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Japan declares its river otter extinct

Mekong dam spree could create regional food crisis

Recommendations to save India’s Western Ghats creates political stir

Elephant ancestors and Africa’s Bigfoot: new initiative works to preserve a continent’s wildest tales

Evidence of ‘isolated’ indigenous people found in Peru where priest is pushing highway

Tigers vs. coal in India: when big energy meets vanishing cats

Wealthy consumption threatens species in developing countries

Congolese experts needed to protect Congo Basin rainforests

Cowards at Rio?: organizations decry ‘pathetic’ agreement

Over 700 people killed defending forest and land rights in past ten years

Indigenous rights rising in tropical forests, but big gaps remain

Charting a new environmental course in China

Exploring Asia’s lost world

Gas development pushing pronghorn out of vital wintering grounds

Over 30 Yangtze porpoises found dead in China as population nears extinction

Animal picture of the day: the spotless cheetah

Pictures: Destruction of the Amazon’s Xingu River begins for Belo Monte Dam

David vs. Goliath: Goldman Environmental Prize winners highlight development projects gone awry

Papua New Guinea halts controversial nickel mine – for now

“Don’t be so silly” about climate change: Mohamed Nasheed on The Daily Show

Judge suspends Brazilian dam that would flood sacred waterfalls

Turkey’s rich biodiversity at risk

Cambodia sells off national park for city-sized pleasure resorts

Oil exploration approved in Africa’s oldest park, Virunga National Park

Scientists say massive palm oil plantation will “cut the heart out” of Cameroon’s rainforest

Without data, fate of great apes unknown

NASA satellite image shows extent of logging in Pacific Northwest

Fact follows fiction: Watership Down land to make way for housing developments

Innovative conservation: wild silk, endangered species, and poverty in Madagascar

Activists form network to fight Sarawak dam-building spree

Will Taiwan save its last pristine coastline?

Photos: 208 species discovered in endangered Mekong region in 2010

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