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Amazon turtles imperilled by dams, mercury pollution and illegal trade

Claire Salisbury 12 Jul 2016

Unknown, ignored and disappearing: Asia’s Almost Famous Animals

Laurel Neme 6 Jul 2016

Three Cambodian activists convicted and heavily fined — but free

Rod Harbinson 6 Jul 2016

5,000 wild animals killed in West Bengal, India, on World Environment Day

Shreya Dasgupta 6 Jul 2016

Small time land speculators profit in advance of Amazon dams

Tatiana Farah – Repórter Brasil 5 Jul 2016

Did mining company drive 3 species to extinction?

Shreya Dasgupta 30 Jun 2016
Workers scoop oil out a stream near Chiriaco, in northern Peru, where crude spilled from a pipeline in late January. Photo by Barbara Fraser.

Amazon oil spill puts Peruvian communities at risk

Barbara Fraser, Milton López Tarabochia 26 Jun 2016
La Danta pyramid in the Mayan city of Mirador, as seen from a distance. Photo by Ronyrocael/Wikimedia Commons.

Controversial park plans in Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve

Sandra Cuffe 17 Jun 2016
Yu Jiahua poses in front of a small portion of the wire loops collected by the anti-poaching patrol team during the past two decades. Photo by Wang Yan.

PHOTOS: On a Chinese mountain, an aging anti-poaching hero ponders the future

Wang Yan 16 Jun 2016
Zou Huagang, head of Lianhe village, poses in front of a local kiwi farm. Zou's family owns about three acres of kiwi farmland. Photo by Wang Yan.

Making a living inside a reserve: an interview with village head Zou Huagang

Wang Yan 14 Jun 2016
Illegal forest clearingfor oil palm in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

How is Indonesian president Jokowi doing on environmental issues?

Philip Jacobson 12 Jun 2016
A golden snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus roxellana), caught on camera trap inside the reserve. Photo courtesy of Laohegou Nature Reserve Center.

Can China’s first private nature reserve become truly sustainable?

Wang Yan 10 Jun 2016
Marta Álvarez inspects xate palm fronds harvested in the Uaxactún community forest concession. Photo by Sandra Cuffe.

Communities lead the way in rainforest conservation in Guatemala

Sandra Cuffe 9 Jun 2016

Orangutan reintroductions could risk population survival, study warns

Claire Salisbury 8 Jun 2016

Chinese villagers turn from logging to forest patrols, bees, and fish

Wang Yan 8 Jun 2016

Can conservationists overcome their differences to save life on Earth?

Mongabay 7 Jun 2016

Arara Indians in Brazilian Amazon finally given right to their land

Sue Branford 6 Jun 2016

China’s Wanglang panda reserve, once an ecotourism model, faces new threats

Wang Yan 6 Jun 2016
Greenpeace protesting against a company's palm oil policy. Courtesy of Greenpeace

10 reasons to be optimistic for forests

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Jun 2016

Ignoring scientists, Poland begins logging famous primeval forest  

Jeremy Hance 3 Jun 2016

Peruvian presidential candidates spur concerns among environmentalists

Milton López Tarabochia 3 Jun 2016

1.6 million Brazilians struggle to recover from Fundão toxic waste spill

Zoe Sullivan 3 Jun 2016

Successes and many challenges in Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve

Sandra Cuffe 2 Jun 2016

More remains seized, deeper issues revealed at Thailand ‘Tiger Temple’

Apoorva Joshi 2 Jun 2016

Rising CO2 is reducing nutritional value of food, impacting ecosystems

Claire Salisbury 1 Jun 2016

Epilogue: Conservation still divided, looking for a way forward

Jeremy Hance 24 May 2016

Dams flood 36,000 hectares of Brazilian rainforest

Morgan Erickson-Davis 23 May 2016
Red-eyed tree frog. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

The top 10 most biodiverse countries

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 May 2016

Proposed Amazon dam attracts illegal loggers, threatens local farmers

Tatiana Farah – Repórter Brasil 19 May 2016

Hard labor in India’s fisheries: an interview with researcher Divya Karnad

Shreya Dasgupta 19 May 2016

Conservation’s people problem

Jeremy Hance 17 May 2016

Tapajós dam puts newly discovered species, indigenous people at risk

Tatiana Farah – Repórter Brasil 17 May 2016

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