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The Bialowieza Forest at sunrise. Photo courtesy of Aleksander Bolbot / WWF. 

Last chance to save Europe’s greatest old-growth forest? (commentary)

Alan Weiss 3 Sep 2025

Indigenous Khasis struggle to sustain forest-based livelihoods in Bangladesh

Sadiqur Rahman 3 Sep 2025
A brilliant blue male Francis’s gorgeous sapphire, euthanized after being reared in captivity. Image courtesy of Jonathan Francis.

Discovery of dazzling blue butterfly underscores peril facing Angola’s forests 

Ryan Truscott 3 Sep 2025
Sunrise over the Amazon. Image by Rhett Ayers Butler

Why is rainfall declining in the Amazon? New research says deforestation is the leading driver

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Sep 2025

New model reveals hidden dynamics of Indonesia’s booming songbird trade

Basten Gokkon 2 Sep 2025
Dust on the floors of residents’ houses in Teluk Sepang, Bengkulu.

Censured Sumatra coal plant blamed for sickening children in Indonesia’s Bengkulu

Elviza Diana 1 Sep 2025

‘Let’s understand the value of the forest’ says Liberia’s Silas Siakor

Ashoka Mukpo 1 Sep 2025
A woman walks through a forest in Liberia. Image by Open Government Partnership via Flickr (CC BY-2.0).

Liberia has a new plan to protect its rainforests. Can it work?

Ashoka Mukpo 1 Sep 2025
Bengal Florican Nep

Nepal looks to Cambodia’s breeding model as Bengal florican numbers plunge

Abhaya Raj Joshi 1 Sep 2025
The Kapawi River, soon to be the first “solar river” in the Amazon, is a lifeline for more than 1,000 Indigenous peoples and is home to endangered pink river dolphins (Inia geoffrensis). Image by Andrés Cornejo.

An Indigenous-led solar canoe initiative expands across the Amazon

Aimee Gabay 1 Sep 2025
Marc Stalmans. Courtesy of the Gorongosa Project

Marc Stalmans, ecologist who helped restore Gorongosa’s wildlife, dies at 66

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Aug 2025
Image courtesy of Burung Indonesia/Jihad.

On Java’s Mount Slamet, two former trappers find new calling as bird protectors

L. Darmawan 31 Aug 2025
Black grouper at Palancar Reef, Cozumel, Mexico.

Cruise industry expansion collides with Cozumel’s coral reef

Fritz Pinnow 30 Aug 2025
Long Moh community member Kuleh and SAVE Rivers staff Samban Tugang at carbon workshop April 2025. Image courtesy of Fiona McAlpine / Borneo Project.

Carbon offset markets are unfair to communities in Borneo & beyond (commentary)

Fiona McAlpine 29 Aug 2025
A depiction of a gas flare in Putumayo, Columbia. (AP Illustration/Peter Hamlin)

Despite pledge, Colombia still has ways to expand Amazon oil exploration

Maxwell Radwin 29 Aug 2025
A school of barracuda in the Solomon Islands, a small island developing state in the Pacific Ocean.

Climate change is driving fish stocks from countries’ waters to the high seas: Study

Edward Carver 29 Aug 2025
A protestor sums up INC-5.2’s failure with the slogan: “Consensus kills ambition.”

As plastics treaty talks break down, are there paths to a breakthrough?

Charles Pekow 29 Aug 2025

Nepal’s Supreme Court halts industrial development in Buddha’s birthplace

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 29 Aug 2025

Indonesia’s fish farm expansion to absorb D.C.-sized swath of protected forests

M Ambari 29 Aug 2025
A rhino in South Africa.

Tracking rhino horn trade: Interview with International Rhino Foundation’s Nina Fascione

Abhishyant Kidangoor 29 Aug 2025

Newly hatched Socorro dove chicks bring hope to species extinct in the wild

Liz Kimbrough 29 Aug 2025
Critically endangered African forest elephants act as seed dispersers in the rainforest, taking the seeds far, far away from the mother plants.

As forest elephants plummet, ebony trees decline in Central Africa’s rainforests

Spoorthy Raman 29 Aug 2025

Data debunks spike in Sri Lanka’s elephant killings, points at media hype

Malaka Rodrigo 29 Aug 2025
A camera trap image of a southern red muntjac (Muntiacus muntjak) in Temburong.

Brunei built Southeast Asia’s longest bridge. What does this mean for wildlife?

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 29 Aug 2025
Women planting mangroves in Uyombo.

‘It doesn’t make sense’: Marine biologist on Kenya’s proposed nuclear power plant

Elodie Toto 29 Aug 2025

Brazil’s Atlantic Forest still losing ‘large amounts’ of mature forest, despite legal protection

Liz Kimbrough 28 Aug 2025

Officials struggle with land invasions in Mexico’s Balam Kú Biosphere Reserve

Maxwell Radwin 28 Aug 2025

Rewilding project aims to restore resilience to fire-prone Spain via wildlife

Jeremy Hance 28 Aug 2025
Babirusa

Small islands offer big hope for conservation of endemic species, study shows

Carolyn Cowan 28 Aug 2025

Thailand’s living floral heritage takes root in a park of rare and ancient trees

Ron Emmons 28 Aug 2025
An Indian pond heron or paddybird (Ardeola grayii) in a pond in Nepal.

In Nepal, artificial ponds offer drought relief despite lingering doubts

Mukesh Pokhrel 28 Aug 2025
Flowers and leaves of the Vanda thwaitesii.

After 160 years, an old drawing leads scientists to a long-lost Sri Lanka orchid

Malaka Rodrigo 28 Aug 2025

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