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Mount Namuli.

Forests & finance: Setbacks for a rare bat, and progress for an oil pipeline

Mongabay.com 8 Feb 2023
A margay.

Forest loss may push tree-dependent marbled cats into threatened category

Sean Mowbray 8 Feb 2023
The developers on Koh Toteung smothered the island's corals in sand while creating an artificial beach in June 2022.

Island shopping: Cambodian officials buy up the Cardamoms’ coast

Gerald Flynn｜Andy Ball｜Vutha Srey 16 Dec 2022
Two western hoolock gibbons.

Trafficking and habitat loss spell doom for Bangladesh’s western hoolock gibbons

Rafiqul Islam 14 Dec 2022

Indonesia’s orangutans declining amid ‘lax’ and ‘laissez-faire’ law enforcement

Basten Gokkon 25 Nov 2022
Long-tailed macaques roam free across the Angkor Wat temple complex

Alleged macaque-smuggling ring exposed as U.S. indicts Cambodian officials

Gerald Flynn 18 Nov 2022
Neddy Mulimo. Image courtesy of Sarah Marshall.

Support rangers to protect wildlife & habitats for the future (commentary)

Neddy Mulimo 14 Nov 2022
Okapis (Okapia johnstoni) are related to giraffes. Image in the public domain.

Element Africa: Mines take their toll on nature and communities

Mongabay.com 20 Oct 2022

Beef is still coming from protected areas in the Amazon, study shows

Liz Kimbrough 18 Oct 2022
Coral reef in Indonesia.

Shallow-water mining isn’t the eco alternative to deep-sea mining, study says

Cassie Freund 17 Oct 2022
A fishing community settlement in Salonga

Catfished: New species described from DRC after mistaken identity

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 30 Sep 2022
A veriety of drugs in vials and an IV bottle.

Humans are dosing Earth’s waterways with medicines. It isn’t healthy.

Malavika Vyawahare 22 Sep 2022
A mona monkey (Cercopithecus mona), one of the many species that inhabit Stubbs Creek Forest Reserve. Image by AlexisENVN via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

New oil refinery ‘a huge disaster’ for Nigerian forest reserve

Orji Sunday 20 Sep 2022
The Sekong River is a key tributary for the Mekong River.

In the Mekong Basin, an ‘unnecessary’ dam poses an outsized threat

Gerald Flynn, Nehru Pry 14 Sep 2022
Members of Synaparcam, an association of communities affected by Socapalm holding a banner reading "YES to the respect of community rights" in French. Image courtesy Thierry Didier Kuicheu

As a Cameroon palm oil firm gets RSPO certified, it’s also found in breach

Victoria Schneider 9 Sep 2022
Mangrove forest on Nosy Lonjo, Antsiranana, Madagascar. Image by Kenguinaud via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

The Western Indian Ocean lost 4% of its mangroves in 24 years, report finds

Mark Hillsdon 7 Sep 2022
critically endangered white-rumped vulture

No time to keep vultures out of danger as new Nepal airport set to open

Abhaya Raj Joshi 26 Aug 2022
Illegal sand and gold mining in West Kalimantan

Study tracks global forest decline and expansion over six decades

John Cannon 17 Aug 2022
Rehabilitation of coral reefs in commemoration of Coral Triangle Day 2022 in Oesina Beach.

‘Spiderwebs’ to the rescue for Indonesia’s coral reefs

Agustinus Wijayanto, Warief Djajanto Basorie 7 Aug 2022
A male Barbary macaque with a baby.

Hundreds of iconic Barbary macaques feared dead in Morocco forest fire

Anna Majavu 5 Aug 2022

Concerns over transparency and access abound at deep-sea mining negotiations

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 26 Jul 2022
A male orangutan in Indonesian Borneo. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Deforestation in Borneo threatens one in four orangutans, study says

Basten Gokkon 26 Jul 2022
The heavily charismatic and endangered red panda (Ailurus fulgens) is one of the many species found in the forests of Namdapha National Park. Image in the public domain.

Authorities and Yobin communities clash as deforestation spikes in Indian national park

Spoorthy Raman 15 Jul 2022
Boats in Lake Malawi National Park.

Construction begins on controversial water project inside Lake Malawi National Park

Charles Mpaka 4 Jul 2022

Mennonite colony builds bridge, clears forest in Bolivian protected areas

Iván Paredes Tamayo 27 Jun 2022
Lilian’s lovebirds perching on a branch.

Home away from home: Researchers trial artificial nests for Lilian’s lovebirds

Charles Mpaka 27 Jun 2022
Two men cutting down a tree.

Consumer countries mull best approach to end deforestation abroad

John Cannon 17 Jun 2022
A northern cassowary (Casuarius unappendiculatus).

Proposed copper and gold mine threatens the world’s ‘second Amazon’ in PNG

John Cannon 13 Jun 2022

Indonesian official charged, but not jailed, for trading in Sumatran tiger parts

Junaidi Hanafiah 7 Jun 2022
A blue-grey tanager

Repeated fires are silencing the Amazon, says new acoustic monitoring study

Liz Kimbrough 26 May 2022
The spotted tody-flycatcher, native to South America and the Caribbean, hunts insects alone or in pairs, and is well-adapted to humans, happy in forest or overgrown pasture. Image courtesy of Alexander Lees.

Rachel Carson’s ‘Silent Spring’ 60 years on: Birds still fading from the skies

Sharon Guynup 23 May 2022
In lab animals and humans, dysfunction of the gut microbiome has been linked to digestive diseases.

Unseen crisis: Threatened gut microbiome also offers hope for world

Claire Asher 26 Apr 2022

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