Orangutan experts plead for Australian food manufacturers to reject palm oil

Apes, elephants, rhinos and tigers at dire risk if unsustainable palm oil plantations allowed in Sumatran reserve

Sales of shark fin in China drop by up to 70%

Traditionally a symbol of wealth and luxury, public attitidues towards shark fin are changing in China, according to a new report

Conservationists call for Canary Islands whale sanctuary instead of oil scheme

World Wide Fund for Nature launches campaign as Repsol announces that exploratory drilling could start in October

Cheetah smuggling driving wild population to extinction, report says

Rising demand for luxury pets in the Gulf states taking gruesome toll as two-thirds of snatched cubs are dying en route

Revealed: whale-watching boats the greatest collision threat to whales

Guardian Australia analysis of International Whaling Commission data shows motor yachts, naval vessels and ferries come close behind

Virunga is saved but Africa’s wildlife is being encircled sliver by sliver

Campaigners have managed to keep the Congo national park free from drilling just as protected sites elsewhere are being cravenly redrawn