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An artisanal fishing boat on a Mozambique beach.

Report: Illegal fishing and labor abuse rampant in China’s Indian Ocean fleet

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 6 Jun 2024

Winter sanctuary in Nepal proves a killing field for yellow-breasted buntings

Abhaya Raj Joshi 22 Jun 2022

The cat is back: Wild Amur tigers rebound in China, thanks to govt policies

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Sep 2021

Response to one pandemic, COVID-19, has helped ease another: Air pollution

Liz Kimbrough 20 Mar 2020

Stop importing illegal timber, PNG activists tell China at APEC Summit

John Cannon 22 Nov 2018

Chinese demand wiping out forests in the Solomon Islands: New report

John Cannon 22 Oct 2018

Pandas losing ground to hungry livestock in Chinese nature reserve

Mongabay.com 5 Oct 2017
Snow leopards (Panthera uncial) in the Sanjiangyuan region of China, a still from “Ghost of the Mountains.” Photo courtesy of Disneynature.

Stalking snow leopards: Q&A with the director of “Ghost of the Mountains”

Rebecca Kessler 20 Sep 2017

A spotty revival amid decline for China’s endemic leopards

Wang Yan 7 Jul 2017
A snow leopard in the Sanjiangyuan region of China's Qinghai province, captured by camera trap. Photo courtesy of Shanshui Nature Center.

China’s first national park, an experiment in living with snow leopards

Wang Yan 19 May 2017

From black gold to wind and solar: How China is turning its back on coal

Denise Hruby 13 Apr 2017
An Amur tiger and its prey, a local farmer’s cow, photographed by a camera trap near Hunchun National Nature Reserve in China’s northeastern province of Jilin. Photo courtesy of Hunchun Forestry Bureau

China considers a huge national park for Amur tigers and leopards

Wang Yan 22 Sep 2016
Yu Jiahua poses in front of a small portion of the wire loops collected by the anti-poaching patrol team during the past two decades. Photo by Wang Yan.

PHOTOS: On a Chinese mountain, an aging anti-poaching hero ponders the future

Wang Yan 16 Jun 2016
Zou Huagang, head of Lianhe village, poses in front of a local kiwi farm. Zou's family owns about three acres of kiwi farmland. Photo by Wang Yan.

Making a living inside a reserve: an interview with village head Zou Huagang

Wang Yan 14 Jun 2016
A golden snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus roxellana), caught on camera trap inside the reserve. Photo courtesy of Laohegou Nature Reserve Center.

Can China’s first private nature reserve become truly sustainable?

Wang Yan 10 Jun 2016

Chinese villagers turn from logging to forest patrols, bees, and fish

Wang Yan 8 Jun 2016

China’s Wanglang panda reserve, once an ecotourism model, faces new threats

Wang Yan 6 Jun 2016

What do China, Kenya and India have in common? Wildlife trafficking

Jeremy Hance 16 Jun 2015

Chinese now emit more carbon per capita than Europeans

Jeremy Hance 22 Sep 2014

Demand for shark fin plunging

Jeremy Hance 12 Aug 2014

Over a million pangolins slaughtered in the last decade

Jeremy Hance 28 Jul 2014

China pledges $10 million to combat poaching in Africa

Jeremy Hance 8 May 2014

Chinese who eat endangered species could face over ten years in jail

Jeremy Hance 29 Apr 2014

Emissions outsourced to China return to U.S. in form of air pollution

Mongabay.com 20 Jan 2014

Top 10 HAPPY environmental stories of 2013

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 Dec 2013

Top 10 Environmental Stories of 2013

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Dec 2013

Shanghai to ban coal by 2017

Jeremy Hance 28 Oct 2013

China punishes top oil companies for failing to clean up their acts

Jeremy Hance 3 Sep 2013

China pledges $275 billion over 5 years to cut record air pollution

Jeremy Hance 19 Aug 2013

Zoos call on governments to take urgent action against illegal wildlife trade (photos)

Jeremy Hance 24 Jul 2013

Chinese lose 2.5 billion years of life expectancy due to coal burning

Mongabay.com 8 Jul 2013

Yangtze finless porpoise drops to Critically Endangered

Jeremy Hance 7 Jul 2013

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