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Russia plans to release nearly 100 belugas, orcas from icy ‘whale jail’

Mongabay.com 10 Apr 2019

Indonesia creates three marine protected areas within Coral Triangle

Mahmud Ichi 10 Apr 2019

In Indonesia, an earthquake leaves devastation on land and under the sea

Ian Morse 9 Apr 2019

There is no conservation justification for bringing the tapir back to Borneo (commentary)

Carl Traeholt 9 Apr 2019
Rio Tinto’s QIT Madagascar Minerals mine in southeastern Madagascar. Image courtesy of Google Earth.

Madagascar: Rio Tinto mine breaches sensitive wetland

Edward Carver 9 Apr 2019

Hunting pumas to save deer could backfire, new research suggests

John Cannon 9 Apr 2019

Report highlights secretive business dealings of Indonesian VP hopeful

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Apr 2019

Ice-free Alps? It could be a reality by 2100

Malavika Vyawahare 9 Apr 2019

Sumatran governor jailed over bribes to award infrastructure projects

Mongabay.com 9 Apr 2019

Natural forests best bet for fighting climate change, analysis finds

Malavika Vyawahare 9 Apr 2019

Belize to nearly triple area under strict marine protected areas

Shreya Dasgupta 8 Apr 2019

Photos: What are vipers?

Kevin Torregrosa 8 Apr 2019

3 massacres in 12 days: Rural violence escalates in Brazilian Amazon

Sue Branford and Thais Borges 8 Apr 2019

Study concludes that nature benefits when more women make land management decisions

Mongabay.com 8 Apr 2019
Salted shark meat, called cecina, drying in the sun. Image courtesy of MarAlliance.

Fishing for sharks in Honduras’s sanctuary seas: Q&A with biologist Gabriela Ochoa

Michelle Carrere 8 Apr 2019

Planning without action will see the Javan rhino go extinct (commentary)

Haerudin R. Sadjudin 8 Apr 2019

Illegal online sales driving mercury pollution crisis in Indonesia

Luh De Suriyani, Nurdin Tubaka 8 Apr 2019

Climb confirms that the world’s tallest tropical tree tops 100 meters

John Cannon 7 Apr 2019

In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, April 5, 2019

Mongabay.com 5 Apr 2019

On a wing and a prayer? Evidence for ways to conserve bats (commentary)

Claire Wordley 5 Apr 2019

Unusual lizard lays eggs, then births a live baby — in the same pregnancy

Mongabay.com 5 Apr 2019

Indonesia arrests 7 for allegedly selling Komodo dragons over Facebook

Basten Gokkon 5 Apr 2019

Indonesia oil slicks highlight weak enforcement against bilge dumping

Basten Gokkon 5 Apr 2019

Indigenous leaders decry Colombia’s deadly crackdown on land protesters

Taran Volckhausen 4 Apr 2019
A life restoration of Hadropithecus stenognathus, an extinct species of lemur, based on fossil evidence. H. stenognathus is thought to have weighed between 27 and 35 kilograms (60 and 77 pounds), more than three times the size of the largest living species of lemur, the indri (Indri indri). Image by Smokeybjb via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Human population boom led to Madagascar’s megafauna extinction: Study

Malavika Vyawahare 4 Apr 2019

Those kicks were fast as lightning: Kangaroo rats evade deadly snake strikes

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 4 Apr 2019
Kahuzi Biega National Park

Farming communities abused at troubled DRC mega-farm, campaigners say

Ashoka Mukpo 4 Apr 2019

New species of skink from Angola has waited over 70 years to be described

Shreya Dasgupta 3 Apr 2019

In Bosnia-Herzegovina, grassroots opposition stalls another hydropower project

Jordan Salama 3 Apr 2019
Tapiatpia, the first solar canoe, on its 25-day inaugural voyage from Lago Agrio in northeastern Ecuador toward Sharamentsa in 2017. Image by Fundación Kara Solar.

Conceived in a dream, new solar canoe will serve Amazon tribes

Gabriela Balarezo 3 Apr 2019

Brazil soy trade linked to widespread deforestation, carbon emissions

Claire Asher 3 Apr 2019

‘Plastic Soup:’ Photos and Q&A with author of new book documenting plastic pollution and solutions

Mike Gaworecki 3 Apr 2019

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