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Indonesian environment ministry shoots down geothermal plan in Mount Leuser National Park

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 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

First Toba, now Maninjau: another mass fish death hits an Indonesian lake

Vinolia 9 Sep 2016

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

Jennifer Huizen 8 Sep 2016

These banks are pumping billions into Southeast Asia’s deforestation

Alice Cuddy 8 Sep 2016

No fire, no food: tribe clings to slash-and-burn amid haze crackdown

Cory Rogers 1 Sep 2016
A fresh tilapia from Lake Toba, where the fish are raised by small farmers and large companies, for local consumption and for export to countries like the U.S. Photo by Drriss & Marrionn/Flickr

Why did millions of fish turn up dead in Indonesia’s giant Lake Toba?

Aria Danaparamita 30 Aug 2016

The biologist terrifying the US Forest Service and the timber and forest fire-fighting industries

Derek E. Lee 29 Aug 2016

Aceh governor eyes geothermal project in Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem

Junaidi Hanafiah 26 Aug 2016
Drainage canal dug through peat swamp in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Indonesia’s peat restoration chief calls for protection of all peat domes

Lusia Arumingtyas, Sapariah Saturi 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
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

Indonesia mulls revision of orangutan conservation plan

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 11 Aug 2016
An atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), at the Atlanterhavsparken aquarium in Ålesund, Norway. Photo by Hans-Petter Fjeld via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA).

Fish-farm escapees are weakening Norwegian wild salmon genetics

Melati Kaye 10 Aug 2016

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

Melati Kaye 9 Aug 2016

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

Vanessa Nirode 29 Jul 2016

Indonesia declares national park in top palm oil-producing province

Mongabay.com 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

Fish farms need not be outlawed in Indonesia’s Lake Toba: minister

Aria Danaparamita 25 Jul 2016

Haze epicenter receives environmental award in Indonesia

Aria Danaparamita 23 Jul 2016

Military sent to clear fish farms in Indonesia’s Lake Toba

Aria Danaparamita 22 Jul 2016

Indonesia’s palm oil permit moratorium to last five years

Mongabay.com 18 Jul 2016
Blue color form of Dendrobates auratus dart frog. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

10 conservation “fads”: how have they worked in Latin America?

Aldo Orellana López and Alan Forsberg 17 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
Yu Jiahua poses in front of a small portion of the wire loops collected by the anti-poaching patrol team during the past two decades. Photo by Wang Yan.

PHOTOS: On a Chinese mountain, an aging anti-poaching hero ponders the future

Wang Yan 16 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
Zou Huagang, head of Lianhe village, poses in front of a local kiwi farm. Zou's family owns about three acres of kiwi farmland. Photo by Wang Yan.

Making a living inside a reserve: an interview with village head Zou Huagang

Wang Yan 14 Jun 2016

Indonesia to rezone 3.8m of protected peat that was damaged or converted

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 13 Jun 2016
A golden snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus roxellana), caught on camera trap inside the reserve. Photo courtesy of Laohegou Nature Reserve Center.

Can China’s first private nature reserve become truly sustainable?

Wang Yan 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

Chinese villagers turn from logging to forest patrols, bees, and fish

Wang Yan 8 Jun 2016

Can conservationists overcome their differences to save life on Earth?

Mongabay 7 Jun 2016

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