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Whitetip sharks declared critically endangered, but gain no protections in Pacific

Monica Evans 13 Dec 2019

Cook Islands MPA leader fired after supporting seabed mining freeze

Monica Evans 15 Oct 2019

Give it back to the gods: Reviving Māori tradition to protect marine life

Monica Evans 27 Sep 2019

Paradise, polluted: Cook Islands tries to clean up its tourism sector

Monica Evans 23 Sep 2019

Will a massive marine protected area safeguard Cook Islands’ ocean?

Monica Evans 19 Sep 2019

Logging, mining companies lock eyes on a biodiverse island like no other

Gianluca Cerullo 31 Jul 2019

New roads in Papua New Guinea may cause ‘quantum leap’ in forest loss

John Cannon 24 Jul 2019

How to save insects and ourselves

Jeremy Hance 13 Jun 2019

Bumpy ride for conservation in PNG as lack of roads hinders activities

Lucy EJ Woods 10 Jun 2019

The tropics in trouble and some hope

Jeremy Hance 10 Jun 2019

Solomon Islanders imprisoned for trying to stop the logging of their forests

Louise Hunt 17 May 2019

A new election brings little hope for Solomon Islands’ vanishing forests

Louise Hunt 17 May 2019
Jacqueline Evans. Image courtesy of Goldman Environmental Prize.

Building the world’s biggest MPA: Q&A with Goldman winner Jacqueline Evans

Monica Evans 30 Apr 2019

Creating a high-tech island to save one of the world’s rarest birds

Hannah Thomasy 25 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

World’s fastest shark, and many others, edge toward extinction

Mongabay.com 23 Mar 2019

PNG politicians push coal as Pacific islanders rail against climate change

Catherine Wilson 12 Mar 2019

Norway divests from plantation companies linked to deforestation

Morgan Erickson-Davis 1 Mar 2019

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

John Cannon 19 Feb 2019

‘Beautiful legislation’ fails to protect PNG’s environment, landowners

Lucy EJ Woods 14 Feb 2019

In PNG, a fallen bridge is testament to the chasm in rural development

Camilo Mejia Giraldo 24 Jan 2019

New roads for PNG: Path to progress or to environmental devastation?

Camilo Mejia Giraldo 27 Dec 2018
Puke Tīmoti helps local rangatahi (young people) make connections between cultural knowledge and science through the Te Whare o Rehua forest academy program. Image courtesy of Tūhoe Tuawhenua Trust.

Māori community reconnects youth with their ancestral forests

Monica Evans 26 Dec 2018
Marine life in Papua New Guinea. Image by martinnemo via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

After the loss of a ship, deep sea mining plans for PNG founder

David Hutt 26 Dec 2018
A kererū (native woodpigeon, Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae). The birds are culturally and ecologically important for Tūhoe. Image by Bernard Spragg. NZ via Flickr.

What makes a forest healthy? Māori knowledge has some answers.

Monica Evans 21 Dec 2018

PNG farmers use agroforestry to fight crop diseases and reduce labor

Camilo Mejia Giraldo 19 Dec 2018
Piupiu ferns (families Blechnaceae and Thelypteridaceae) on the forest floor. Image by Monica Evans for Mongabay.

A Māori community leans on tradition to restore its forest

Monica Evans 17 Dec 2018

Agroforestry supports food security and conservation in Papua New Guinea

Camilo Mejia Giraldo 26 Nov 2018

Stop importing illegal timber, PNG activists tell China at APEC Summit

John Cannon 22 Nov 2018
A sign near Buru Energy’s Yulleroo fracking site. Image by Alexander Hayes via Flickr (CC BY 4.0).

Fracking threatens Aboriginal land rights in Western Australia

Grace Dungey, Nick Rodway 21 Nov 2018

For APEC’s poorest member, flashy cars point to another boondoggle

Lucy EJ Woods 16 Nov 2018
A map of Biacou (also spelled Beacou) made by residents of the village shows the location of various protected sites. Click here to enlarge. Image courtesy of RFLP/Sergio Pedroco.

Timor-Leste: With sacrifice and ceremony, tribe sets eco rules

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 8 Nov 2018

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