Articles by Alex Taylor - Page 25

Fingers crossed over the next 25 years we should see polecats continue to spread and consolidate their population throughout Britain.

Conservationists have collected hundreds of amphibian species threatened by the fungus and are maintaining them in captivity with the hope to someday re-establish them in the wild.

A new study has shown that the policies regulating the hunting of grey wolves do not match basic scientific data, and potentially undermine conservation efforts.

Since 2005, the population of Giant Petrels has halved from over 5,800 nesting birds to around 2,600 in the South Orkney Islands.

The removal of these animals from the ecosystem upsets the natural balance and leads to a loss of heavy-wooded large trees.

A combination of climate change and habitat loss caused a range wide decline of nearly 4% per year between 1985 and 2013.

Overall, an area the size of around 4,500 football pitches is still being lost every day.

Findings suggest that if drainage continues, there will be a continued decline in the breeding habitat for piping plovers at wetlands in the Great Plains.

A study of the physiology of birds in the Western Cape in South Africa suggests that birds’ population decline in response to warming temperatures is more complex, and more serious, than previously thought.