Report calls on palm oil firms to make up for nearly 1m hectares of forest loss
Nov 29, 2022, 2:36 pm ByJAKARTA — Commitments by palm oil producers in Southeast Asia not to deforest, clear peatlands, or…Bird declines boost case for transformative biodiversity agreement in Montreal
Nov 29, 2022, 2:17 pm ByThe world is losing species alarmingly fast. The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on…In Bangladesh, popular eggplant comes with a side of lead. And cadmium
Nov 29, 2022, 8:52 am ByFood safety in Bangladesh faces a serious threat from heavy metal contamination, according to recent…New standard brings best practices to bear in Nepal’s red panda conservation
Nov 29, 2022, 6:12 am ByKATHMANDU — Conservationists in Nepal have introduced a new standard for efforts to protect the…In South Africa, a community says no after a coal miner said go
Nov 28, 2022, 6:21 pm ByNot far up the hill, after a right turn off the main road that leads from the Zulu town of Mtubatuba…‘I have anger every day’: South African villagers on the mine in their midst
Nov 28, 2022, 5:05 pm ByResidents of a village in northeastern South Africa, displaced to make way for one of the…What can Half or Whole Earth conservation strategies do for orangutans?
Nov 28, 2022, 1:44 pm ByOrangutans, like most of the world’s great apes, are struggling. Their numbers continue to drop as…Fishers in Flores Sea opt to limit harvest of overexploited sea cucumbers
Nov 28, 2022, 12:24 pm ByMAKASSAR, Indonesia — At the end of September, fishermen on Sapuka Island in eastern Indonesia’s…Indonesia’s Supreme Court rules President Widodo not liable in 2015 fires
Nov 28, 2022, 11:02 am ByJAKARTA — Indonesia’s Supreme Court has ruled President Joko Widodo not liable in the disastrous…Forest management tool could help rein in rampant wildlife trade in Bangladesh
Nov 28, 2022, 10:20 am ByFor years, authorities in Bangladesh have struggled to rein in the rampant illegal wildlife trade,…In Nepal, officials defend detusking to reduce human-elephant conflict
Nov 28, 2022, 6:59 am ByKATHMANDU — On the afternoon of Oct. 28, a wild male elephant attacked and killed a woman herding…Sri Lanka university aims to be the country’s first to go carbon neutral
Nov 26, 2022, 11:28 am ByCOLOMBO — The small Indian Ocean island of Sri Lanka may contribute only 0.03% to global carbon…As shark numbers plummet, nations seek ban on devastatingly effective gear
Nov 26, 2022, 9:48 am ByFamed undersea explorer Jacques Cousteau had a favorite shark: the oceanic whitetip, or Carcharhinus…New protections for sharks, songbirds, frogs and more at CITES trade summit
Nov 25, 2022, 9:40 pm ByAmid a global biodiversity crisis, nations have agreed to protect threatened species like sharks,…Words that didn’t make the cut: What happened to Indigenous rights at COP27
Nov 25, 2022, 5:53 pm ByThis year’s U.N. climate conference, known as COP27, ended on Sunday in Egypt with what has seen…Indonesia’s orangutans declining amid ‘lax’ and ‘laissez-faire’ law enforcement
Nov 25, 2022, 2:08 pm ByJAKARTA — “Remarkably lax” and “laissez-faire” law enforcement efforts by conservation…Indigenous cooperative restores forests to form ecological corridor in Bahia
Nov 25, 2022, 10:13 am By“Our Atlantic Forest has several very important living beings, species that are already endangered…In Brazilian Amazon, mining harm comes from beyond just the mines, study shows
Nov 24, 2022, 7:40 pm ByOpening up protected areas to mining in the Brazilian Amazon could have an even bigger impact than…U.N. report calls for the ban of mercury trade and its use in gold mining
Nov 24, 2022, 5:53 pm ByArtisanal gold mining is driving the global demand for mercury, with 2,058 metric tons of the toxic…Mountain gorilla reproduction slows with female transfers, study shows
Nov 24, 2022, 12:12 pm ByMountain gorillas are currently the only nonhuman great ape whose population is not declining.…
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