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A new translation of the observations of one of the first Russian explorers of northeast Asia sheds light on how the region changed during the early 20th Century – and how it continues to do so today.

The vast Southeast Asian country seeks helping hands in the management of its protected areas.

Indigenous groups are working with a big NGO to help save some of the most threatened forests in northern Colombia.

Crude oil imported to the U.S. from the Amazon, most of which gets refined in California, is driving expansion of oil operations into the rainforest, according to a new report.

Between 2000 and 2015, a total of 801 tiger seizures — equivalent to at least 1,755 tigers — were reported across 13 tiger range countries, with the number of tiger seizures increasing over the years, according to a new report by TRAFFIC.

NGOs recorded 4,097 hectares of forest loss and 187 hotspots in the nationally protected area in the first half of this year.

Jeffrey Chatellier is the Indonesia country director of Forest Carbon, an environmental consultancy. Devan Wardwell is an avid environmentalist and specialist in impact investment. The views expressed are their own.

In coral reef ecosystems, fish typically constitute a substantial portion of living biomass and thus represent an important reservoir of nutrients. So it makes sense that the removal of biomass via fishing impacts the nutrient capacity of coral reefs. A new…

With its 300,035 square kilometers, Nazca-Desventuradas Marine Park protects 12 percent of Chile’s marine surface territory.

The Barbary macaque — Europe’s only native, non-human primate — has been up-listed to Appendix I of the CITES, making commercial trade in this species illegal.

Amid a logging ban, domestic turbulence, and illegal timber harvesting, Myanmar’s forests face an uncertain future.

Indonesian authorities have reopened an investigation into Pusaka Benjina Resources, the fisheries minister announced on Friday.

Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa for the seventeenth Conference of the Parties (CoP17), voted today to ban the international commercial trade of all eight species of pangolin.

Recently spotted forest loss for agriculture and gold mining threatens endangered wildlife and indigenous communities in El Sira Communal Reserve.

Mongabay offers a glimpse into conservation science in progress: Stephanie Courtney Jones suggests that “pesty” traits that help invasive species spread, could also help endangered species adapt.

ith the disbanding of Colombia’s largest military guerrilla group, FARC, Colombia’s forests could come under pressure from developmental goals. Home to almost 10 percent of the planet’s biodiversity, Colombia is listed as a “megadiverse” country by…

Records of confiscated live wild animals reported to the CITES represent only a fraction of the actual animals being illegally traded, a new review study has found. Moreover, the fate of most confiscated animals remains unknown.

Peruvian agricultural shareholders will now have access to an $88 million line of credit.

Increased trade in pangolins is having drastic consequences for their population numbers. In 2008, just two pangolin species were classified as endangered by the IUCN. But now, less than a decade later, all eight are threatened with extinction.

The vast majority of forests restored under China’s Grain-for-Green program are monocultures or compositionally simple “mixed” forests, which scientists say spells bad news for biodiversity.