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Baja California tourism poses mounting challenges for conservation, critics say

Maxwell Radwin 24 Feb 2025
Banner image: A teenager from an isolated Indigenous group voluntarily made contact. Image courtesy of Survival International.

Deforestation and airstrip close to isolated teen’s Indigenous land in Brazil Amazon

Shanna Hanbury 24 Feb 2025
Estelle Mariam from Daraina, 27, mother of two, pans soils in the dried up riverbank in Andranotsimaty. Image by Rivonala Razafison/Mongabay.

Chanel wanted ‘responsible’ gold. It turned to a protected area in Madagascar

Malavika Vyawahare, Rivonala Razafison 21 Feb 2025

Conservation in wealthy nations may worsen global biodiversity loss, study finds

Shanna Hanbury 21 Feb 2025
Timber truck

Timber trade watchdog urges Poland to halt imports of Myanmar ‘blood timber’

Carolyn Cowan 20 Feb 2025

Illegal seabed dredging surges as Indonesia resumes sand exports

M Ambari, Yogi Eka Sahputra 20 Feb 2025
Banner image of Taranaki Maunga by Robin van Mourik via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Taranaki Maunga, New Zealand mountain, declared a ‘legal person’

Kristine Sabillo 20 Feb 2025
A coal-fired power plant at night in the nickel industrial area in Halmahera.

US security think tank warns of China’s grip over Indonesian nickel industry

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Feb 2025
Randy Borman. Courtesy of the Cofan Survival Fund

Randy Borman (1955-2025): An unlikely guardian of the Amazon rainforest

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 Feb 2025
Researchers from the U.K. and the Democratic Republic of Congo take samples of the Cuvette Centrale peatlands. Image © Kevin McElvaney/Greenpeace

Only 17% of peatlands, vital to curbing climate change, are protected, study finds

John Cannon 19 Feb 2025
Investigating the real price of Congo's gold

Investigating the real price of Congo’s gold

Elodie Toto 19 Feb 2025

As the rainforest gets drier, Amazon Indigenous groups thirst for clean water

Kevin Damasio 18 Feb 2025
Green macaws (Ara ambiguus) in the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Biosphere Reserve, a protected natural area located in southeastern Mexico.

108 federal protected areas in Mexico remain without actual management plans

Aimee Gabay 18 Feb 2025

Environmental & rights activists flee and hide as M23 captures DRC’s cities

Elodie Toto 18 Feb 2025

Conservation groups look for new strategies, tech to halt vaquita decline

Maxwell Radwin 17 Feb 2025

Indonesia’s militarized crackdown on illegal forest use sparks human rights concerns

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Feb 2025

Wave of arrests as Madagascar shuts down tortoise trafficking network

Rivonala Razafison 17 Feb 2025

The culture of corruption across the Amazon Basin 

Timothy J. Killeen 14 Feb 2025

Deforestation boom in Gran Chaco raises alarm over Argentina’s forest law

Maxwell Radwin 14 Feb 2025
Women set out sprat to dry in the sun in Kigoma, Tanzania, near the shore of Lake Tanganyika.

Small-scale fishers’ role in feeding the planet goes overlooked: Study

Edward Carver 14 Feb 2025
Malir River near Damloti check dam, Karachi suburbs.

Ecology vs. development in Karachi: Interview with photographer Salman Baloch

Waqas Alam Angaria 14 Feb 2025

Two South American scientists win ‘environmental Nobel’ on human-nature divide

Shanna Hanbury 14 Feb 2025
Eunice Paiva (L, on the sofa) and Rubens Paiva (on her left) surrounded by their children and an unknown person.

‘I’m Still Here’ Eunice Paiva’s pivotal role in Brazil’s Indigenous & environmental rights

Luiz Antônio Araujo 13 Feb 2025
Melquiades, a Brazil nut producer in the Amazon rainforest. Image by Yoly Gutierrez/CIFOR via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Forest communities craft recommendations for better ART TREES carbon credit standard

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 13 Feb 2025
A bottom trawler works in Dutch waters of the North Sea.

Lawsuit is latest push to curb bottom trawling in protected European waters

Edward Carver 13 Feb 2025
A long-tailed macaque in Bali, Indonesia.

Sun, sand and skulls: Bali tourism trade peddles threatened primate skulls

Spoorthy Raman 12 Feb 2025
Long-tailed macaques living in the mountains of Cambodia's Battambang province

CITES rejects proposed suspension of Cambodian monkey exports

Mongabay.com 11 Feb 2025
Zulkifli Dalimunthe pulls in the net he cast the previous morning.

Unchecked illegal trawling pushes Indonesia’s small-scale fishers to the brink

Tonggo Simangunsong 11 Feb 2025

Mining dredges return to Amazon River’s main tributary, months after crackdown

Fernanda Wenzel 10 Feb 2025
Banner image of a snow leopard in snow by In India travel via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

‘Helicopter tourism’ in the Himalayas affecting Sherpas, wildlife

Mongabay.com 10 Feb 2025

Ecuador’s next debt-for-nature deal falls short of Indigenous involvement

Ana Cristina Alvarado 10 Feb 2025
A lion in a cage

Nearly 20,000 animals seized in global wildlife trafficking crackdown

Mongabay.com 10 Feb 2025

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