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Carbon markets sit at the awkward junction of science, finance, and politics, where the appetite for…Finding optimism
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Since publishing my piece on optimism in conservation, I’ve heard from many who are finding it…Forests on Indigenous lands help protect health in the Amazon
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MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say floodwaters that threatened a major town in eastern Punjab…Countries shorten tuna fishing closure at Pacific summit with few conservation ‘wins’
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2024 was a record year for tropical tuna catch in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, thanks to a big…Indonesia reopens Raja Ampat nickel mine despite reef damage concerns
Sep 12, 2025, 7:04 am By
JAKARTA — The Indonesian government has allowed a controversial nickel mine to resume operating in…Conservationists split over greener ranching versus ditching beef
Sep 12, 2025, 6:43 am By
Beef production is a major driver of climate change. It fuels deforestation in crucial biomes, a…On World Dolphin Day, spotlight falls on threats to dolphins worldwide
Sep 12, 2025, 6:13 am By
September 12 is World Dolphin Day. Marine conservation and advocacy nonprofit Sea Shephard created…Indonesia flooding traced to corporate canals that drain peatlands: Report
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In 2017, when Vincent Deblauwe joined the Congo Basin Institute in Cameroon to study African…Photos: Indigenous elders push for comeback of the revered Philippine crocodile
Sep 11, 2025, 3:45 pm By
DUNOY, Philippines — In the dense, tropical rainforests of the Northern Sierra Madre Natural Park,…Park guardians or destroyers? Study dissects 2 narratives of DRC’s Indigenous Batwa
Sep 11, 2025, 3:05 pm By
Long celebrated by some NGOs and Indigenous rights activists as the guardians of the forest, the…More than half the world’s forests fragmented in 20 years — but protection works: Study
Sep 11, 2025, 2:19 pm By
“If you can imagine walking into a huge, 1,000-kilometer square [386-square-mile] tropical forest…Largest turtle nest in the world revealed in drone study
Sep 11, 2025, 7:23 am By
Scientists studying the world’s largest river turtles, a South American species that grows to a…Experimental ocean climate fixes move ahead without regulation
Sep 11, 2025, 7:18 am By
Experimental climate interventions in the world’s oceans are moving ahead in a regulatory vacuum,…An indestructible invasive anemone threatens Chilean Patagonia’s seas
Sep 11, 2025, 6:21 am By
Diver and artisanal fisherman Daniel Caniullán recalls with frustration the day he went to collect…The need for success stories in conservation
Sep 11, 2025, 6:12 am By
The gorilla should have vanished. In the late 1980s, the mountain gorilla clung to survival in the…An elusive deer species clings to survival in Sri Lanka’s south
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GALLE, Sri Lanka — The hog deer is Sri Lanka’s rarest and most elusive deer, and was thought to…
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