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Gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Signs of regrowth offer hope for Peruvian rainforest cleared for gold

Benji Jones 5 Oct 2016

New film documents real-life Avatar story

Jeremy Hance 4 Oct 2016

NOAA proposes rule to protect deep sea coral off U.S. Atlantic coast

Mike Gaworecki 3 Oct 2016

Indonesia exploring new model to fund national parks

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 30 Sep 2016

Indigenous communities take the lead on conservation in Colombia

Laura Dixon 30 Sep 2016

Chile creates largest marine park in Southeast Pacific

Joaquín Ortiz 29 Sep 2016

Deforestation jumps into Peru reserve, 1,600 hectares of rainforest lost

Morgan Erickson-Davis 28 Sep 2016

‘We are revolutionaries’: Villagers fight to protect Myanmar’s forests

Katie Arnold 23 Sep 2016
An Amur tiger and its prey, a local farmer’s cow, photographed by a camera trap near Hunchun National Nature Reserve in China’s northeastern province of Jilin. Photo courtesy of Hunchun Forestry Bureau

China considers a huge national park for Amur tigers and leopards

Wang Yan 22 Sep 2016

Efforts to conserve Asia’s rhinos meet successes, setbacks

Isabel Esterman 22 Sep 2016

Wildfires threaten Peruvian Indigenous communities and national park

Alexa Eunoé Vélez Zuazo 19 Sep 2016

Obama creates Atlantic Ocean’s first marine national monument

Shreya Dasgupta 19 Sep 2016

Forests in Colombia fall victim to illegal coca plantations

María Lourdes Zimmermann 16 Sep 2016
Young boys labor outside a saw mill in the town of Njoro in Kenya’s Rift Valley. Photo by David Njagi

Youth, women, indigenous group pay the price of logging in Kenya

David Njagi 16 Sep 2016

$48 million fund to help expand marine protected areas

Shreya Dasgupta 16 Sep 2016

Revealed: Australian miner used arbitration threat to upend Indonesian environmental law

Philip Jacobson 15 Sep 2016

After game-changing Dakota Access decision, a look at Sioux strategy

Saul Elbein 14 Sep 2016

High seas treaty negotiations ended at UN last week with boost from IUCN Conservation Congress

Mike Gaworecki 14 Sep 2016

IUCN to create new category of membership for Indigenous peoples’ organizations

Mike Gaworecki 13 Sep 2016
Flowers in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Photo by Jeremy Hance

Ecuador begins pumping oil from famed ITT-block in Yasuní

Jeremy Hance 13 Sep 2016

Indonesian environment ministry shoots down geothermal plan in Mount Leuser National Park

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 12 Sep 2016
Rangers at Kenya’s Samburu National Reserve. Photo by Ninara via Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

Poaching in Africa becomes increasingly militarized

William H. Funk 12 Sep 2016

Indigenous peoples demand protection of sacred sites at World Conservation Congress

Aura Tegría 7 Sep 2016

Towards a fairer future for conservation

Phil Franks 1 Sep 2016

Shifting the debate about conservation justice from rights to responsibilities

Harry Jonas, Dilys Roe 31 Aug 2016

Protected areas are effective conservation tools, but even they can’t keep out rising temperatures

Mike Gaworecki 30 Aug 2016

Oil pipeline sparks fierce opposition among American tribes and farmers

Saul Elbein 29 Aug 2016

US creates world’s largest marine reserve off Hawaii

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Aug 2016

Yosemite as a case study in protected area downsizing and habitat fragmentation

Mike Gaworecki 26 Aug 2016

Aceh governor eyes geothermal project in Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem

Junaidi Hanafiah 26 Aug 2016

New ‘sleeping beauty’ frog discovered in fragmented Peruvian forest

Apoorva Joshi 25 Aug 2016

Study explores how new technologies can be linked to benefit conservation efforts

Mike Gaworecki 24 Aug 2016

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