World’s most expensive tuna
A 593 pound Pacific bluefin tuna sold for $735,000 (56.49 million yen) in Tokyo's Tsukiji market today. This beats the previous record price hit last year by over $260,000. Why…
Eco-toilets help save hippos and birds in Kenya
The common hippo (this one in Botswana) is considered Vulnerable to extinction. Photo by: Tiffany Roufs. It may appear unintuitive that special toilets could benefit hippos and other wetland species,…
Camera traps snap 35 Javan rhinos, including calves
Camera traps have successfully taken photos of 35 Javan rhinos (Rhinoceros sondaicus) in Ujung Kulon National Park. The small population, with an estimated 45 or so individuals, is the species'…
‘Lost world’ dominated by Yeti crabs discovered in the Antarctic deep
A new species of Yeti crabs cover nearly every inch of the "lost world" of deep sea Antarctic hydrothermal vents. Photo by: Oxford University. Click to enlarge. Scientists have discovered…
Frog plague found in India
Hyloscirtus colymba tree frog being fed after being treated for Chytridiomycosis in Panama. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. The chytrid fungus, which is responsible for the collapse of numerous amphibian…
Mouths are sewn shut in protest against deforestation in Indonesia
Controversial logging concession covers over one third of Padang Island. View Larger Map Twenty-eight Indonesians have taken the extreme measure of sewing their mouths shut in a protest turned hunger-strike…
Sarah Laskow: even renewable energy has a dark side
Sarah Laskow is a freelance writer who has covered environmental issues for Grist, GOOD, and Newsweek.com, among others. Raised in New Jersey and educated at Yale where she studied literature,…
Animal picture of the day: dueling green iguanas
Bloodied male green iguanas fight in Colombia. All photos by: Rhett A. Butler. Found throughout Central and South America and parts of the Caribbean, the green iguana (Iguana iguana) is…
Small town rises up against deforestation in Pakistan
View Larger Map The town of Ayun, home to 16,000 people in the Chitral district of Pakistan, has been rocked by large-scale protests and mass arrests over the issue of…
Ecuador makes $116 million to not drill for oil in Amazon
A possibly ground-breaking idea has been kept on life support after Ecuador revealed its Yasuni-ITT Initiative had raked in $116 million before the end of the year, breaking the $100…
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Forest Trackers
- Bolivia’s El Curichi Las Garzas protected area taken over by land-grabbers
- Authorities struggle to protect Bolivian national park from drug-fueled deforestation
- Poverty and plantations: Nigerian reserve struggles against the odds
- Logging, road construction continue to fuel forest loss in Papua New Guinea
Oceans
- To renew or not to renew? African nations reconsider EU fishing deals
- Undercover in a shark fin trafficking ring: Interview with wildlife crime fighter Andrea Crosta
- Twilight zone fishing: Can we fish the ocean’s mesopelagic layer?
- As plastic talks wrap up in Canada, fishers in Indonesia count the costs
Amazon Conservation
- Bird populations are mysteriously declining at an Amazon park in Ecuador & beyond
- New ban threatens traditional fishers in Brazil’s Mato Grosso state
- Deforestation haunts top Peruvian reserve and its Indigenous communities
- Amid record-high fires across the Amazon, Brazil loses primary forests
Land rights and extractives
- Impunity and pollution abound in DRC mining along the road to the energy transition
- Women weave a culture of resistance and agroecology in Ecuador’s Intag Valley
- Hyundai ends aluminum deal with Adaro Minerals following K-pop protest
- Brazil’s illegal gold trade takes a hammering, but persists underground
Endangered Environmentalists
- Final cheetah conservationists freed in Iran, but the big cat’s outlook remains grim
- Indonesian activists face jail over FB posts flagging damage to marine park
- Vietnamese environmentalist sentenced to 3 years in prison for tax evasion
- Son of slain Quilombola leader will still strive for community’s rights
Indonesia's Forest Guardians
- On a Borneo mountainside, Indigenous Dayak women hold fire and defend forest
- Fenced in by Sulawesi national park, Indigenous women make forestry breakout
- In Borneo, the ‘Power of Mama’ fight Indonesia’s wildfires with all-woman crew
- Pioneer agroforester Ermi, 73, rolls back the years in Indonesia’s Gorontalo
Conservation Effectiveness
- The conservation sector must communicate better (commentary)
- Thailand tries nature-based water management to adapt to climate change
- Forest restoration to boost biomass doesn’t have to sacrifice tree diversity
- How scientists and a community are bringing a Bornean river corridor back to life
Southeast Asian infrastructure
- Study: Indonesia’s new capital city threatens stable proboscis monkey population
- Indonesia’s new capital ‘won’t sacrifice the environment’: Q&A with Nusantara’s Myrna Asnawati Safitri
- Small farmers in limbo as Cambodia wavers on Tonle Sap conservation rules
- To build its ‘green’ capital city, Indonesia runs a road through a biodiverse forest
