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A female western hoolock gibbon with its baby.

Herbicide used in Bangladesh tea production threatens biodiversity & health

Farhana Parvin 19 Feb 2024
ecuador infrastructure

Road project promising access to Indigenous Waorani is ushering in deforestation

Aimee Gabay 19 Feb 2024
Generated image showing a road through a deforested landscape.

Brazil’s BR-319 highway: The danger reaches a critical moment (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 17 Feb 2024

After 50 years of the U.S. Endangered Species Act, we need new biodiversity protection laws (commentary)

Sean O'Brien 16 Feb 2024

In Brazil’s soy belt, community seed banks offer hope for the Amazon

Ana Ionova 15 Feb 2024
A manatee

Find the manatee: New AI model spots sea cows from images

Abhishyant Kidangoor 15 Feb 2024

A highway project in Chile threatens one of the world’s longest-living tree species

Michelle Carrere 15 Feb 2024
A Bengal tiger in neighboring India.

UN award for Nepal’s tiger range restoration spurs euphoria amid challenges

Abhaya Raj Joshi 15 Feb 2024

Mini rainforest project aims to serve as Kalimantan reforestation blueprint

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Feb 2024
A man with a child.

Andes community-led conservation curbs more páramo loss than state-protected area: Study

Aimee Gabay 14 Feb 2024
Walruses east of Svalbard in the Barents Sea.

The new Arctic: Amid record heat, ecosystems morph and wildlife struggle

Sharon Guynup 14 Feb 2024

In Colombia, race is on to save 8 rare tree species found nowhere else

Astrid Arellano 14 Feb 2024
An Indus river dolphin (Platanista minor). This species is found in a small area of the Indus River, near the city of Sukkur in the central province of Sindh, Pakistan. Image courtesy of WWF Pakistan.

Indus River dolphins’ survival is our responsibility (commentary)

Sabir Hussain 13 Feb 2024

The creation of settlements in the Ecuadorian Amazon | Chapter 4 of “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon”

Timothy J. Killeen 13 Feb 2024
Saltwater crocodile

Risks to Myanmar’s last saltwater crocs point to coastal conservation needs

Carolyn Cowan 13 Feb 2024

Reforestation of Indonesia’s new capital city stumped by haphazard planting

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Feb 2024

No sea change on marine policy from candidates as Indonesia heads to polls

Basten Gokkon 13 Feb 2024
Deforestation for oil palm in East Kalimantan, Indonesia in 2016. Photo courtesy of Linus.

Palm oil deforestation makes comeback in Indonesia after decade-long slump

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Feb 2024

Kapinawá: the 50 year fight for sacred territory in the Catimbau Valley

Xavier Bartaburu (words and photos) & Rafael Martins (video and photos) 13 Feb 2024
A front view of the Kedarnath Temple in the aftermath of the 2013 floods.

Risky development in Uttarakhand: Interview with environmentalist Ravi Chopra

Swati Thapa 13 Feb 2024
A black rhino in Loisaba Conservancy.

Black rhinos moved to Kenya’s Loisaba Conservancy as species recovers

Graeme Green 13 Feb 2024

Landmark report on migratory species underlines threats to Asia’s wildlife

Anton L. Delgado 12 Feb 2024

Ecuador government weighs delaying closure of controversial ITT oil block

Maxwell Radwin 12 Feb 2024

Rewilding in Argentina helps giant anteaters return to south Brazil

Sarah Brown 12 Feb 2024

Great apes can remember long-lost friends and relatives

Romi Castagnino 11 Feb 2024
Juanita Torremocha harvests a medicinal herb in her backyard, located near Mount Bandilaan National Park at the heart of Siquijor Island.

Traditional healers in Philippines keep their ‘forest pharmacy’ standing

Keith Anthony Fabro 9 Feb 2024
Recently cleared land for an oil palm plantation in Peru.

Critics decry controversial bill that loosens deforestation restrictions in Peru

Aimee Gabay 9 Feb 2024

Concern for Mexico’s vaquita as totoaba swim bladder trafficking surges online

Maxwell Radwin 9 Feb 2024
African elephants

Cornell receives $35m gift for research at nexus of wildlife and health

Carolyn Cowan 9 Feb 2024

New environmental rules for Chile’s protected areas rile the salmon industry

Barinia Montoya 9 Feb 2024

Brazil’s environmental David fights Congress’s agribusiness Goliath: Interview with Nilto Tatto

Fernanda Wenzel 9 Feb 2024

Report shows Peru failed to stop Amazon deforestation for palm oil and cacao

Dimitri Selibas 8 Feb 2024

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