A new snake belonging to the Colubridae family has been found in Gujarat, India and researchers say it not only represents a new species but also a new genus. The…
More than one month has passed since approximately 3,000 barrels of crude oil ended up in various tributaries of Peru's Amazon River --two oil spills that were the responsibility of state…
Gorillas have been caught on camera in the Ebo Forest of Cameroon for the first time ever. Ebo Forest is comprised of nearly 2,000 square kilometers (about 770 square miles)…
An Indonesian police officer convicted of illegal logging and money laundering is on the run from the law — again. The convicted officer, Labora Sitorus, was originally charged in early…
ven the most celebrated conservation successes can seemingly be undone overnight. That was the hard lesson Takeshi Furuichi learned when conflict erupted in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC),…
A new study provides further evidence that humans drove large-scale landscape changes in Madagascar after they brought cattle to the Indian Ocean island around 1,000 years ago. Analyzing the chemical…
Most consumer goods giants with commitments to eliminate deforestation from their palm oil supply chains are “moving far too slowly,” according to a new Greenpeace scorecard that rates their progress.…
In the remote parts of southeastern Laos PDR, biologists have discovered a “surprisingly” high number of the little-known Owston’s civets. These civets, known only from Vietnam, Laos and a small…
Scientists were surprised by what they heard from under the sea [NPR] The depths of the ocean are often thought of as being peaceful and quiet. At least that’s how…
Researchers with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) discovered what may be a new species of 'dumbo' octopod at a depth of 4,290 meters (2.5 miles) during a deep…
Want to make a million dollars? Find the most efficient way to map Indonesia’s peatlands. That’s the ticket to winning the Indonesian Peat Prize, announced by the cartographically challenged Southeast…
Key features, benefits, and limitations of a free, open-source data software program with a community-based chili-fence project case study.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has one of the world's biggest remaining tracts of rainforest (second only to the Amazon in size), home to unique and threatened species…
There may be more orangutans in Sumatra than we thought, but that is the only good news found in a paper published today in the journal Science Advances. The authors…
Two back-to-back oil spills have left indigenous communities in Peru's northern Amazon, along the Chirico and Marañón rivers, in a really bad shape. The crude oil has traveled thousands of miles since…
Adélia Marinho de Souza’s cottage garden is a hidden treasure. You leave behind the rough pavement, rank-smells, and sewage-contaminated streets of the city of Altamira in the state of Pará…
The rising demand for fish, combined with unsustainable fishing practices, has put tremendous pressure on wild catches. Aquaculture -- cultivation of fish and shellfish -- has been trying to fill…
China's log imports fell sharply in 2015, according to official customs data. As reported by the International Tropical Timber Organization's ITTO TTM Report: 20:4, China’s log imports in 2015 amounted…
Berta Cáceres' colleagues allegedly kept a eulogy for her for years, one they never hoped to use. "Her murder would not surprise [them]," read last year's Goldman Environmental Prize announcement, published when Cáceres…
Mist is rising through the forest canopy in the growing dawn of the South Indian jungle. It’s barely seven am and I am driving back from a stupendously successful morning…
From the Malayan sun bear to a blood python, Malaysians seem to have found a booming marketplace for wild animals on Facebook. Much of this online trade is carried out…
ith a vigorous campaign to repatriate and compensate scores of foreign fishing slaves winding down, the Indonesian government has pledged to make human trafficking a central front in its war…
As human development encroaches into the world's forests, conservation organizations and governments are looking for effective ways to track deforestation. A couple years ago an online platform called Global Forest Watch…
From Laos to Belize, forest personnel use the Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool (SMART) to more efficiently anticipate and combat wildlife crime.
In the rainforests of southeastern Asia, a parasitic plant called Rafflesia produces the world’s largest flowers. Some Rafflesia flowers, for instance, can be a meter and a half in diameter,…
The Colombian production has won most of the biggest international film awards, among them the Art Cinema Award at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, and recently, it was nominated for Best Foreign Film at the…
Peru may be playing a more visible role in climate negotiations, especially related to conservation of its tropical forests. But despite this, deforestation has been increasing over the past 15…
Beetles are everywhere. Of the roughly 1.5 million species described so far, beetles account for around 400,000 species, making them the most species-rich group known in the world. In contrast,…
