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Activists slam Sri Lanka’s bid to seek X-Press Pearl compensation in Singapore

Malaka Rodrigo 30 Apr 2023

Proposal to export 100,000 crop-raiding macaques sparks outcry in Sri Lanka

Malaka Rodrigo 28 Apr 2023
It’s early morning and Lun Yi feeds her chicken.

Small farmers in limbo as Cambodia wavers on Tonle Sap conservation rules

Hanna Hett, Shaurya Kshatri, Megan Wilde, Aastha Sethi 28 Apr 2023
Partula snail reintroductions organized by London Zoo

‘Extinct’ snails return to Tahiti in largest wildlife reintroduction ever

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 28 Apr 2023
The QMM mine is on a peninsula near Fort-Dauphin in Madagascar. Image via Rio Tinto website.

Rio Tinto must repair the damage caused by their Madagascar mine (commentary)

Ketakandriana Rafitoson 28 Apr 2023
Spangled cotinga in Guyana. Image by Mathias Appel via Flickr (CC0 1.0).

Questions over accounting and inclusion mar Guyana’s unprecedented carbon scheme

Dimitri Selibas 28 Apr 2023
A man in the western Chuadanga district splashes water on his face from an irrigation pump to get relief from the heat.

‘Alarming’ heat wave threatens Bangladesh’s people and their food supply

Mohammad Al-Masum Molla 28 Apr 2023
Activists donned masks bearing the face of slain environmentalist Chut Wutty while demonstrating in Phnom Penh.

Cambodian activists commemorate 11th anniversary of Chut Wutty’s murder

Gerald Flynn 28 Apr 2023

Colombia: Scientists explore remote seamounts to protect hammerhead sharks

Tatiana Rojas Hernández 28 Apr 2023
A Himalayan griffon (Gyps himalayensis).

Bangladesh’s vultures still threatened by poison despite conservation actions

Abu Siddique 28 Apr 2023
The Amazon River flows into the Atlantic Ocean.

Mouth of the Amazon oil exploration clashes with Lula’s climate promises

Sarah Brown 28 Apr 2023
An ocelot (Leopardus pardalis). Image by Martinus Scriblerus via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

Apache tribe decry loss of sacred site to massive copper mine at both court and the U.N.

Kate Schimel 27 Apr 2023

Indianapolis Zoo offers $1m grant for plan to save a threatened species

Liz Kimbrough 27 Apr 2023

Madagascar: What happens to villagers when a graphite mine comes knocking?

Malavika Vyawahare 27 Apr 2023
Tulshi Laxmi Suwal.

Nepali pangolin conservationist Tulshi Suwal among winners of Whitley Awards

Abhaya Raj Joshi 27 Apr 2023
Elizabeth Azzuz and Margo Robbins, leaders of the Cultural Fire Management Council, have been helping Yurok Tribal members burn their land to improve the growth of basket materials and other traditional plants. Photo by Jane Braxton Little for Mongabay

Funders commit $102.5 million to support tribal-led conservation efforts in the U.S.

Laurel Sutherland 27 Apr 2023
Dominick DellaSala, chief scientist with Oregon-based NGO Wild Heritage walks on a trail.

The U.S. has cataloged its forests. Now comes the hard part: Protecting them

Justin Catanoso 27 Apr 2023
A wild giant otter with a discarded single-use plastic bottle.

U.N. parties are worlds apart on plastics treaty solutions

Charles Pekow 27 Apr 2023
An eastern chimpanzee

Ground-nesting chimps hold lessons for conservation — and for human evolution

Ini Ekott 27 Apr 2023

Operation Artemis: Colombia’s failed military operation to stop deforestation

David Tarazona, Julián Parra De Moya 27 Apr 2023
A mahout gives his elephant a bath in Chitwan.

Mating urge adds new pressure to human-elephant conflict in Nepal

Abhaya Raj Joshi 27 Apr 2023

‘I’ll keep fighting’: Indigenous activist and Goldman winner Alessandra Munduruku

Sarah Brown 27 Apr 2023

New ‘snug,’ a snail with a too-small shell, described from Brunei rainforest

Basten Gokkon 27 Apr 2023
Shigeatsu Hatakeyama at a tree-planting festival

Saving forests to protect coastal ecosystems: Japan sets historic example

Annelise Giseburt 27 Apr 2023
California sea lions swimming in a giant kelp forest.

Kelp forests contribute $500 billion to global economy, study shows

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 26 Apr 2023
Oil palm harvest in Pará, Brazil.

Violence escalates in Amazonian communities’ land conflict with Brazil palm oil firm

Karla Mendes 26 Apr 2023
A Russell's viper

Resurgence of deadly Russell’s viper prompts Bangladesh to develop antivenom

Abu Siddique 26 Apr 2023

A mountain of gold: Mining titles threaten Indigenous lands in Guainía, Colombia

Jose Guarnizo 26 Apr 2023

High-carbon peat among 1,500 hectares cleared for Indonesia’s food estate

Hans Nicholas Jong 26 Apr 2023
Aerial view of a massive pile of black coal looming over a small pool and scattered trees near Carolina, Mpumalanga, South Africa. Image courtesy Mpumalanga Tourism and Parks Authority.

South Africa: Little hope in green transition in town with “the dirtiest air in the world”

Anna Weekes 26 Apr 2023
North Pacific right whales south of Kodiak Island, Alaska, 2021. Image captured by scientists working under NOAA permit 20465.

How do you study one of the world’s rarest whales?

Dana Wright 25 Apr 2023
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Professional services abound for Amazon land grabbers seeking legitimacy

Fernanda Wenzel 25 Apr 2023

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