Smartphones are helping map and restore Costa Rica’s Pacific coral reefs
Divers in Golfo Dulce and around Caño Island are using ordinary phones to build 3D models of reefs, while a restoration team plans to plant 4,000 corals by 2029.
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Divers in Golfo Dulce and around Caño Island are using ordinary phones to build 3D models of reefs, while a restoration team plans to plant 4,000 corals by 2029.
A young male Amur tiger now roams the Ile-Balkhash reserve, joining a female set free in the summer as Kazakhstan works to bring tigers back after more than 70 years.
A 36-year project on Costa Rica's Central Pacific coast has helped scarlet macaws climb from about 215 birds to around 800, and the public can now watch 11 nests online.
A healthy calf born in Assam's Manas National Park extends the family of a rhino rescued from the Brahmaputra floods in 2004, part of the effort that brought rhinos back to the park.
Conservationists from Durrell have confirmed a new species, the Mauritian tidal trapdoor spider, which hides in ancient tubes in coral rock that flood at every high tide.
Larvae of the short-necked oil beetle, one of Britain's rarest insects, have turned up on the Castlemartin range in Pembrokeshire, showing a new generation has thrived.
A £30m public appeal has secured nearly 15 square miles of Northumberland for nature, the biggest single landholding to come up for sale in England in more than 30 years.
Eleven green sea turtles, nursed back to health in Auckland and released, have shown scientists the northern bays and harbours where they like to spend their time.
Up to 20 Indigenous ranger groups across three Australian states are combining traditional knowledge and science to give a rare burrowing lizard a future.
After weeks of care at a rehabilitation centre, nine orangutans, including four mothers with young, have been released into a protected forest in West Kalimantan.
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