A major review of over 67,000 animal species has found that with greater resource allocation, conservation can halt and reverse biodiversity loss. European bison (Bison bonasus) are a conservation ...

Judith Puncochar prunes a tree on her farm outside of Saint Paul, Nebraska. Most of Puncochar's farm is enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program, a federal land conservation initiative that she ...

A bipartisan quartet of U.S. representatives today introduced the North American Grasslands Conservation Act which, if passed by Congress, would create an incentive-based fund to sustain and restore ...

In the realm of tax law and conservation easements, the March 28, 2024, decision in Valley Park Ranch, LLC, Reed Oppenheimer, Tax Matters Partner v. Commissioner, 162 T.C. No. 6 changes the landscape ...

Last month, right before the holidays, nearly 200 countries announced a breakthrough deal to protect Earth’s plants and animals. Of the 22 targets established at the United Nations Convention on ...

The 2023 omnibus spending bill, signed into law by President Biden last month, is a massive $1.7 billion spending spree, but the 4,000-page package does include a modicum of fiscal prudence. It will ...

Building trust in food begins with empowering farmers through one of the largest and most diverse conservation- and sustainability-focused public-private partnerships in our nation’s history: ...

If there was any doubt about incoming President Donald Trump’s emphasis on domestic energy production, it was laid to rest with his familiar mantra of “Drill, baby, drill!” in Monday’s inaugural ...

On my trip bicycling through Mexico in 2019, I was once again reminded just how important psychology—the science of human behavior and decision-making—is for developing effective conservation programs ...

“Conserving nature” is not going well. Nearly all indicators of biological diversity are trending in the wrong direction, from habitat loss and the impacts of invasive species to extinction rates and ...

For decades, if not centuries, Maasai cattle farmers in Northern Tanzania have reared their animals alongside iconic wildlife species like cheetahs, lions and black rhinos. But that may change this ...

I have learned that anthropomorphism is a deeply suspect word, used to defend cruelty to creatures unable to speak and defend themselves against human exploitation. –Sir Brian May, founding member of ...