4+ hour, 14+ min ago  (475+ words) We're disappointed in a good way," biologist Raymond Delarze, who conducted the study with a team from the BEB biological research consultancy in Aigle, canton Vaud, told the Keystone-ATS news agency. The independent study, entitled Lavaux Nature Vivante", was commissioned…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago  (141+ words) The campaign, which has been carried out annually since 2014, aims to obtain an accurate picture of bird life in urban areas and recognise long-term developments. The organisation offers various tools on its website to help identify the most common species....

4+ day, 23+ hour ago  (169+ words) Following the recent reports of a bear in the Lower Engadin, between Ftan and the Ofen Pass, a specimen has now also appeared further south in the the woods between Le Prese and Miralago in canton Graub'nden. + Brown bears making…...

1+ year, 1+ day ago  (225+ words) Bird Life Switzerland is therefore creating new habitats for Europe's smallest swallow. + Biodiversity loss in Switzerland in six graphs Maintaining existing colonies in gravel pits is a priority, writes Bird Life on Monday. Where this is not possible, special sand…...

4+ week, 5+ hour ago  (806+ words) Beth Rosenberg has spent the past 20 years observing bears in remote areas of Alaska, without electricity or running water. The biologist and ecologist, who works at the Alaska Pacific University, can now recognise individual animals by the shape of their…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (119+ words) Beavers increase the number of plant species, store carbon through their dams and purify water. It is "a major ally for biodiversity, C'cile Auberson, scientific coordinator for the National Beaver Advisory Service and co-author of the new report, told Keystone-ATS…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (148+ words) In this episode of "The Swiss Connection" science podcast, reporter Julie Hunt takes us to the bottom of Swiss lakes, where the quagga is a threat to biodiversity and water-based infrastructure. Quagga mussels originally come from the Black Sea region…...

3+ mon, 3+ day ago  (215+ words) The system was developed by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) and is being tested in Alaska. + AI in Switzerland: what's new in 2026? Identifying a brown bear with certainty is not as simple as it seems. A bear's…...

4+ mon, 4+ week ago  (328+ words) A researcher from the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) and two American colleagues used data from 140 weather radars in the United States, the WSL explained on Monday. According to the authors, some 100, 000 billion insects fly…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago  (387+ words) This content was published on Nov 22, 2025 Drug trafficking, violence and weak state support overshadow Peru's Amarakaeri reserve, where Indigenous communities struggle to protect forests amid failed carbon schemes and growing illegal deforestation. To monitor its programmes, the UN climate change…...