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Kibiwot displaying his archery skills at his makeshift home in the Embobut, which has been burned down many times by KFS as part of forceful evictions.

Kenyan hunter-gatherers forced to farm now face increased evictions from their forest

Kang-Chun Cheng 22 Jun 2022
A yellow-breasted bunting seen in a farm in Nepal. Image by Mannshanta Ghimire/Wikimedia. CC by 4.0

Winter sanctuary in Nepal proves a killing field for yellow-breasted buntings

Abhaya Raj Joshi 22 Jun 2022
Two men cutting down a tree.

Consumer countries mull best approach to end deforestation abroad

John Cannon 17 Jun 2022

‘Lost’ Amazonian cities hint at how to build urban landscapes without harming nature

Kimberley Brown 15 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

Satellite data brings new insights on what drives Amazon forest loss

Maxwell Radwin 30 May 2022
A Bengal tiger sits on a road in neighboring India.

Nepal’s key habitat could lose 39% of its tigers in 20 years, study says

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 May 2022
A blue-grey tanager

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

Liz Kimbrough 26 May 2022

For wildlife on Brazil’s highways, roadkill is just the tip of the iceberg

Dimas Marques 25 May 2022
A Bengal tiger in Nepal's Chitwan National Park.

Tiger-centric conservation efforts push other predators to the fringes

Abhaya Raj Joshi 24 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
Gold mine in South Kivu, Congo. Image courtesy of the Sasha Lezhnev Enough Project.

Results of mining tax for reforestation in the DRC leave more questions than answers

Didier Makal 19 May 2022

EU Parliament’s Environment Committee urges scale back of biomass burning

Justin Catanoso 18 May 2022

‘Wildlife-friendly’ infrastructure rules in Nepal and India ignore the birds

Abhaya Raj Joshi 17 May 2022
The Terra do Meio Ecological Station, near the Triunfo do Xingu Environmental Protected Area, is home to margays (Leopardus wiedii), small wild cats native to South and Central America. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Pasture replaces large tract of intact primary forest in Brazilian protected area

Liz Kimbrough 13 May 2022
A diademed sifaka (Propithecus diadema).

Deforestation-neutral mining? Madagascar study shows it can be done, but it’s complicated

Malavika Vyawahare 11 May 2022
A giant panda, a species endemic to China, which has benefited from extensive conservation funding and efforts.

Lessons from panda conservation could help Asia’s other, overlooked, bears

Spoorthy Raman 9 May 2022
Hornbills — the so-called “farmers of the forest” in Africa and Asia — move more than 700 plant species up to 11 km (7 mi) in a day.

As animal seed dispersers go the way of the dodo, forest plants are at risk

Sharon Guynup 28 Apr 2022
A critically endangered Cao-Vit gibbon (Nomascus nasutus) swings on a tree.

Wildlife don’t recognize borders, nor does climate change. Conservation should keep up

Jim Tan 28 Apr 2022
Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, is just one region where fires are burned throughout Russia in 2020. Image by Greenpeace International.

2021 tropical forest loss figures put zero-deforestation goal by 2030 out of reach

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Apr 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
A Western chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus).

Côte d’Ivoire’s chimp habitats are shrinking, but there’s hope in their numbers

Manon Verchot 25 Apr 2022

Brazil’s Mato Grosso do Sul mobilizes to reduce wildlife massacre on its roads

Dimas Marques 25 Apr 2022
Leopard Cat.

Study: Most biodiversity hotspots lack formal protection in Borneo and Sumatra

Grace Dungey 12 Apr 2022
A red-eyed tree frog in Brazil.

Global biodiversity is in crisis, but how bad is it? It’s complicated

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 11 Apr 2022
A barge transports teak logs

Countries that sanctioned Myanmar’s junta are still buying their timber: Report

Carolyn Cowan 7 Apr 2022

Palm oil firm that cleared Papuan forest after losing its permit is still at it

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Apr 2022
Pokhara Airport in Nepal with the Himalayan range in the background

‘Sharing the air’ proves a challenge for new Nepal airport in bird paradise

Abhaya Raj Joshi 5 Apr 2022

FSC-certified Moorim Paper linked to massive forest clearing in Indonesia’s Papua

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Mar 2022

Deforestation on the rise as poverty soars in Nigeria

Morgan Erickson-Davis 24 Mar 2022

Deforestation for palm oil falls in Southeast Asia, but is it a trend or a blip?

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Mar 2022

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