Conservationists

Conservationists hope the long-awaited palm oil packaging law won't hit yet another hurdle, so close to the finishing line.

Palm oil labelling in Australia could become a reality if bill passes 2011

Conservationists say poachers are using military tactics to target endangered rhino for their horns in South Africa.

New Breed of Poacher Decimates African Rhino 2012

Conservationists need to recognise the environmental costs of opposing commercial forestry.

Letters: When the rot set in at the Forestry Commission 2011

KINGSTON, Jamaica -- Conservationists in St. Maarten are warning islanders not to eat lionfish after tests found a naturally occurring toxin in the flesh of the candy-striped invasive species, officials said Thursday.

St. Maarten Lionfish Tainted With Toxin The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

Conservationists fear that pressure from the farming lobby in Europe will mean there is not enough support for agri-environment schemes and not enough funding for wildlife friendly farming measures.

Europe's farmland birds on decline 2011

Conservationists today welcomed the list as one of Britain's most significant natural protection initiatives in decades, but said that the level of safeguards proposed for the nationally important sites varied from tight to potentially weak.

127 areas to be proposed as English marine conservation zones 2011

Conservationists are calling on the public to help efforts to track the spread of a bird disease that has taken hold in garden birds in recent years, with great tits particularly badly hit by the lesions it causes.

UK garden birds hit by avian pox virus 2011

Conservationists have raised concerns that a livestock drug banned in India because it was pushing vultures to the brink of extinction is still being sold.

Banned livestock drug continues to threaten India's vultures, conservationists warn 2011

Conservationists have called on the Indonesian authorities to take urgent action to save the orangutan after a report warned that the endangered great apes were being hunted at a rate that could bring them to the brink of extinction.

Fresh wave of killings by hunters takes Indonesian orangutan to the brink of extinction 2011

KINGSTON, Jamaica -- Conservationists in St. Maarten are warning islanders not to eat lionfish after tests found a naturally occurring toxin in the flesh of the candy-striped invasive species, officials said Thursday.

St. Maarten Lionfish Tainted With Toxin The Huffington Post News Editors 2011