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Cooked frog#s legs are piled in the center of a white plate into which someone is pouring a green sauce.

France's love of frog's legs has a high environmental cost

The French consider frog's legs a delicacy. But their love of the traditional dish is threatening frogs in Asia.
Nature and EnvironmentJune 18, 202405:00 min
A reindeer standing on a road in Sweden

How busy roads are driving some species to extinction

The global roadkill toll is so high it's threatening whole species and warping the planet's ecology.
Nature and EnvironmentMay 14, 2024
Head Keeper holds newborn pygmy hippo, at the Attica Zoological Park.

Rare hippo species born in Athens Zoo

The endangered pygmy hippopotamus' birth was "extremely important" for the zoo. Its name will be decided by a vote.
Nature and EnvironmentMarch 20, 2024
Two rhinos being fed by a person dressed in green

Last chance for the northern white rhino

Using modern medicine, scientists are making a last-minute attempt to rescue the northern white rhino from extinction.
ScienceFebruary 23, 202407:10 min
Two polar bears fighting

Why big animals are getting smaller

Ever wondered why did dinosaurs shrank to the size of tiny lizards? Researchers say they have solved the mystery.
ScienceJanuary 18, 2024
Two parrots perched on a cage in someone's backyard

Will AI help us talk to animals?

Scientists are using AI to analyze and decode animal communication, which may be more like human language than we think.
ScienceJanuary 8, 2024
DW Eco India (Sendungslogo Composite)

Saving biodiversity: Crucial for environmental protection

Saving biodiversity and protecting endangered species - crucial elements for environmental protection.
Nature and EnvironmentDecember 28, 202326:06 min
DW SHIFT | Koala

Koalas and Kagaroos Protected by AI

The movements of koalas and kangaroos are analyzed online with AI image recognition.
Digital WorldDecember 20, 202302:53 min
DW SHIFT | Hack the Planet

SHIFT – Living in the Digital Age

New AI technologies are being used to protect species more effectively.
Digital WorldDecember 15, 202312:36 min
A panda looks out from among bamboo shoots.

Germany: Panda twins leave for China

Several pandas are heading to China from around the world. Are we seeing a shift in China's "panda diplomacy?"
PoliticsDecember 14, 202303:17 min
Giant Panda Tian Tian walks on grass in its enclosure at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, US.

Beloved pandas loaned to US zoo return to China

A family of giant pandas loaned to Washington's National Zoo as part of China's panda diplomacy have been returned.
Nature and EnvironmentNovember 13, 202302:36 min
Eco Africa

Southern right whales face new challenges

How is climate change affecting South Africa’s southern right whale population?
Nature and EnvironmentNovember 13, 202304:25 min
DW Eco Africa (Sendungslogo Composite)

Eco Africa - The Environment Magazine

The challenges facing South Africa’s southern right whales, and a sustainable gem mine in Zimbabwe.
Nature and EnvironmentNovember 9, 202326:06 min
A boat on the water, surrounded by four other images of various explosives

Montenegro: Dynamite fishing ongoing despite ban

Fishers are still using illegal explosives off Montenegro's coast to catch fish, destroying marine life and habitats.
Nature and EnvironmentNovember 2, 202304:42 min
A man stands in a room, holding out his gloved hand as a bird lands on it

How Japan's exotic pet cafes harm animal conservation

Wildlife experts warn these "cafes" are harming conservation efforts amid Japan's lax legislation.
Nature and EnvironmentNovember 1, 202303:46 min
Two men installing a device in an orange grove in Spain

Intelligent irrigation - Spain's farmers defy the drought

Spain's farmers are developing new methods to save water, as drought is impacting the southern part of the country.
Food SecurityNovember 1, 202304:00 min
A white coral reef seen underwater, backlit by lights held by a scuba diver

In Florida, ocean restoration groups help preserve reefs

Scientists and activists are collaborating to save Florida's coral reefs. DW's Ines Pohl found out more in Key West.
ClimateSeptember 13, 202302:29 min
Environmental activist Egor Chastukhin

Russian eco-activists persevere amid crackdown on dissent

What remains of ecological advocacy in Russia rests on the shoulders of under-resourced activists like Egor Chastukhin.
Nature and EnvironmentSeptember 13, 202303:11 min
The Mediano reservoir at 25.5% of its capacity due to the ongoing drought, on July 26, 2023 in Huesca province, Spain

WWF urges fundamental change in EU water management

Mismanagement is the main driver behind Europe's water scarcity, the activists say.
Nature and EnvironmentSeptember 7, 2023
The rare baby giraffe without spots at the family-owned Tennessee zoo in the US

Rare giraffe without spots born at US zoo

The giraffe was born at a family-owned zoo in the southern state of Tennessee.
Nature and EnvironmentAugust 23, 2023
Karlsruhe Zoo veterinarian Lukas Reese and curator and biologist Sandra Dollhäupl hold two red pandas. The cubs were born on June 25.

Germany: Endangered red panda gives birth to 2 cubs at zoo

The birth was the first for an endangered red panda at Karlsruhe Zoo in southern Germany.
Nature and EnvironmentAugust 4, 2023
A baby cub looks over her mother's back

Hamburg's polar bear cub has first big day out

A young polar bear at a zoo in Hamburg has ventured out to discover the world for the first time.
Nature and EnvironmentJuly 22, 20237 images
DW Eco India | Sea Turtle

Sea turtle conservation in Tamil Nadu

A task force of local fishermen in Tamil Nadu has initiated a conservation programme for sea turtles.
Nature and EnvironmentJuly 13, 202302:44 min
DW Eco India | Fireflies

Protecting fireflies in Maharashtra

Environmentalists in Maharashtra are working on the conservation of fireflies to ensure biodiversity.
Nature and EnvironmentJuly 13, 202305:32 min
Blackbucks in a conservation centre in Lal Sohanran National Park, Pakistan

Saving Pakistan's endangered blackbuck antelopes

A conservation center imported dozens of the animals into Pakistan and, over decades, was able to reestablish a herd.
Nature and EnvironmentJune 28, 202303:54 min
Ecotourists look on as an Olive Ridley sea turtle makes its way down a beach near the small coastal village of Velas in western India

Saving India's endangered baby turtles

Velas village's ecotourism helps both the community and the endangered Olive Ridley turtles.
Nature and EnvironmentMay 22, 202302:30 min
DW Eco Africa (Sendungslogo mit Partnerlogos englisch)

Eco Africa — The Environment Magazine

On Eco Africa: Empowering women in the solar industry and saving endangered seals in Albania.
Nature and EnvironmentMay 11, 202326:06 min
Turtle, beach, sand, ocean

Eco-tourism, turtles and tradition

Velas village: saving turtles and empowering communities with eco-tourism
Nature and EnvironmentMay 2, 202306:01 min
A nuclear power plant

Legal attack on EU calling nuclear power, gas 'sustainable'

Environmental NGOs are taking the EU's policy of calling nuclear power and gas green to the European Court of Justice.
Nature and EnvironmentApril 18, 2023
Karibik-Manati

What's killing Florida's manatees?

Worldwide, one in every three species could be endangered or extinct by 2100. Manatees are already threatened.
Nature and EnvironmentApril 4, 202305:25 min
Screenshot Beitrag Turtles find friends in Benin

Turtles find friends in Benin

Off the coast of Benin, Bienvenue Djossou has converted his pub into a safe zone for sea turtle hatchlings.
SocietyMarch 13, 202302:42 min
Activists of "Letzte Generation" (Last Generation) splash black liquid on the "Basic Law 49" artwork about constitutional rights at a Bundestag building

WWF worried about optics of Last Generation protests

Climate activists covering the "Basic Law 49" artwork with black paint had priorly led to outrage from the public.
ClimateMarch 7, 2023
A cheetah in quarantine in a South African reserve, Sept 4, 2022

India welcomes 12 South African cheetahs

The Indian government has flown in South African cheetahs as part of a program to reintroduce the cats into the country.
Nature and EnvironmentFebruary 18, 2023
Five orca whales in green water

Orca moms may be feeding their sons into extinction

A specific species of male orca whales live in a state of perpetual adolescence, to everyone's potential detriment.
ScienceFebruary 10, 2023
Emperor penguin colony in Antarctica

Emperor penguins, reindeer among threatened species: WWF

Between 80% to 100% of all emperor penguin colonies face extinction by 2100 at present greenhouse gas emission levels.
Nature and EnvironmentDecember 29, 2022
A light-colored wolf with snow on its head

What are keystone species and why do we need them?

From wolves to shrimps, keystone animal and plant species are vital facilitators of healthy and biodiverse ecosystems.
Nature and EnvironmentDecember 13, 2022
Kenya Wildlife Services (KWS) rangers stand guard around illegal stockpiles of burning elephant tusks, ivory figurines and rhinoceros horns at the Nairobi National Park

Global trade rules against extinction: Do they work?

An international convention is supposed to stop one million animal and plant species from going extinct.
Nature and EnvironmentNovember 25, 2022
Markhor, Pakistan's national animal

How Pakistan is trying to save its national animal

Excessive hunting and loss of habitat for decades have turned the markhor into an endangered species.
Nature and EnvironmentOctober 18, 202203:04 min
Hand holding Cuban crocodile

The race to save Cuba’s endangered crocodiles

Researchers are fighting to save the endangered Cuban crocodile from habitat loss, climate change and poaching.
Nature and EnvironmentSeptember 7, 20229 images
An ivory-billed woodpecker sitting on a branch

Extinction: 6 species we recently lost

Humans are wiping out species at an alarming rate. What animals have recently gone extinct?
ScienceAugust 22, 20226 images
DW's Eco Africa

Eco Africa — The Environment Magazine

On this Eco Africa: Human-elephant conflicts in Gabon and saving Senegal's Atlantic beaches from erosion.
Nature and EnvironmentAugust 19, 202226:06 min
A monarch butterfly sits on a flower

Monarch butterfly listed as endangered

The beloved orange-and-black insect is a step closer to extinction due to climate change and habitat destruction.
Nature and EnvironmentJuly 21, 2022
A bouquet of flowers is placed in memory of An An

Oldest male panda in captivity dies in Hong Kong

Giant panda An An, who was living at a Hong Kong theme park, was euthanized at the age of 35 due to poor health.
Nature and EnvironmentJuly 21, 2022
Miss Waldron's red colobus monkey in Ivory Coast

Looking for Miss Waldron's red colobus monkeys

Miss Waldron's red colobus were once thought extinct. Now researchers think they have found some of the primates.
Nature and EnvironmentApril 14, 202205:24 min
A baby pangolin is being given water at the Johannesburg Wildlife Veterinary Hospital

Protecting southern Africa's pangolins 

Meet the organizations trying to safeguard pangolins, the world's most trafficked mammal.
Nature and EnvironmentApril 4, 2022
Plastic waste visible underwater

Plastic pollution in oceans growing dramatically, WWF warns

A new WWF report says fossil-fuel derived substance "has reached every part of the ocean."
Nature and EnvironmentFebruary 8, 2022
Leptobrachium Iunatum frog

New species discovered in the Mekong region

Conservationists have counted 224 new species in one of Southeast Asia's most intensely threatened wildlife hotspots.
Nature and EnvironmentJanuary 26, 2022
Aerial shot of dead sheep scattered across a dry landscape

What to expect from the world's sixth mass extinction

What can we expect as we descend into the first mass extinction in 65 million years?
Nature and EnvironmentJanuary 11, 2022
African forest elephant

WWF warns of biggest extinction event 'since the dinosaurs'

More plants and animals than ever before are now on a global list of threatened species, the WWF Germany has warned.
Nature and EnvironmentDecember 29, 2021
Chelonoidis phantasticus/ Fernandina giant tortoise

Seemingly extinct animals who are back from the dead

Every year many animal species go extinct, never to be seen again. But some species are rediscovered as well.
ScienceDecember 6, 20217 images