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A young fisherman uses a legal net.

Fisheries crackdown pushes Cambodians to the brink on Tonle Sap lake

Gerald Flynn, Vutha Srey 26 Aug 2022

Indonesia announces plan to protect 10% of its seas by 2030, and 30% by 2045

Basten Gokkon 26 Aug 2022

Fighting extractive industries in Ecuador: Q&A with Indigenous rights activist María Espinosa

Maxwell Radwin 22 Aug 2022

Traditional communities’ prize-winning coffee and cachaça at risk from Brazil mine

Rafael Martins 22 Aug 2022
A Socorro isopod. Image by Bronwyn H. Bleakley via Creative Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Socorro isopod: Endangered but important (commentary)

Nick D’Onofrio 19 Aug 2022

Commodity kings Cargill, Bunge buying soy from stolen Indigenous land, report says

Maxwell Radwin 19 Aug 2022
A leopard in a tree

Snares: Low-tech, low-profile killers of rare wildlife the world over

Laurel Neme 18 Aug 2022
Hafidh Wanje stands near a creek.

As their land and water turns saline, Kenyan communities take on salt firms

Anthony Langat 18 Aug 2022
Rainwater harvesting in a coastal town in Bangladesh.

Are Bangladesh’s development measures leading to climate change readiness or maladaptation? (commentary)

Saleemul Huq, Savio Rousseau Rozario, Md. Bodrud-Doza 18 Aug 2022
Illegal sand and gold mining in West Kalimantan

Study tracks global forest decline and expansion over six decades

John Cannon 17 Aug 2022
Banks of a river where sand is illegally mined.

Sand mining a boon for illegal industry at expense of Bangladesh’s environment

Abu Siddique 16 Aug 2022
Loggers cut down a tree with a chainsaw.

Australian miner threatens lawsuit against PNG for scrapping carbon scheme

Rachel Donald 15 Aug 2022

Mexico court drops injunctions, paving way for controversial Tren Maya railway

Maxwell Radwin 15 Aug 2022
The flesh-footed shearwater (Ardenna carneipes)

In a hotter, drier climate, how serious is fire risk to island seabirds?

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 12 Aug 2022

Indonesia backtracks on plan criticized for ‘privatizing’ fisheries resources

Basten Gokkon 11 Aug 2022
Gorillas in Cameroon.

Private road sparks fears for Cameroon’s Ebo Forest

Amindeh Blaise Atabong 10 Aug 2022
Cattle ranch in Mato Grosso

New Brazil bill puts cattle pasture over Pantanal wetland

Sarah Brown 9 Aug 2022
An Asian elephant in a forest in Bangladesh

Bangladesh struggles to protect the last of its last wild elephants

Rafiqul Islam 9 Aug 2022
A Nepali honey collector.

Billions rely on wild species for food, energy and more: IPBES report

John Cannon 5 Aug 2022

Big banks fund the heavy machinery used for Amazon deforestation, report says

Maxwell Radwin 4 Aug 2022
Children fishing in Thailand.

‘It sustains us all’: IPBES report calls for accounting of nature’s diverse values

John Cannon 4 Aug 2022
The Matis people made their first official contact with the outside world at the end of 1970.

Violence persists in Amazon region where Pereira and Phillips were killed

Sarah Brown 2 Aug 2022
A neighborhood store in Chile with a sign proclaiming they are no longer delivering plastic bags.

In world first, Chile to ban single-use food and beverage products over three years

Rachel Teng Ruiqi 1 Aug 2022
Timber is sorted for transport in Uruará in the state of Pará.

Organized crime drives violence and deforestation in the Amazon, study shows

Sarah Brown 1 Aug 2022
A white rhino browsing grass. Image by Brook Ward via Flickr (CC BY-NC-2.0)

Mozambique busts notorious rhino poacher

Estacio Valoi 1 Aug 2022
A Bengal tiger.

Nepal was supposed to double its tiger population since 2010. It tripled it

Abhaya Raj Joshi 29 Jul 2022
The Tiwi Nunka Forest in Ecuador. Photo courtesy of Nature and Culture International.

Indigenous Shuar community in Ecuador wins decades-long battle to protect land

Maxwell Radwin 28 Jul 2022
Adam, one of the residents of Rusunawa Marunda.

For residents of Jakarta’s port district, coal is the neighbor no one wants

Fadiyah Alaidrus 27 Jul 2022
Fire in the Jaci-Parana Extractive Reserve, in Porto Velho, Rondonia state

As the Amazon burns, only the weather can ward off a catastrophe, experts say

Juliana Ennes 26 Jul 2022

Concerns over transparency and access abound at deep-sea mining negotiations

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 26 Jul 2022

Indonesia’s mangrove restoration bid holds huge promise, but obstacles abound

Warief Djajanto Basorie 26 Jul 2022

Industrial soy drives deforestation spike in Brazil, satellite images show

Maxwell Radwin 22 Jul 2022

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