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Agribusiness giant Olam gets head start on EUDR; its suppliers, not so much

Aimee Gabay 24 Dec 2024

Jaguar tracks still stained with blood in Bolivia

Iván Paredes Tamayo 24 Dec 2024

Brazil’s shipping channel plans in Amazonian rivers will worsen climate change, experts warn

Tiffany Higgins 23 Dec 2024

‘These stories deserve to be told’: Shining a light on secretive fisheries managers

Mike DiGirolamo 23 Dec 2024

A universal tagging system for pangolins, world’s most trafficked mammal

Keith Anthony Fabro 23 Dec 2024
Bright red flowers of a miracle clivia (Clivia mirabilis), hang in front of green foliage. Image courtesy Dave Garriock.

Poachers target South Africa’s ‘miracle’ plant with near impunity

Leonie Joubert 20 Dec 2024

Unlike: Brazil Facebook groups give poachers safe space to flex their kills

Adele Santelli 19 Dec 2024

‘Killed while poaching’: When wildlife enforcement blurs into violence

Ashoka Mukpo 19 Dec 2024

Even for ‘progressive’ Danone, complying with EUDR is a challenge

Maxwell Radwin 19 Dec 2024
A shipbreaking yard.

Shipbreaking pollutes Türkiye’s coast despite European cleanup efforts

Lyse Mauvais, Wouter Massink 17 Dec 2024
Fin whales, the second-largest mammal on earth, are hunted in Iceland, and their meat is exported to Japan. Image credits: Aqqa Rosing-Asvid - Visit Greenland - Flickr: Finhval, CC BY 2.0,

Hundreds of whales to be harpooned as Iceland issues new hunting licenses

Spoorthy Raman 17 Dec 2024

‘Like you, I fear the demise of the elephants’

Ashoka Mukpo 17 Dec 2024
Amazon Rainforest

Brazil paper and pulp industry invests in blockchain to comply with EUDR

Karla Mendes 16 Dec 2024
Hylomys macarong, a smooth hedgehog

Greater Mekong serves up 234 new species in a year, from fanged hedgehog to diva viper

Carolyn Cowan 16 Dec 2024
The illegal trade is still one of the greatest threats to hawksbills, according to the April 2020 Global Tortoiseshell Report.

Illegal cockfighting threatens endangered sea turtles across Central America

Tina Deines 13 Dec 2024

Indonesian forests put at risk by South Korean and Japanese biomass subsidies

Annelise Giseburt 12 Dec 2024
Chhoeung Chheng attending the Siem Reap Water Festival in November 2024. Image courtesy of Facebook.

Environmental journalist in Cambodia shot and killed by suspected logger

Gerald Flynn, Phoung Vantha 11 Dec 2024

Time for a ‘moral reckoning’ of aquaculture’s environmental impacts

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 10 Dec 2024
Banner image of Koru superyacht by Conmat13 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Maker of Jeff Bezos’s yacht fined for using Myanmar ‘blood timber’

Kristine Sabillo 6 Dec 2024
Fisherman Komsan Witan carefully removes a blue swimming crab from his fishing net.

As Thailand’s blue swimming crabs decline, crab banks offer a sustainable solution

Ana Norman Bermúdez 5 Dec 2024
Wolf. Credit: Rhett A. Butler

EU votes to weaken protection for European wolves

Bobby Bascomb 5 Dec 2024
Banner image of Myanmar teak courtesy of EIA.

Yacht maker Sunseeker fined in landmark Myanmar ‘blood timber’ case

Kristine Sabillo 4 Dec 2024
● Turkmenistan is set to join the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) beginning 2025.

With Turkmenistan set to join CITES, wildlife trade regulation in Central Asia gets a boost

Spoorthy Raman 2 Dec 2024

Vulture poisonings in the Serengeti alarm conservationists

Sean Mowbray 26 Nov 2024

Illegal gold mining drives deforestation in DRC reserve home to ‘African unicorn’

Ruth Kamnitzer 26 Nov 2024

Logging persists in Cameroon’s wildlife-rich Ebo Forest despite warnings

Amindeh Blaise Atabong 25 Nov 2024
Blackwater oxbow lake in the Peruvian Amazon.

Prosecutors urge suspension of Amazon carbon projects, citing Mongabay investigation

Fernanda Wenzel 22 Nov 2024
Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus) at an aquarium in Norway in 2015. Herring

Leaders fail to address overfishing near Europe at ‘fraught’ international meeting

Edward Carver 22 Nov 2024
A slender-billed curlew illustration by Elizabeth Gould & Edward Lear via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).

Slender-billed curlew, a bird last photographed in 1995, is likely extinct

Shreya Dasgupta 21 Nov 2024
Typically found in habitats near rivers, lakes, and wetlands, the lowland tapir is a superb swimmer.

Indigenous guardians embark on a sacred pact to protect the lowland tapir in Colombia

James Hall 20 Nov 2024
Sumatran tiger

Camera traps reveal little-known Sumatran tiger forests need better protection

Carolyn Cowan 20 Nov 2024
A plastic beverage bottle floats in the shallow waters of Sand Island in Hawaii. Image by David Slater / NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Program Marine Debris Team, 2015.

How ‘waste colonialism’ underpins Asia’s plastic problem (commentary)

Coleen Salamat 18 Nov 2024

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