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Discover the latest from the ZSL– from research updates to successes in our conservation work, we bring you behind the scenes of how we do the important work we do.
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- Restoring nature
Palm oil sector threatens progress to UN goal of ending deforestation
7 November 2024Decade of analysis reveals need to ramp up efforts as deadline to restore world’s forests approaches
- CBD COP16, Cali, Colombia
Conservationists call for impact of armed conflict on biodiversity to be acknowledged
17 October 2024In an article published in the Nature Journal, conservationists from ZSL and CEOBS call on world leaders at CBD COP16 to address the impact of armed conflict on biodiversity loss.
- Measuring how and why nature is changing
Living Planet Index 2024
10 October 2024Living Planet Index 2024
- ZSL response
ZSL response to the sovereignty changes over the Chagos Archipelago
3 October 2024Sovereignty changes over the Chagos Archipelago
- Cutting edge research
Critically Endangered Chinese giant salamander revealed to be multiple species
3 October 2024New study reveals that Chinese giant salamanders are in fact up to nine different species.
Toothed toad found in Vietnam’s ‘froggy hotspot’ described in science for first time
2 October 2024ZSL herpetologists make surprising discovery in a hotspot for rare amphibian species
- ZSL and RAF join up to monitor seals in the Thames Estuary
Conservationists take to sea and air to check wellbeing of Thames seals
26 September 2024Almost 600 harbour and 3,000 grey seals now call the Thames Estuary home, reveals the latest seal survey by international conservation charity ZSL – highlighting the importance of the iconic river for these doe-eyed, native species.
- Bringing species back from the brink
Extinct in the wild sihek released into wild for first time in 40 years
23 September 2024Conservation partnership advances the establishment of the first wild sihek population on Palmyra Atoll
- ZSL Response
Labour pledges to end badger culling
30 August 2024ZSL is delighted by today’s news that the government has pledged to end badger culling by 2029.
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