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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

Sarawak establishes 2.2M acres of protected areas, may add 1.1M more

Mike Gaworecki 19 Aug 2016
Drainage canal dug through peat swamp in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Indonesia’s peat restoration chief calls for protection of all peat domes

Lusia Arumingtyas, Sapariah Saturi 18 Aug 2016
Lar National Park in northern Iran, about 100 kilometers from Tehran. Photo by Mahdi Kalhor via Panoramio

Three murders highlight troubles of Iran’s park rangers

Jennifer Huizen 18 Aug 2016
A family of Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) in Tanjung Puting National Park, Borneo. The mother was rescued from a palm oil development and re-released as a juvenile here, but unable to survive in the wild because she lacked the careful upbringing required to find food throughout the year. Photo by Matthew Luskin / NGS.

10 orangutans released into the wild in Borneo

Indra Nugraha 15 Aug 2016

Illegal gold mining eats up more protected Peruvian rainforest

Morgan Erickson-Davis 12 Aug 2016

Borneo conservationists and top oil palm firm work to help orangutans

Deirdre Leowinata 9 Aug 2016

Hundreds of unexpected species found in Mexican UNESCO site slated for gold mine

Martha Pskowski 5 Aug 2016

India floods kill more than 200 animals, including rare rhinos

Shreya Dasgupta 3 Aug 2016

Indonesia declares national park in top palm oil-producing province

Mongabay.com 27 Jul 2016

Sri Lanka set to become first nation to protect all mangroves

Malavika Vyawahare 26 Jul 2016

Cattle driving big forest loss in Peru’s ‘under-appreciated’ Amazon

Jeremy Hance 19 Jul 2016

DRC declares first new national park in 40 years

Morgan Erickson-Davis 12 Jul 2016

Putting the ‘evidence’ in evidence-based forest conservation

Mike Gaworecki 12 Jul 2016

Bolivian expedition discovers 1,000th bird species

Morgan Erickson-Davis 8 Jul 2016

Illegal gold mining causing mercury contamination in indigenous groups

Carolina Torres 7 Jul 2016

Can public-private partnerships preserve the dwindling biodiversity of Lagos?

Kolawole Talabi 5 Jul 2016
Photo credit: David Olson.

A World of Tings

Taylor Robb-McCord 28 Jun 2016

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