Nature is in a calamitous free fall but some conservation efforts paid off this year. Here’s how everyone can do their bit, writes Jane Dalton 

‘We must change our diet. The planet can’t support billions of meat-eaters,’ says legendary naturalist

None of Europe’s 10 largest manufacturers of cars with leather interiors was able to fully trace the origins of the leather it was using, report finds

An estimated 100,000 creatures had price tags on last year, destined for ‘life sentence in captivity’