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Oil extraction threatens to expand further into Ecuadorean rainforest under new 20-year contract

Isabel Riofrio 3 Feb 2016

Previously undiscovered lion population found in Ethiopia

Shreya Dasgupta 3 Feb 2016

New deforestation hotspot threatens southern Peru’s tremendous biodiversity

Mike Gaworecki 2 Feb 2016

Managing fish stock –and fishermen– along Brazil’s Canaticu River

Jenny Gonzales 2 Feb 2016

India has most cases of social and environmental conflict, according to environmental justice atlas

Shreya Dasgupta 2 Feb 2016
Human-wildlife conflicts could potentially be reduced with the introduction of fully certified palm oil for Sabah. Photo shows an elephant stranded in a smallholder’s farm. Photo and caption courtesy of LEAP.

Do poor environmental practices affect palm oil firms’ bottom lines on a scale meaningful for investors and financiers?

Pek Shibao 1 Feb 2016

Vast majority of Canada’s Great Bear Rainforest made permanently off-limits to industrial logging

Mike Gaworecki 1 Feb 2016

Imperiled Amazon freshwater ecosystems urgently need basin-wide study, management

Claire Salisbury 1 Feb 2016

Top Vatican official: climate change action is a “moral imperative”

Justin Catanoso 1 Feb 2016

Elephant poachers kill British helicopter pilot, 5 suspects arrested

Shreya Dasgupta 1 Feb 2016

The week in environmental news – Jan 29, 2016

Brittany Stewart 30 Jan 2016

Madagascar scientists unsure how best to guard frogs from fungus

Elizabeth Devitt 30 Jan 2016

First estimate of Congo Basin’s pygmy population comes with warning about increasing threat of deforestation

Mike Gaworecki 29 Jan 2016

A small European island teaches conservation through its herbs and spices

Nika Levikov 29 Jan 2016

Myanmar emerging as a major hub for smuggling pangolins to China

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Jan 2016

Jokowi asked to push indigenous rights through reluctant parliament

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 29 Jan 2016

Vines may be bad news for forest carbon storage

Apoorva Joshi 28 Jan 2016

U.S. national parks set an attendance record last year

Mike Gaworecki 28 Jan 2016

Newly discovered chameleon sheds light on Tanzania biodiversity

Mike Gaworecki 28 Jan 2016

What’s preventing palm oil investors from going green?

Pek Shibao 28 Jan 2016

Does sustainable forest management actually protect forests?

John Cannon 27 Jan 2016

Tropical forest protected areas might be working better than you think

Mike Gaworecki 27 Jan 2016

‘Sounds like Adele’: Melodious song leads to discovery of new bird species in India

Shreya Dasgupta 27 Jan 2016

Most ‘frontiers of plantation expansion’ are losing far more trees to deforestation than harvesting

John Cannon 26 Jan 2016

Over-hunting’s surprising connection to global warming

Mike Gaworecki 26 Jan 2016

Sri Lanka crushes and destroys over 350 ivory tusks

Shreya Dasgupta 26 Jan 2016

Do palm oil financiers care about sustainability?

Pek Shibao 26 Jan 2016

Over 40 years, half of China’s land vertebrates disappear

Wang Yan 25 Jan 2016

The Paris climate talks ended in elation — now the real work begins, say Faith leaders

Justin Catanoso 25 Jan 2016

South America’s white-sand forests: poorly known and under threat

Mike Gaworecki 25 Jan 2016

Man selling monkey heads on eBay sentenced, supplier in Indonesia arrested

Shreya Dasgupta 25 Jan 2016

The week in environmental news – Jan 22, 2016

Brittany Stewart 22 Jan 2016

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