In Mexico, a race to save the last wetlands of San Cristóbal de las Casas
10:25am By*UPDATE: On April 1, 2022, Mexico’s Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT)…With record $5.3B in pledges, GEF proposes environmental funding shift
8:45am ByEarlier this month, the Global Environment Facility announced a record-setting $5.25 billion in…Asia’s troubled trees need better conservation to reach restoration goals: Study
2:55am ByAn international team of scientists studying the distribution and threats facing some of South and…Funding, titling project for Indigenous-led organizations launched
Mon 6:03pm ByThe revelation that Indigenous people and local communities (IPLCs) receive well below 1% of climate…With ban on palm oil exports, Indonesia reaps condemnation and praise
Mon 3:59pm ByJAKARTA — Indonesia, the world’s biggest producer of crude palm oil, has ordered a ban on the…Iwan Dento, ‘hero’ of South Sulawesi’s karst mountains
Mon 2:53pm ByMAROS, Indonesia — Forty-two kilometers, or about 26 miles, north of the bustling port city of…Coal miner Bayan sues Indonesian investment chief over loss of land
Mon 2:25pm ByJAKARTA — Indonesian coal mining company Bayan Resources has challenged the government’s…Troubled waters: A massive salmon farm off the coast of Maine is stalled
Mon 1:30pm ByThe summit of Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park in the northeastern U.S. state of Maine…Brazil bill seeks to redraw Amazon borders in favor of agribusiness
Mon 11:00am ByHow do you justify tearing down the world’s greatest rainforest for agribusiness? Pretend it’s…Brazil’s Mato Grosso do Sul mobilizes to reduce wildlife massacre on its roads
Mon 10:34am ByThe figures vary and come from different sources, including the government, but they all point to…Analysis: Myanmar’s gemstone riches bring poverty and environmental destruction
Mon 10:00am ByOn Feb. 28, a landslide of earth and waste from mines in Myanmar’s Hpakant township engulfed…Shining a light on Sri Lanka’s little-studied pangolins: Q&A with Priyan Perera
Apr 24, 2022, 7:58 pm ByCOLOMBO — For decades, the small population of Indian pangolins found in Sri Lanka has faced a…President Biden signs order aimed at protecting old-growth forests across U.S.
Apr 22, 2022, 9:14 pm ByPresident Joe Biden signed an executive order today aimed at protecting old-growth forests on…Data show decline in Indonesian fish stocks amid push for higher productivity
Apr 22, 2022, 3:56 pm ByJAKARTA — Indonesia’s fish stock has declined in the past five years as more of the country’s…To get people thinking about seagrass, Seychelles coins new Creole words
Apr 22, 2022, 1:12 pm ByGomon. In Seychellois Creole, this has generally been the word to refer to anything “green and…Just outside Mexico City, community-run forests provide eco services, livelihoods
Apr 22, 2022, 11:51 am ByIt’s just before noon on a Saturday in the forest shared by the San Juan Totolapan ejido, or…Study: Farmland birds in Nepal, India in dire need of conservation action
Apr 22, 2022, 10:02 am ByKATHMANDU — When Nepali ornithologist Hem Bahadur Katwal reviewed the existing literature to…Saving old-growth forests: Q&A with Amazon Watch’s Leila Salazar-López
Apr 22, 2022, 7:30 am ByEven after more than 1,000 people were arrested last year, protesters in British Columbia, Canada,…Beyond CO2, tropical forests a ‘cool’ solution to climate crisis, study finds
Apr 22, 2022, 6:48 am ByAs hot and muggy as most tropical rainforests are, you only need to leave their florid confines and…Indigenous knowledge and science team up to triple a caribou herd
Apr 21, 2022, 5:25 pm ByCaribou are proudly displayed on Canada’s 25-cent coin, but in the wild, their populations are on…
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