Wild boar threaten chile’s rare monkey puzzle forests

twenty metres up, the canopy looks like a highway. Different shades of green, yellow and grey leaves fuse, creating the illusion of an endless rainforest. I spent most of 2013 in the canopy of a cloud

Climate change is shifting the balance of vineyard biodiversity, creating new challenges for wine-growers

It’s 9pm in late april in an area of the Isle of Man known as the Ballaugh Curragh, and a most unusual nocturnal migration is taking place. As darkness descends on a 2km² area of wet woodland, an esti

Britain could be getting a new ecosystem engineer: in the wake of the ongoing and now legal reintroductions of beavers into watersheds around the country, two Wildlife Trusts now want to bring back th

The monkey slug is not some experimental genetic monstrosity. But even if you see one in the flesh, you may still be unclear what this odd, brown hairy thing is, with its array of fuzzy tentacles. It

Travels in mountain country where nations have little meaning