Natural World

World Rainforest Day raises awareness that these critical spaces are home to half the world’s animal and plant species yet the size of 40 football fields is lost every minute of every day

If urgent action is not taken around 700 million people will be displaced by drought by 2030

Sea turtles, the world’s oldest species are under serious threat but one man – the UAE’s Sheikh Fahim Al Qasimi – affectionately known as the Turtle Sheikh, is on a mission to save them

They’ve been successfully rewilded in France, Switzerland and Germany so could the once extinct lynx make a return to England to create an eco-tourist big cat territory?

Rescue rats strapped with microphones in mini backpacks, are being trained to locate earthquake victims stuck under the rubble

Being named after an A-lister might seem fitting for a newly discovered insect, plant or animal but what happens when the celebrity becomes unpopular?

Rising ocean temperatures in the popular tourist areas along Australia’s north eastern coast – including the Whitsundays – has caused coral bleaching on an unprecedented scale so what can be done to save the reef?

Rosa, a critically endangered sumatran rhino, has given birth to a healthy baby calf after suffering eight miscarriages since 2015

In India, home to almost 70 per cent of the world’s tigers, huge conservation advances are being made but with more tigers, come new dilemmas