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Road constructed into the forest path near the Liboumba River.

In Gabon, a community’s plea against logging paves the way for a new reserve

Benjamin Evine-Binet 12 Apr 2022
A red-eyed tree frog in Brazil.

Global biodiversity is in crisis, but how bad is it? It’s complicated

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 11 Apr 2022
Achiote trees in a Kwicha community in Pastaza province

Ecuador’s Pastaza province, Indigenous groups collaborate on forest conservation

Dimitri Selibas 11 Apr 2022
Musk oxen.

‘Nature has priority’: Rewilding map showcases nature-led restoration

John Cannon 11 Apr 2022

Big Apple birding is set to take flight: Here’s how to get started this Spring

Alice Yan 8 Apr 2022

‘A huge mistake’: Concerns rise as deep-sea mining negotiations progress

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 8 Apr 2022
One of many homes burnt and destroyed in a major attack targeting Batwa villages in July 2021.

Rangers in DRC gorilla park abused Indigenous villagers, report says

Laurel Sutherland 7 Apr 2022
Desert elephant with young. Damaraland, Namibia. Image by Rhett Butler for Mongabay.

Export of elephants to UAE drags Namibia wildlife policy into the spotlight

Ryan Truscott 7 Apr 2022
An infant bonobo photographed a few days after being released in the Ekolo ya Bonobo Community Reserve. Image courtesy by Cinita Garai/ Friends of Bonobos.

Bonobos torn from the wild make their return, with a helping hand

Malavika Vyawahare 7 Apr 2022

Indonesians, too reliant on palm oil, should go back to their roots (commentary)

Taufik Wijaya 7 Apr 2022

After failure, reflection: effective conservation requires regular assessments (commentary)

David Wilkie, Heidi Kretser, Kara Stevens, Matthew Carr, Richard Margoluis 7 Apr 2022

Stranded coal barge spills cargo, disrupts fishery in Indonesian waters

Gafur Abdullah 7 Apr 2022
A barge transports teak logs

Countries that sanctioned Myanmar’s junta are still buying their timber: Report

Carolyn Cowan 7 Apr 2022

Afield at last, researchers head out for a new season

Mike Gaworecki 7 Apr 2022
A hawksbill sea turtle

Shell of a comeback: New app, awareness campaigns bring hope for hawksbill turtles

Carly Nairn 6 Apr 2022

Photography, nature, truth and war: Q&A with top photographer Ami Vitale

Erik Hoffner 6 Apr 2022
ransgenic zebrafish expressing different fluorescent colours.

GM fish engineered to glow in the dark are found in Brazil creeks

Sue Branford 6 Apr 2022
Leatherback turtle nesting on a beach

‘Resilient’ leatherback turtles can survive fishing rope entanglements. Mostly

Kala Hunter 5 Apr 2022
Men from the San Francisco communal land make use of a tree that fell during the rainy season. Photo by Marlén Castro.

Protecting water by conserving forests puts communities in Mexico to the test

Marlén Castro 5 Apr 2022

The amazing — and unknown — diversity of insects living in the Amazon canopy

Suzana Camargo 5 Apr 2022
Pokhara Airport in Nepal with the Himalayan range in the background

‘Sharing the air’ proves a challenge for new Nepal airport in bird paradise

Abhaya Raj Joshi 5 Apr 2022
Mallorca, in Spain’s Balearic Islands, is a go-to destination for holidaymakers from Europe and further afield. Image by Kyle Taylor via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

Seagrass joins other marine life in accumulating sunscreen compounds

Sean Mowbray 4 Apr 2022
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
Pangolin_by Rhett Butler

‘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

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