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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, 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

China’s Wanglang panda reserve, once an ecotourism model, faces new threats

Wang Yan 6 Jun 2016

Peruvian presidential candidates spur concerns among environmentalists

Milton López Tarabochia 3 Jun 2016

Successes and many challenges in Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve

Sandra Cuffe 2 Jun 2016

Indonesia’s forestry ministry follows through on palm oil permit freeze

Mongabay.com 23 May 2016

World Bank lifts freeze on Cambodia loans amid protests

Daniel Pye 20 May 2016

Conservation’s people problem

Jeremy Hance 17 May 2016

Leaked docs reveal TTIP unfriendly to environment, consumers, democracy

Jennifer Huizen 11 May 2016

Conservation today, the old-fashioned way

Jeremy Hance 10 May 2016

Malaysian palm oil companies say their concession maps are state secrets

Mongabay.com 6 May 2016

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

Mongabay Haze Beat 4 May 2016

How big donors and corporations shape conservation goals

Jeremy Hance 3 May 2016

Cambodia declares protected area in hotly contested Prey Lang forest

Daniel Pye 2 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

Has big conservation gone astray?

Jeremy Hance 26 Apr 2016

NGOs and oil-palm growers team up to help orangutans, but progress is slow

Melati Kaye 21 Apr 2016

Jokowi bans new oil palm and mining concessions

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 16 Apr 2016

India’s “environmentalism of convenience” threatens forest-dwellers’ rights

Arpitha Kodiveri 14 Apr 2016

The week in environmental news – April 08, 2016

Brittany Stewart 9 Apr 2016

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