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Tagbanua chieftain Ruben Basio

Indigenous Filipinos fight to protect biodiverse mountains from mining

Keith Anthony Fabro 28 Mar 2024

Agribusiness bill moves to block grassland protections in Brazilian biomes

Fernanda Wenzel 28 Mar 2024
Tagbanua chieftain Ruben Basio

Indigenous Filipinos fight to protect biodiverse mountains from mining

Keith Anthony Fabro, Rex Remo 28 Mar 2024
A Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) hangs from the trees. Fewer than 100,000 orangutans remain on Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Report links pulpwood estate clearing Bornean orangutan habitat to RGE Group

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Mar 2024
Small-scale illegal gold mining is widespread throughout much of the Peruvian Amazon, but especially in Madre de Dios, causing enormous harm to the environment and human population in what's recognized as a biodiversity hotspot.

Amazon prosecutors get sharper impact tool to charge illegal gold dealers

Justin Catanoso 27 Mar 2024

Global cobalt rush drives toxic toll near DRC mines

Alex Shaw 27 Mar 2024
The PLTU 1 Indramayu, which previously used entirely coal, has now mixed it with biomass.

Biomass-burning coal plants leave the air even dirtier, Java communities say

Rabul Sawal 25 Mar 2024

‘Planting water, eating Caatinga & irrigating with the sun’: Interview with agroecologist Tião Alves

Xavier Bartaburu 25 Mar 2024

Indonesian activists face jail over FB posts flagging damage to marine park

Basten Gokkon 25 Mar 2024
Marsyangdi River in Nepal.

In Nepal, environmental advocates fend off ‘anti-development’ smear

Abhaya Raj Joshi 25 Mar 2024
A camp in Banamwesi forest for the community monitoring team. Image courtesy of a local source.

Under the shadow of war in the DRC, a mining company acts with impunity

Didier Makal, Latoya Abulu 25 Mar 2024

Suriname cancels controversial Mennonite pilot program, but bigger problems loom

Maxwell Radwin 20 Mar 2024
The helmet jellyfish (Periphylla periphylla) collected with a remotely operated vehicle in the North Pacific Ocean.

Communities worry anew as PNG revives seabed mining plans

John Cannon 20 Mar 2024
Brazilian environmental specialists have been on strike since early January, demanding better salaries, a risk bonus and a new public tender for the category.

Lula’s deforestation goals threatened by frustrated environmental agents

Fernanda Wenzel 20 Mar 2024
Nilgais are the largest antelope species in Asia.

Comeback on the cards for Asian antelope declared extinct in Bangladesh

Rafiqul Islam 20 Mar 2024
Wallace's Passage between Bam and Weigeo islands in Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia. Photo credit: Rhett Ayers Butler.

How effective are giant funding pledges by major conservation donors?

Mike DiGirolamo 19 Mar 2024
A jaguar

Are biodiversity credits just another business-as-usual finance scheme?

Shreya Dasgupta 19 Mar 2024
A hanging bridge in a forest in Malaysia.

Culture of harassment persists for women in Southeast Asia’s conservation space

Hướng Thiện 19 Mar 2024

Soraida Chindoy: the Indigenous guardian defending the sacred Putumayo mountains

Natalia Pedraza Bravo 19 Mar 2024

Fanned by El Niño, megafires in Brazil threaten Amazon’s preserved areas

André Schröder 18 Mar 2024

Chocó land deal shows flaws in Ecuador’s forestry incentive program

Maxwell Radwin 18 Mar 2024
A woman from the Moa community drying cocoa.

Fenced in by Sulawesi national park, Indigenous women make forestry breakout

Sarjan Lahay 18 Mar 2024
turtles Peru

In Peru, conservationists and authorities struggle to get turtle eggs off the menu

Ryan Biller 18 Mar 2024
Active clearance and drainage of peatland rainforest in a concession run by PT Asia Tani Persada, which is also an orangutan habitat.

Toilet paper: Environmentally impactful, but alternatives are rolling out

Petro Kotzé 15 Mar 2024
Humpback whales.

Huge new no-fishing zones give Antarctic marine predators and their prey a break

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 14 Mar 2024
Inauguration of minister Flávio Dino as minister of the STF.

Brazil’s Amazonian states push for court reforms in bid for justice

Luiz Antônio Araujo 14 Mar 2024
A manta ray.

E-Sak Ka Ou Declaration underscores Indigenous rights as a conservation solution (commentary)

Minh Tran 14 Mar 2024

Peru’s illegal pet monkey trade is also an infection superhighway

Carla Ruas 14 Mar 2024
The access road to the Stung Tatai Leu hydropower dam cuts through forest in the Central Cardamoms National Park, Koh Kong province, Cambodia in April 2022

New report details rights abuses in Cambodia’s Southern Cardamom REDD+ project

Gerald Flynn, Phoung Vantha 13 Mar 2024
A Papuan boy in the Blue River (Kali Biru) of the Knasaimos landscape in Teminabuan, South Sorong, West Papua. Credit line: © Jurnasyanto Sukarno / Greenpeace

Why language is central to the survival of cultures and communities

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 12 Mar 2024

Squeezed-out Amazon smallholders seek new frontiers in Brazil’s Roraima state

Sam Cowie, Rodrigo Pedroso, Avener Prado 12 Mar 2024
Saltwater crocodile

Tien Hai reserve saved from development in win for nature in Vietnam

Michael Tatarski 11 Mar 2024

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