put in the global spotlight as one of nature’s heroes in the fight against climate change – but ...
Sixty Siamese crocodiles, from five separate nests, have successfully hatched in Cambodia’s Cardamom National Park – the largest record of this species breeding in the wild this century and a massive ...
Illegal wildlife trade is one of the most pressing threats to our planet’s biodiversity, and a wide variety of people and organisations – from individuals and community groups to NGOs and government ...
How many of us have unthinkingly bought apples wrapped in plastic? Don’t worry, this isn’t another diatribe about plastic (we’re saving that for later). It’s a rant about plants. Wrapping a layer of ...
Fauna & Flora conservationists in Vietnam have captured camera-trap imagery of the endangered forest musk deer in Cao Bang province, the first time the species has been officially recorded in the wild ...
To say that fishing is the predominant threat to marine life is not controversial. This is the last group of wild animals we harvest on a global scale and the impact of that harvesting is ...
Ask the average wildlife enthusiast to list the world’s top havens of biodiversity and the chances are that the Annamite Range wouldn’t feature. In fact, the largely unexplored tropical forests that ...
The Sombrero ground lizard is a critically endangered reptile, endemic to a tiny Caribbean island near Anguilla. In 2018, it was estimated that fewer than 100 individuals of the species were left in ...