Research into frequent prescribed burning in a globally important hotspot in southwestern Western Australia reveals a negative impact on endangered species.

Due to climate change, the Brazilian Cerrado, a global biodiversity hotspot, is becoming hotter and drier, with longer and more intense dry seasons. This alters biodiversity by altering plant physiol...

Today, these spoil tips form diverse and intricate habitats. Heathland, flower-rich grasslands, species-rich lichen and moss communities.

The waters around two remote atolls in the central Pacific Ocean—spanning 18,500 square miles—are now protected from fishing

Context The Southwest Australian Floristic Region has exceptional plant evolutionary complexity for fire, nutrition and pollination traits.Aims Our aim was to allocate pollination strategies to all…

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Scientific Reports - Unexpected microbial diversity in new Caledonia’s ultramafic ecosystems with conservation implications in a biodiversity hotspot

We have well over 10,000 wildlife records on Danes Moss, see what we are doing to highlight how much of a biodiversity hotspot Danes moss is

The vicuña, a wild relative of the llama, could help reestablish plants in barren areas where glaciers have melted, according to a recent study in the high Andes of Peru. As vicuñas tend to poop in the same places, they...

Despite government commitments to protect sensitive natural areas and biodiversity hotspots, oil and gas exploration continues to rise both in the Amazon and in Southeast Asia, according to a group of environmental activists at COP30. — The group of activists,...

The areas protect coral reefs, seagrasses, mangroves, and threatened shark and ray species WCS congratulates Tanzania’s leadership and supports community-driven conservation efforts View high-res image here Newswise — Nice, France, June 10, 2025 – At the Third United Nations Ocean...

The Duck River in Tennessee supports one of the most biologically diverse freshwater mussel communities in North America, historically harboring over 70 species. This comprehensive historical assessment, based on a database of over 7,000 mussel records spanning from the early...

A slew of applications by a little-known mining group to explore for critical minerals in South Africa’s Northern Cape province, including within the buffer zone of a nature reserve, has alarmed environmental groups and activists. They warn that the remote and water-scarce region, a globally significant biodiversity hotspot with unique ecosystems and exceptional plant diversity, risks being treated as barren desert. The seven applications from Johannesburg-based Umboso cover a range of minerals considered critical for manufacturing renewable energy components, including cobalt (essential for making lithium-ion batteries), iron ore (used in steelmaking), gallium and germanium (used in making solar panels and cells), uranium, and rare earths needed to make magnets for wind turbines. Prospecting for these minerals could turn the Northern Cape into a “Wild West” for extractive industries, said Liziwe McDaid, strategic lead at the environmental justice organization Green Connection, which has brought several successful court cases against mine prospecting elsewhere in the country. The Umboso Group, which only registered as a company in 2023 and does not publicly list any previous mining experience, applied in February to prospect on seven tracts of land in the Northern Cape — in one case inside the 5-kilometer (3-mile) buffer zone of Gamsberg...