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Scoring palm oil buyers on their sustainability commitments

Mike Gaworecki 10 Oct 2016

The island that time forgot: discussing Sable Island’s remarkable wildlife with producer Bill Barton

Shannon Cuthbert 10 Oct 2016
Coffea Arabica plant. Photo by Forest and Kim Star/Wikimedia Commons

Ethiopia’s vulnerable tropical forests are key to securing future of wild coffee

Fiona Hesselden at the University of Huddersfield 10 Oct 2016
Tiputini River in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadoran Amazon. Photo by Jeremy Hance

Exclusive: New satellite images show Ecuador drilling in Yasuni’s ITT

Jeremy Hance 9 Oct 2016

Fires ravaged forests in Indonesian palm oil giant Astra’s land in 2015

Mongabay.com 7 Oct 2016

Rabbs’ fringe-limbed tree frog now presumed to be extinct

Mike Gaworecki 7 Oct 2016

Romania announces ban on trophy hunting of bears, wolves and wildcats

Shreya Dasgupta 7 Oct 2016
Villagers in Tanzania use mobile monitoring to keep an eye on the forests. Photo courtesy USAID Africa

Despite conservation efforts, Tanzania’s forests still under pressure

Sophie Tremblay, Willy Lowry 7 Oct 2016

Indonesia’s oil palm plantations are rife with spitting cobras

Dyna Rochmyaningsih 6 Oct 2016

Vietnam sweats bullets as China and Laos dam the Mekong

David E. Brown 6 Oct 2016

Brazil pledges to cut carbon, but government policies say otherwise

Jenny Gonzales 6 Oct 2016
Mountains near Machu Picchu in Peru. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Peru’s REDD+ conservation efforts paying off

Dan Collyns 6 Oct 2016

Hunting, not deforestation, biggest threat to Southeast Asian biodiversity: Study

Mike Gaworecki 6 Oct 2016
A female North Atlantic right whale and her calf, off Cumberland Island, Georgia, in January 2013. Photo by Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, collected under NOAA Research Permit #15488

A week of grim tidings for critically endangered right whales

Rebecca Kessler 6 Oct 2016

CITES CoP17 closes after key votes on elephants, lions, pangolins, rosewood, and more

Mike Gaworecki 5 Oct 2016

The salmon crisis in Chile’s Chiloé Island

Rodrigo Soberanes, Andrés Pérez 5 Oct 2016

Hydropower threatens Bolivian indigenous groups and national park

Eduardo Franco Berton/RAI 5 Oct 2016
Gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Signs of regrowth offer hope for Peruvian rainforest cleared for gold

Benji Jones 5 Oct 2016

Field Notes: Mapping condor conservation strategies

Elizabeth Devitt 5 Oct 2016

House of Mussels: an artificial reef off the coast of Jakarta

Edith Koesoemawiria 5 Oct 2016

Is REDD+ finance really put to work in the right places?

Andreas Scheba / Jens Friis Lund / Mathew Bukhi / Eliezeri Sungusia 5 Oct 2016

Laws alone don’t stop companies from abandoning deadly mine pits in Indonesia

Yitno Suprapto 5 Oct 2016

New species of rabbit-like pika discovered in India

Shreya Dasgupta 5 Oct 2016

Jane Goodall on zoos and tech as conservation tools

Erik Hoffner 4 Oct 2016

Poisoned lives: five decades of pollution in Chile’s Quintero-Ventanas Bay

Sebastián Balcazar 4 Oct 2016

Acoustic monitoring: mapping ecosystems by animal calls

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 4 Oct 2016

Brazil revises Amazon deforestation 6% upward

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Oct 2016

The Myanmar snub-nosed monkey: discovered and immediately endangered

Sean Mowbray 4 Oct 2016

Victory for forests: Rosewood gets enhanced protection at wildlife summit

Shreya Dasgupta 4 Oct 2016

New film documents real-life Avatar story

Jeremy Hance 4 Oct 2016

139 scientists shoot down ‘misleading’ reports from Malaysia peat congress

Loren Bell 4 Oct 2016

Strongest drought in 25 years hits Bolivia

Miriam Telma Jemio 3 Oct 2016

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