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A group of Lokiaka Community Development Centre volunteers.

Ogoni women restore mangroves and livelihoods in oil-rich Niger Delta

Aimee Gabay 16 Jan 2025

Elephants, gorillas and chimps hold out in Cameroon’s largest protected landscape

Leocadia Bongben 16 Jan 2025
Data from transmitters helped the team identify corridors that are critical for the movements of the thick-billed parrots, which are endangered birds endemic to Mexico.

Satellite ‘backpacks’ help keep track of parrot migration in Mexico

Abhishyant Kidangoor 16 Jan 2025

Vested interests and social tribes in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 16 Jan 2025

African Parks closes deal to manage Ethiopia’s Gambella National Park

Ashoka Mukpo 16 Jan 2025

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

Elodie Toto 16 Jan 2025
Thai activists

Thai farmers demand action to restore ecosystems, compensate for invasive fish

Carolyn Cowan 16 Jan 2025
Camera trap image of snow leopards feeding on a domestic yak in Limi Valley, northwestern Nepal. Photo: Himalayan Wolves Project.

The paradox of balancing conservation efforts for Himalayan wolves and snow leopards (commentary)

Naresh Kusi 15 Jan 2025
A giant anteater in an agricultural land in the Cerrado.

‘LIFE’ scores map out where habitat loss for crops drives extinction

John Cannon 15 Jan 2025
A herd of deer in Bardiya National Park.

Nepal’s top court strikes down law allowing development in protected areas

Abhaya Raj Joshi 15 Jan 2025

Global ocean temperatures set new record in 2024

Edward Carver 15 Jan 2025

Cameroon aims to double cacao, coffee production, yet also save forests

Yannick Kenné 14 Jan 2025
Mē Hoprê Catêjê, the Krahô Warriors group, have received several threats and criticisms from farmers and other outsiders operating on the boundaries of their territory.

Krahô women lead Indigenous guard to protect territory in Brazil

Aimee Gabay 14 Jan 2025

Indonesian scientist under fire for revealing extent of illegal tin mining

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Jan 2025

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

Maxwell Radwin 13 Jan 2025
A firefighter in the Xingu Indigenous Territory.

World’s record heat is worsening air pollution and health in Global South

Simrin Sirur (with Orji Sunday and Karla Mendes) 13 Jan 2025

For Ugandan farmers, good fences make good neighbors — of elephants

Ashoka Mukpo 13 Jan 2025
right whale breaching

Right whales can live to 130, but in North America they die young

Edward Carver 10 Jan 2025
A Hooded Pitohui (Pitohui dichrous) from Papua New Guinea.

Indonesia’s voracious songbird trade laps up rare and poisonous pitohuis

Spoorthy Raman 10 Jan 2025
radiated tortoise

How tortoise conservationist Hery Razafimamonjiraibe manages risks to antipoaching teams

Carolyn Cowan 10 Jan 2025
Oil palm fruits harvested in Kalimantan.

NGOs raise concerns over Borneo pilot of ‘jurisdictional’ certification for palm oil

Rendy Tisna 10 Jan 2025

It’s time for a U.N. ‘universal declaration on nature’ (commentary)

Katherine Snow 9 Jan 2025
Forest near Rabia on the island of Waigeo in Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia. Photo credit: Rhett Ayers Butler.

Indonesian forestry minister proposes 20m hectares of deforestation for crops

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Jan 2025
A mushroom on the forest floor.

One atlas to map all ecosystems on Earth: Interview with Yana Gevorgyan

Abhishyant Kidangoor 9 Jan 2025
a fly mid-pollination

Warming threatens flies more than bees, raising pollination concerns

Liz Kimbrough 8 Jan 2025

After a searing Amazon fire season, experts warn of more in 2025

Fernanda Wenzel 8 Jan 2025
A moray eel in the coral reefs of the Daymaniyat Islands, Oman.

2024’s top ocean news stories (commentary)

Alfredo Giron, Ana K. Spalding, Andrés Cisneros-Montemayor, Asha de Vos, Cinda P. Scott, Josheena Naggea, Juan José Alava, Olivia Milloway, Rita Maria el Zaghloul 8 Jan 2025

Indigenous communities come together to protect the Colombian Amazon

Mie Hoejris Dahl 8 Jan 2025
Weaving lungi by handloom at Dohar of Dhaka District. Image by Pervez Robin via Wikimedia Commons.

Bangladesh must move from ‘fast fashion’ to ‘defashion’ to improve human & ecological wellbeing (commentary)

Syed Muntasir Ridwan 8 Jan 2025
An Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica) on Skomer Island, Pembrokeshire, Wales.

Atlantic puffins are perilously attracted to artificial light

Spoorthy Raman 7 Jan 2025
An orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) in East Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Indonesian company defies order, plants acacia in orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Jan 2025
Narwhal image by Газпром нефть via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

We need a North Pole Marine Reserve to secure a healthy future for Arctic waters (commentary)

Dr. Graeme Chesters 6 Jan 2025

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