Radheshyam Bishnoi, protector of India’s wildlife, died on May 24, 2025, aged 28
May 24, 2025, 2:28 pm ByRadheshyam Bishnoi was born with a calling to save wildlife. From a young age, he was driven by a deep sense of responsibility to protect the fragile ecosystems around him, shaped by the strong environmental values of the Bishnoi community. Hailing from…Indigenous Bajo suffer child deaths & toxic sludge amid green energy push
May 24, 2025, 12:45 am ByIndonesia’s environment ministry plans to curb deforestation and push for environmental rehabilitation in response to industrial nickel mining on Kabaena Island, where severe ecological damage and the cultural and economic collapse of the Indigenous Bajo…Scientists rediscover a Mexican rabbit they hadn’t seen in 120 years
May 23, 2025, 3:51 pm ByFootage captured in 2024 of a small rabbit hopping about in front of a camera trap had scientists baffled. The juvenile, with gray-brown fur and a black tail, didn’t resemble any known species in the Sierra Madre del Sur, in the southern Mexican state of…What’s at stake for the environment in Suriname’s upcoming elections?
May 23, 2025, 2:22 pm BySuriname, one of the most forested countries in the world, will hold elections this weekend for parliament and set up a vote for the next president. The outcome could determine whether the forest remains largely intact or succumbs to logging, agribusiness,…The blobby little sea squirt that stowed away across the Pacific to California
May 23, 2025, 2:01 pm ByIn 2023, biologists Lauren Stefaniak and Marie Nydam had time to kill before their university workshop on marine invertebrates began, so they drove to a marina not far from Los Angeles to gather organisms for their students to study. They strolled along…Environmental defenders targeted in 3 out of 4 human rights attacks: Report
May 23, 2025, 12:34 pm ByMore than 6,400 attacks against human rights defenders were reported between 2015 to 2024, according to a new report from nonprofit Business & Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC). “That’s close to two attacks every day over the past 10 years against…A street-smart hawk uses a pedestrian signal to hunt in the city
May 23, 2025, 11:39 am ByIn a recent paper, a researcher noted a bird’s surprising urban adaptation: A young Cooper’s hawk used a pedestrian crossing signal to help it hunt more successfully in a busy neighborhood. Vladimir Dinets, an assistant professor at the University of…Bangladesh protects sacred forests to strengthen biodiversity conservation
May 23, 2025, 7:32 am ByWith an aim to protect biodiversity that’s become fragmented and is scattered across the country, Bangladesh is listing all the old, sacred and socially important trees and forests. The Forest Department has been collecting information from the locals in…Community-based biofuels offer ‘sensible’ alternative to palm oil for Indonesia, analysis shows
May 23, 2025, 6:11 am ByJAKARTA — Indonesia’s push to meet its ambitious biofuel targets by expanding oil palm plantations could cost the country billions in environmental damage and social conflict, a new analysis by environmental NGO Madani Berkelanjutan warns. But if Indonesia…EU anti-deforestation law could overlook big violators, NGO warns
May 23, 2025, 3:11 am ByThe European Union’s landmark anti-deforestation law could fail to deliver on its environmental promises if enforcement authorities disproportionately focus on small importers while missing less obvious violations from major commodity firms, according to a…Central Java villages take fast fashion to the cleaners at Indonesia’s Supreme Court
May 23, 2025, 12:56 am BySUKOHARJO, Indonesia — Sarmi recalls the unusual blight that fell over Gupit village around 2017, when doves and finches appeared to vanish from the sky. “With pollution that acrid and poisonous, there weren’t any birds or animals around — they all…Impacts of development come under higher scrutiny in the Pan Amazon
May 22, 2025, 2:00 pm BySome of the most conflictive issues in the Pan Amazon revolve around construction of major infrastructure, industrial development, and mining. In the 1970s, when the Tranzamazônica (BR-230) was being built and oil exploration was getting underway, the…In Panama, an Indigenous-led project rewrites the rules of reforestation
May 22, 2025, 11:50 am ByÑÜRÜM, Panama — Isidrio Hernandez-Ruiz has a soft spot for the bright yellow flowers of the guayacan trumpet tree (Tabebuia guayacan), a native species that blooms across Panama each spring. It’s one of many reasons why Hernandez-Ruiz, a rural farmer…Climate change now threatens thousands of species on Earth
May 22, 2025, 11:48 am ByIn the last decade, report after report has warned that the Arctic is heating up faster than ever, cities are scorching, the Amazon is blazing, boreal forests are shrinking and the oceans are simmering — all because of human-caused climate change (How do we…Without vultures, carcasses are slow to rot and disease-carrying flies abound
May 22, 2025, 11:46 am By“Absolutely disgusting, so grim, the worst fieldwork of my life, but also extremely rewarding in a very odd way,” said Julia Grootaers, describing her three months collecting data among rotting pig carcasses in Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula. For her…On Amazon destruction, will Brazil President Lula’s ‘disinformation space’ be penetrated? (commentary)
May 22, 2025, 10:02 am ByBrazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva lives in a “disinformation space,” to use the term coined by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to describe U.S. President Donald Trump. Lula is surrounded by sources of constant disinformation on…Report links meat giant JBS to massive destruction of jaguar habitat
May 22, 2025, 8:46 am ByAgricultural expansion in two Brazilian states has cleared a U.K -sized area of jaguar habitat, nearly a fifth of which occurred in the last decade alone, a new report shows. About 27 million hectares (67 million acres) of wild jaguar habitat have been lost as…Harpy eagle confirmed in Mexico for first time in over a decade
May 22, 2025, 4:44 am BySightings of a young harpy eagle in southern Mexico’s Lacandon Jungle in 2023 have now been verified, marking the first time in more than a decade that South America’s largest bird of prey has been spotted in the country, contributor Astrid Arellano…Indigenous rights advocates petition to overturn Indonesian conservation law
May 22, 2025, 3:18 am ByJAKARTA — For years, Mikael Ane, an Indigenous farmer from the island of Flores in eastern Indonesia, has faced prison not for harming the environment, but for trying to protect his ancestral land. In 2013, he was sentenced to 1.5 years in prison for cutting…West Sulawesi erupts in protest over sand mining for Indonesia’s new capital
May 21, 2025, 11:30 pm ByHundreds of protesters, including young and Indigenous peoples from three coastal villages, have demanded the closure of sand dredging in Indonesia’s West Sulawesi over environmental concerns and permit violations. The protest earlier this month marked the…
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