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Layang Layang Atoll, Spratly Islands, South China Sea. Photo by Greg Asner/Divephoto.org.

$10bn pledged in new commitments to protect the world’s oceans

Basten Gokkon 30 Oct 2018

Bird-rich Indonesian island yields up new songbird species

Basten Gokkon 26 Oct 2018

5 bird species lose protections, more at risk in new Indonesia decree

Basten Gokkon 17 Oct 2018

One-two punch of habitat loss, capture hammers Southeast Asian birds

Basten Gokkon 16 Oct 2018

Indonesian government puts off Sumatran rhino IVF program

Basten Gokkon 10 Oct 2018

Jakarta cancels permits for controversial bay reclamation project

Basten Gokkon 2 Oct 2018

Indonesian fish farmers get early-warning system for lake pollution

M Ambari 25 Sep 2018
Planet satellite image of the open pit copper-gold mine on Sumbawa.

Indonesian province calls time-out on mining

Ebed de Rosary 19 Sep 2018
Newmont Mining Corporation's open pit copper-gold mine in Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Indonesian mine watchdog sues government for concession maps

Indra Nugraha 13 Sep 2018

Indonesia gives in to bird traders, rescinds protection for 3 species

Basten Gokkon 7 Sep 2018

‘Diaper Brigade’ fights a chemical crisis in Java’s rivers

Tommy Apriando 6 Sep 2018

Indonesian government appeals ruling on tighter peat fire regulations

Basten Gokkon 30 Aug 2018

As Bali reclamation project dies, activists seek conservation status

Luh De Suriyani 30 Aug 2018
Rainforest in Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Environmental issues to be a focus of Indonesian presidential debates: official

Basten Gokkon, Indra Nugraha 21 Aug 2018

Komodo protesters say no to development in the dragons’ den

Basten Gokkon 21 Aug 2018

Recovering conservationist: Q&A with orangutan ecologist June Mary Rubis

Basten Gokkon 15 Aug 2018

In protecting songbirds, Indonesia ruffles owners & breeders’ feathers

Basten Gokkon 13 Aug 2018

In protecting the Javan rhino, locals gain a ‘more meaningful life’

Donny Iqbal 10 Aug 2018

Indonesia demands cleanup after coal spill pollutes beach

Junaidi Hanafiah 6 Aug 2018

Indonesia adds hundreds of birds to protected species list

Basten Gokkon 3 Aug 2018

As planned excise flops, Indonesia ponders how to give up plastic bags

Basten Gokkon 23 Jul 2018

Red flags abound as a warming Arctic opens up to shipping

Basten Gokkon 18 Jul 2018
Wood that was cut for charcoal production near Katha, northern Myanmar. Villages in this area used to cut teak and other valuable trees for export, but have since started producing charcoal. The charcoal being exported to China can be made from any tree, regardless of size or kind. This amount of trees could produce about 150 bags of charcoal. Photo by Nathan Siegel for Mongabay.

‘Single-minded determination’: China’s global infrastructure spree rings alarm bells

Basten Gokkon 17 Jul 2018

Orangutan found shot, hacked at palm plantation with history of deaths

Budi Baskoro 5 Jul 2018

Two suspected poachers arrested for killing of Sumatran elephant

Mongabay.com 5 Jul 2018

Implicit gender, racial biases may hinder effectiveness of conservation science, experts warn

Basten Gokkon 4 Jul 2018

Indonesia turns to green finance for development projects

Basten Gokkon 25 Jun 2018

In a land hit by the resource curse, a new gold mine spooks officials

Basten Gokkon 17 Jun 2018

There’s now an app for mapping seagrass, the oceans’ great carbon sink

Basten Gokkon 14 Jun 2018

Shark fisheries hunting dolphins, other marine mammals as bait: Study

Basten Gokkon 13 Jun 2018

Poachers blamed in second Sumatran elephant death this year

Junaidi Hanafiah 11 Jun 2018

Government subsidies serving to prop up destructive high-seas fishing: study

Basten Gokkon 8 Jun 2018

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Starting out as a terrestrial ecologist and environmental educator, Jessie Panazzolo is a proud carer of people who care for Mother Earth. In 2019, she founded the global community, Lonely Conservationists, a pioneering platform that provides resources, advocacy, and a voice to budding and burnt-out environmentalists. Advocating for the need to provide care to members of an often forgotten care-based industry, Jessie's websites, books, podcasts, and workshops are used to help budding and burnt-out conservationists around the world.
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