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The Dammed Don: Lao hydropower project pushes ahead despite alarm from scientists

Melody Kemp 13 Jan 2017

New maps show how our consumption impacts wildlife thousands of miles away

Shreya Dasgupta 6 Jan 2017

2016’s top 10 developments for the world’s oceans

Caroline Jablonicky, Douglas McCauley 28 Dec 2016

The lionfish invasion: A call to arms?

Elizabeth Devitt 14 Dec 2016

Over 50% of sharks and rays in the Mediterranean Sea are at risk of extinction

Shreya Dasgupta 6 Dec 2016
The deep-set roots of the mangrove with their strong, crisscossed roots in Sanquianga National Park. Photo courtesy of National Natural Parks of Colombia

Fate of Colombian shellfish pickers closely tied to mangrove

Juanita Rico 21 Nov 2016

Controversial Jakarta land reclamation project gets legal go-ahead

Mongabay Indonesia 9 Nov 2016

Scientists say current plan to protect the vaquita will not save the species

Mike Gaworecki 4 Nov 2016

New atlas bolsters global perspective of fisheries – book review

John Cannon 3 Nov 2016

Is it time for a moratorium on commercial fishing of Pacific bluefin tuna?

Mike Gaworecki 26 Oct 2016
A female North Atlantic right whale and her calf, off Cumberland Island, Georgia, in January 2013. Photo by Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, collected under NOAA Research Permit #15488

A week of grim tidings for critically endangered right whales

Rebecca Kessler 6 Oct 2016

Study suggests commercial fishing depletes key nutrients in coral reefs

Mike Gaworecki 29 Sep 2016

Slave-linked fishing firm thought to have resumed operations in Indonesia

M Ambari 29 Sep 2016

$48 million fund to help expand marine protected areas

Shreya Dasgupta 16 Sep 2016

High seas treaty negotiations ended at UN last week with boost from IUCN Conservation Congress

Mike Gaworecki 14 Sep 2016

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

Vinolia 9 Sep 2016

Belo Monte dam compensation inadequate, say traditional fisherfolk

Zoe Sullivan 9 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

US creates world’s largest marine reserve off Hawaii

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Aug 2016
Kelp and sardines in the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary in California. Photo courtesy of NOAA's National Ocean Service

Could kelp forests keep ocean acidification at bay?

Jeremy Hance 12 Aug 2016

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

Melati Kaye 9 Aug 2016

Indonesian fisheries czar promises to end subsidized fuel scam

Mongabay.com 4 Aug 2016

Like Indonesia, Malaysia to sink illegal foreign fishing boats: minister

Mongabay.com 29 Jul 2016

Mexico bans gillnets to protect rare vaquita porpoise

Shreya Dasgupta 26 Jul 2016

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

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

1.6 million Brazilians struggle to recover from Fundão toxic waste spill

Zoe Sullivan 3 Jun 2016

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