Aquatic animals emit powerful greenhouse gas
Time to give up on Tasmanian tiger, says DNA expert
Largest US protest on climate change today
14,000-barrel oil spill in the Ecuadorean Amazon
Deforestation blamed for tiger maulings in Sumatra
Massive freshwater stingray takes 13 men to pull it ashore in Thailand
It took ninety minutes and thirteen men to reel in an astounding specimen of giant freshwater stingray on the Ban Pakong River in Thailand. At seven feet wide and weighing…
China’s emissions rise 45%, but Western demand accounts for 30% of increase
Could America’s 700 billion stimulus have saved life on earth?
400-million-year-old fish at risk from harbor project
Population of prehistoric deep-ocean coelacanth may go the way of the dinosaurs. A harbor project in Tanzania may put a population of coelacanth at risk, reports Nature News. A port…
Illegal fishing estimated at $10-24B per year
Ecstasy threatens rainforests in Cambodia
Whole Foods bans unsustainable palm oil from its products
Whole Foods pledges to use only sources of palm oil that have been independently verified and certified to meet environmental and social sustainability criteria in its private label brand products…
Carbon dioxide monitoring satellite crashes immediately after launch
YouTube videos may be imperiling cuddly primate
Conservationists worry that YouTube videos of pet slow lorises worsen illegal and cruel trade
Photos: Rarest cheetah photographed for the first time
On the edge of extinction, desert-dwelling cheetah photographed for first time by camera traps
Box turtles in Asia imperiled by massive trade
Massive international trade in Southeast Asian Box Turtles (Cuora amboinensis) has driven the species to near-extinction in parts of Indonesia, according to a new report by TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade…
Biologists warn of rainforest mining threat from Alcoa, Newmont in Suriname
ACCOR hotel chain linked to destructive logging in Borneo?
27-Feb update: ACCOR to meet Interhill over destructive logging allegations
24% of Papua New Guinea’s rainforest destroyed or degraded by logging in 30 years
Nearly one quarter of Papua New Guinea's rainforests were damaged or destroyed between 1972 and 2002, report researchers writing in the journal Biotopica. The results, which were published in a…
80% of wars between 1950-2000 took place in biodiversity hotspots
80 percent of the world's major armed conflicts between 1950 and 2000 occurred in biodiversity hotspots, reports a study published in the journal Conservation Biology. The research examined conflicts in…
New fire record for Borneo, Sumatra shows dramatic increase in rainforest destruction
Photos of ‘100-foot monster snake’ surface
Clinton, Obama botch opportunity on climate, forest conservation
Wild jaguar outfitted with radio-collar in U.S. for first time
Indonesia confirms that peatlands will be converted for plantations
Iceland reaffirms whaling targets for 2009
High ivory prices in Vietnam drive killing of elephants in Laos, Cambodia
Rainforests absorb 20% of emissions annually
Amazon rainforest in big trouble, says UN
Cameroon gets gorilla park
Illegal timber trade to face tough penalties in the E.U.
Special series
Forest Trackers
- Satellite data show burst of deforestation in Myanmar rare earth mining hotspots
- Narco airstrips beset Indigenous communities in Peruvian Amazon
- 15 illegal narco-trafficking airstrips found near Peru Indigenous communities
- Satellite data show bursts of deforestation continue in Indonesian national park
Oceans
- Talks to reduce funding for overfishing remain stalled at WTO meeting
- New strategy to reverse Kenya’s shark decline tries to bring fishers on board
- Mongabay shark meat exposé wins national journalism education award in Brazil
- Indigenous concerns surface as U.S. agency considers seabed mining in Alaskan waters
Amazon Conservation
- Researchers eye jaguar conservation wins under Brazil Indigenous stewardship project
- ‘World’s largest’ carbon credit deal in the Amazon faces bumpy road ahead
- New conservation model calls for protecting Amazon for its archaeological riches
- Brazil dredges Amazon rivers to ease drought isolation, raising environmental concerns
Land rights and extractives
- As traditional forest governance erodes in Peru, ‘ghost permits’ fill the vacuum
- What’s happening with the global treaty to trace critical minerals?
- In the race for DRC’s critical minerals, community forests are on the frontline
- Lithium mining may threaten a precious resource — water: Voices from the land (commentary)
Endangered Environmentalists
- José Albino Cañas Ramírez, a defender of Indigenous territories, aged 44
- A killing with precedent: Kaiowá man’s murder fits a pattern in Brazil
- Environmental & rights activists flee and hide as M23 captures DRC’s cities
- Environmental journalist in Cambodia shot and killed by suspected logger
Indonesia's Forest Guardians
- On a Borneo mountainside, Indigenous Dayak women hold fire and defend forest
- Fenced in by Sulawesi national park, Indigenous women make forestry breakout
- In Borneo, the ‘Power of Mama’ fight Indonesia’s wildfires with all-woman crew
- Pioneer agroforester Ermi, 73, rolls back the years in Indonesia’s Gorontalo
Conservation Effectiveness
- How effective is the EU’s marquee policy to reduce the illegal timber trade?
- How sharing and learning from failures can transform conservation (commentary)
- Is planting trees as good for the Earth as everyone says?
- Failure in conservation projects: Everyone experiences it, few record it
Southeast Asian infrastructure
- Flores’ geothermal ambitions collide with justice, culture & local resistance
- An ‘ocean grab’ for a property megaproject leaves Jakarta fishers grounded
- Study: Indonesia’s new capital city threatens stable proboscis monkey population
- Indonesia’s new capital ‘won’t sacrifice the environment’: Q&A with Nusantara’s Myrna Asnawati Safitri
