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Indonesian police may probe coal miners over deforestation-linked floods

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Feb 2021

Big dream: NGO leads in creating 1,615-mile Amazon-Cerrado river greenbelt

Jenny Gonzales 17 Feb 2021

Wasting away: Sea urchins suffer deformities from plastic chemicals

Claire Wordley 17 Feb 2021
A Panamanian golden toad. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Indigenous community wins recognition of its land rights in Panama

John Cannon 17 Feb 2021

In the fight to save the vaquita, conservationists take on cartels

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 16 Feb 2021

European public roundly rejects Brazil trade deal unless Amazon protected

Jenny Gonzales 16 Feb 2021
Greenpeace volunteers create a burnt smoldering rainforest with a lifelike animatronic orangutan at the headquarters of Oreo cookies near Uxbridge, UK as part of a campaign to pressure Wilmar, which is a palm oil supplier to Mondelez, which makes Oreo cookies. Photo © Chris J Ratcliffe / Greenpeace

‘A better world is within reach’: Q&A with Greenpeace’s Jennifer Morgan

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Feb 2021

Cat corridors between protected areas is key to survival of Cerrado’s jaguars

Romi Castagnino 16 Feb 2021

Grim toll from Indonesia’s abandoned mines may get even worse, report warns

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Feb 2021
Mass grave in Parque Taruma cemetery in Manuas, Brazil in 2020. Photo credit: AFP

Zero convictions as impunity blocks justice for victims of Brazil’s rural violence

Daniel Camargos, from Repórter Brasil 15 Feb 2021

As forests shrink, mammals are stressed out— with possible fallout for humans

Liz Kimbrough 15 Feb 2021

More meat and playtime can calm your killer kitty

Liz Kimbrough 15 Feb 2021

500+ experts call on world’s nations to not burn forests to make energy

Justin Catanoso 15 Feb 2021

‘Hungry’ palm oil, pulpwood firms behind Indonesia land-grab spike: Report

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Feb 2021
black-tailed godwits (Limosa limosa) in a fight for their territory in Mangalajodi Wetlands (Chilika - Wetland of International Importance under the Ramsar Convention), Odisha, India. By Arijit Mondal via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Researchers urge better protection as wetlands continue to vanish

Morgan Erickson-Davis 13 Feb 2021

As Bahamas offshore project falls flat, oil driller island-hops across Caribbean

Malavika Vyawahare 12 Feb 2021

Nearly one-third of all oak species threatened with extinction, report says

Liz Kimbrough 12 Feb 2021

The controversial hunt for a multibillion-dollar treasure in a Chilean park

Barinia Montoya 12 Feb 2021
Two babirusa fighting in Indonesia. Image by Meldy Tamenge, edited by Cart, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Southeast Asian wild pigs confront deadly African swine fever epidemic

John Cannon 12 Feb 2021

‘What’s at stake is the life of every being’: Saving the Brazilian Cerrado

Peter Yeung 11 Feb 2021

Women and girls: Let’s transform the ocean by including everyone (commentary)

Leandra Gonçalves, Paulina Chamorro 11 Feb 2021

Agroforestry-grown coffee gives Amazon farmers a sustainable alternative

Sibélia Zanon 11 Feb 2021

Indonesia’s top palm oil deforesters are the usual shady suspects: Report

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Feb 2021

Rescue of rare white tarsier raises fears of habitat loss, illegal pet trade

Basten Gokkon 10 Feb 2021

Teachers create lasting change for people and primates via clean cookstoves (commentary)

Corinne Kendall 10 Feb 2021

As the Amazon unravels into savanna, its wildlife will also suffer

Luís Patriani 10 Feb 2021

Where does the name of the crab-eating fox come from?

Romi Castagnino 9 Feb 2021
A mother humpback and calf off the coast of Maui in the Hawaiian Islands. Photo courtesy of NOAA

For marine life, human noise pollution brings ‘death by a thousand cuts’

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 9 Feb 2021

Fruit-eating, seed-pooping animals can help restore degraded forests

Emily Harwitz 9 Feb 2021

As nature declines, so does human quality of life, study finds

Ashoka Mukpo 9 Feb 2021

Indonesia to push for mine rehab, reforestation after deadly floods

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Feb 2021

Myanmar’s troubled forestry sector seeks global endorsement after coup

Mongabay.com 8 Feb 2021

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