15 of the 27 member states voted for a two-year restriction on neonicotinoids despite opposition by countries including Britain

The father of crocodile hunter Steve Irwin has launched a multimillion pound campaign to save Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.

Activists plan to shadow shooting parties with vuvuzelas to scare badgers away

There had been a colossal smothering, truly weird to witness

Scientists and ministers were at loggerheads last night as they blamed one another for letting plans to protect Britain's marine wildlife and habitats descend into "confusion and disarray".

This year's spectacular show of wild English bluebells faces a growing threat from a garden escapee

European court expected to back attempt by pelt traders and sporran makers to reverse 2010 ruling

An entire generation of seabirds could be wiped out on a section of the British coastline after hundreds were found dead last week, wildlife authorities have warned.

One of the few species to have hardly changed in tens of millions of years

Visiting the restored ecosystem of the Norfolk Estate, under which the grey partridge once naturally flourished is like stepping back in time

A wildlife charity has renewed calls for oil additive PIB to be reclassified by the International Maritime Organisation to prohibit discharges at sea after “a whole generation of seabirds” died.

Indian Supreme Court rules other populations should be established in neighbouring states

The UK's pair of giant pandas could be put together today in the hope they will mate.

A Chinese vessel that ran into a protected coral reef in the south-western Philippines held evidence of even more environmental destruction inside: more than 10,000kg of meat from a protected species, the pangolin or scaly anteater.

Chemicals used to disperse Gulf of Mexico spill blamed for marine deaths and human illness