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A tiger refuge in Sumatra gets a reprieve from road building

Rod Harbinson 31 Aug 2019

‘No place to hide’ for illegal fishing fleets as surveillance satellites prepare for lift-off

Gavin Haines 30 Aug 2019

Madagascar no longer insisting on selling its seized rosewood, for now

Malavika Vyawahare 30 Aug 2019

With new protections, saiga antelope may continue to be a symbol of Central Asia (commentary)

Enkhtuvshin Shiilegdamba 30 Aug 2019

In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, August 30, 2019

Mongabay.com 30 Aug 2019

The end of the road: The future of the Pan Borneo Highway

John Cannon 30 Aug 2019

Brazilian response to Bolsonaro policies and Amazon fires grows

Sue Branford 30 Aug 2019

Humans have been transforming Earth for thousands of years, study says

Shreya Dasgupta 30 Aug 2019

‘Not a pretty picture’: South China’s forests vanish as tree farms move in

Michael Standaert 29 Aug 2019

A remote Indonesian district juggles road building with nature conservation

Basten Gokkon 29 Aug 2019

Latin America saw most murdered environmental defenders in 2018

Yvette Sierra Praeli 29 Aug 2019

Calls for natural solution over man-made one in flood-ravaged rhino refuge

Azera Parveen Rahman 29 Aug 2019

‘We have cut them all’: Ghana struggles to protect its last old-growth forests

Awudu Salami Sulemana Yoda 28 Aug 2019

Manta rays are social creatures who are choosy about their friends

Mongabay.com 28 Aug 2019

Misinformation and blame spread concerning sources of Amazon fires

Jenny Gonzales 28 Aug 2019

Death on the Brahmaputra: The rhino, the rangers, and the usual suspects

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 28 Aug 2019
Andean cock of the rock bird in Manu. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

New road risks Pandora’s box of disruption in world’s most biodiverse national park (commentary)

William Laurance and Penny van Oosterzee 28 Aug 2019

For Indonesia’s Kendari Bay, silting is a death sentence

Ian Morse 28 Aug 2019

In the rice-rich Mekong region, will husk briquettes take hold?

Lauren Crothers 28 Aug 2019

The Pan Borneo Highway on a collision course with elephants

John Cannon 28 Aug 2019

With record support, rhino rays and world’s fastest sharks get new trade protections

Mongabay.com 28 Aug 2019

Jumping the Shark: The Decline of the North Atlantic’s Shortfin Mako

Megan Stannard 28 Aug 2019

Meet the first gene-edited reptile: An albino lizard

Malavika Vyawahare 28 Aug 2019
Copernicus / Landsat image of the Amazon River as seen via Google Earth.

A healthy and productive Amazon is the foundation of Brazil’s sovereignty (commentary)

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Aug 2019

What’s in a name? For Sri Lanka’s newest geckos, a political firestorm

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 27 Aug 2019

Indonesia bans food labeled ‘palm oil-free,’ in move welcomed by industry

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Aug 2019
PORTO VELHO, RONDÔNIA, BRAZIL. Aerial view of burned areas in the Amazon rainforest, in the city of Porto Velho, Rondônia state. (Photo: Victor Moriyama / Greenpeace)

Michael Shellenberger’s sloppy Forbes diatribe deceives on Amazon fires (commentary)

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Aug 2019

Companies sourcing beef, leather from China exposed to Brazil deforestation risk, researchers say

Mongabay.com 27 Aug 2019

Giraffe trade to be monitored, strictly regulated

Mongabay.com 26 Aug 2019
CANDEIRAS DO JAMARI, RONDÔNIA, BRAZIL: Aerial view of a large burned area in the city of Candeiras do Jamari in the state of Rondônia. (Photo: Victor Moriyama / Greenpeace)

DiCaprio joins $5M effort to combat Amazon fires

Mongabay.com 26 Aug 2019

The Pan Borneo Highway could divide threatened wildlife populations

John Cannon 26 Aug 2019

Bolsonaro expresses ‘love’ for Amazon as it burns, offers no policy shift

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 26 Aug 2019

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