191,000 people are homeless or have have suffered "significant" damage due to flooding in the Amazon region of eastern Peru, reports the Associated Press. The flooding is considered the worst…
Chut Wutty with Prey Lang Network representatives, November 2011. Copyright Fran Lambrick 2011. All rights reserved. Chut Wutty, a dedicated Cambodian activist, was shot dead at an illegal logging site…
Pronghorn females with male in background in Montana. Photo by: Jeremy Hance. Development of natural gas fields in Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem is pushing pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) out of crucial wintering…
An adult male gorilla—also known as a “silverback” (far right)—with a family group in Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park in the Republic of Congo. Conservationists from WCS and the Max Planck Institute…
Jungle tree in Ujung Kulon National Park on the Indonesian island of Java. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. For decades scientists have been warning that if global society continues with…
The Chacaon peccary, the newest member of the Wildlife Conservation Society's Queens Zoo. Photo by: Julie Larson Maher. The Chacoan peccary (Catagonus wagneri) was only known from fossils and thought…
Mongabay.com provides a quick review of forest-related news for April 2012. Save the Frogs Day took place in April A fallen soldier Chut Wutty, a prominent activist against illegal logging…
Greenpeace protest in Indonesia. Courtesy of Greenpeace. As fallout from its campaign against Asia Pulp & Paper grows, Greenpeace's critics have opened a new front on the environmental group, accusing…
Nearly all the world's remaining Javan rhino have been documented on video via camera traps in Indonesia's Ujung Kulon National Park, according to a montage put together by park authorities.…
Aerial view of the burned bog in Sarstoon Temash National Park. Prior to burning, the bog would have appeared florescent green due to the sphanum moss. Photo by: SATIIM. At…
As a part of PBS' new series Coping with Climate Change reporters visit several towns in Texas which has suffered unprecedented drought beginning in 2010. The drought, which climatologists say…
Approximate site of exploratory drilling by Shell in the Arctic's Beaufort Sea. Pink outline is the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). Shell is also hoping to drill in the neighboring…
There are two subspecies of the finless porpoise, one is found in the Yangtze River, the other in Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea. This individual is the latter and was…
