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Along with humanitarian and other forms of aid, the U.S. government is one of the world’s biggest funders of nature conservation projects. In 2023 alone, USAID provided $375.4 million to such projects ...

A new study published online today, April 25, in the scientific journal Science provides the strongest evidence to date that not only is nature conservation successful, but that scaling conservation ...

ARLINGTON Va. (7News) — Every day is Earth Day at an Arlington garden featuring several trees, ferns, and plants native to Virginia. Arlington Native Plant Garden is a half-acre garden filled with ...

Graduate student Joanne Mendez, a biochemistry, molecular, cellular and developmental biology major, studies an axolotl in Associate Professor Crystal Rogers' lab. (Karin Higgins/UC Davis) Did you ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI)—models that process large and diverse datasets and make predictions from them—can have many uses in nature conservation, such as remote monitoring (like the use of camera ...

Andrew Lowe receives funding from a range of national and international funding sources including the Australian Research Council, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, The ...

On the first day of shotgun season, Emma Ellsworth traded her hunting post for a hike to the State House steps to show her support for nature and conservation. “When we protect our open spaces, our ...

A coalition of more than 60 conservation and nature groups say a proposed ballot question for next year’s election could ...

Nigeria has launched a national Biodiversity Finance Initiative (BIOFIN) to unlock private-sector financing for nature ...