Pact to preserve vast swathe of wilderness faces reluctance from industry and resistance from native groups.

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A new strategy to selectively spare pregnant females has brought the Chesapeake Bay crab population back from a precipitous collapse in just 3 years.

A bold move by eight Pacific island nations to preserve the world's last large stocks of tuna is expected to face strong resistance at a meeting of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) near Honolulu, Hawaii.

An unlikely coalition of logging companies and environmental groups has reached an agreement to protect more than 300,000 square kilometres of Canadian boreal forest