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Heart of Ecuador’s Yasuni, home to uncontacted tribes, opens for oil drilling

Kimberley Brown 5 Jul 2019

Land thieves ramp up deforestation in Brazil’s Jamanxim National Forest

Sue Branford and Thais Borges 4 Jul 2019

Ocean currents spin a web of interconnected fisheries around the world

Basten Gokkon 4 Jul 2019

Search for a new home for Javan rhinos put on hold

Basten Gokkon 2 Jul 2019

As climate chaos escalates in Indian Country, feds abandon tribes

Saul Elbein 1 Jul 2019

Rivers are the world’s heritage. Time to treat them as such (commentary)

Josh Klemm 1 Jul 2019

Altered fish communities persist long after reefs bleach, study finds

John Cannon 28 Jun 2019

New film details wrenching impact of illegal rhino horn trade on families

John Cannon 27 Jun 2019

Keeping stray rhinos safe is a challenge on fringes of Nepal park

Abhaya Raj Joshi 26 Jun 2019

National parks: Serving humanity’s well-being as much as nature’s

Jeremy Hance 25 Jun 2019

Belize to protect critical wildlife corridor that’s home to jaguars and more

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Jun 2019

Venezuela’s isolated indigenous groups under siege from miners, disease and guerrillas

Lorena Meléndez G. 24 Jun 2019

Logging road construction has surged in the Congo Basin since 2003

John Cannon 24 Jun 2019

Science community rallies support to save Madagascar’s natural riches

Malavika Vyawahare 24 Jun 2019

Fire, cattle, cocaine: Deforestation spikes in Guatemalan national park

Maxwell Radwin 21 Jun 2019

A four-year ox-cart ride around Madagascar: Q&A with Alexandre Poussin

Malavika Vyawahare 20 Jun 2019

Primates lose ground to surging commodity production in their habitats

Mongabay.com 17 Jun 2019

Leopards get a $20m boost from Panthera pact with Saudi prince

John Cannon 14 Jun 2019

Out on a limb: Unlikely collaboration boosts orangutans in Borneo

Nina Finley 12 Jun 2019

Inside an ambitious project to rewild trafficked bonobos in the Congo Basin

Christopher Clark 11 Jun 2019

Dam in Ethiopia has wiped out indigenous livelihoods, report finds

John Cannon 11 Jun 2019

Bumpy ride for conservation in PNG as lack of roads hinders activities

Lucy EJ Woods 10 Jun 2019
Peat forest clearing in Indonesian Borneo in June 2019. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Indonesian ban on clearing new swaths of forest to be made permanent

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Jun 2019

Why more women should be included in the leadership of Virunga National Park (commentary)

Judith Verweijen, Janvier Murairi, Esther Marijnen 5 Jun 2019
El Paujil reserve. Photo courtesy IUCN.

Colombia’s El Paujil Reserve expands in dying Magdalena Valley

Kimberley Brown 4 Jun 2019
image by Cristóbal von Rothkirch from the book Cariba Malo.

Gold, wood, religion: Threats to Colombia’s isolated indigenous peoples

Maria Fernanda Lizcano 3 Jun 2019
Red-billed tropicbird (Phaeton aethereus) at Abrolhos Marine National Park. Image by Mia Morete via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Brazil green-lights oil prospecting near important marine park

Thais Borges 31 May 2019

Altered forests threaten sustainability of subsistence hunting

Mongabay.com 29 May 2019

Vets rule out poaching and disease in recent death of rare Javan rhino

Mongabay.com 29 May 2019

Altered forests threaten sustainability of subsistence hunting

Mongabay.com 29 May 2019

Study suggests MPAs and fisheries closures can benefit highly migratory marine species

Mongabay.com 24 May 2019

Ecuador’s isolated indigenous tribes: Stuck between oil and state neglect

Isabela Ponce 24 May 2019

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