Ecology

Marine researchers in New Zealand have identified the direct impact of fishing as the largest known human factor in the decline of the endangered native sea lion population. The team’s findings, published in Mammal Review, discount non-human factors, such as disease and identifies resource competition and by-catch incidents as the most likely causes. The New Zealand […]

Survival in the depths of the tropical rainforest not only depends on a species’ ability to defend itself, but can be reliant on the type of cooperation researchers have discovered between ants and tropical trees. The research, published in Biotropica, reveals how the ants use chemical signals on their host tree to distinguish them from competing

The rainforest charity Cool Earth and the green certification programme, Planet Positive have partnered up to give businesses a powerful way of tackling climate change and saving energy. Protecting endangered Amazon rainforest is now one of the options in Planet Positive’s green certification process. Businesses and organisations are led through the process of having their carbon footprint measured and