Damselfish behaviour is influenced by rats

OF THE MANY pressing ecological issues facing the world today, invasive species come in near the top of the list. The aquarium trade is not blameless in its role of introducing unwanted species well o

They’re noisy, they pinch chips, and they make a mess, but these birds deserve our admiration, writes Ruth Miller

IT HAS BEEN DONE ON LUNDY (size: 4.45km²), Ruapuke Island (16km²) and South Georgia (3,500km²), but now conservationists want to eliminate non-native, invasive predators from much, much larger sites:

In Sydney, Australia, sulfur-crested cockatoos have a reputation for raiding skips and bins and being able to figure out a way past almost any lock people might use to try and keep them out. Now, they

THE BEAUTY WITH snorkelling or diving is that it transports you away from the rat race of modern life into an alien world, far detached from our own. With that first dip beneath the surface, the stres

It’s not only salmon making their move, writes Giles Catchpole