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DRC announces intent to reopen its rainforests to logging companies

Morgan Erickson-Davis 4 Mar 2016

Study doubles the number of endangered Sumatran orangutans believed to exist

Loren Bell 4 Mar 2016

A month since the oil spill, Wampis indigenous peoples criticize PetroPeru’s negligence

Ruxandra Guidi 4 Mar 2016

Report from the Amazon #1: Altamira, a city transformed by the Belo Monte dam

Sue Branford 4 Mar 2016

New ‘Blue Economy Challenge’ wants your solutions to transform the aquaculture industry

Shreya Dasgupta 4 Mar 2016

China’s log imports fall sharply

Mongabay.com 3 Mar 2016

Honduran environmental and indigenous rights activist, Berta Cáceres, is gunned down

Ruxandra Guidi 3 Mar 2016

World Wildlife Day 2016: Why Wildlife Needs YOU

Paul Rosolie 3 Mar 2016

Facebook emerging as a ‘thriving’ wildlife trade marketplace

Shreya Dasgupta 3 Mar 2016

Indonesia’s war on maritime slavery continues

Cory Rogers 3 Mar 2016

Want to keep tabs on that new logging road in Peru? Well, now you can

Morgan Erickson-Davis 2 Mar 2016

Smallest of giant flowers ‘accidentally’ discovered in the Philippines

Shreya Dasgupta 2 Mar 2016

Award-winning Colombian film, “The Embrace of the Serpent”, is not sitting well with a local indigenous community

Ruxandra Guidi 1 Mar 2016

The African palm oil frontier expands deeper into the Peruvian Amazon, impacting indigenous communities’ territories

Barbara Fraser 1 Mar 2016

A forest full of beetles: an interview with bug researcher Caroline Chaboo

Shreya Dasgupta 1 Mar 2016

‘Sitting on the edge of a knife’: Deforestation ramps up in Queensland

Morgan Erickson-Davis 29 Feb 2016

Market-based conservation programs slow deforestation in Chile, study finds

Peter Mellgard 29 Feb 2016

Conservationists part ways on primary forest logging

Saul Elbein 29 Feb 2016

A mangrove forest in Cancun that was home to many crocodiles, boas, eagles, herons, frogs, squirrels and iguanas is destroyed

Pablo Hernández Mares 29 Feb 2016

‘Status symbols’: Japan emerging as major hub for illegal trade in slow lorises due to their popularity as pets

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Feb 2016
Leonardo DiCaprio accepts the Oscar for Best Actor at the 88th Annual Academy Awards at Dolby Theatre on February 28, 2016 in Hollywood, California. Courtesy of the Academy Awards.

DiCaprio calls for climate action in Oscar speech

Mongabay.com 29 Feb 2016

Indonesia’s antigraft agency strives to rein in the mining sector

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 27 Feb 2016

The week in environmental news – Feb 26, 2016

Brittany Stewart 26 Feb 2016

Can privatization save parks?

Josh Davis 26 Feb 2016

Indigenous communities are forced to clean up a 3,000-barrel oil spill in Peru’s Amazon

Ruxandra Guidi 26 Feb 2016

Thailand’s efforts to protect wild tigers starting to pay off, but recovery slower than expected

Mike Gaworecki 26 Feb 2016

Chinese dam builder eyeing major Amazon mega-dam contract

Piero Locatelli from Repórter Brasil 26 Feb 2016
Peat forest cleared for pulp and paper in Riau, Sumatra. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

New tool seeks end to Indonesian paper giants’ secret links

Loren Bell 26 Feb 2016

The dangers of China’s ‘thumb monkey’ trend

Morgan Erickson-Davis 25 Feb 2016

CEO and execs charged with homicide in Samarco dam collapse in Brazil

Jenny Gonzales 25 Feb 2016

The longest global coral bleaching event in history isn’t over yet

Mike Gaworecki 25 Feb 2016

Oil exploration in Bolivia’s Amazon region goes on overdrive

Ruxandra Guidi 25 Feb 2016

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