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Baja California tourism poses mounting challenges for conservation, critics say

Maxwell Radwin 24 Feb 2025
Smallholder cacao farmers at work in Brazil.

Aiding natural pollination can boost cacao yields & climate resilience

Sean Mowbray 24 Feb 2025
Heat spots in areas with Prodes warnings (2017-2019). Area next to the borders of the Kaxarari Indigenous territory, in Labrea, Amazonas state. Taken 17 Aug, 2020. Image © Christian Braga / Greenpeace.

Pause to USAID already having impacts on community conservation in the Amazon

Aimee Gabay 24 Feb 2025
Masked Tree Frog (Smilisca phaeota) in the Ecuadorian Choco.

An Ecuadorian hotspot shows how forests can claw back from destruction

Ruth Kamnitzer 24 Feb 2025
Researchers examine a dead olive ridley at Cox's Bazar Beach.

Conservationists suspect fishing nets, increased tourism for sea turtle deaths in Bangladesh

Abu Siddique 24 Feb 2025
Yellow-breasted bunting

How birds deepen our awareness of nature: Interview with Ayuwat Jearwattanakanok

Carolyn Cowan 24 Feb 2025
Indonesian rainforest in Bukit Tigapuluh, Sumatra. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

UN biodiversity decision 16/2 is ‘unencumbered by economic thinking’ (analysis)

Joseph Henry Vogel 21 Feb 2025
An endangered eastern chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii).

DRC government directive triggers panic in ape sanctuaries amid ongoing conflict

Spoorthy Raman 21 Feb 2025

Study links African lion survival to prey availability

Charles Mpaka 21 Feb 2025
Timber truck

Timber trade watchdog urges Poland to halt imports of Myanmar ‘blood timber’

Carolyn Cowan 20 Feb 2025

Vicuña poop creates biodiversity hotspots as glaciers retreat rapidly

Sean Mowbray 20 Feb 2025
Marchers carry banners calling for Indonesia to reject coal in favour of clean renewable energy, and to honour the commitment made in the Paris Agreement (May 2016). Image courtesy of Break Free via Flicrk (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

As Indonesia, US back away from climate goals, hopes fade to retire coal plants early

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jeff Hutton 20 Feb 2025
Randy Borman. Courtesy of the Cofan Survival Fund

Randy Borman (1955-2025): An unlikely guardian of the Amazon rainforest

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 Feb 2025
Researchers from the U.K. and the Democratic Republic of Congo take samples of the Cuvette Centrale peatlands. Image © Kevin McElvaney/Greenpeace

Only 17% of peatlands, vital to curbing climate change, are protected, study finds

John Cannon 19 Feb 2025
The team that developed the kit has put it into the hands of conservationists to collect samples from lakes across Vietnam.

Can a new DNA test save the world’s rarest turtle?

Abhishyant Kidangoor 19 Feb 2025
An ocelot walks tentatively into a pre-release enclosure.

Getting rewilding right with the reintroduction of small wildcats

Sean Mowbray 18 Feb 2025
A woman carrying a solar panel in Yangambi, DRC. Image by Axel Fassio/CIFOR via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Indigenous people cut down trees as solar energy remains inaccessible and costly in DRC

Belinda Mongolare, Didier Makal 18 Feb 2025
Green macaws (Ara ambiguus) in the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Biosphere Reserve, a protected natural area located in southeastern Mexico.

108 federal protected areas in Mexico remain without actual management plans

Aimee Gabay 18 Feb 2025
A wild Asian elephant in Nepal's plains. Image courtesy of Ashok Ram

As elephant conflict shifts, Nepal’s border village offers clues for coexistence

Deepak Adhikari 18 Feb 2025
Peatland forest in Central Kalimantan.

Protecting peatlands and mangroves could halve Southeast Asia’s land-use emissions

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Feb 2025

Environmental & rights activists flee and hide as M23 captures DRC’s cities

Elodie Toto 18 Feb 2025
A captive Sumatran tiger.

Volunteer radio station brings old media to remote Sumatran tiger habitat

Suryadi 18 Feb 2025

Amid bombs and chaos, Goma’s displaced residents share their fears and hopes

Ajabu Adolphe 17 Feb 2025

Conservation groups look for new strategies, tech to halt vaquita decline

Maxwell Radwin 17 Feb 2025

After LA, fire crisis reaches Latin America — from Mexico to Argentina

Astrid Arellano 17 Feb 2025

Wave of arrests as Madagascar shuts down tortoise trafficking network

Rivonala Razafison 17 Feb 2025
A fisherman poses with a crocodile belonging to PT Perkasa Jagat Karunia that was recaptured.

Order restored in Indonesia as fishers recapture scores of farmed crocodiles

Yogi Eka Sahputra 17 Feb 2025

Conservation education is about people too: Interview with Gabon’s Léa Moussavou

Fanta Mabo 14 Feb 2025

Deforestation boom in Gran Chaco raises alarm over Argentina’s forest law

Maxwell Radwin 14 Feb 2025
Women set out sprat to dry in the sun in Kigoma, Tanzania, near the shore of Lake Tanganyika.

Small-scale fishers’ role in feeding the planet goes overlooked: Study

Edward Carver 14 Feb 2025
Congolese troops in the eastern DRC during fighting with M23 in 2013. Image © MONUSCO/Clara Padovan via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

The key factors fueling conflict in eastern DRC

John Cannon 14 Feb 2025
Malir River near Damloti check dam, Karachi suburbs.

Ecology vs. development in Karachi: Interview with photographer Salman Baloch

Waqas Alam Angaria 14 Feb 2025

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