Di bulan Juni, rata-rata es laut yang ada di Kutub Utara tercatat terendah untuk bulan tersebut, menurut National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). Diukur oleh satelit, pergerakan musiman es…

The vice president of Indonesia on Wednesday urged scientists and the broader international community to help Indonesia find a balance between conservation and natural resource use. Addressing an audience of…

The bulk of illegally traded wildlife moves through two "triangles" that span the Indonesian archipelago, an ecologist told scientists attending a meeting convened in Sanur, Bali by the Association for…

On July 20th two unidentified men rode up to Amit Jethwa on a motorcycyle as he was coming out of his office in Ahmedabad and shot him dead at point…

Steve Simpson, Senior Researcher at the University of Bristol's School of Biological Sciences, spoke with Laurel Neme on her "The WildLife" radio show and podcast about ocean sounds and how…

Known abroad for past images of drought and starvation, the African nation of Ethiopia has announced that it has tripled forest cover from 3 percent in 2000 to 9 percent…

An Indonesian farmer near Gunung Kawi in Bali. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler, 2010. To see highlight photos from a trip to Indonesia in 2010: Highlights of Indonesia, May 2010.

Data released from the US's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Climatic Data Center shows that June 2010 was a record breaker. It was the warmest month…

The New Zealand government has caved to public pressure, announcing that it is dropping all plans to mine in protected areas. The plan to open 7,000 hectares of protected areas…

Consumers in the US purchasing mahogany furniture may be unwittingly supporting illegal logging in a Peruvian reserve for uncontacted indigenous tribes, imperiling the indigenous peoples' lives. A new report by…

An infant crested black macaque (Macaca nigra). Photo by: Rhett A. Butler, 2010. Endemic to the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, the crested black macaque is listed as Critically Endangered by…

Memasuki sebuah kapal pengangkut parang pagi-pagi di tanggal 6 Juni, pegawai bea cukai menemukan 2.090 trenggiling beku dan 92 bungkus sisik trenggiling, seberat 3.960 pound. Dijalankan oleh lima orang Cina…

With advanced genetic techniques, researchers have drawn a picture of just how devastating the currently extinction crisis for the world's amphibians has become in a new study published in the…

As I discovered in the course of researching my book, No Rain in the Amazon: How South America’s Climate Change Affects the Entire Planet (Palgrave, 2010), the oil industry has…

The small wild cat, the margay in Belize. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. Researchers have stumbled on a surprising talent of this small predatory cat: while studying the pied tamarin…

Kakadu National Park, one of the Australia's "largest and best-resourced" protected areas, is experiencing a staggering decline in its small mammal population, according to a new study published in Wildlife…

The Horton Plains slender loris (Loris tardigradus nycticeboides , thought extinct by researchers for over six decades, has finally posed for a photograph. This small nocturnal primate lives in the…

A new report by the United Nation Environment Program (UNEP) and the Nature Conservancy has found that mangrove forests are being lost at staggering rates worldwide: since 1980 one fifth…

Meski pemerintah Indonesia menikmati perjanjian terakhir dengan Norwegia untuk memperlambat penggundulan hutan dalam bentuk miliaran dolar AS, sebuah laporan baru dari Eyes on the Forest menunjukkan bukti fotografis dari banyak…

Global production of illegal timber down by 22 percent from 2002. A new report by the Chatham House finds that illegal logging in tropical forest nation is primarily on the…

Sejak manusia masuk ke dunia, alam telah memberikan pada kita berbagai ragam yang luas pelayanan esensial dan 'gratis': beberapa di antaranya adalah produksi pangan, penyerbukan, kesehatan tanah, penyaringan air, dan…

Petani Brazil telah memperpanjang moratorium mereka atas penggundulan hutan Amazon untuk setahun lagi, menurut laporan Greenpeace. Moratorium tersebut diresmikan di bulan Juli 2006 sebagai respon atas kekhawatiran di antara pembeli…

Boarding a suspect fishing vessel in the early morning of June 6th, Chinese customs officials discovered 2,090 frozen pangolins and 92 cases of pangolin scales, weighing an astounding 3,960 pounds.…

In June the average sea ice extent in the Arctic was the lowest on record for that month, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). Measured by…

The elusive forest buffalo in Gabon. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. While most people are familiar with the African buffalo or cape buffalo (Syncerus caffer), its forest-dwelling subspecies (Syncerus caffer…

While the Indonesian government basks in a recent agreement with Norway to slow deforestation to the tune of a billion US dollars, a new report by Eyes on the Forest…

One of the few photos of Jerdon's courser, and probably the world's best. Photo by: Simon Cook/Birdlife International. Jerdon's courser, listed as Critically Endangered by the IUCN Red List, is…

Lisa Tekancic, president of the WildCat Conservation Legal Aid Society spoke with Laurel Neme on her "The WildLife" radio show and podcast about captive wildcats and the wildcat pet trade.…

Ever since humans entered the stage, nature has been providing us with a wide-variety of essential and 'free' services: food production, pollination, soil health, water filtration, and carbon sequestration to…

The UK's Royal Society has announced that it will begin a major study into the impacts of human population. A largely taboo topic for decades, the Royal Society wants to…