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Time running out to save world’s most endangered porpoise, environmentalists warn

Mike Gaworecki 21 Sep 2016

Interpol issues notice about illegal timber trading operation in Brazil

Mike Gaworecki 15 Sep 2016

High seas treaty negotiations ended at UN last week with boost from IUCN Conservation Congress

Mike Gaworecki 14 Sep 2016

California governor signs landmark climate and clean energy bills into law

Mike Gaworecki 12 Sep 2016
Rangers at Kenya’s Samburu National Reserve. Photo by Ninara via Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

Poaching in Africa becomes increasingly militarized

William H. Funk 12 Sep 2016
Aerial photo shows the town of San Pablo de Amalí, the Dulcepamba River, and the Hidrotambo dam facility. Photo by Santiago Pastór

Dam opponents claim criminalization by Ecuadorian government

Martha Pskowski 9 Sep 2016

The 101 on how global trade treaties came to threaten the environment

Jennifer Huizen 8 Sep 2016

Endangered species often wait 12 years or more to be listed for protection

Shreya Dasgupta 25 Aug 2016

Indonesia must do more to protect whale sharks, conservationists say

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 23 Aug 2016

Timber from Peru 90 percent illegal, finds report issued by U.S. gov’t

Morgan Erickson-Davis 18 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

Field Notes: Saving America’s last wild meat-eating Venus flytraps

Elizabeth Devitt 15 Aug 2016
Fire set for peatland clearing in Riau Province, Indonesia in July 2015. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Company ordered to pay record $76m over fires in Sumatra

Mongabay.com 12 Aug 2016
A mural of murdered activists Berta Cáceres in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Photo by disoniador via Pixabay.

In Latin America, environmentalists are an endangered species

Lindsay Fendt 11 Aug 2016

From Boom to Glug glug: Indonesia’s new anti-poacher policy

Melati Kaye 9 Aug 2016

NGO sues Aceh official over cement factory permit in Leuser Ecosystem

Junaidi Hanafiah 4 Aug 2016

Up the Kapuas River, a Borneo tribe lives off the land

Vanessa Nirode 29 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

South China Sea ruling slams China for poaching, reef destruction

David E. Brown 14 Jul 2016

Under gov’t pressure, palm oil giants disband green pledge

Jonathan Vit 1 Jul 2016

French MPs say they were pressured into dropping palm oil tax

Mongabay.com 29 Jun 2016

Search warrant executed at Global Plywood over alleged Lacey Act violations

Mike Gaworecki 20 Jun 2016
Illegal forest clearingfor oil palm in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

How is Indonesian president Jokowi doing on environmental issues?

Philip Jacobson 12 Jun 2016

Indigenous groups pressured to give up lands for doubtful Nicaragua Canal

Lindsay Fendt 9 Jun 2016

Peruvian presidential candidates spur concerns among environmentalists

Milton López Tarabochia 3 Jun 2016

Singapore, Indonesia jostle over anti-haze measures

Mongabay Haze Beat 16 May 2016

Leaked docs reveal TTIP unfriendly to environment, consumers, democracy

Jennifer Huizen 11 May 2016

How effective will Indonesia’s palm oil permit freeze really be?

Mongabay Haze Beat 4 May 2016
A massive fish die-off. Image via EPA.

Taiwanese chemical spill thought to cause mass fish die-off in Vietnam

David E. Brown 3 May 2016

Haze-stricken Malaysia proposes drastic new firefighting measures

Mongabay Haze Beat 29 Apr 2016

A decade in the making: EU, Indonesia to start licensing scheme for legal timber shipments

Mongabay.com 28 Apr 2016

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