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Drones are a knife in the gunfight against poaching. But they’re leveling up

Caitlin Looby 18 Oct 2021

Changes to global fisheries subsidies could level the playing field for traditional coastline communities

Gladstone Taylor 18 Oct 2021

As seizures of poached giant clams rise, links to ivory trade surface

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 15 Oct 2021

Guatemala tightens cattle ranching rules, but can they stop deforestation?

Maxwell Radwin 15 Oct 2021
Daroyen in Raja Ampat, Indonesia. Photo credit: NASA Landsat

30×30 is not a one-size-fits-all biodiversity target (commentary)

Karl Burkart 15 Oct 2021
The forests of the Torricelli Mountain Range. Image courtesy of the Tenkile Conservation Alliance.

Deforestation threatens tree kangaroo habitat in Papua New Guinea

John Cannon 14 Oct 2021
The aquatic life of the San Pedro Mártir River in Tabasco, Mexico, finds refuge in the submerged roots of the red mangrove forests. Image by Octavio Aburto.

Inland mangroves reveal a tumultuous climatic past — and hint at our future

John Cannon 14 Oct 2021

Biosurveillance of markets and legal wildlife trade needed to curb pandemic risk: Experts

Gloria Dickie 14 Oct 2021
Malayan tiger

Fate of Malaysian forests stripped of protection points to conservation stakes

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 13 Oct 2021

Forests falling for cashew monocultures: A ‘repeated mistake’ in Côte d’Ivoire (commentary)

Cathy Watson 13 Oct 2021

Human influence on tropics predates Anthropocene, holds clues to current crisis

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 13 Oct 2021

Wildlife releases have a mixed record, and climate change complicates things

Natasha Gilbert 13 Oct 2021

To spot wild-caught birds in pet trade, researchers zoom into isotopic detail

Jansen Baier 13 Oct 2021

‘Kew Declaration’ unites experts on reforestation, aims at policymakers ahead of COP26

Liz Kimbrough 13 Oct 2021

To predict forest loss in protected areas, look at nearby unprotected forest

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 13 Oct 2021

Advocates call for a new human rights-based approach to conservation

Ashoka Mukpo 12 Oct 2021

‘Pristine wilderness’ without human presence is a flawed construct, study says

Latoya Abulu 12 Oct 2021
Jaguar

Fire and forest loss ignite concern for Brazilian Amazon’s jaguars

Carolyn Cowan 12 Oct 2021

Indonesian park officials douse wildfire in Javan leopard habitat

Asad Asnawi 12 Oct 2021
El Cono in Sierra Del Divisor National Park, Peru. Photo credit: Diego Perez / CEDIA

Conservation will only scale when non-conservationists see its value, says James Deutsch

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Oct 2021

Follow the butterfly: Rediscovery of ‘extinct’ plants highlights Sri Lanka’s new red list

Malaka Rodrigo 12 Oct 2021

Mixed signals from Gabon officials to villagers fighting to save a forest

Benjamin Evine-Binet 11 Oct 2021
Two Indigenous women in Odisha, India.

On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, celebrating Earth’s unsung environmental stewards

Latoya Abulu 11 Oct 2021

In a sea of oil palms, even monitor lizards need islands of natural forest

Carolyn Cowan 11 Oct 2021

Fires leave trail of dead wildlife, scorched land in Bolivia’s protected areas

Yvette Sierra Praeli 11 Oct 2021

Keep polar bears and their extensive range safe from oil drilling (Commentary)

Steve Blackledge, Dyani Chapman 8 Oct 2021

Deep seabed mining is risky. If something goes wrong, who will pay for it?

Ian Morse 8 Oct 2021

High risk, low pay for DRC rangers entrusted to guard a gorilla sanctuary

David Kalinga Safari 8 Oct 2021

The great Koh Kong land rush: Areas stripped of protection by Cambodian gov’t being bought up

Gerald Flynn 7 Oct 2021

Experts see no way back for NZ firm blocked from trying to mine the seabed

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 7 Oct 2021

Can we save the bees? Absolutely. Let’s start with the native species (commentary)

Krystle Hickman 7 Oct 2021

From Shanghai Knights to gecko life: The Jackie Chan gecko among 12 new Indian species

Liz Kimbrough 7 Oct 2021

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