Nell Lewis

Billions of birds travel thousands of miles across the globe twice a year. But the routes they have taken for millennia are under threat. A $3 billion conservation plan could be their only hope. Read our @CNN interactive with Woojin Lee and @CarlottaDotto trib.al/aXb8V1r

🏝 “Redonda shows that rewilding works, when Mother Nature is left to do what she does best," says Johnella Bradshaw, Redonda program coordinator for the @EAGAntigua. Read more on this incredible #rewilding success story from @nellylew for @cnni. edition.cnn.com/2023/09/29/tra…

The Neretva is one of the most threatened rivers in Europe. More than 50 hydropower projects are planned along its 140-mile length. If built, scientists fear these would alter the course and character of the river forever @cnni @UlrichEichelman edition.cnn.com/2023/08/10/wor…

Watch @CNN video about the Neretva Science Week. @nellylew was with us in this stunning riverscape. edition.cnn.com/videos/tv/2023…

The Hebridean island at the heart of a £6.2 billion industry. Islay is home to nine of the 145 active Scotch whisky distilleries — Ardbeg, Ardnahoe, Bowmore, Bruichladdich, Bunnahabhain, Caol Ila, Kilchoman, Lagavulin and Laphroaig. via @nellylew @cnni edition.cnn.com/2023/06/16/tra…

‘To keep locals happy, distilleries need to invest back into the island, Bowman says’ An excellent feature on Islay by ⁦@nellylew⁩ ⁦@CNNTravel⁩ ⁦⁦@cnni⁩ cnn.com/2023/06/16/tra…

The purpose of the science week in one image: data collection (Prof Gabriel Singer u Dr Kurt Pinter) and communication (me for ⁦⁦@CNN⁩). Credit Josh Lim.

"It’s about a lot more than cricket." nytimes.com/2023/04/26/wor…

Record ocean temperatures put Earth in ‘uncharted territory’, say scientists theguardian.com/environment/20…

"It was like a nuclear war had happened underwater" - how Zafer Kizilkaya helped to revive this stunning coastline, and today wins the Goldman environmental prize 👑 edition.cnn.com/2023/04/24/wor…

We really do 💚 Glad to see my 2020 article continues to highlight the inspiring example of Costa Rica’s reforestation cnn.com/2020/07/27/ame…

After decades of deforestation, suffering ever more flash flooding, drought, erosion and landslides, democratic Costa Rica took the decision in the 1980s to turn the tide. Since then, in one generation, forest cover has more than doubled, from a quarter of the country to half. How did Costa Rica do this? The government offered a subsidy to any landowner willing to establish new tree cover on their land. In the agriculturally productive areas, nothing much changed. It was simply more lucrative to grow food than to allow the forest to reclaim the land. But in agriculturally marginal areas, farmers swapped their cattle for trees, and made a new way of life revolving around wood and other forest products, small-scale market gardening, nature tourism and so on. Parched cattle ranch after cattle ranch has been transformed into lush, vibrant forest teeming with wildlife. In some areas the forest now stretches from horizon to horizon. In these areas flooding and water shortages are no more. There’s a powerful lesson here for all countries. Restoring nature is easy if bad incentives are replaced with good ones. England’s pioneering new Environment Land Management Scheme is another good example. Let’s hope others follow.

My time in Antarctica has come to an end. An important message, please read ❄️👇🏻 🧵1/n

Ten photographs that made the world wake up to climate change cnn.it/3nlBSw2

Extraordinary images by photographer @levonbissphoto capture a vanishing world of 40+ extinct or endangered insects from the collections of NY's @amnh. 🐞🦋🐝 Explore the full gallery here extinctandendangered.com/gallery and read more from @nellylew at @cnn➡️ edition.cnn.com/style/article/…

Scientists are deploying tech to track and understand whales by their vocalizations - and understand more about the health of the ocean environment @nellylew @CNN cnn.it/3DXWXTu

It takes you on the extraordinary journey of the bar-tailed godwit, which, each year, flies nonstop from Alaska to New Zealand - more than 8,000 miles - in under 10 days. Turn the sound on 🔈

Billions of birds travel thousands of miles across the globe twice a year. But the routes they have taken for millennia are under threat. A $3 billion conservation plan could be their only hope. Read our @CNN interactive with Woojin Lee and @CarlottaDotto trib.al/aXb8V1r

A third of the world's migratory bird species travel, rest & refuel along the East Asian-Australasian Flyway. But it's tragically the world's most threatened flight path. 🌏 This year, we created a $3billion project to conserve & restore it.⬇️#CallToEarth edition.cnn.com/interactive/20…

This video about bridges for bears is very sweet and encouraging! Amazing work from @StefCNN & @leifcoorlim, and a great accompanying write by @nellylew