The Ganges River dolphin is the most evolutionary distinct of the three river dolphin species and extremely threatened. Nadia Richman is working on the effects of fisheries and pollution on  this species in Bangladesh and India for her PhD with the ZSL and Bangor University. After losing 15 hours of my life to queuing in visa offices, [...]

What comes to mind when you think about conservation in China? Pandas?  The demands of Traditional Chinese Medicine on threatened species?  The challenges generated by  unprecedented development and a population of over a billion people? Considering its rapid economic growth, enormous human population and strong cultural relationship with biodiversity and the environment, China embodies the key [...]

  For our team in the Indicators and Assessment Unit (I&A), the 10th of November was a very exciting day. The latest IUCN Red List update included more than 800 freshwater mollusc species (mainly from Asia, Australasia, South America and Russia). Of these, 1 in 5 species fall within a threatened category which is the [...]

ZSL’s Kirsty Kemp investigates the structure and species diversity of cold-water coral communities – structurally complex and highly productive ocean environments which serve as feeding grounds and nurseries for many organisms. Kirsty’s work aims to understand how these reefs are established and their role in maintaining species diversity in the deep sea. Go on the [...]

I am usually a third year PhD student working on detecting the causes of vertebrate population declines from time-series data at the Institute of Zoology, but for the past three months I exchanged my jeans and t-shirts, student life-style for ironed shirts and skirts, rush-hour tube journeys and Westminster business meetings. I took a break [...]

Communicating the importance of the worldwide conservation of animals and their habitats- as well as the scientific research behind- it is a significant problem for the conservation community. What will it take to make conservation fashionable, ultimately leading to changes in behaviour and a more sustainable relationship with our planet? ZSL wants to find out. [...]