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Study confirms Bolivian Indigenous park as stronghold for horned curassow

Yvette Sierra Praeli 10 Mar 2023
Karen men walk with their elephants.

‘You don’t kill people to protect forests’: New Thai parks chief raises alarm

Kannikar Petchkaew 27 Feb 2023

Four-day music festival in Sri Lanka elephant territory set to continue, despite protests

Hassaan Shazuli 17 Feb 2023

Bolivian national park hit hard by forest fires in 2022, satellite data show

Iván Paredes Tamayo 2 Feb 2023
An elephant in Kui Buri National Park.

Corruption scandal in Thai parks agency has far-reaching impacts, activists say

Kannikar Petchkaew 17 Jan 2023
A capped langur crosses a canopy bridge.

Wildlife at risk in Bangladesh as roads run rampant through protected forests

Maksuda Aziz 21 Dec 2022

‘Panic’ sets in as armed groups occupy, deforest Colombian national park

Astrid Arellano 12 Dec 2022

Work on cable car line to Indonesian volcano to begin despite concerns

Basten Gokkon 1 Dec 2022

In Chile, drought and human expansion threaten a unique national park

Michelle Carrere 17 Nov 2022
Fires near the community of Quitunuquiña in the municipality of Roboré in the department of Santa Cruz. Photo courtesy of Claudia Belaunde.

Bolivian protected areas hit hard by forest fires

Iván Paredes Tamayo 10 Nov 2022
Adult harpy eagle image courtesy of Tom Ambrose.

Harpy eagle’s return to Costa Rica means rewilding’s time has come (commentary)

Andrew Whitworth 27 Sep 2022

Pioneer agroforester Ermi, 73, rolls back the years in Indonesia’s Gorontalo

Sarjan Lahay 15 Sep 2022
A turquoise tanager

Venezuelan Amazon deforestation expands due to lawlessness, mining, fires: Reports

Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres 31 Aug 2022
School of Wildlife Conservation students in the field. Photo courtesy of ALU

It’s time to center African people in the conservation agenda (commentary)

Gail Thomson 24 Aug 2022

In Bolivian Amazon, oil blocks encroach deep into protected areas

Iván Paredes Tamayo 16 Aug 2022

Study warns of increased poaching if road through Brazil’s Iguaçu is reopened

Suzana Camargo 8 Aug 2022
A crane lifts an elephant into a truck.

Jumbo task as Malawi moves 263 elephants to restock a degraded national park

Charles Mpaka 5 Aug 2022
Thuza and Kusasa the white rhinos.

White rhino conservation project attempts paradigm shift by including local community

Ryan Truscott 19 Jul 2022
The heavily charismatic and endangered red panda (Ailurus fulgens) is one of the many species found in the forests of Namdapha National Park. Image in the public domain.

Authorities and Yobin communities clash as deforestation spikes in Indian national park

Spoorthy Raman 15 Jul 2022
Boats in Lake Malawi National Park.

Construction begins on controversial water project inside Lake Malawi National Park

Charles Mpaka 4 Jul 2022

Satellites show deforestation surging in Indonesia’s Tesso Nilo National Park

Zamzami｜Morgan Erickson-Davis 9 Jun 2022
A gray wolf in Yellowstone National Park.

Yellowstone’s wolves defied extinction, but face new threats beyond park’s borders

Grace Hansen 31 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

Troubled waters: A massive salmon farm off the coast of Maine is stalled

Caitlin Looby 25 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
A Komodo dragon.

‘No’ to corporate-driven tourism development in Komodo National Park (commentary)

Venansius Haryanto 19 Apr 2022
One of many homes burnt and destroyed in a major attack targeting Batwa villages in July 2021.

Rangers in DRC gorilla park abused Indigenous villagers, report says

Laurel Sutherland 7 Apr 2022
Nepal Chepan Community house razed

Razing of Indigenous hamlet highlights Nepal’s conservation challenge

Abhaya Raj Joshi 7 Apr 2022
Beninese Army soldiers taking part in live fire exercise. But by the end of 2021, a series of attacks on soldiers by militants raised the specter of a long-feared spillover of insurgent violence into northern Benin. Image by Jad Sleiman, U.S. Marine Corps via Wikimedia Commons.

In Benin, the line between conservation and counterinsurgency blurs

Ashoka Mukpo 29 Mar 2022

It’s a girl: Super rare Sumatran rhino born in captive-breeding center

Basten Gokkon 28 Mar 2022

In Nigeria, a decade of payoffs boosted global wildlife trafficking hub

Ini Ekott 4 Mar 2022
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Thai authorities demolish resorts in parks, but struggle to prosecute encroachers

Kannikar Petchkaew 3 Mar 2022

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