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Maubere elders in the village of Suco Fatumea draft tara bandu regulations to protect local forests and water sources. Image by Egrilio Ferreira Vincente.

Timor-Leste: Maubere tribes revive customary law to protect the ocean

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 26 Oct 2018

New Zealand penguins make ‘crazy’ 7,000-km round trip for food

Mongabay.com 3 Sep 2018

Deal in sight for PNG landowners protesting Exxon-led gas project

Lucy EJ Woods 31 Aug 2018
John Aini at a Malagan ceremony. Image by JC Salyer.

Protecting PNG’s oceans: Q&A with marine activist John Aini

Basten Gokkon 16 Jul 2018

‘Decolonizing conservation’: Q&A with PNG marine activist John Aini

Basten Gokkon 12 Jul 2018

Tensions mount at PNG gas project as landowners threaten to close plant for good

Lucy EJ Woods 4 Jul 2018

Papua New Guinea landowners take up arms against natural gas project

Lucy EJ Woods 26 Jun 2018

Natural gas project that promised economic boom leaves PNG in ‘worse state’: report

Isabel Esterman 17 May 2018

Traditional landowners reject mining exploration bid in Bougainville

Catherine Wilson 27 Mar 2018

Webs under water: The really bizarre lives of intertidal spiders

Bhanu Sridharan 15 Feb 2018

New population of extremely rare ‘red handfish’ discovered off Tasmania

Mongabay.com 14 Feb 2018

How a hunger for teeth is driving a bat toward extinction

Alex Fox 29 Dec 2017

Papua New Guinea gets its largest-ever conservation area

Morgan Erickson-Davis 8 Dec 2017

Can the Solomon Islands’ Gold Ridge Mine serve as a new model for resource extraction in the South Pacific?

Catherine Wilson 15 Nov 2017

Conservation community failing to use evidence to make decisions, scientists say

Shreya Dasgupta 31 Jul 2017

Meet the new giant sunfish that has evaded scientists for centuries

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Jul 2017

Thylacine survey: Are we going to rediscover the ‘moonlight tiger’?

Jeremy Hance 26 May 2017

Papua New Guinea moves to launch new coal mining industry

Catherine Wilson 16 May 2017

50 new spiders discovered in Australia

Mongabay.com 12 May 2017

Scientists rediscover ‘lost’ monitor lizard in Papua New Guinea

Shreya Dasgupta 5 May 2017

Saving the most endangered plants in the world

Shreya Dasgupta 2 May 2017

Rio Tinto walks away from environmental responsibility for Bougainville’s Panguna mine

Catherine Wilson 6 Apr 2017

Papua New Guinea’s oil and gas boom – blessing or curse?

David Hutt 22 Dec 2016

New species of pea-sized crab discovered — inside a mussel

Shreya Dasgupta 28 Nov 2016

Deep sea mining plans for Papua New Guinea raise alarm

David Hutt 18 Nov 2016

Baby boom for New Zealand’s extremely rare giant parrot

Shreya Dasgupta 26 Apr 2016

2015’s top 10 developments for the ocean

Douglas McCauley 31 Dec 2015

The Long-beaked Echidna: can we save the earth’s oldest living mammal?

Andrew L. Mack 26 Oct 2015

Studying the unloved through the wisdom of crowds

Roz Evans 11 Sep 2015

Climate change to kill off many of Australia’s cloud forest species

Jeremy Hance 25 Aug 2015

Almost Famous Animals

Mongabay.com 3 Aug 2015

Population of Maui’s dolphins slips below 50

Rebecca Kessler 5 Jun 2015

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