Species diversity is changing globally and locally, but the complexity of ecological communities hampers a general understanding of the consequences of animal species loss on ecosystem functioning.

Chris Dutton is used to broken equipment. In the years he’s spent analyzing the creatures of the Mara River basin in Africa, his cameras and sensors have been tusked by elephants, crushed by hippos, ...

Washington, DC—The International Whaling Commission (IWC) was founded to regulate whaling. Today, it increasingly focuses on the value of live whales for planetary health. A new workshop report ...

This article first appeared on the May 2014 cover of Environmental Health Perspectives and was funded under Mongabay.org’s Special Reporting Initiative: Innovation in tropical biodiversity ...

Maximillian Tercel receives funding from Natural Environment Research Council and Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust. Invertebrates are often described by experts as the “little things that run the ...