The London Zoo becomes the world’s first scientific zoological garden.
The Swedish physician and botanist Carl Linnaeus publishes the tenth edition of his book Systema Naturae, which then provides the foundations for modern zoological taxonomy.
The Albert National Park (later renamed Virunga) in the Belgian Congo becomes the first National Park in Africa.
The 1989 Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wildlife Fauna and Flora (CITES) bans the international trade of African elephant ivory.
Early modern European voyages to the New World led to the globally transformative exchange of people, plants, ideas, and diseases.
United States and Great Britain (on behalf of Canada) sign the Convention for the Protection of Migratory Birds in 1916.
This state organization is founded to manage the conservation of New Zealand’s natural heritage.
This South American cactus moth is used to combat the spread of the prickly pear.