Kya deLongchamps shows us how to champion our environment

NAYA, a female wolf, arrived in Belgium in January last year.

A century ago, 100,000 tigers roamed the planet. Today, only about 3,900 remain in the wild. So for International Tiger Day, there's no better time to get informed on the endangered species and what conservation methods are being implemented to save them.

No way is it enough to focus on recycling the plastic we produce. We have got to produce less plastic, writes Victoria White

Climate change, biodiversity, and sustainability are all words that appear in daily news reports, and with good reason. We have all been informed, from various sources, that our current way of life, on a global scale, is unsustainable and the time-lines presented to us for action are quite alarming, write Dr Naomi Lavelle

With the world facing serious environmental threats, European leaders should make a green Europe their number-one priority for the coming years, writes Michel Barnier

The creators of a spectacular new natural history series on Netflix tell Des O’Driscoll about the tricky task of engaging an audience while warning about the state of the planet.

Most Irish media have been headlining the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) report on the critical demise of various species without noticing the huge impact Irish people have on the depopulation of these world species and even our impact on Ireland’s native animals and birds.

Thai authorities have seized 21 rhinoceros horns smuggled from Ethiopia worth almost $5m (€4.7m).

At the last official count two years ago, England had 2,057,797 rugby players, almost 50 percent more than the rest of Europe combined.

A unique conservation effort in Afghanistan has helped bring the elusive snow leopard back from the brink and given hope to one of the poorest and most isolated communities on earth.

The industry is developing new and greener ways to do business and the results are pretty mouth-watering, writes John Daly

From the outside, it looks like an enormous, anonymous grey warehouse.

LIKE a bright but distracted child, maybe a slightly frightened one, who can’t concentrate long enough at exam time to realise their potential, we seem unable to focus properly on, or even process honestly, myriad warnings about how our relentlessly cavalier attitude towards the environment will eventually change our world utterly — and not by any means for the better.

African elephant numbers are likely to drop as the high rate of poaching in parts of the continent remained unchanged last year, a study reveals.

Wild giant pandas in China are doing well. The latest census by China’s State Forestry Administration shows the panda population has grown by 268 to a total of 1,864 since the last survey ending in 2003.

There’s good news from Portugal. 

Never let it be said that the Golf Column isn’t ahead of the game but if proof were needed, we’re not too modest to toot our horn.

Forget for a moment concerns about CO2 levels in the atmosphere. Humanity’s relentless advancement has caused devastation right here on earth, with global wildlife populations being halved in 40 years.

Bison moving in to Romanian mountains

FOUR decades on from a watershed international agreement, 2013 was designated the Year of the Polar Bear.

A deal to reverse an allegedly catastrophic drive towards emptying the seas of fish has been agreed.

ON April 11, European bison were released to the wild in Germany.

Members of the European parliament will play a pivotal role in the reform of the EU’s Common Agriculture Policy when they debate and vote on the proposals tomorrow and Wednesday.

WORLD Wildlife Fund president for Spain, King Juan Carlos, was ‘outed’ early last year for hunting elephants in Botswana.

Desperately seeking solidarity

The World Wildlife Fund’s branch in Spain has ousted King Juan Carlos as its honorary president — a title he had held since 1968 — after deciding his recent elephant hunting safari was incompatible with its goal of conserving endangered species.

EU countries will be allowed to privatise their fish quota under what Fisheries Minister Simon Coveney describes as a “huge success” for the country.

As his new exhibition opens in Dublin, Sebastião Salgado tells Pádraic Killeen why he has greater hope for the environment

A military offensive has been launched against poachers in a remote forest in the Central African nation of Cameroon.

All-Ireland Championship weighed in favour of losing teams? No way, says John Fogarty.

A SYMBOLIC act guaranteeing vital attention for environmentally friendly policies, or a well-meaning but ultimately pointless move that does nothing to solve a genuine problem?

Poachers are using aircraft to hunt and kill rhinoceros, Zimbabwe’s wildlife chief said, as demand in Asia for their horns’ supposed medicinal benefits grows.

I MET a Wild Man of Borneo last week.