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Indonesia’s new deregulation law to hurt small fishers, coastal communities

Basten Gokkon 14 Oct 2020

Flip-flops, fishing gear pile up at Aldabra, a UNESCO World Heritage Site

Malavika Vyawahare 23 Sep 2020

Birthday party on ship may have led to oil spill in Mauritius, Panama regulator says

Mongabay.com 16 Sep 2020

Indonesian fishers opposed to dredging project hit by ‘criminalization’ bid

Basten Gokkon, Wahyu Chandra 28 Aug 2020

In Hawai’i, researchers work to slow the rapid death of a beloved tree

Shannon Brown 5 Jun 2020

Gender-based violence shakes communities in the wake of forest loss

John Cannon 14 May 2020

A ‘crazy beast’ that coexisted with dinosaurs discovered from Madagascar

Mongabay.com 30 Apr 2020

Philippine government flips local officials’ entry ban for mining ship

Mongabay.com 14 Apr 2020
Artisanal Indonesian fishermen are expected to benefit from the fisheries bill proposed by the ministry. Image courtesy of Ministry of Marine and Fisheries.

Deregulation bill hurts Indonesia’s fishers, coastal communities, experts say

Basten Gokkon 2 Mar 2020

One six-week expedition discovered ten new songbird species and subspecies in Indonesia

Mongabay.com 13 Jan 2020
Acropora branching coral in French Polynesia. Image © Michele Westmorland iLCP.

Largest coral reef survey in French Polynesia offers hope

Shreya Dasgupta 23 Dec 2019

In Indonesia, a tourism village holds off a nickel mine — for now

Ian Morse 8 Dec 2019
Rainforest, reef, and ocean on Maratua Island, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Indonesia zoning plan hurts fishers, favors coal and oil, activists say

Basten Gokkon 4 Dec 2019

Watchdog denounces arrests of four anti-mining activists in Indonesia

Basten Gokkon 26 Nov 2019

New flowerpecker species discovered in imperiled lowland forests of Borneo

Mongabay.com 18 Oct 2019

On the front line of climate change in India’s Sundarbans

Johan Augustin 17 Oct 2019

Climate change threatens some island conifers with extinction

Nanditha Chandraprakash 19 Sep 2019

On an island coveted by miners, villagers prepare to raise a ruckus

Ian Morse 13 Sep 2019

Indonesian governor latest official busted for bribes in environmental case

Indra Nugraha 12 Jul 2019

New species of ancient human found in a Philippine cave

Shreya Dasgupta 12 Apr 2019

To stop extinctions, start with these 169 islands, new study finds

Mongabay.com 2 Apr 2019
Rennell Island in the Solomon Islands, where the oil spill occurred. Image courtesy of Google Earth. 

Solomon Islands: Oil stops spilling but environmental toll still being calculated

Catherine Wilson 2 Apr 2019

In the Solomon Islands, making amends in the name of conservation

John Cannon 19 Feb 2019

How do you assess if a reintroduced species is thriving? Listen for it

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 8 Feb 2019

Solomon Islands province bans logging in bid to protect environment

Mongabay.com 21 Jan 2019

Camera traps find rich community of carnivores on Apostle Islands

Shreya Dasgupta 16 Jan 2019

Cyclone harmed Fijian crab fishery in 2016, research finds

Mongabay.com 3 Jan 2019

Dam drove ‘collapse’ of rainforest bird populations in Thailand

Mongabay.com 13 Dec 2018

‘Drifters of opportunity’: Seabirds track energy in tidal currents

Mongabay.com 3 Dec 2018

High sea levels thousands of years ago aided island formation

Mongabay.com 15 Nov 2018
Red-footed Boobies flying over Palmyra Atoll, Northern Line Islands, USA. Photo copyright Erik Oberg / Island Conservation

Trapper, turned conservationist: Bill Wood (obituary)

Bernie Tershy 24 Oct 2018

Chinese demand wiping out forests in the Solomon Islands: New report

John Cannon 22 Oct 2018

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