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Korean palm oil firm burned large tracts of forestland in Indonesia, NGOs allege

Alice Cuddy 1 Sep 2016

Detector Dogs sniff out illegal ivory, help nab poacher in Tanzania

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Aug 2016

Indonesia must do more to protect whale sharks, conservationists say

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 23 Aug 2016
Fire set for peatland clearing in Riau Province, Indonesia in July 2015. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Indonesian parliament to investigate fire-linked firms in Riau

Mongabay Haze Beat 20 Aug 2016
Lar National Park in northern Iran, about 100 kilometers from Tehran. Photo by Mahdi Kalhor via Panoramio

Three murders highlight troubles of Iran’s park rangers

Jennifer Huizen 18 Aug 2016

China jails 7 people, including airport employee, for smuggling rare tortoises

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Aug 2016

Indonesia mulls revision of orangutan conservation plan

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 11 Aug 2016

Indochinese leopard has disappeared from 94% of its historical range

Shreya Dasgupta 10 Aug 2016

Borneo conservationists and top oil palm firm work to help orangutans

Deirdre Leowinata 9 Aug 2016

Two businessmen arrested for ivory trafficking

Shreya Dasgupta 8 Aug 2016
Etnias, a 620-foot long mural in Rio de Janiero, Brazil, representing indigenous people from five continents by Brazilian artist Eduardo Kobra. The mural was commissioned for the Olympics. Photo by Agência Brasil Fotografias.

Olympics to begin amid rising violence against Brazil’s indigenous people

Sandra Cuffe 4 Aug 2016

Study uncovers illegal bird trade in Thailand’s weekend market

Shreya Dasgupta 2 Aug 2016

Like Indonesia, Malaysia to sink illegal foreign fishing boats: minister

Mongabay.com 29 Jul 2016
Fire set for peatland clearing in Riau Province, Indonesia in July 2015. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

15 fire-linked firms escape prosecution in Indonesia’s Riau

Mongabay Haze Beat 28 Jul 2016

Samarco chief faces criminal investigation over collapsed Brazil dam

Zoe Sullivan 27 Jul 2016

Why helping civil society investigate illegal timber is about much more than protecting forests and forest peoples [commentary]

Sam Lawson 25 Jul 2016
Levita holds a layer of dried crude oil from her farmland along the Marañon River. Photo by Brett Monroe Garner.

Health concerns, food insecurity linger months after Peruvian oil spills

Kevin Floerke and Rebecca Wolff 25 Jul 2016

Ivory poaching kingpin gets 20 years in jail

Shreya Dasgupta 25 Jul 2016

Vietnam is one of world’s biggest illegal ivory markets

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Jul 2016
Red passion vine flower in the Amazon rainforest of Colombia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Heavy toll for green and indigenous activists among Colombian killings

Camilo Mejia Giraldo 15 Jul 2016

India at heart of illegal otter trade

Shreya Dasgupta 15 Jul 2016

South China Sea ruling slams China for poaching, reef destruction

David Brown 14 Jul 2016

Anti-coal activist murdered in the Philippines

Shreya Dasgupta 7 Jul 2016

5,000 wild animals killed in West Bengal, India, on World Environment Day

Shreya Dasgupta 6 Jul 2016

Trafficking: Indonesian soldier caught with 8 pangolins in car backseat

Ayat S. Karokaro 24 Jun 2016

Judges up the ante for tiger traffickers in Indonesia

Chik Rini, Dedek Hendry 24 Jun 2016
La Danta pyramid in the Mayan city of Mirador, as seen from a distance. Photo by Ronyrocael/Wikimedia Commons.

Controversial park plans in Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve

Sandra Cuffe 17 Jun 2016
A still of juvenile blacktip reef sharks (Carcharhinus melanopterus) from the baited Go-Pro rig that researchers set in the waters of the Daram no-take zone in West Papua, Indonesia. Photo by Vanessa Jaiteh.

Protected areas grow populations of shark — and disenfranchised fishers

Melati Kaye 15 Jun 2016

Singapore crushes illegal ivory worth $10 million

Shreya Dasgupta 14 Jun 2016

From endangered species to commodities: report reveals scale of wildlife crime

Apoorva Joshi 10 Jun 2016
Marta Álvarez inspects xate palm fronds harvested in the Uaxactún community forest concession. Photo by Sandra Cuffe.

Communities lead the way in rainforest conservation in Guatemala

Sandra Cuffe 9 Jun 2016

Environmental crime reaches new record of $258b, report finds

Daniel Pye 8 Jun 2016

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