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Peru delays oil drilling in the Amazon to consult with indigenous peoples

NGO: conflict of interests behind Peruvian highway proposal in the Amazon

Conservation without supervision: Peruvian community group creates and patrols its own protected area

Obama Administration to propose stripping protection from all gray wolves

Bizarre, little-known carnivore sold as illegal pet in Indonesian markets (photo)

A new tool against illegal logging: tree DNA technology goes mainstream

Judge halts military-backed dam assessment in Brazil’s Amazon

Landowner who allegedly ordered Amazon murders acquitted

Killings over land continues in the Amazon

Poachers enlisting impoverished wildlife rangers as accomplices in elephant, rhino killing

Over ten percent of a species’ total population found in smuggler’s bag

Burning coal may be killing over 100,000 people in India every year

Prayers for dying elephants: Buddhists hold prayer ceremony for elephants decimated by poachers

What happened to the elephants of Bouba Ndjida? [warning: graphic photos]

New illegal logging ban in EU could sever all ties with companies working in DRC

Thailand’s Prime Minister commits to ending ivory trade

First strike: nearly 200 illegal loggers arrested in massive sting across 12 countries

Biofuel company caught clearing elephant habitat in Sri Lanka

Rosewood in Belize: the truth behind the smoke

Pity the pangolin: little-known mammal most common victim of the wildlife trade

Asian bear farming: breaking the cycle of exploitation (warning: graphic images)

Miners win ruling over indigenous groups in Guyana

Illegally logged trees to start calling for help

Forests, farming, and sprawl: the struggle over land in an Amazonian metropolis

‘Exporting deforestation’: China is the kingpin of illegal logging

Australia outlaws illegally-logged wood from abroad

BP fined $4.5 billion for Gulf of Mexico oil spill, but company may spend more buying its own stocks

Foreign loggers and corrupt officials flouting logging moratorium in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Over 100,000 farmers squatting in Sumatran park to grow coffee

Leopard poaching is a bigger problem in India than previously believed

Indonesia remains epicenter for illegal wildlife trade in reptiles and amphibians

Authorities confiscate 600 dead elephants’ worth of ivory in Hong Kong

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