By about 1850, the great auk was extinct; the last two known specimens were hunted down by fishermen on Eldey Island, off the coast of Iceland. The songbird obsession that became an extinction ...

That is a quote from Primatologist and Conservationist Dr. Jane Goodall. Dr. Goodall was being interviewed by a reporter from the BBC in Vienna, Austria. She was on her way to Berlin on an expansive ...

“We’re in the midst of the sixth great extinction,” Dr Goodall tells me during our interview for BBC Radio 4’s Inside Science. “The more we can do to restore nature and protect existing forests, the ...

We found that we need only about 1.2% of the Earth's surface to head off the sixth great extinction," Eric Dinerstein of the NGO Resolve and the lead author of the study said in a statement, referring ...

“As we look closer at the geologic record at the time of the great extinction, we are finding that the end-Permian global environmental disaster may have had multiple causes among marine and ...

“We’re in the midst of the sixth great extinction,” Dr Goodall tells me during our interview for BBC Radio 4’s Inside Science. “The more we can do to restore nature and protect existing ...

Unfortunately, that forest has been shrinking rapidly, putting the great ape critically close to extinction. Orangutans only live in Southeast Asia, in the rainforests of Sumatra and Borneo.

Dr Goodall stressed the importance of taking immediate action to mitigate global warming. Renowned primatologist and conservationist Dr Jane Goodall has sounded the alarm on the biodiversity ...