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Greenpeace Brazil conducted an aerial survey in southern Amazonas and northern Rondônia to monitor deforestation and fires in July 2024. Photo © Marizilda Cruppe / Greenpeace.

Deforestation remains low, but fires surge in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest

Mongabay.com 12 Oct 2024
An African wildcat in Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa. While little is known about the threats facing African wildcats in West Africa, across their range they are at risk from hybridization and disease transmission from domestic cats. Image by Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

West Africa’s forgotten felines endangered by conflict and research gaps

Ruth Kamnitzer 11 Oct 2024

Hotel built without permits on disputed land riles neighboring Paracas reserve in Peru

Mongabay Latam 11 Oct 2024
Fire on the banks of the drought-stricken Xingu River in the Capoto-Jarina Indigenous Territory on September 12th, 2024. Photo © Marizilda Cruppe / Greenpeace.

With Europe’s move to delay tropical forest protections, everything burns (commentary)

Etelle Higonnet 10 Oct 2024

U.S. court approves historic settlement for Honduran farmers’ case against the World Bank’s IFC

Jared Olson 10 Oct 2024
Behind Mario Luna Romero, a Yaqui spokesperson and water defender is the Plutarco Elías Calles (El Novillo) on the left and the Independencia Aqueduct on the right. Image by Abimael Ochoa Hernández.

Despite court ruling, Yaqui water rights abuses ignored

Aimee Gabay 10 Oct 2024
A village weaver (Ploceus cucullatus) at Lake Chivero, Harare.

Community-led wetland restoration may hold key to Harare’s water crisis

Aimee Gabay, Tatenda Chitagu 10 Oct 2024
Fully functional Earth systems offer numerous ecosystem services to humanity, including clean air and water, the provision of food, and natural pollination of crops.

Combined effects of human activities increase risk to ecosystem services

Claire Asher 10 Oct 2024
Loxodonta africana cyclotis. Forest elephant bull Gamba, Gabon. Image by WWF / Hervé MORAND with courtesy.

WWF report offers glimmer of conservation hope — yet warns of a planet in peril

Anne Nzouankeu, David Akana 10 Oct 2024

In the dark of the night, sponges help possum shrimp ‘smell’ their way home

Liz Kimbrough 10 Oct 2024
A banner rejecting PSN that was damaged by irresponsible individuals on Rempang Island.

Tensions flare as Indonesian islanders resist China solar development

Yogi Eka Sahputra 10 Oct 2024

News of rich mineral reserves in Burundi forest reserve sparks debate

Dieudonné Ndanezerewe 10 Oct 2024

Javan fisherwomen lead fight against marine dredging amid fears of damage

Basten Gokkon 10 Oct 2024
Deforestation for oil palm plantation in Sarawak.

NGOs push EU to label Sarawak as ‘high risk’ source of timber, palm oil

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 9 Oct 2024
Ryan Killackey

The life and legacy of Ryan Killackey, the filmmaker who rallied international support for Yasuni (Obituary)

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Oct 2024

‘World’s largest’ carbon credit deal in the Amazon faces bumpy road ahead

Carla Ruas 9 Oct 2024
Mature cacao fruit. Seeds from the pod are fermented, roasted and ground to make cocoa powder. Image courtesy of TMA.

The world’s chocolate cravings speed up deforestation in the Congo Basin: Study

Marlowe Starling 9 Oct 2024
Abdi Ahmed, in his late 60s, continues his pastoral life in Guyo Kebele, Somali Region, supporting his 19 children through a lifetime of nomadic herding.

Drought & climate change force Ethiopia pastoralists to go job hunting

Solomon Yimer 9 Oct 2024
Paraguay Chaco, cattle in Karanda'y palm tree savanna (Bajo Chaco), Alto Paraguay Province. Image by Peer V. via Wikimedia Commons.

Collagen and meat giants fuel deforestation and rights violations in Paraguay: Report

Iñigo Alexander 9 Oct 2024

Indigenous communities in the Amazon fight for full recognition

Timothy J. Killeen 9 Oct 2024
Red river hogs (Potamochoerus porcus) scavenging at a poached elephant's carcass, Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park. Image by otomops, via Wikicommons (CC BY 4.0)

Congo looks to monetize its high-integrity forests

Rosie Pioth 9 Oct 2024
A recently hatched Kemp's Ridley sea turtle on the Texas Gulf Coast. Image courtesy of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Poll shows voters agree next U.S. President must do more for wildlife and conservation (commentary)

Dr. Robert Shumaker 8 Oct 2024

In Bolivia, Indigenous communities struggle to rebuild as wildfires return

Benjamin Swift 8 Oct 2024
Rinnie and Gary Shapiro in a peat swamp in Central Kalimantan. Photo credit: Rod Brindamour.

Orangutan conservation and communication: Gary Shapiro’s half-century journey from zoos to the wilds of Borneo

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Oct 2024
In five years since the 2018-19 fiscal, Khulna, Bagerhat, and Satkhira districts recorded increased production of Aman rice. Image courtesy of BARCIK

Coastal farmers in Bangladesh give up shrimp farming for agriculture to combat salinity

Sadiqur Rahman 8 Oct 2024
African penguins are now an Endangered species and listed as in need of urgent conservation action. Image by Petro Kotze.

Caracal, meet penguin: How humans pushed unlikely predator and prey together

Petro Kotzé 8 Oct 2024
Snow leopard in Nepal

Nepal’s snow leopard conservation shifts focus from research to conflict mitigation

Abhaya Raj Joshi 8 Oct 2024

Prospect of mining is a bitter pill for Afro-Brazilian community known for its honey

Rafael Martins 8 Oct 2024
Alexandrino Garcia, an Abuelos de Tajín, in front of a Totonac altar in his house. Image by Monica Pelliccia.

In Mexico, Totonac spiritual guides work with scientists to revive ecosystems

Monica Pelliccia 7 Oct 2024
An orca in Skjervøy, Norway.

Norway poised to sail past opposition with deep-sea mining licensing plans

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 7 Oct 2024

‘Thugs’ disrupt Jakarta climate march as attacks on civil liberties increase

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Oct 2024
Nemonte Nenquimo in one of her family's forest gardens near the village of Nemonpare in the Ecuadorian Amazon.

‘Indigenous women in the Amazon must be empowered’: Interview with Nemonte Nenquimo

Astrid Arellano 7 Oct 2024

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