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Madagascar gemstone rush puts a wetland and its community under pressure

Rivonala Razafison 14 Dec 2021

Carbon and communities: The future of the Congo Basin peatlands

John Cannon 14 Dec 2021
A reindeer strolls through a bog in northern Sweden. Image by Alexandre Buisse via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

‘Cooling the climate for 10,000 years’: How saving wetlands can help save the world

Mark Hillsdon 14 Dec 2021

Holding agriculture and logging at bay in the Congo peatlands

John Cannon 9 Dec 2021

Layers of carbon: The Congo Basin peatlands and oil

John Cannon 7 Dec 2021

The ‘idea’: Uncovering the peatlands of the Congo Basin

John Cannon 2 Dec 2021

Study shows ‘encouraging’ results of China’s bid to protect coastal wetlands

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 5 Nov 2021

Philippine wetland oil riches untouched by war now up for grabs in peacetime

Bong S. Sarmiento 28 Oct 2021
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Snapshot of hatchlings raises hopes for Siamese crocs in northeast Cambodia

Carolyn Cowan 24 Sep 2021

The Pantanal is burning again. Will it be another devastating year?

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 16 Sep 2021

Cost of wetlands: Free. Storm damage they prevent: $38 million per estuary.

Liz Kimbrough 31 Aug 2021

In Chile, a prickly coalition tries to bring a salt flat back to life

Michelle Carrere 17 Aug 2021

To save salt marshes, researchers deploy a wide arsenal of techniques

Lisa Golden 12 Aug 2021

Environmental defenders in Ecuador aren’t safe, new report shows

Kimberley Brown 9 Jul 2021

Demand for soy puts pressure on Pantanal, Brazil’s largest wild wetland

Fernanda Wenzel, Naira Hofmeister, Pedro Papini 23 Jun 2021

Madagascar: Businesses drive disappearance of a wetland ‘reed forest’

Rivonala Razafison 31 Mar 2021
Lone figure in dugout canoe emerging from reeds on river. Image by Patrik M. Loeff via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Growing concern over Okavango oil exploration as community alleges shutout

Jim Tan 22 Mar 2021
black-tailed godwits (Limosa limosa) in a fight for their territory in Mangalajodi Wetlands (Chilika - Wetland of International Importance under the Ramsar Convention), Odisha, India. By Arijit Mondal via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Researchers urge better protection as wetlands continue to vanish

Morgan Erickson-Davis 13 Feb 2021

Invasion of the crayfish clones: Q&A with Ranja Andriantsoa

Rowan Moore Gerety 27 Jan 2021

Award-winning Thai community continues the fight to save its wetland forest

Carolyn Cowan 11 Jan 2021

Indonesia renews peat restoration bid to include mangroves, but hurdles abound

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Jan 2021

Industrial agriculture threatens a wetland oasis in Bolivia

Gustavo Jiménez Gonzáles 30 Dec 2020
Woman maintaining fish trap in waist deep water near Mashare, Namibia. Image by Mp3ief via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

Alarm as exploratory drilling for oil begins in northern Namibia

Jim Tan 28 Dec 2020
Satellite imagery shows fires spreading across Pantanal Matogrossense National Park in early November 2020.

‘Devastating’ fires engulf Brazilian Pantanal wetlands – again

Ana Ionova 23 Dec 2020

A Malagasy community wins global recognition for saving its lake

Malavika Vyawahare 18 Nov 2020

As fire season ends, Brazil cited for failed Amazon and Pantanal policies

Jenny Gonzales 9 Nov 2020

Video: Vets hail ‘victory’ as jaguar burned in Pantanal fires returns to wild

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 5 Nov 2020
Tendele mine, Somkhele. Image courtesy Rob Symons.

South African activist killed as contentious coal mine seeks to expand

Fred Kockott, Matthew Hattingh 28 Oct 2020

Fire burns Pantanal’s upland heart and threatens nature’s fragile balance

Fernanda Wenzel 19 Oct 2020

Fires raze nearly half of Indigenous territories in Brazil’s Pantanal

Bianca Muniz, Bruno Fonseca and Raphaela Ribeiro from Agência Pública 6 Oct 2020

For the Pantanal’s jaguars, fires bring ‘death by a thousand needle wounds’

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 24 Sep 2020

In Brazil’s Pantanal, a desperate struggle to save a hyacinth macaw refuge from fire

Jennifer Ann Thomas 17 Sep 2020

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