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Vietnam and China partner on wildlife-friendly traditional medicine practices

Spoorthy Raman 6 Feb 2025
Banner image of crowned sifaka by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

EU legislators urge IMF to protect Madagascar forests against road projects

Kristine Sabillo 6 Feb 2025

What’s at stake for the environment in Ecuador’s upcoming election?

Maxwell Radwin 5 Feb 2025

Indian villages seek to protect ecosystem by opting out of state’s development push

Mongabay.com 5 Feb 2025

Nigerian president’s bid to resume oil drilling in Ogoniland a ‘betrayal,’ groups say

Malavika Vyawahare 3 Feb 2025
Long-tailed-macaques-in-Kampong-Cham-province,-Cambodia

CITES secretariat urges suspension of Cambodian long-tailed macaque trade

Mongabay.com 3 Feb 2025

As the gold rush surges in Nicaragua, Indigenous communities pay the price

Maxwell Radwin 31 Jan 2025

Court decision to stop Tren Maya comes too late for ecosystems, critics say

Maxwell Radwin 31 Jan 2025

Kenyan court orders two community wildlife conservancies shut down

Ashoka Mukpo 31 Jan 2025

In Honduras, communities race to establish reserve as La Mosquitia forest disappears

Maxwell Radwin 30 Jan 2025
Members of the Dodoth Indigenous community in Uganda.

How conservation NGOs can put human rights principles into practice (commentary)

Sharanya Kanikkannan, Sushil Raj 30 Jan 2025

Mineral exploitation overshadows green diplomacy in Congo’s Sangha region

Elodie Toto 30 Jan 2025
Banner image of African heads of states and partners at the Mission 300 energy summit courtesy of the African Development Bank Group.

African nations commit to electricity for 300 million people by 2030

Kristine Sabillo 30 Jan 2025
An oilfield location in Muanda early in the morning.

DRC orders environmental, operational audits of oil company Perenco

Shreya Dasgupta 28 Jan 2025
Todd Smith dreamt of being an airline pilot since he was five years old. He left the aviation industry in 2020, and is now working to reform it. Image by Helena Dolby. Courtesy of Todd Smith.

Pilot-turned-climate activist Todd Smith finds other ways to fly

Mongabay.com 27 Jan 2025
Solar panels installed in Bali

Investors wary of Indonesia’s big climate promises amid record of flip-flopping

Jeff Hutton 27 Jan 2025
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is working with federal, state and nonprofit partners to restore endangered Atlantic salmon to the Penobscot River watershed in Maine.

Salmon farms under fire on U.S. East Coast after being shuttered on West Coast

Edward Carver 24 Jan 2025

In Panama, major port construction begins at key mangrove site

Maxwell Radwin 23 Jan 2025
The Campylopterus hemileucurus, or violet sabrewing hummingbird, is a pollinating bird found in the Sierra Tecuani protected area. Image by Becky Matsubara via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

Mexico misses one-year deadline to submit new protected areas’ management plans

Aimee Gabay 23 Jan 2025
Cattle grazing in the Amazon.

Probe details the playbook of one of Amazon’s top land grabbers

Fernanda Wenzel 20 Jan 2025

Plans for bauxite mine in Suriname reignite Indigenous land rights debate

Maxwell Radwin 16 Jan 2025

Mining in a forest conservation site clouds Republic of Congo’s carbon credit scheme

Elodie Toto 16 Jan 2025

El Salvador reverses landmark mining ban, setting up clash with activists

Maxwell Radwin 13 Jan 2025
Eurasian wolf (Canis lupus) courtesy of Staffan Widstrand/Swedensbigfive.org.

Sweden’s wolf hunt starts, aims to halve population

Shreya Dasgupta 3 Jan 2025

Rainforest Outlook 2025: Storylines to watch as the year unfolds

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Dec 2024
A tiger-legged monkey tree frog

IPBES report highlights Indigenous & local knowledge as key to ‘transformative change’

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 27 Dec 2024

Nepal PM sums up 2024 shift away from conservation: ‘Fewer tigers, less forest’

Abhaya Raj Joshi 27 Dec 2024

How the Sahel junta is responding to climate change amid political isolation

Robert Bociaga 27 Dec 2024
Tech helps Ivorian cacao meet EU new regulations

Tech helps Ivorian cacao meet EU new regulations

Ghislain Mendoça, Suzanna Blondin 26 Dec 2024

Mauritius reopens talks with U.K. on controversial Chagos deal

Malavika Vyawahare 26 Dec 2024
Deforestation in Vinh Kien, northern Vietnam.

Internet crackdown shrinks already constrained room for activism in Vietnam

Hướng Thiện 24 Dec 2024
YEAR IN RAINFORESTS BANNER

The year in tropical rainforests: 2024

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Dec 2024

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