Munduruku standoff against Amazon dam builders potentially explosive
Last Friday, eighty Munduruku warriors — demanding an apology for destruction of two sacred sites — tried to occupy an Amazon dam; they were met by armed police.
Conservation and Religion News
Trump’s global resorts put profit first, environment last, critics say
As Trump firms build golf courses in Southeast Asia, imitating the Scottish landscape where the game was born, tropical habitat and aquifers are put at risk, according to environmentalists.
People of all faiths face climate change with hope, action, urgency
On May 24, a grim-faced Pope Francis handed a signed copy of Laudato Si to President Trump during his visit to Rome. The U.S. president, who has called climate change…
E.O. Wilson on Half-Earth, Donald Trump, and hope
At 87, E.O. Wilson has lost none of his intellectual rigor. His sentences are long, rolling, full of enough parentheticals to make Proust smile, and delivered in a wonderfully soothing,…
Controversial tiger temple in Thailand gets zoo license
Thailand’s Tiger Temple has been mired in controversy. Earlier this year, a National Geographic investigation and a report released by Cee4life (Conservation and Environmental Education for Life) accused the tiger temple…
The Paris climate talks ended in elation — now the real work begins, say Faith leaders
n May 1927, a fearless aviator named Charles Lindbergh circled his fragile single-engine monoplane, waiting for tens of thousands of expectant Parisians to clear the runway at Le Bourget Field.…
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Endangered environmentalists
- Indigenous group scores legal victory as dam floods their lands
- Yasuni indigenous peoples’ fight for survival depicted in new documentary
- Leading ivory trade investigator slain in Tanzania
Global forest reporting network
- Communities struggle to save Sabah’s shrinking mangroves
- Saving the Serranía de San Lucas, a vital link in the ‘jaguar corridor’
- Monkey rediscovered in Brazil after 80 years
Indonesian coal
- ‘Queen of Coal’ named corruption suspect in Indonesia
- Activists spy silver lining as officials warn of financial clouds over coal-fueled grid
- Lawsuits test local governments’ ability to clean up Indonesia’s coal mining sector
Amazon infrastructure
- Munduruku standoff against Amazon dam builders potentially explosive
- Record Amazon fires stun scientists; sign of sick, degraded forests
- Amazon deforestation linked to McDonald’s and British retail giants
Asian rhinos
- When a rhino calls in the forest, this guy hears it: Q&A with a Javan rhino researcher
- Audio: Is forest certification an effective strategy? Plus acoustic ecology of the Javan rhino
- A rhino called hope
