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A “radical shift” in management is needed to protect the Mackenzie Basin from ongoing damage, the Environmental Defence Society (EDS) says in an extensive report released last week.The Mackenzie Basin straddles both Mackenzie and Waitaki districts and falls under the management of the t

With extremely limited global travel, and the almost total shutdown of the tourism industry in Fiji, Ocean Ventures Fiji, a PADI scuba diving operator based in the untouched Natewa Bay near Savusavu, decided to put their time to good use by writing a first-of-its kind coral reef ecology course.

There's a whirlwind of distressing news these days. Rage over racism; fretting over finance; and coronavirus may just be getting its boots on. It's all a perfect time to unleash some quiet mayhem on the environment.

Pandemics such as coronavirus are the result of humanity’s destruction of nature, according to leaders at the UN, WHO and WWF International, and the world has been ignoring this stark reality for decades.

Conservationists in Hong Kong remain puzzled by the scale of record illegal shark fin shipments into the city this year, at a time when overall consumption is down.

Remote wilderness areas and national parks in the western United States are getting a dusting of plastic every year, perhaps 1000 tons or more, according to a new study.

Roughly half of Earth's ice-free land remains without significant human influence, according to a study from a team of international researchers led by the National Geographic Society and the University of California, Davis.

In northern Cambodia, giant ibis, white-winged ducks and other rare species have helped ecotourism take flight in recent years.

Safari tourism has long been an economic boon to people living in Africa. But the suspension of flights and safari visits because of the COVID-19 pandemic has decimated this critical source of income – and devastated the wildlife conservation efforts it funds.

Science Times reported on April that the Great Barrier Reef underwent its third major bleaching event in the last five years. The reef has experienced a back-to-back coral bleaching in 2016 and 2017 that killed almost half the reef's corals.