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Peatlands cleared for a plantation in Riau Province in 2015. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Team of 6: the leadership of Indonesia’s peatlands restoration agency is now in place

Sapariah Saturi 23 Feb 2016

Eight newly discovered species of whip spiders could soon become extinct

Shreya Dasgupta 23 Feb 2016

Oil palm plantations need to protect orangutans (commentary)

Erik Meijaard 22 Feb 2016

The inside story of how Great Bear Rainforest went from a ‘War In The Woods’ to an unprecedented environmental and human rights agreement

Mike Gaworecki 22 Feb 2016

Mystery surrounds death of 44 howler monkeys in Ecuador wildlife reserve

Ruxandra Guidi 22 Feb 2016

Communities and cutting-edge tech keep Cambodia’s gibbons singing

Claire Salisbury 22 Feb 2016

Aquaculture comes to Lake Victoria, but will it help wild fish?

Isaiah Esipisu 22 Feb 2016

Survival International files formal complaint against WWF for allegedly violating human rights of Baka ‘Pygmies’

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Feb 2016

The week in environmental news – Feb 19, 2016

Brittany Stewart 20 Feb 2016

Nganyi: The tiny forest in Kenya that predicts the weather

Isaiah Esipisu 19 Feb 2016

It’s World Pangolin Day again. What can you do to help?

Shreya Dasgupta 19 Feb 2016

Seven million hectares of forests have been lost in Argentina over the past 20 years

Ruxandra Guidi 19 Feb 2016

Indonesia could collaborate with RSPO, official study finds

Jonathan Vit 19 Feb 2016

Review finds EU plan to curb illegal logging has had little success

Morgan Erickson-Davis 18 Feb 2016

When poor people pay the price for forest conservation

Mike Gaworecki 18 Feb 2016

To stop the Zika virus from spreading in Brazil, specialists call for an ‘environmental revolution’

Carolina Torres 18 Feb 2016

After Cecil: lion perturbation, conservation, and value to a global society

Katie Taylor, Sue Palminteri & Caleb O'Brien 18 Feb 2016

Recovery of Island foxes a ‘historic success’; officials recommend removing them from endangered species list

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Feb 2016
Illegal encroachment for palm oil production in Riau, Sumatra. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Indonesian palm oil giant joins no-deforestation pledge amid criticism from politicians

Mongabay.com 18 Feb 2016

Zika virus and climate change

Fred Bercovitch 17 Feb 2016

Indigenous land and forest rights in the spotlight during pope’s visit to Mexico

Sandra Cuffe 17 Feb 2016

Ubiquitous microplastic pollution in oceans found to disrupt oyster reproduction

Mike Gaworecki 17 Feb 2016

‘Fluorescent flashlights’: Newly discovered glow-in-the-dark polyps light up snails in the Red Sea

Shreya Dasgupta 17 Feb 2016

Tracking technologies help to identify key marine areas for basking sharks

Katie Taylor 16 Feb 2016

Bangladesh sticks with coal power plant project despite major backlash

Apoorva Joshi 16 Feb 2016

Threatened West African rosewood species gets CITES protection

Mike Gaworecki 16 Feb 2016

Brazil’s Senate could soon be voting against the country’s environmental safeguards

Jenny Gonzales 16 Feb 2016

Study gauges use of tea as buffer crop to curb mountain gorilla raids

Sean Mowbray 16 Feb 2016

Guatemala’s La Pasión River is still poisoned, nine months after an ecological disaster

Carlos Chávez 16 Feb 2016

Toxic beetles and poisonous plants: Study reveals how southern Africa’s ‘bushmen’ make deadly poison arrows

Shreya Dasgupta 16 Feb 2016

Focus on breeding sites and biodiversity to control Zika, says leading entomologist

Catharine Watson 15 Feb 2016

Scientists see like predators to prove camouflage works

Karen Johnston 15 Feb 2016

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