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Scientists and researchers from INPE gather outside the São José dos Campos office of INPE in protest

Brazil’s new deforestation data board sparks fear of censorship of forest loss, fires

Sarah Brown 22 Jul 2022
Smoke from a factory in Turkey

Turkey’s authoritarian development ignores planetary boundaries

Clément Girardot 21 Jul 2022

Monarch butterflies are officially endangered

Liz Kimbrough 21 Jul 2022
A bracelet with figurines carved from highly prized red coral.

New DNA test aims to help bust illegal trade in precious red coral

Kristy Hamilton 21 Jul 2022
Fishermen in the Sundarbans in Bangladesh.

Cut off from Sundarbans and denied compensation, Bangladesh communities face arrest

Abu Siddique 21 Jul 2022
Debbie Ngawera-Packer.

‘The sea means everything’: Q&A with deep-sea mining opponent Debbie Ngarewa-Packer

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Jul 2022
Woman paddling a boat loaded with fruit to sell.

Farmers feel the pressure after conservation crackdown around Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake

Danielle Keeton-Olsen, Ly Vouch Long 20 Jul 2022

Ban on use of destructive net fails to make an impact in Indonesia, experts say

Basten Gokkon, Yogi Eka Sahputra 20 Jul 2022

Red-hot demand for ipê wood coincides with deforestation hubs in Brazil

Aldem Bourscheit 18 Jul 2022
A group of Pataxó

With plantation takeover, Brazil’s Indigenous Pataxó move to reclaim their land

Sarah Sax 14 Jul 2022
The snow leopard (Panthera uncia)

In world convulsed by climate-driven conflict, are peace parks an answer?

Saul Elbein 14 Jul 2022
Slow loris in cage

Myanmar wildlife trade remains opaque, despite focus on border hubs

Carolyn Cowan 7 Jul 2022
Fish killed by a mine tailings dam breach. Photo courtesy of Andrew Lees Trust.

On hazardous mine tailings dams, ‘safety first’ should be the rule (commentary)

Jan Morrill 6 Jul 2022
A fish market in South Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Fish-farming practices come under scrutiny amid surge in aquaculture

Nick Rodway 6 Jul 2022
Boats in Lake Malawi National Park.

Construction begins on controversial water project inside Lake Malawi National Park

Charles Mpaka 4 Jul 2022
A sea turtle in the ocean.

U.N. Ocean Conference ends with promises. Is a sea change coming?

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 1 Jul 2022

Indonesia to issue quota-based fisheries policy in July, sparking concerns

Basten Gokkon 1 Jul 2022
“Guardians of the Forest” Paulo Paulino Guajajara (left) and Laércio Guajajara (right)

Indigenous advocates sense a legal landmark as a guardian’s killing heads to trial

Karla Mendes 30 Jun 2022

‘Beenome’ project aims to boost bee conservation with genetic mapping

Liz Kimbrough 30 Jun 2022
A farmer in a village in the Kerinci region.

A conservation failure in Sumatra serves a cautionary tale for PES schemes

Cassie Freund 30 Jun 2022
Erasmo and Natalha Theofilo

Amazon rainforest activist under threat in Brazil plans to flee his home

Shanna Hanbury 30 Jun 2022
A red jellyfish

A year before deep-sea mining could begin, calls for a moratorium build

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 30 Jun 2022

As Jakarta chokes on toxic air, Indonesian government stalls on taking action

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Jun 2022
Fishers in Siompu, Southeast Sulawesi with their daily catch. September 2019. Photo credit: Rare.

WTO ban on ‘harmful’ subsidies won’t impact small-scale fishers, Indonesia says

Basten Gokkon 29 Jun 2022
A dead vaquita floats in the ocean. Image by Robbie Newby for Sea Shepherd.

Experts fear end of vaquitas after green light for export of captive-bred totoaba fish

Michelle Carrere 28 Jun 2022
A herd of elephants gets a drink in Botswana. Image by Roger Borgelid for Mongabay.

Twenty years since a massive ivory seizure, what lessons were learned? (commentary)

Julian Newman 27 Jun 2022
A framed photo of Ari Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau

In Brazil, an Indigenous land defender’s unsolved killing is the deadly norm

Sarah Brown 27 Jun 2022

Study: Marine governance in Indonesia pursues exploitation over sustainability

Basten Gokkon 23 Jun 2022

For Brazil communities along a mining railway, impacts outweigh any benefits

Maurício Angelo 23 Jun 2022
Oil palm nursery and processing facility, Indonesia.

Indonesian palm oil audit a chance to clean up ‘very dirty’ industry

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Jun 2022
The study found that 83 species of wild birds from West Africa were being traded online.

Study shines light, and raises alarm, over online trade of West African birds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 23 Jun 2022
The Talaud bear cuscus.

To win island-wide conservation, Indonesia’s Talaud bear cuscus needs to win hearts

Sean Mowbray 22 Jun 2022

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