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NGOs recorded 4,097 hectares of forest loss and 187 hotspots in the nationally protected area in the first half of this year.
Jeffrey Chatellier is the Indonesia country director of Forest Carbon, an environmental consultancy. Devan Wardwell is an avid environmentalist and specialist ...
In coral reef ecosystems, fish typically constitute a substantial portion of living biomass and thus represent an important reservoir of nutrients. ...
With its 300,035 square kilometers, Nazca-Desventuradas Marine Park protects 12 percent of Chile’s marine surface territory.
The Barbary macaque — Europe’s only native, non-human primate — has been up-listed to Appendix I of the CITES, making commercial ...
Amid a logging ban, domestic turbulence, and illegal timber harvesting, Myanmar’s forests face an uncertain future.
Indonesian authorities have reopened an investigation into Pusaka Benjina Resources, the fisheries minister announced on Friday.
Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa for the seventeenth Conference of ...
Recently spotted forest loss for agriculture and gold mining threatens endangered wildlife and indigenous communities in El Sira Communal Reserve.
Mongabay offers a glimpse into conservation science in progress: Stephanie Courtney Jones suggests that “pesty” traits that help invasive species spread, ...
ith the disbanding of Colombia’s largest military guerrilla group, FARC, Colombia’s forests could come under pressure from developmental goals. Home to ...
Records of confiscated live wild animals reported to the CITES represent only a fraction of the actual animals being illegally traded, ...
Peruvian agricultural shareholders will now have access to an $88 million line of credit.
Increased trade in pangolins is having drastic consequences for their population numbers. In 2008, just two pangolin species were classified as ...
The vast majority of forests restored under China’s Grain-for-Green program are monocultures or compositionally simple “mixed” forests, which scientists say spells ...
Fewer than 100 ploughshare tortoises remain in the wild, conservationists estimate, and continued poaching of these animals for the illegal pet ...
Nicaragua is home to what is perhaps the last wild frontier of Central America — but its wild areas are under ...
The cash-strapped Southeast Asian nation is trying to rehabilitate 2 million hectares of damaged peatlands in the wake of last year’s ...
Richard Elson is a filmmaker who will be presenting his work at next month’s Wildlife Conservation Film Festival in New York ...
A regional news network is energizing Amazonian people, helping them take informed action regarding plans to turn the Tapajós River and ...