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Five protected areas stand to lose part or all of their protected status, together amounting to an area of mostly intact rainforest the size of Delaware.
A recent study published by the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution finds that laws designed to protect the environment and biodiversity ...
Intense internal migration in Nicaragua has driven an increase in livestock production in the Bosawás Biosphere Reserve, which advances in an ...
Tigers are farmed in China, with skins sold on a poorly regulated market often ending up as luxury home décor. Soon ...
Forest Watch Indonesia, an NGO, has won its freedom of information request.
Liberia has pulled itself out of civil wars and a recent Ebola crisis. Will it be able to cede control of ...
Parts of the Jharia coalfields have been on fire since 1916, but mining operations have never ceased.
A new study suggests that Colorado River flows have already declined due to rising global temperatures and are likely to experience ...
Study: of 976 species surveyed, 47 percent saw local population extinctions due to climate change along the warming edge of their ...
Raja Ampat, one of the Southeast Asian country’s most popular dive sites, has been likened to an underwater Amazon.
‘You’ll never succeed in reducing the poaching if you can’t reduce the demand for wildlife products.’
Despite being the largest commodity driver of deforestation, the cattle industry has made relatively little progress toward achieving sustainability.
The pressure group is seeking a form of data NGOs say they need if they are to check corporate malfeasance in ...
Boniface Matthew Mariango, nicknamed “The Devil”, stands accused of killing thousands of elephants, and of having links to 15 poaching gangs ...
The museum is intended to educate the youth about the value of industries like palm oil to the nation’s economy.
Ever wondered what it’s like to be a researcher trekking through the rainforest at night, studying the incredible diversity of flora ...
The militarization of the community of San Carlos de Limón in Ecuador’s province of Morona Santiago has triggered the displacement of ...
On this International Women’s Day, wildlife biologist Leon Kolankiewicz writes about the inspiration he — and the rest of the world ...
Signed in 2006, the ASM is acclaimed by agribusiness and environmental NGOs for stopping deforestation, but critics say those claims hide ...
Poachers broke into the Thoiry Zoo and Wildlife Park near Paris, shot dead a 4-year-old male white rhino, and hacked off ...
