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Brazzaville-issued mining permits dip into Congo’s flagship park

John Cannon 31 Oct 2016

World’s largest marine protected area created in Antarctica

Shreya Dasgupta 31 Oct 2016

North Sumatra’s governor wants to build a road through Mt. Leuser National Park

Ayat S. Karokaro 31 Oct 2016

Logged but not out: Altered landscapes important for conservation

John Cannon 26 Oct 2016

Rhino killed in India’s Kaziranga Park, highlighting the ever-present threat of poachers

Isabel Esterman 24 Oct 2016

Belize suspends oil exploration near World Heritage Site after public outcry

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Oct 2016

Park ranger murdered while trying to protect rare gorillas

Shreya Dasgupta 20 Oct 2016

Violence against indigenous people high, as land conflicts heat up

Carolina Torres 18 Oct 2016

Mongabay Newscast episode 3: Crucial conservation votes at CITES CoP17 and the future of socio-ecological research

Mike Gaworecki 18 Oct 2016

Gold mining deforestation in Peruvian reserve surpasses 450 hectares

Benji Jones 13 Oct 2016

New tool lets anyone find out if deep sea mining is happening in their ocean backyard

Mike Gaworecki 13 Oct 2016

Exclusive: Rainforest rapidly cleared for sugarcane in Bolivia

Eduardo Franco Berton 12 Oct 2016
Mountains near Machu Picchu in Peru. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Peru’s REDD+ conservation efforts paying off

Dan Collyns 6 Oct 2016

Hydropower threatens Bolivian indigenous groups and national park

Eduardo Franco Berton/RAI 5 Oct 2016
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

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