Extinction

Our wonderful wetlands need protection now

Article Martha Rojas Urrego - 14 Feb 2020

Humanity is amazed by our natural world but fails to value its importance to our survival

Grass roots of Ice-Age extinctions

Article Matthew Du Plessis - 14 Feb 2020

Mammoths and sabre-tooth cats once roamed the continent, but were our ancient ancestors responsible for their disappearance?

We’re killing off life, but there is hope

Article Sipho Kings - 3 Oct 2019

Sipho Kings reports on the findings of a mega government report on the state of our plants and animals, and what’s being done to secure their future

One million species risk extinction due to humans — draft UN report

Article Marlowe Hood - 23 Apr 2019

Biodiversity loss and global warming are closely linked, according to the 44-page Summary for Policy Makers

Climate change claims its first mammal extinction

Article Sipho Kings - 1 Mar 2019

Climate change has eaten away at the only known habitat where the rodent had evolved to live

Editorial: Our moment of reckoning is now

Article Editorial - 15 Feb 2019

'At the M&G we have committed to redoubling efforts to ensure we offer even greater prominence to the threat of climate change'

Fossil teeth reveal new facts about a mass extinction 260 million years ago

Article Kevin Rey - 29 Apr 2018

A study has found that a local event rather than a global shift in climate caused the mass extinction in South Africa

Hunters should stop using lead bullets and help save the vultures

Article Beckie Garbett - 19 Mar 2018

A new threat to vultures is emerging: lead poisoning from ammunition used by game hunters

Why coral reefs are important and why they are dying

Article Loes Witschge - 30 Jan 2018

More than 11 billion pieces of plastic larger than five centimetres wide are littering coral reefs across the Asia-Pacific region

Toughie, the ‘loneliest frog on Earth’, croaks

Article Sipho Kings - 17 Oct 2016

Unable to migrate and not enough time to adapt to climate change, the Rabbs’ fringe-limbed tree frog is extinct.

Activists hijack Cites and shoot down local solutions

Article Sipho Kings - 29 Sep 2016

Countries that wiped out their own species are now dictating how others should manage theirs.

A fifth of all plant species on earth are close to extinction

Article bogdan TagDiv - 13 May 2016

Thousands of new plants are being discovered every year, but the movement of agriculture and urbanisation are threatening a fifth of all species.

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