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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
NASA satellite image of the Rio Tapajos in March 2022.

Dams on Brazil’s Jamanxim River: The advancing assault on the environment and Indigenous peoples in the Tapajós basin (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 29 Mar 2022
A truck with Oilpalm fruits is entering Fajar Harapan Palm Oil Mill.

EU response to palm oil is opportunity, not threat (commentary)

Andre Barahamin 29 Mar 2022

As the Horn of Africa heats up, the risks of insecurity are rising (commentary)

Robert Muggah, Peter Schmidt, Giovanna Kuele 28 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

Donors must rethink Africa’s flagging Green Revolution, new evaluation shows (commentary)

Timothy A. Wise 22 Mar 2022
Gold mining in the Kayapó Indigenous Territory in 2022. Image credit: NASA

Brazil’s ecosystem of crime in the Amazon (commentary)

Laura Waisbich, Melina Risso, Ilona Szabo 21 Mar 2022

Fate of Indonesian rainforest the size of Belgium hangs in the balance (commentary)

Sam Lawson 17 Mar 2022
A herd of elephants gets a drink in Botswana. Image by Roger Borgelid for Mongabay.

Can we plan for a future without trophy hunting? (commentary)

Merrill Sapp 16 Mar 2022

To cooperatively stop deforestation for commodities, navigating ‘legal’ vs ‘zero’ is key (commentary)

Michael Wolosin 9 Mar 2022

New IPCC climate report stresses Indigenous & local land rights 58 times: let’s respond with a concrete tenure plan (commentary)

Anna Locke, Malcolm Childress 3 Mar 2022

To save the oceans, we need MPAs that emphasize actual protection of marine ecosystems (commentary)

Enric Sala 1 Mar 2022
Captive tiger

Will the U.S. Congress act to regulate big cats kept in captivity? (commentary)

Monique Sosnowski, Sarika Khanwilkar 24 Feb 2022
Aerial view of Amazon rainforest landscape scarred by open pit gold mines

Brazil’s Amazon gold mining to be “stimulated” by Bolsonaro’s decree (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 22 Feb 2022
Kahuzi-Biega National Park

A conservation paradigm based on Indigenous values in DR Congo (commentary)

Sushil Raj, Dr. Albert Kwokwo Barume 17 Feb 2022
Adult male gharial. Image by Charles J Sharp via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Nepal’s gharials deserve attention and protection (commentary)

Zach Fitzner 16 Feb 2022
Rotten cacao pod. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Why farmers, not industry, must decide the future of cocoa (commentary)

Sam Mawutor 15 Feb 2022
Elephants in Namibia. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler.

UK trophy hunting import ban not supported by rural Africans (commentary)

Dr Malan Lindeque, Gail Thomson, Hilma Angula, Kenneth /Uiseb, Rosalia Iileka 11 Feb 2022

Is a European proposal on imported deforestation too punitive? (commentary)

Alain Karsenty 9 Feb 2022

Have we reached peak palm oil? (commentary)

Mark Gregory 2 Feb 2022

For the Year of the Tiger, a shared vision for the future of the iconic cat (commentary)

Coalition for Securing a Viable Future for the Tiger 31 Jan 2022

The Years of the Tiger: The demand for tigers and the price they pay (commentary)

Chris Slappendel 28 Jan 2022

COP27 must deliver climate finance where it is needed most (commentary)

Jack Stuart, Sally Yozell, Valentine Ochanda 20 Jan 2022

For pharmaceuticals fouling wastewater and wildlife, solutions exist (commentary)

Cate Twining-Ward, Colin Chapman 18 Jan 2022
Gold mining in the Amazon. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Brazil’s illegal gold rush is fueling corruption, violent crime and deforestation

Robert Muggah 14 Jan 2022
A whale shark in Mexico. Image by MarAlliance2018 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Ecuador to announce creation of Hermandad Marine Reserve off Galapagos (commentary)

President Guillermo Lasso 13 Jan 2022
Native potato biodiversity. The Andes are the birthplace of the potato. More than 3,500 varieties grow in Peru alone. Photo courtesy of Rene Gomez/International Potato Center.

On agrobiodiversity, the Andes can teach the world much about crop conservation (commentary)

Barbara Wells 12 Jan 2022

Wild cat trade: Why the cheetah is not safe just yet (commentary)

Patricia Tricorache, Tomas Maule 12 Jan 2022

Indonesia’s clean energy transition must start with clean rivers (commentary)

Warief Djajanto Basorie 11 Jan 2022
Algal bloom in the Baltic Sea on July 20, 2019.

2021’s top ocean news stories (commentary)

Callie Steffen, Douglas McCauley, Emma Critchley, Molly Morse 28 Dec 2021
Port of Long Beach, California in February 2020. Photo: NASA Landsat

Visions of a post-supply chain society (commentary)

Nikolas Kozloff 27 Dec 2021
Natural forest (left) versus an oil palm plantation (right) in Indonesia. Photo credits: Rhett A. Butler

What has the pandemic done to forest policies? (commentary)

Aida Greenbury 23 Dec 2021

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