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Double blow to Colombian Amazon and Indigenous groups from armed militants, COVID-19

Dimitri Selibas 31 Jul 2020

Amazonia’s people domesticated crops on ‘forest islands’ 10,000 years ago: Study

Liz Kimbrough 31 Jul 2020

Endangered and endemic: Madagascar’s lemurs susceptible to coronavirus infection

Rivonala Razafison 31 Jul 2020

Guardians of Mexico’s community forests confront climate change

Pablo Hernández Mares 31 Jul 2020

New assessment shows 74% of Sri Lanka’s freshwater fish threatened with extinction

Malaka Rodrigo 31 Jul 2020

Ornithologists discover more rare hornbills than thought on Philippine island

Leilani Chavez 31 Jul 2020

For tool-wielding chimps of Ebo Forest, logging plan is a ‘death sentence’

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 30 Jul 2020

Does coconut oil really threaten more species than palm oil? No, it doesn’t. (commentary)

Asa Feinstein 30 Jul 2020

Photo Essay: In search of Sri Lanka’s vanishing tuskers

Rajiv Welikala 30 Jul 2020

Goldminers overrun Amazon indigenous lands as COVID-19 surges

Jenny Gonzales 30 Jul 2020

Anticipated new restrictions on wildlife trade in Vietnam fall short of a ban

Michael Tatarski 30 Jul 2020

In syntropic agriculture, farmers stop fighting nature and learn to embrace it

Sandra Weiss 30 Jul 2020

Migratory freshwater fish in peril as report shows population plunge

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 30 Jul 2020

Indigenous Ashaninka launch fundraiser to help Amazon neighbors amid pandemic

Maria Fernanda Ribeiro 29 Jul 2020

Burning down the house? Enviva’s giant U.S. wood pellet plants gear up

Saul Elbein 29 Jul 2020

Sri Lanka’s hourglass frog is only an hourglass frog 77% of the time

Ifham Nizam 29 Jul 2020

A jaguar nicknamed “Short-Tail” the first known to cross between Belize and Guatemala

Liz Kimbrough 29 Jul 2020
Oil palm plantation in West Kalimantan. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Upgrade of Indonesian palm oil certification falls short, observers say

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Jul 2020

2019 was the deadliest year ever for environmental activists, watchdog group says

Ashoka Mukpo 29 Jul 2020

‘Criminalizing’ dissent, martial law fuel attacks on Philippine environmental defenders

Leilani Chavez 28 Jul 2020

On World Tiger Day, let’s recommit to the goal of doubling wild tiger populations by 2022 (commentary)

Stuart Chapman 28 Jul 2020

Brazilian Amazon drained of millions of wild animals by criminal networks: Report

Sharon Guynup 28 Jul 2020

Arrests in Indonesian probe into latest case of labor abuses on Chinese fishing boats

Basten Gokkon 28 Jul 2020

We need a green life support plan (commentary)

Gabriel Thoumi, John Waugh 28 Jul 2020

For the Amazon’s rarest wild dog, deforestation is a very real threat

Claudia Geib 28 Jul 2020

Marijuana farms expand in Paraguay reserve despite gov’t crackdowns

Aldo Benítez 27 Jul 2020

Indigenous-led technology solutions can boost biodiversity and ensure human rights (commentary)

Alice Sheppard, Jerome Lewis, Marcos Moreu, Megan Laws, Simon Hoyte 27 Jul 2020
In July 2020, Greenpeace Russia documented forest fires in the Krasnoyarsk region of Siberia.

What funds are needed to prevent another pandemic? Just 2% of COVID-19’s estimated cost

Mongabay.com 27 Jul 2020

In Sri Lanka, a South American flower usurps a tree sacred to Buddhists and Hindus

Malaka Rodrigo 27 Jul 2020

Scientists launch ambitious conservation project to save the Amazon

Shanna Hanbury 27 Jul 2020
Cattle at one of the 70,000 suppliers used by JBS, one of Brazil's largest beef producers. Photo courtesy of JBS

Investigation links meat giant JBS to Amazon deforestation

Mongabay.com 27 Jul 2020
Philippine coral reefs in the Verde Island Passage, the centre of the center of the world's marine biodiversity, located in the Philippines. Image by Jett Britnell/Coral Reef Image Bank

App harnesses citizen power to keep tabs on Philippines’ coral reefs

Jen Chan 27 Jul 2020

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