Key news on nature, biodiversity and climate across Europe
Key news on nature, biodiversity and climate across Europe
August 19, 2026 – Three new wolf packs were confirmed in the Swiss canton of Grisons, or Graubünden, in the first half of August, the canton’s hunting and fisheries office said. In the Lower Engadine area in the east of…
July 23, 2026 – Bulgaria’s population of Egyptian vultures had its best breeding season in nearly 20 years, with 35 hatched chicks recorded, according to the Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds. The number of hatched chicks is the…
July 20, 2026 – Germany has more white stork breeding pairs this year than it did a century ago, with the number across the country expected to exceed 15,000 pairs this season, according to Naturschutzbund Deutschland, the largest German environmental…
July 18, 2026 – At least two Eurasian lynx cubs have been born in the Black Forest in southwestern Germany for the first time in around 200 years, following the release of female lynx in recent years in an ongoing…
July 18 – Scottish scientists will fit GPS trackers to up to 35 white-tailed eagle chicks over the next two years to help assess the extent of sea eagle predation on lambs and sheep, according to government nature agency NatureScot.…
July 17, 2026 – Belgium’s North Sea port of Zeebrugge is again home to Western Europe’s largest breeding colonies of both sandwich terns and common terns, according to the Flemish agency for nature and forest. The Flemish Research Institute Nature…
July 14, 2026 – The Belgian city of Peer has created new habitat for the common spadefoot toad on the outskirts of the city, and introduced juveniles there for the first time on July 14 in an attempt to set…
May 7, 2026 – A missing female Eurasian lynx that had been released in central Germany’s Thuringian Forest in 2024 was captured on wildlife cameras with at least one cub in tow, conservation group BUND Thüringen said on Thursday. The…
May 6, 2026 – The golden-brown fern moth, a native of New Zealand and Australia, appears to have become an established exotic in Belgium, nature conservation group Natuurpunt said. The moth, whose Dutch name `varenhobbit’ translates as fern hobbit, is…
May 6, 2026 – Three British wildlife charities released 4,000 eggs of the dark bordered beauty moth in Scotland’s Cairngorms National Park in a bid to establish a new population of the rare species, which is currently restricted in the…