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Governor rails against ‘bioterrorists,’ ‘carbon cowboys’ destroying PNG’s forests

Rachel Donald 7 Dec 2021
Melanesia tropical fruits

Between land and sea: Agrobiodiversity holds key to health for Melanesian tribes

Carolyn Cowan 6 Dec 2021

Study chronicles dying of a lake in PNG with advent of oil & gas activities

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Oct 2021
A long-tongued nectar bat (Macroglossus minimus), a subspecies of which is found on New Britain Island. Image via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).

Deforestation notches up along logging roads on PNG’s New Britain Island

John Cannon 21 Oct 2021
The forests of the Torricelli Mountain Range. Image courtesy of the Tenkile Conservation Alliance.

Deforestation threatens tree kangaroo habitat in Papua New Guinea

John Cannon 14 Oct 2021

Hidden camera footage exposes bribery for palm oil in Papua New Guinea

Mongabay.com 8 Oct 2021

Deep seabed mining is risky. If something goes wrong, who will pay for it?

Ian Morse 8 Oct 2021

New Zealand developer denies key role in giant palm oil project in Indonesia

Bonnie Sumner, Melanie Reid 27 Sep 2021

Extinction of Indigenous languages leads to loss of exclusive knowledge about medicinal plants

Sibélia Zanon 20 Sep 2021

Sea turtles: Can these great marine migrators navigate rising human threats?

Elizabeth Devitt 20 Sep 2021

Worked to death: How a Chinese tuna juggernaut crushed its Indonesian workers

Philip Jacobson, Basten Gokkon, Taufik Wijaya, Seulki Lee, Makoto Watanabe, Annelise Giseburt 13 Sep 2021

What’s fair in conservation to locals? Just ask, study says

Nanditha Chandraprakash 9 Sep 2021
Laysan albatross

Not just sea life: Migratory fish, birds and mammals also fall foul of plastic

Carolyn Cowan 3 Sep 2021

Plantations and roads strip away Papua’s forests. They’re just getting started

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Aug 2021
Tree measuring

Better logging regulations ‘last best hope’ for Solomon Islands, study says

Carolyn Cowan 23 Jul 2021

Road construction imperils tree kangaroo recovery in PNG

John Cannon 19 Jul 2021
Deforestation in Indonesian Borneo in 2019. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Local leaders in Indonesia make forest and peatland protection pledge

Taufik Wijaya 15 Jul 2021

Nauru’s intention to mine the seabed prompts alarm among conservationists

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 2 Jul 2021

From Flores to Papua: Meet 10 of Indonesia’s mangrove guardians

Loren Bell 1 Jun 2021

Satellites keep watch over global reef health in a world first

Mongabay.com 20 May 2021
Eliza, a Haruku Kewang, is helping protect a local population of gosong birds. Photo credit: EcoNusa/Victor Fidelis

Helping Papuans protect Indonesia’s last frontier: Q&A with Bustar Maitar

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Apr 2021

Life and new limbs: Creative thinking, 3D printers save injured wildlife

Laurel Neme 5 Apr 2021
Deforestation in Kapuas Hulu regency, West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Global forest loss increased in 2020

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Mar 2021

From penguins to sharks to whales, swimming in circles is a surprisingly common trait

Basten Gokkon 26 Mar 2021

Palm oil firm Digoel Agri said to clear Papuan forest without Indigenous consent

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Mar 2021

On the sea’s surface, a wealth of ocean life gets its start, study finds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 22 Mar 2021

Scientists discover three glow-in-the-dark sharks

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 4 Mar 2021

Corals are struggling, but they’re too abundant to go extinct, study says

Malavika Vyawahare 2 Mar 2021

Indonesia’s top palm oil deforesters are the usual shady suspects: Report

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Feb 2021

The climate crisis needs feminism (commentary)

Belguun Bat-Erdene 1 Feb 2021

Current protected areas not enough to save parrots from extinction: Study

Liz Kimbrough 29 Jan 2021
Deforestation for cattle ranching in the Brazilian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

California-sized area of forest lost in just 14 years

Mongabay.com 13 Jan 2021

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