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Rainforest cleared for a coconut plantation Dua Saudara Mountain in North Sulawesi. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Indonesia bill weakening environmental safeguards to pass in October

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Aug 2020

For South America’s wilderness areas, COVID-19 brings risk and respite

Yvette Sierra Praeli 24 Aug 2020

Captive breeding helps New Zealand’s threatened black stilts take flight

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Aug 2020

Sharks nearby? A bottle of seawater can hold the answer, study says

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Aug 2020

Amazon ‘women warriors’ show gender equality, forest conservation go hand in hand

Rosamaria Loures, Sarah Sax 21 Aug 2020
Planet image of Altamira (-5.79, -53.69) in the State of Pará, Brazil taken on August 8, 2020. Courtesy of Planet.

Can we predict where Amazon fires will occur? And to what end?

Liz Kimbrough 21 Aug 2020

Mauritius’s plan to dump part of wrecked ship sparks controversy

Malavika Vyawahare 21 Aug 2020

Forest fires set by poachers threaten a refuge of the Sumatran rhino

Tri Purna Jaya 21 Aug 2020

New road cutting into Manu Biosphere Reserve in Peruvian Amazon sparks debate, fears and a film

Mongabay.com 20 Aug 2020

Rangers protecting Philippine tamaraws go hungry as pandemic bites

Mavic Conde 20 Aug 2020

Madagascar minister calls protected areas a ‘failure,’ seeks people-centric approach

Rivonala Razafison, Malavika Vyawahare 20 Aug 2020
Aerial view of a mine in Australia. Image by Stuart Rankin/Flickr.

With its mining boom past, Australia deals with the job of cleaning up

Manuela Callari 20 Aug 2020
A puma with a recent kill by Neal Wight/Panthera.

The ‘Cougar Conundrum’: Q&A with author Mark Elbroch

John Cannon 20 Aug 2020

Harvard’s half-billion land stake in Brazil marred by conflict and abuse

Maurício Angelo 19 Aug 2020

Agrochemicals and industrial waste threaten Argentina’s Gran Chaco

Rodolfo Chisleanschi 19 Aug 2020
Satellite image of a pulp and paper plantation on peatland in Riau, Sumatra. Courtesy of Zoom Earth.

Is Malaysia’s CIMB serious about addressing deforestation? (commentary)

Gulzhan Musaeva 19 Aug 2020

Indonesia dam builder refuses new study to assess impact on orangutans

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Aug 2020

The lost forests of the Argentine Gran Chaco

Rodolfo Chisleanschi 19 Aug 2020

‘We are losing’: Q&A with The Orangutan Project’s Leif Cocks on saving the great ape

Malavika Vyawahare 19 Aug 2020

In Brazil, human action and climate change are drowning a community

Rafael Duarte 18 Aug 2020

Elephant shrew ‘lost’ to science for 52 years is ‘rediscovered’ in Africa

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 18 Aug 2020

In the Scottish moorlands, plots planted with trees stored less carbon than untouched lands: Study

Liz Kimbrough 18 Aug 2020

Qaramta: Chronicle of a jaguar in love

Rodolfo Chisleanschi 18 Aug 2020

In Argentina, a movement to save the Chaco forest hits the COVID-19 wall

Oscar Bermeo Ocaña 18 Aug 2020

Peru gov’t needs to act on COVID-19 in Amazon Indigenous cases, NGOs say

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 17 Aug 2020

Indigenous best Amazon stewards, but only when property rights assured: Study

Sue Branford 17 Aug 2020
Microsoft Zoom Earth satellite image show a section of burned peatland in the region in Central Kalimantan where the rice project is planned.

Indonesia pushes rice estate project despite environmental red flags

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Aug 2020

Favoring ayahuasca over hospitals, Indigenous Kokama see COVID-19 deaths drop in the Amazon

Maria Fernanda Ribeiro 17 Aug 2020

A genetic map hopes to trace rescued chimps back to their homes

Hannah Thomasy 17 Aug 2020
Microsoft Zoom Earth photo of Western Scotland.

Book Review: Cottongrass Summer – the book every eco-anxious conservationist should read

Erik Meijaard 17 Aug 2020

Scientists urge reassessment of threatened species after Australian bushfires

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 14 Aug 2020

China issues new sustainability rules for its notorious fishing fleet

Elizabeth Fitt 14 Aug 2020

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