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Bid to allow sale of ivory stockpiles rejected at wildlife trade summit

Mongabay.com 23 Aug 2019

Half a billion bees dead as Brazil approves hundreds more pesticides

Pedro Grigori - Agência Pública / Repórter Brasil 23 Aug 2019
Oil palm plantation in Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Indonesia eyes palm oil export boost to China amid mounting U.S. trade war

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Aug 2019

In Sri Lanka, the sweet smell of agarwood draws calls for trade protection

Malaka Rodrigo 23 Aug 2019
Fire burning in an area of recent forest clearing in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Courtesy of Planet Labs Inc.

Satellite images from Planet reveal devastating Amazon fires in near real-time

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Aug 2019

Australia to ban domestic trade in elephant ivory and rhino horn

Mongabay.com 22 Aug 2019

In Cambodia, a rare acquittal in a climate of danger for green activists

Andrew Nachemson 22 Aug 2019

Discovery of a metallic-blue tarantula bolsters case for trade protection

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 22 Aug 2019

The Pan Borneo Highway brings wildlife threats to nat’l park doorstep

John Cannon 21 Aug 2019
At the end of the 2018 fire season in the Amazon Forest, Greenpeace captured this image of forest burning in the Brazilian state of Para. CREDIT: © Daniel Beltrá / Greenpeace

Amazon rainforest fires leave São Paulo in the dark

Ignacio Amigo 21 Aug 2019

Wild orchid trade in China is huge, overlooked and ‘devastating,’ study finds

Shreya Dasgupta 21 Aug 2019

Japan builds coal plants abroad that wouldn’t be allowed at home: Report

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Aug 2019

On Peru’s border, the Tikuna tribe takes on illegal coca growers

Alexa Vélez, Vanessa Romo 20 Aug 2019

Philippine bill seeks to grant nature the same legal rights as humans

Leilani Chavez 20 Aug 2019

2019 in line for second lowest Arctic sea ice extent record

Gloria Dickie 19 Aug 2019

Colombia: Indigenous Yukpa besieged by deforestation and armed conflict

Julián Sáenz, Semana Sostenible 19 Aug 2019

Mysterious plants that thrive in darkness, steal food: Q&A with botanist Kenji Suetsugu

Shreya Dasgupta 19 Aug 2019

Connecting an island: Traveling the Pan Borneo Highway

John Cannon 19 Aug 2019

Philippine eco-warrior Gina Lopez, who battled mines, dies at 65

Mongabay.com 19 Aug 2019

Travel: A charmed encounter with birds-of-paradise in Papua’s Arfak Mountains

Een Irawan Putra 19 Aug 2019

Deforestation, climate crisis could crash Amazon tree diversity: study

Jenny Gonzales 18 Aug 2019
Wild male saiga antelope (Saiga tatarica) visiting a waterhole at the Stepnoi Sanctuary, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia. Photo credit: Andrey Giljov [CC BY-SA 4.0]

CITES 2019: What’s Conservation Got To Do With It? (commentary)

Susan Lieberman 16 Aug 2019

Bid for greater protection of star tortoise, a trafficking mainstay

Dennis Mombauer 16 Aug 2019

Madagascar: What’s good for the forest is good for the native silk industry

Edward Carver 16 Aug 2019

Norway freezes support for Amazon Fund; EU/Brazil trade deal at risk?

Sue Branford and Thais Borges 16 Aug 2019

In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, August 16, 2019

Mongabay.com 16 Aug 2019

Asian elephant footprints serve as safe spaces for frog nurseries

Nanticha Ocharoenchai 16 Aug 2019

Newly described giant extinct penguin and parrot once lived in New Zealand

Mongabay.com 16 Aug 2019

Ekuri Initiative: Inside a Nigerian community’s battle to keep its forest

Linus Unah 15 Aug 2019
Margay (Leopardus wiedii)

Precision conservation: High tech to the rescue in the Peruvian Amazon

Lisa Palmer 15 Aug 2019

Nigeria finds itself at the heart of the illegal pangolin trade

Orji Sunday 15 Aug 2019
Jasiri, an eastern black rhino captive bred in Dvur Kralove in the Czech Republic. Photo: Dvur Kralove

Europe-bred rhinos join South African cousins to repopulate Rwanda park

Jim Tan 14 Aug 2019

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