Biodiversity

Wander down the meat aisle of any supermarket and you will find mountains of chicken being sold at unbelievably cheap prices. The real reasons for this cannot be found on the label.

Are zoos an essential tool for preserving biodiversity in the 21st century or a Noah's-Ark-style anachronism riddled with woodworm and sinking fast?

I think that pigs everywhere are dropping semantic pearls before human swine who labour under the delusion that all pigs can do is go ‘oink’

Navy vs the Whales. They have the most mysterious and beautiful songs in the natural world. But now they are dying, drowned out by the deafening roar of Western navies’ new sonar devices.

The problem with vivisection, argues Derrick Jensen, is that we’re experimenting on the wrong sort of animals.

The problem with vivisection, argues Derrick Jensen, is that we’re experimenting on the wrong sort of animals.

The promise that cloning will be a boon to conservation is, says Malcolm Tait, a complete cop-out

If trends continue the world’s great apes are doomed to extinction. But one unique rehabilitation project in West Africa is challenging this bleak picture. Beatrice Newbery reports