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Banner image: A blue coua (Coua caerulea) in Ranomafana National Park, about 30 miles west of Vohilava. Image by Rhett A. Butler.

Madagascar court upholds sentence for environmental activist

Edward Carver 31 May 2018

Indonesia targets illegal fishing vessel owners under new bill

Basten Gokkon 31 May 2018

Tanzania’s Maasai losing ground to tourism in the name of conservation, investigation finds

John Cannon 11 May 2018

What’s next for Indonesia’s stalled indigenous rights bill?

Cory Rogers 3 May 2018

UN forest accounting loophole allows CO2 underreporting by EU, UK, US

Justin Catanoso 2 May 2018

Pesticides banned by EU for their potential harm to bees

Mongabay.com 30 Apr 2018

China’s Belt and Road poised to transform the Earth, but at what cost?

Giovanni Ortolani 24 Apr 2018

Indonesia’s crackdown on illegal fishing is paying off, study finds

Basten Gokkon 23 Apr 2018

Island logging must go beyond current ‘best practices’ to avoid erosion: New study

Mongabay.com 23 Apr 2018

Bid to protect indigenous Indonesians hit by ministry’s doubts over rights bill

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Apr 2018

It’s time to confront the collusion between the palm oil industry and politicians that is driving Indonesia’s deforestation crisis (commentary)

Tom Johnson 18 Apr 2018

Ghosts in the machine: the land deals behind the downfall of Indonesia’s top judge

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 18 Apr 2018

How a family of local elites is still pitching to control a district in Borneo

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 11 Apr 2018

A wish list for an environmentally friendly NAFTA

Jennifer Huizen 11 Apr 2018

Indonesian billionaire using ‘shadow companies’ to clear forest for palm oil, report alleges

Daniel Pye 11 Apr 2018

Philippines’ Duterte suggests open-pit mining ban will stay in place

Mongabay.com 11 Apr 2018

Indonesian conservation bill is weak on wildlife crime, critics say

Basten Gokkon 6 Apr 2018

U.K. ban relegates legal ivory trade to ‘a thing of the past’

Mongabay.com 3 Apr 2018

Indonesia may achieve renewables target, but still favors coal for power

Basten Gokkon 29 Mar 2018
A weedy seadragon (Phyllopteryx taeniolatus), native to southern Australia’s coastal waters. Photo by Katieleeosborne via Wikimedia Commons.

Australia opens vast swaths of famed marine parks to fishing

Mic Smith 29 Mar 2018

Trump’s elephant, lion trophy hunting policy hit with double lawsuits

Jeremy Hance 26 Mar 2018
Gentoo penguins on Greenwich Island, part of the South Shetland Island group, Antarctica. Photo by Paul Hilton/Greenpeace.

“Save the Krill” urges Greenpeace report

Kim Smuga-Otto 23 Mar 2018

How one of Indonesia’s biggest companies cut a secret deal to plant oil palm in Borneo

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 20 Mar 2018

Activists eye bigger roles for local officials, businesses in Indonesia’s orangutan protection plan

Basten Gokkon 15 Mar 2018

Analysis: U.S. call to drill off all coasts, economic and ecological folly?

Saul Elbein 14 Mar 2018

NGOs seek suspension of forest-related funding to DRC in response to proposed end to logging moratorium

John Cannon 8 Mar 2018

Trump to allow elephant and lion trophies on case-by-case basis

Jeremy Hance 8 Mar 2018

Europe’s beetle species plummet as trees disappear

Morgan Erickson-Davis 6 Mar 2018
Bison in Chihuahua, Mexico, where protected grasslands in the U.S. and Mexico create a bi-national wildlife corridor. President Trump’s border hardening plans threaten the continuity of this habitat, and existing fencing has already curtailed the bison's movements. Photo by Rurik List.

Judge OKs waiving environmental laws to build U.S.-Mexico border wall

Mongabay 1 Mar 2018

Duterte orders navy to fire on foreign poachers in Philippine waters

Mongabay.com 14 Feb 2018

Ecuador votes to reduce oil exploitation in Yasuní National Park

Daniela Aguilar 12 Feb 2018
Bison in the Janos Valley of Chihuahua, Mexico. A population of about 100 bison lives in Mexico, where they are listed as a species in danger of extinction. The herd’s trips from the U.S. to Mexico have been curtailed by a hardening of the border in the Janos Valley. Photo by Rurik List courtesy of CONABIO.

Rewriting biological history: Trump border wall puts wildlife at risk

Rebecca Kessler 12 Feb 2018

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