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Betting on biodiversity: Q&A with Superorganism’s Kevin Webb & Tom Quigley

Abhishyant Kidangoor 3 Nov 2023
Long-house at Sungai Utik, an Iban community in West Kalimantan that has successfully defended its customary forests against loggers. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler / mongabay

Independent project steps in as government slow to map Indonesian ancestral lands

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 Nov 2023
A biodiversity index created by Bioverse using machine learning to detect species and then spatially categorize them. Image courtesy of Bioverse.

Can digital twins help save the Amazon? (commentary)

Carlo Ratti, Robert Muggah 2 Nov 2023
Digital screens in New York's Times Square.

The Cloud vs. drought: Water hog data centers threaten Latin America, critics say

Gerry McGovern, Sue Branford 2 Nov 2023
mine peru

Poisoned for decades by a Peruvian mine, communities say they feel forgotten

Dan Collyns 2 Nov 2023
sonora train

In Sonora, Mexico, railway project flouts public consultation, threatening fragile ecosystems

Dawn Marie Paley 1 Nov 2023
Juliette Naipanoi Lekiale, of the Samburu community of Kenya. Image courtesy of Rights and Resources Initiative.

Namibia hosted Africa’s 1st community-led conservation congress. Where will it lead?

Victoria Schneider 1 Nov 2023

Agriculture in the Pan Amazon: Industrial infrastructure for grains and cereals

Timothy J. Killeen 1 Nov 2023

As fire season worsens, Indonesian activists report four companies for burning

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Nov 2023
A pair of orphaned orangutans in Sabah.

Critical questions remain as carbon credit deal in Sabah presses forward

John Cannon 1 Nov 2023

Amazon drought: Much damage still to come (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside, Rosimeire Araújo Silva 1 Nov 2023

In Venezuela, a mysterious fire sparks concerns for rare mountain wildlife

Maxwell Radwin 31 Oct 2023
Cattle raising in recently destroyed forestland in the municipality Aripuanã, in Mato Grosso state.

Amazon recovery offers hope of big rewards but poses equally big challenges

Carla Ruas 31 Oct 2023

Agriculture in the Pan Amazon: Global markets for soybean and corn crops

Timothy J. Killeen 31 Oct 2023
An elephant with her mahout at the project, which employs 58 people, 48 of them from local communities.

A sanctuary for elephants and forests in Cambodia

John Cannon 31 Oct 2023
A group of Murujuga custodians formed the group Save Our Songlines to stop the future destruction of rock art using the law.

Australia crackdown on climate protesters grows amid fight against gas project

Tessa Fox 31 Oct 2023
Sun bear

Conservationists look to defy gloomy outlook for Borneo’s sun bears

Carolyn Cowan 31 Oct 2023
A herd of wild elephants in Thailand.

How wild elephants solve puzzles may help humans resolve wildlife conflicts

Malavika Vyawahare 31 Oct 2023

Key Indonesian fish populations depleted & new assessments needed, study shows

Basten Gokkon 31 Oct 2023

Report alleges APP continues deforestation 10 years after pledge to stop

Hans Nicholas Jong 31 Oct 2023
Amiruddin, a former fish bomber who is now active as a coral reef conservationist in the Gili Balu conservation area, West Sumbawa.

O.K. Coral: Outlaw fisher turns reef marshal in Indonesia’s Sumbawa

Asad Asnawi 31 Oct 2023
pantanal fire

Jaguar haven in Brazil’s Pantanal burns amid ‘new normal’ of wildfires

Sarah Brown 30 Oct 2023
Two Antarctic fur seals playing at St. Andrews Bay, South Georgia.

Amid record melting, countries fail again to protect Antarctic waters

Francesco De Augustinis 30 Oct 2023
Small children from Rira village stand by the roadside near their humble home.

World Heritage Site listing for Ethiopian park leads to eviction of farming community

Solomon Yimer 30 Oct 2023

Environmental groups speak out against arrival of Mennonite farmers to Suriname

Maxwell Radwin 30 Oct 2023
Pope Francis has inspired people the world over.

Ahead of COP28, pope spurs policymakers, faith leaders to push climate action

Justin Catanoso 30 Oct 2023
Skywalker hoolock gibbon

Myanmar’s primates and their guardians need more support, study says

Carolyn Cowan 30 Oct 2023
Mangroves along Wallace's Passage

The Indo-West Pacific harbors two distinct mangrove hotspots, study says

Basten Gokkon 30 Oct 2023
Rainforest, reef, and ocean on Maratua Island, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Can blue bonds boost investment in ocean conservation? (commentary)

Mackenzie Audino 27 Oct 2023
A green turtle swimming in the waters of New Caledonia.

New Caledonia expands strictly protected coverage of its swath of the Pacific

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 27 Oct 2023
A mountain gorilla encountered during a gorilla tourism trek in Uganda.

Gorilla permit fraud dents community-led conservation efforts in Uganda

Malavika Vyawahare, Nangayi Guyson 27 Oct 2023
Palm oil plantations in West Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Indigenous Dayak ‘furious’ as RSPO dismisses land rights violation complaint

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Oct 2023

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