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Getting SMART about Wildlife Crime

Julia John 2 Mar 2016

Smallest of giant flowers ‘accidentally’ discovered in the Philippines

Shreya Dasgupta 2 Mar 2016

Award-winning Colombian film, “The Embrace of the Serpent”, is not sitting well with a local indigenous community

Ruxandra Guidi 1 Mar 2016

The African palm oil frontier expands deeper into the Peruvian Amazon, impacting indigenous communities’ territories

Barbara Fraser 1 Mar 2016

A forest full of beetles: an interview with bug researcher Caroline Chaboo

Shreya Dasgupta 1 Mar 2016

‘Sitting on the edge of a knife’: Deforestation ramps up in Queensland

Morgan Erickson-Davis 29 Feb 2016

Market-based conservation programs slow deforestation in Chile, study finds

Peter Mellgard 29 Feb 2016

Conservationists part ways on primary forest logging

Saul Elbein 29 Feb 2016

A mangrove forest in Cancun that was home to many crocodiles, boas, eagles, herons, frogs, squirrels and iguanas is destroyed

Pablo Hernández Mares 29 Feb 2016

‘Status symbols’: Japan emerging as major hub for illegal trade in slow lorises due to their popularity as pets

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Feb 2016
Leonardo DiCaprio accepts the Oscar for Best Actor at the 88th Annual Academy Awards at Dolby Theatre on February 28, 2016 in Hollywood, California. Courtesy of the Academy Awards.

DiCaprio calls for climate action in Oscar speech

Mongabay.com 29 Feb 2016

For Leap Day, 35 pictures of frogs

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Feb 2016

Indonesia’s antigraft agency strives to rein in the mining sector

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 27 Feb 2016

The week in environmental news – Feb 26, 2016

Brittany Stewart 26 Feb 2016

Can privatization save parks?

Josh Davis 26 Feb 2016

Indigenous communities are forced to clean up a 3,000-barrel oil spill in Peru’s Amazon

Ruxandra Guidi 26 Feb 2016

Thailand’s efforts to protect wild tigers starting to pay off, but recovery slower than expected

Mike Gaworecki 26 Feb 2016

Chinese dam builder eyeing major Amazon mega-dam contract

Piero Locatelli from Repórter Brasil 26 Feb 2016
Peat forest cleared for pulp and paper in Riau, Sumatra. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

New tool seeks end to Indonesian paper giants’ secret links

Loren Bell 26 Feb 2016

The dangers of China’s ‘thumb monkey’ trend

Morgan Erickson-Davis 25 Feb 2016

Just Text It In: Streamline Survey Collection through SMS

Nathan Hahn 25 Feb 2016

CEO and execs charged with homicide in Samarco dam collapse in Brazil

Jenny Gonzales 25 Feb 2016

The longest global coral bleaching event in history isn’t over yet

Mike Gaworecki 25 Feb 2016

Oil exploration in Bolivia’s Amazon region goes on overdrive

Ruxandra Guidi 25 Feb 2016

‘Biogeographical oddity’: New monitor lizard is the only large predator on remote Pacific Island

Shreya Dasgupta 25 Feb 2016

Massive profiteering uncovered in Indonesian fertilizer distribution

Mongabay.com 25 Feb 2016

Naomi Oreskes on climate change: “We’ve blown it… but pessimism is not acceptable”

Justin Catanoso 24 Feb 2016

Soil carbon could be key to protecting global biodiversity and climate at same time

Mike Gaworecki 24 Feb 2016

Indonesia’s peat peninsula being drained into oblivion, study finds

Loren Bell 24 Feb 2016

Peace agreements often ignore natural resources, report finds

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Feb 2016

Video series aims to help indigenous groups defend against land grabbing

Sean Mowbray 23 Feb 2016

A new plan to pull the “forest giraffe” back from the brink of extinction

Mike Gaworecki 23 Feb 2016

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