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

Aria Danaparamita 25 Jul 2016

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

Aria Danaparamita 22 Jul 2016

Whale sharks inch closer to extinction

Shreya Dasgupta 19 Jul 2016

South China Sea ruling slams China for poaching, reef destruction

David E. Brown 14 Jul 2016

Fish kills at Amazon’s Belo Monte dam point up builder’s failures

Sue Branford 13 Jul 2016

Three Cambodian activists convicted and heavily fined — but free

Rod Harbinson 6 Jul 2016

Amid illegal fishing crackdown, Indonesia to buoy legal catch

Cory Rogers, M Ambari 30 Jun 2016
Protesters target Cathay Pacific at Hong Kong International Airport in May. Courtesy of WildAid

Cathay Pacific bans shark fin shipments

Mongabay.com 27 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

Malaysia gets its largest marine park

Shreya Dasgupta 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

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

Wang Yan 8 Jun 2016

1.6 million Brazilians struggle to recover from Fundão toxic waste spill

Zoe Sullivan 3 Jun 2016

International treaty targeting illegal fishing takes effect

Alexandra Ossola 3 Jun 2016

The dark side of China’s foreign fishing boom

Cory Rogers 2 Jun 2016

Photos: the people of Indonesia’s marine protected areas

Mongabay 2 Jun 2016

World Bank lifts freeze on Cambodia loans amid protests

Daniel Pye 20 May 2016

Hard labor in India’s fisheries: an interview with researcher Divya Karnad

Shreya Dasgupta 19 May 2016

Biodiversity makes reef fish more resilient in the face of climate change, research confirms

Mike Gaworecki 16 May 2016

Keeping Amazon fish connected is key to their conservation

Claire Salisbury 13 May 2016

Millions of fish die suddenly in Indonesia’s giant Lake Toba

Ayat S. Karokaro 11 May 2016

‘Heart wrenching’: India’s coral reefs experiencing widespread bleaching, scientist says

Shreya Dasgupta 11 May 2016

Lake Maracaibo: an oil development sacrifice zone dying from neglect

Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres 3 May 2016

New ways to fight human-rights abuses in the global seafood industry

Ret Talbot 14 Apr 2016

Last best place on earth: Who will save the Caribbean’s great coral reef?

Justin Catanoso 14 Apr 2016

Fishing nets kill ‘high proportion’ of adult loggerhead turtles in the Mediterranean

Shreya Dasgupta 13 Apr 2016

Half of World Heritage Sites threatened by ‘harmful industrial activities’, new report finds

Shreya Dasgupta 11 Apr 2016

First round of UN negotiations to regulate high seas fishing concludes

Alexandra Ossola 8 Apr 2016

Fiery end for the last of the toothfish pirates

Cory Rogers 6 Apr 2016

Japan kills 333 whales, including 200 pregnant females

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Mar 2016
Mahi mahi. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Indonesia: keep cracking down on illegal fishing, but don’t forget about conservation

Johnny Langenheim 29 Mar 2016

What’s being done to secure justice for SE Asia’s seafood slaves?

Cory Rogers 23 Mar 2016

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