A lot can change in three years. In January 2007, the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) jumpstarted a program unique in the conservation world: EDGE, which stands for Evolutionarily Distinct…
Researchers have found that coca cultivation is associated with high rates of forest loss, at least in the southern forests of Colombia. According to a new paper just published in…
Amazon River swimmer Martin Strel. Photo courtesy of amazonswim.com. Explorers have been making their way down the world's mightiest river for hundreds of years. Untold numbers of people have not…
IRIN News, a news service operated by the UN Office for Humanitarian Affairs, has reported that charcoal production in Somalia is continuing to rise despite a government ban. Charcoal production…
An Interview with AJ Patel, founder of the Hasla Mara Wildlife Conservation Foundation The Masai Mara. Photo by Rhett A. Butler At the epicenter of East Africa’s Great Migration, the…
Just six years ago the beautiful medium-sized Asian cat, the clouded leopard, was considered a single species. Then in 2006 researchers announced that there were, in fact, two unique species…
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In 1206 AD Genghis Khan began the Mongol invasion: a horse-crazed bow-wielding military force that swept through much of modern-day Asia into the Middle East and Eastern Europe. But aside…
A survey of a remote forest area in Madagascar turned up seven new groups of silky sifaka, a critically endangered lemur threatened by habitat destruction. The finding raises hope that…
WWF, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), and the UN have all recently expressed concerns about two oil companies' plan to explore for oil in Africa's oldest…
The spiky, odorous, weighty, and almost impenetrable durian fruit is considered by some to be a fine delicacy, but others a putrid horror. Its taste has been described between a…
A highly regarded conservation textbook is now available online for free. Conservation Biology for All, a book edited by Navjot S. Sodhi of the National University of Singapore and Paul…
The European Union temporarily shut down its carbon market after a security breach, reports Point Carbon. The European Commission suspended most of its Emissions Trading Scheme following the disclosure of…
Four different global temperature records show the Earth is warming. Graph courtesy of NASA. Click to enlarge. New images released by NASA illustrate how four different global temperature records show…
Three hundred and thirty-three rhinos were killed in South Africa last year, the highest number yet. Ten of the rhino were black rhinos, which are listed as Critically Endangered by…
DNA evidence has shown that the forest elephant-Africa's smaller, shyer pachyderm-is indeed a separate species from the much more well-known savanna elephant. While scientists have long debated the status of…
It's a common image of the African savanna: vultures flocking to a carcass on the great plains. However, a new study has found that vulture populations are plummeting in Kenya's…
The floods ransacking the Queensland coast have cost 31 lives and $30 billion worth of property damage. Now, huge volumes of water are pouring into the ocean, threatening the Great…
The level of Tanzanian timber forest certified as sustainable increased by 700 percent earlier this month. The certification not only represents an environmental win, but is expected to bring opportunities…
An interview with cougar expert, Howard Quigley California cougar. Photo by Travis Bartnick It holds the Guinness World Record for having the most names of any animal on the planet,…
According to a new paper published in Science, current carbon accounting methods significantly overstate the amount of carbon that can be absorbed by forests, plains, and other terrestrial ecosystems. That…
According to a new paper published in Science, current carbon accounting methods significantly overstate the amount of carbon that can be absorbed by forests, plains, and other terrestrial ecosystems. That…
On Wednesday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issued its biennial report identifying six countries whose fisheries have been engaged in illegal, unreported, or unregulated (IUU) fishing during the…
Photograph released by the Sarawak forestry department Camera traps have photographed a rare small cat species in Borneo, but contrary to claims in The Telegragh, which reported on the story,…
The president of Brazil's environmental agency IBAMA has resigned over pressure to grant a license for the Belo Monte dam, a hydroelectric project on the Xingu River that faces strong…
The Indonesian government will soon issue a decree allowing geothermal mining in protected forests, reports The Jakarta Post. Mining of any kind is currently prohibited in protected forest areas, but…
2010 tied 2005 as the warmest year on record, according to separate analyses by NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Global surface temperatures in 2010 were 1.34°F (0.74°C)…
On October 1, 2010, the carcass of a striped hyena was found entangled in barbed wire surrounding an orchard in southern Armenia. The find represents the nation's first confirmed hyena…
Scientists have announced the discovery of a new species of carnivorous dinosaur which lived 230 million years ago in what is today Argentina. Eodromaeus, which means "dawn runner", weighed only…
Una especie no identificada de libélula en Borneo. Foto cedida por cortesía de Janie Dubman. PASIR PANJANG, Borneo – PASIR PANJANG, Borneo- La selva es nada sino un tesoro oculto.…
