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Logging Camp on Fergusson Island, PNG.

PNG suspends new carbon deals, scrambles to write rules for the schemes

Rachel Donald 4 Apr 2022

They outlived the dinosaurs, but Brazil’s araucaria trees might not survive humans

Aldem Bourscheit 4 Apr 2022
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‘A risky business’: Online illegal wildlife trade continues to soar in Myanmar

Carolyn Cowan 4 Apr 2022
These women, who are part of the Mam indigenous community, are harvesting pine nuts in a forest in Cajolá, Quetzaltenango, to be sold later at a local market. Our work supports reforestation efforts and helps local families sustain themselves economically. Photo credit: Sergio Izquierdo

Reaching the Paris Agreement without protecting Indigenous lands is “impossible”, says report

Dimitri Selibas 1 Apr 2022

Climate crisis forecasts a fragile future for wildflowers and pollinators

Spoorthy Raman 1 Apr 2022

For a beekeeping couple in Costa Rica, pesticides are killing the buzz

Monica Pelliccia 1 Apr 2022
A Bornean orangutan in Indonesia

How many orangutans does $1 billion save? Depends how you spend it, study finds

Jim Tan 1 Apr 2022

Traditional knowledge guides protection of planetary health in Finland

Jane Palmer 31 Mar 2022
Wild bison, taking over Europe and North America, will once again roam England

Wild bison, taking over Europe and North America, will once again roam England

Claire Turrell 31 Mar 2022

Saving Nigeria’s gorillas was also meant to help communities. It hasn’t (analysis).

Orji Sunday 31 Mar 2022
A bloated humpback whale on a beach in California, U.S.

That dead whale on the beach? Let it be, study says. Or at least don’t blow it up

Shreya Dasgupta 31 Mar 2022
Fishing in Fiji. Image courtesy of Tom Vierus/WCS.

Food security framing increases relevance of biodiversity negotiations to less industrialized nations (commentary)

Jean Wiener 30 Mar 2022

NGOs block gillnet fishing across 100,000 sq km of Great Barrier Reef

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 30 Mar 2022
Camera trap photo of an Annamite dark muntjac in the Annamite mountains. Photo courtesy of Leibniz-IZW / WWF-Viet Nam / Song Thanh National Park

Rare mammals caught on camera highlight value of Annamite Mountains

Carolyn Cowan 30 Mar 2022
The silvery pigeon is one of the most threatened pigeon species in the world. As a seed disperser, this species helps contribute to the overall biodiversity of the small islands it inhabits, according to researcher Simon Bruslund.

Online trade in rare silvery pigeon is cause for concern, researchers say

Sean Mowbray 30 Mar 2022

Making room in the Atlantic Forest for the largest primate in the Americas

Bernardo Araujo, Duda Menegassi for ((o))eco 30 Mar 2022

The ocean is a cacophony of fish talk, study shows. We just can’t hear it

Rachel Teng Ruiqi 30 Mar 2022
Beninese Army soldiers taking part in live fire exercise. But by the end of 2021, a series of attacks on soldiers by militants raised the specter of a long-feared spillover of insurgent violence into northern Benin. Image by Jad Sleiman, U.S. Marine Corps via Wikimedia Commons.

In Benin, the line between conservation and counterinsurgency blurs

Ashoka Mukpo 29 Mar 2022

It’s a girl: Super rare Sumatran rhino born in captive-breeding center

Basten Gokkon 28 Mar 2022

FSC-certified Moorim Paper linked to massive forest clearing in Indonesia’s Papua

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Mar 2022

Coalition against online wildlife trafficking shares little evidence of success (analysis)

Toby McIntosh 25 Mar 2022
A bird rescued from the oil spill is cared for by personnel from the national wildlife agency, SERFOR. Image courtesy of SERFOR.

Oil spill contaminates wildlife, beaches and protected areas in Peru

Yvette Sierra Praeli 25 Mar 2022

The Great Barrier Reef is bleaching — once again — and over a larger area

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 25 Mar 2022

Deforestation on the rise as poverty soars in Nigeria

Morgan Erickson-Davis 24 Mar 2022

Chinese investment in Latin America plagues people and nature: Report

Maxwell Radwin 24 Mar 2022

Study links many reported fisheries crimes to just a few repeat offenders

Annelise Giseburt 24 Mar 2022

Marine cold spells, a potential buffer against warming seas, are fading away

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 24 Mar 2022
A Taita falcon. Image courtesy of Alan Kemp.

Stronghold for Africa’s rarest falcon discovered in reserve threatened by Mozambique insurgency

Ryan Truscott 24 Mar 2022
Indigenous Masai women at a community leadership meeting in Kenya. Photo by Edna Kaptoyo, Community Conservation Resilience Initiative, 2018

Indigenous land rights take center stage in a new global framework for biodiversity conservation (commentary)

Karl Burkart 24 Mar 2022
Xiomara Cabraca, a Bribri farmer and member of ACOMUITA, checks the ripeness of cocoa pods. Palms, timber-yielding trees, and fruit trees are cropped with the cocoa in this agroforestry system in Shiroles, Talamanca, Costa Rica. Image by Monica Pelliccia for Mongabay.

Crucial to conservation, Indigenous communities’ environmental leadership endures

Mike Gaworecki 24 Mar 2022
Farid Tarabay, the new forest guide, under the Lamartine Cedar, one of the oldest in the SBR. Image by Elizabeth Fitt for Mongabay.

From land mines to lifelines, Lebanon’s Shouf is a rare restoration success story

Elizabeth Fitt 23 Mar 2022

Bird-counting app kindles interest in Nepal’s rich avian life

Abhaya Raj Joshi 23 Mar 2022

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