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A woman is laying leather out to dry in Bangladesh.

Fashioning a circular future for traditional and alternative leather

Sean Mowbray 6 Feb 2024

Harmful mining continues in Nicaragua despite U.S. sanctions, new investigation shows

Maxwell Radwin 5 Feb 2024

Indonesia and Spain sign agreement to protect migrant fishing workers

Basten Gokkon 5 Feb 2024
A white-backed vulture. showing brown wings and lighter breast, dark grey face and beak against green foliage in Mole National Park, Ghana. Image courtesy of Nico Arcilla.

Endangered vulture species nesting in Ghana is rare good news about raptors

Sean Mowbray 2 Feb 2024

Cambodia sea turtle nests spark hope amid coastal development & species decline

Gerald Flynn 1 Feb 2024
Tuna and bycatch on a purse seiner in East Pacific Ocean.

Critics push for more transparency at RFMOs that govern high seas fishing

Edward Carver 31 Jan 2024
Hammerhead shark

DNA probe uncovers threatened shark species in Thailand’s markets

Carolyn Cowan 30 Jan 2024

Indonesia invites Turkish investors to develop tuna farms in Papua

Basten Gokkon 30 Jan 2024
Rubber latex collecting into a container in a rubber plantation in Thailand. Image by Eleanor W-T via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

To ease deforestation, natural rubber industry must ‘paddle hard’ (commentary)

Aidan Mock 30 Jan 2024

‘Hope is the last to die’: Q&A with Indigenous leader Jose Parava on land rights

Michael Esquer 25 Jan 2024

Ecuador-China free trade agreement poses serious environmental risks, critics say

Maxwell Radwin 24 Jan 2024
One of Global Green's new mining sites in Preah Vihear province that sits inside Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary, a protected forest. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Sanctioned timber baron wins new mining concessions in Cambodia’s Prey Lang

Gerald Flynn, Phoung Vantha 23 Jan 2024
Western hoolock gibbon. Image credit: Scott Trageser Photography/Creative Conservation Alliance.

Western hoolock gibbon conservation in Bangladesh urgently needs funding (commentary)

Sinan Serhadli 18 Jan 2024
An oceanic whitetip shark.

Global shark deaths increasing despite finning bans, study shows

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 17 Jan 2024
Spix’s macaw

EU’s legal loophole feeds gray market for world’s rarest parrot

Brendan Borrell 17 Jan 2024
Ruous-necked hornbill by Bjorn Olesen

[Photos] New book is a stunning glimpse of Asia’s wildlife and landscapes

Carolyn Cowan 12 Jan 2024

Uncovering the illegal jaguar trade in Bolivia

Romi Castagnino 11 Jan 2024
Bottom trawler Ivan Nores

Spain sanctions fishing vessels for illegally ‘going dark’ near Argentine waters

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 11 Jan 2024

U.S. mining companies leave lasting trail of contamination across Peru

Roberth Orihuela 10 Jan 2024
Confiscated illegal wildlife parts.

Elite appetite turns Bangladesh from source to consumer of tiger parts

Mahadi Al Hasnat 9 Jan 2024

Reversing progress, Indonesia pulp & paper drives up deforestation rates again

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Jan 2024
A close shot of a black mangabey monkey (Lophocebus.aterrimus) in 3/4 profile, showing off its grey whiskers and funky mohawk crest. Image by Nathan Rupert via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Togo monkey seizure turns spotlight on illicit wildlife trafficking from DR Congo

Didier Makal 8 Jan 2024
Rubber duckies

As the world swims in plastic, some offer an answer: Ban the toxic two

Alden Wicker 2 Jan 2024
A logger carries his chainsaw through the forest of the Cardamom Mountains in Cambodia. He will sell the timber to garment factories.

Shrinking civil space and persistent logging: 2023 in review in Southeast Asia

Carolyn Cowan, Gerald Flynn 28 Dec 2023
Indonesia is a top producer of coconut oil.

Indonesian districts trial a shift from commodity monocrops to sustainable produce

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Dec 2023
A whale shark.

Still on the menu: Shark fin trade in U.S. persists despite ban

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 27 Dec 2023
Nepal nearly tripled its tiger population in 12 years.

For Nepal, 2023 changed course of tiger conservation efforts

Abhaya Raj Joshi 22 Dec 2023
A coffee cup with beans. Photo by Lotus Head/Wikimedia Commons

U.S. and U.K. lawmakers must wake up to the coffee problem (commentary)

Etelle Higonnet 21 Dec 2023
Man in the forest near village of Ngon, Ebolowa District, Cameroon. Ollivier Girard via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Incentivizing conservation shows success against wildlife hunting in Cameroon

Sean Mowbray 19 Dec 2023
A school of hammerhead sharks.

‘Shark dust’ helps researchers ID threatened species in Indonesia fish trade

Cassie Freund 19 Dec 2023

Iconic Indonesian raptor still threatened by habitat degradation, isolation

Basten Gokkon 12 Dec 2023
Wolf. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Wolves through the ages: A journey of coexistence, conflict, and conservation

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Dec 2023

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