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Indonesia dam builder refuses new study to assess impact on orangutans

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Aug 2020

In Argentina, a movement to save the Chaco forest hits the COVID-19 wall

Oscar Bermeo Ocaña 18 Aug 2020

Peru gov’t needs to act on COVID-19 in Amazon Indigenous cases, NGOs say

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 17 Aug 2020

Favoring ayahuasca over hospitals, Indigenous Kokama see COVID-19 deaths drop in the Amazon

Maria Fernanda Ribeiro 17 Aug 2020
Excavator working an acacia plantation in Riau, the Indonesian province that lost 22% of its primary forest cover between 2002 and 2019. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

FSC slammed for slow probe into deforestation by firms linked to Indonesia’s richest man

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Aug 2020
Santos Sauna at a sacred coastal site where the Sierra Nevada meets the sea.

COVID is killing Indigenous leaders (commentary)

Mark Plotkin 11 Aug 2020

As wild areas become farmland, species that carry diseases flourish

Ashoka Mukpo 11 Aug 2020

Brazilian Amazon protected areas ‘in flames’ as land-grabbers invade

Ana Ionova 7 Aug 2020

In Colombia, a protected park is buffeted by social, environmental conflicts

Antonio José Paz Cardona 7 Aug 2020

For the Philippines’ Mangyans, COVID-19 extends a long history of discrimination

Robert Bociaga 7 Aug 2020

Brazil dismantles environmental laws via huge surge in executive acts: Study

Jenny Gonzales 5 Aug 2020

Helping the poor can protect forests too, Indonesian welfare program shows

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Aug 2020

Deaths of Yanomami babies from COVID-19 bring anguish to mothers

Jennifer Ann Thomas 3 Aug 2020

Business risk and COVID-19 are pushing Asian financiers away from coal

Nithin Coca 3 Aug 2020

Endangered and endemic: Madagascar’s lemurs susceptible to coronavirus infection

Rivonala Razafison 31 Jul 2020

Goldminers overrun Amazon indigenous lands as COVID-19 surges

Jenny Gonzales 30 Jul 2020

Anticipated new restrictions on wildlife trade in Vietnam fall short of a ban

Michael Tatarski 30 Jul 2020

Indigenous Ashaninka launch fundraiser to help Amazon neighbors amid pandemic

Maria Fernanda Ribeiro 29 Jul 2020

On World Tiger Day, let’s recommit to the goal of doubling wild tiger populations by 2022 (commentary)

Stuart Chapman 28 Jul 2020

We need a green life support plan (commentary)

Gabriel Thoumi, John Waugh 28 Jul 2020
In July 2020, Greenpeace Russia documented forest fires in the Krasnoyarsk region of Siberia.

What funds are needed to prevent another pandemic? Just 2% of COVID-19’s estimated cost

Mongabay.com 27 Jul 2020

Niobium mining in Brazilian Amazon would cause significant forest loss: Study

Taran Volckhausen 24 Jul 2020
Sungai Utik river in West Kalimantan. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Expand conserved areas to boost global economy ravaged by COVID-19: Report

Chris Arsenault 23 Jul 2020

In picturesque Boracay, a crown-of-thorns infestation is eating away at the reef

Jun N. Aguirre 23 Jul 2020

Environmental defenders voice concerns as COVID-19 crisis deepens

Lauren Crothers 21 Jul 2020
NASA Landsat image of agriculture in the Nevada desert.

Population and consumption: challenges we can win (commentary)

Enrique Ortiz 20 Jul 2020

The wild plants in your pantry—where did they come from?

Liz Kimbrough 20 Jul 2020
A ground pangolin (Smutsia temminckii), the species of pangolin that lives in Zimbabwe. Three other pangolin species live in Africa, and four others live in Asia. Image by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

Nigeria’s wildlife traders, who weathered Ebola, eye post-COVID-19 boom

Orji Sunday 17 Jul 2020

Philippine court rejects OceanaGold’s bid to keep mining on expired permit

Mongabay.com 16 Jul 2020

Dam that threatens orangutan habitat faces three-year delay

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Jul 2020

Logging concession in Malaysian Borneo lacks consent of Indigenous communities (commentary)

Fiona McAlpine 13 Jul 2020

As COVID-19 curbs patrols in Nicaragua, turtle eggs risk being poached

Monica Pelliccia 13 Jul 2020

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