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The media megaphone: does it help curb bad infrastructure projects?

Daniel Pye, Alice Cuddy 7 Dec 2016

From loathed to loved: Villagers rally to save Greater Adjutant stork

Diane Toomey 6 Dec 2016

Over 50% of sharks and rays in the Mediterranean Sea are at risk of extinction

Shreya Dasgupta 6 Dec 2016

Mexico to get its largest ever protected area

Shreya Dasgupta 5 Dec 2016

Q&A with the creators of the ‘Amazonian Travels of Richard Evans Schultes’ story map

Mike Gaworecki 2 Dec 2016

California court upholds ban on ivory and rhino horn

Shreya Dasgupta 2 Dec 2016

Grasslands in US Great Plains are being destroyed at “alarming rate”

Mike Gaworecki 1 Dec 2016

Field Notes: Boosting biodiversity by studying human values, gender

Elizabeth Devitt 1 Dec 2016

Sapphire boom propels thousands into Madagascar rainforest

John Cannon 1 Dec 2016
Orangutans Pongo spp. held at a Thai government-run rescue centre prior to repatriation to Indonesia. Photo credit: Claire Beastall/TRAFFIC.

Thailand failing to stop illegal trade in apes due to inadequate legislation

Shreya Dasgupta 1 Dec 2016

Which tropical forest conservation strategies are proving most effective?

Mike Gaworecki 30 Nov 2016

A dam shame: the plight of the Mekong giant catfish

Claire Asher 30 Nov 2016

Indonesia shifts emissions-reduction burden from energy to forestry sector

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 30 Nov 2016

Newscast #6: Carl Safina on marine conservation and Trump

Mike Gaworecki 29 Nov 2016

Great Barrier Reef suffered worst coral die-off on record in 2016: new study

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Nov 2016

Indonesian court shuts down legal challenge to Aceh land-use plan

Mongabay.com 29 Nov 2016

NYT explores life and impact of Chico Mendes, “a Fighter for the Amazon”

Mike Gaworecki 28 Nov 2016

Innovative technology creates safe haven for rhinos

Laurel Neme 28 Nov 2016

Cash-strapped rhino groups turn to crowdfunding, with little success

Jeremy Hance 28 Nov 2016

Top scientists: Amazon’s Tapajós Dam Complex “a crisis in the making”

Claire Salisbury 28 Nov 2016
Bags of coffee at the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange's warehouse in Awassa. Photo courtesy of DFID - UK Department for International Development

Development of Ethiopia’s Yayu biosphere a lifeline for organic coffee

Elias Gebreselassie 27 Nov 2016

Conservation in oil palm is possible (commentary)

Erik Meijaard 25 Nov 2016

Protests against Bangladesh power plant begin in Dhaka and Cambridge

Shreya Dasgupta 25 Nov 2016

Timber trading platform aims to increase transparency, legality

John Cannon 24 Nov 2016

Tigers face ‘unprecedented’ threat from transport projects: WWF

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Nov 2016

The Javan rhino: protected and threatened by a volcano

Tom Peeters 23 Nov 2016

Palm oil culprits apprehended in the Leuser Ecosystem. Who sent them?

Junaidi Hanafiah 23 Nov 2016

Scientists discover the real vocalists behind the ‘singing snake’: tree frogs

Shreya Dasgupta 23 Nov 2016

KEDR: Watching over the cedar forests of the Russian Far East

Julia John 23 Nov 2016
Forest cleared for oil palm in Malaysian Borneo. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

American retirement funds contribute to deforestation and climate change

Mike Gaworecki 22 Nov 2016

Silent soldiers of the extreme, or why I’m glad I’m not a wild yak

Joel Berger 22 Nov 2016

Humpback whales learn habitat loyalty from their mothers, Alaskan study shows

Teresa L. Carey 22 Nov 2016

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