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rice field by Rhett Butler/Mongabay.

6% of Earth’s protected land is used to grow crops, study finds

Morgan Erickson-Davis 23 Jan 2021

Big cat comeback: Jaguars prowl Argentina’s Iberá Wetlands after 70 years

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 20 Jan 2021
The Durmitor Mountains and the Tara River Canyon in Montenegro. Image by Pudelek (Marcin Szala) via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Protesters hold back military takeover of Balkans’ largest mountain pasture

John Cannon 18 Jan 2021

Patches of Amazon untouched by humans still feel impact of climate change

Dimas Marques 13 Jan 2021
Satellite imagery shows fires spreading across Pantanal Matogrossense National Park in early November 2020.

‘Devastating’ fires engulf Brazilian Pantanal wetlands – again

Ana Ionova 23 Dec 2020

Restaura Cerrado: Saving Brazil’s savanna by reseeding and restoring it

Sarah Sax 14 Dec 2020

Herd opportunity: Hundreds of elephants return to DRC’s Virunga

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 10 Dec 2020

Planned road to bisect pristine, biodiverse Brazilian Amazon national park

Ana Ionova 3 Dec 2020
A drone image reveals trees cut from the Cardamom Mountains being processed in a yard. Photo courtesy of Marcus Hardtke.

Alleged gov’t-linked land grabs threaten Cambodia’s Cardamom Mountains

Kit Humphrey 1 Dec 2020

Big mammals are at risk in the world’s poorest countries, even within parks

Tess Joosse 27 Nov 2020

Indigenous leader who fought for communities and conservation mourned in Peru

Anna-Catherine Brigida 25 Nov 2020

Road-paving project threatens a wildlife-rich reserve in Indonesia’s Papua

Asrida Elisabeth 11 Nov 2020
Jacob Hamblin Arch, Escalante, Utah. Photo by Tina Butler.

Public lands and parks are our common heritage: Bruce Babbitt

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Oct 2020

At-risk Cerrado mammals need fully-protected parks to survive: Researchers

Sharon Guynup 20 Oct 2020
La Danta, as photographed from a helicopter. Photo by Dennis Jarvis/Flickr.

In Guatemala, refugees find new calling as park rangers

Antonio José Paz Cardona, Ashoka Mukpo 16 Oct 2020

Gorongosa National Park is being reforested via coffee and agroforestry

Erik Hoffner 15 Oct 2020

Fires raze nearly half of Indigenous territories in Brazil’s Pantanal

Bianca Muniz, Bruno Fonseca, Raphaela Ribeiro from Agência Pública 6 Oct 2020

World’s protected areas lack connections, recent study finds

John Cannon 1 Oct 2020

Vietnam creates new nature reserve, possible home to elusive ‘Asian unicorn’

Michael Tatarski 29 Sep 2020

Rangers on the run: Half-marathon aims to raise funding for front-liners

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 25 Sep 2020

Madagascar reopens national parks shuttered by COVID-19

Rivonala Razafison 17 Sep 2020

In Brazil’s Pantanal, a desperate struggle to save a hyacinth macaw refuge from fire

Jennifer Ann Thomas 17 Sep 2020
Lightning over the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Manument. Photo by Adam Haggerty / BLM

Can public lands unify divided Americans? An interview with John Leshy

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Sep 2020
Chainsawing wood. Image by Mike Smith via Wikimedia Commons (CC 2.0).

Threatened species caught in crossfire of ongoing land conflict in Myanmar

Aimee Gabay 10 Sep 2020

Park rangers, the guardians of Ecuador’s biodiversity, face job insecurity

Doménica Montaño 28 Aug 2020

Protecting African wildlife: A defense of conservation territories (commentary)

Leif Brottem 27 Aug 2020

Agrochemicals and industrial waste threaten Argentina’s Gran Chaco

Rodolfo Chisleanschi 19 Aug 2020

The lost forests of the Argentine Gran Chaco

Rodolfo Chisleanschi 19 Aug 2020

Life among the turtles: Traditional people struggle inside an Amazon reserve

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 10 Aug 2020

Fires in the Pantanal: ‘We are facing a scenario now that is catastrophic’

Ana Ionova 6 Aug 2020

Understaffed and under threat: Paraguay’s park rangers pay the ultimate price

Aldo Benítez 5 Aug 2020

No choice: Why communities in Paraguay are cutting down forests to survive

Aldo Benítez 31 Jul 2020

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