Meaningful conservation demands truth, not just facts, says political ecologist
Mar 31, 2026, 7:00 pm By
The people and policies that control how humans treat the natural world are increasingly dominated…What ‘paper parks’ reveal about the limits of conservation policy (commentary)
Mar 31, 2026, 6:36 pm By
Conservation has no shortage of ambitious policy. Marine protected areas now cover roughly 8% of the…The underwater meadows that help keep beaches from disappearing
Mar 31, 2026, 2:57 pm By
Seagrass meadows, which rarely draw the attention given to coral reefs or mangrove forests, perform…An invasive guava is muscling out Madagascar’s forests — and lemurs are helping
Mar 31, 2026, 2:44 pm By
Madagascar is renowned for its lemurs, which are threatened due to hunting and deforestation.…Brazil is uniquely positioned to weather rising world oil prices
Mar 31, 2026, 2:29 pm By
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil is finding protection in a decades-old buffer against shocks that is both…Peru-Brazil Bioceanic Railway brings too much risk to the Amazon, experts warn
Mar 31, 2026, 1:16 pm By
The idea of a railway line stretching across the width of South America — from Peru on the Pacific…Indonesia reviews firms in river basins after latest floods affect 7% of Bornean province
Mar 31, 2026, 9:38 am By
BANJAR, Indonesia – Indonesia’s government continues to review mines and plantations in the…‘Ancient’ carbon venting from lakes in the Congo Basin peatlands: Study
Mar 31, 2026, 9:35 am By
Across the central Congo Basin lies a bastion of carbon that scientists are just beginning to…With high seas treaty in place, West African countries plan for protected area
Mar 31, 2026, 8:51 am By
With the High Seas Treaty coming into force in January, efforts to establish protected areas in the…Baby octopus in Argentina: Photo of the week
Mar 31, 2026, 6:19 am By
These eggs belong to a small octopus known in Argentinian Patagonia as pulperos. So little is known…Conservation depends on rangers. Their wellbeing is often an afterthought
Mar 31, 2026, 5:27 am By
The gunfire began just before six in the morning. At first, Christine Lain thought it might be a…Decades after poaching drove them extinct, rhinos are back in the wild in Uganda
Mar 31, 2026, 3:15 am By
Forty-three years after the last free-ranging rhinos were seen in the country, the Uganda Wildlife…In Peru, Indigenous women work to save an ancestral potato from disappearance
Mar 31, 2026, 3:02 am By
Kashiri, the Moon, saw the young woman through a window. The celestial body descended from the sky…Sri Lanka sweats in scorching heat, but reasons ‘unlikely due to El Niño’
Mar 31, 2026, 1:44 am By
COLOMBO — Amid the hustle and bustle of Pettah, one of the busiest marketplaces in the Colombo…Singapore resort said to halt controversial dolphin sourcing, breeding
Mar 31, 2026, 1:21 am By
SINGAPORE — The Resorts World Sentosa casino and entertainment complex in Singapore has halted…As traditional forest governance erodes in Peru, ‘ghost permits’ fill the vacuum
Mar 30, 2026, 4:23 pm By
HONORIA, Peru — Jacqueline Flores sits cross-legged on a wooden platform inside a dim Asháninka…‘Extraordinary’: Second set of rare mountain gorilla twins born in DRC’s Virunga
Mar 30, 2026, 2:17 pm By
Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo recorded the birth of a second set of…A stranded whale in Germany’s Baltic Sea weakens as hopes of its return to the Atlantic fade
Mar 30, 2026, 1:58 pm By
A stranded humpback whale in Germany’s Baltic Sea looks weaker, and experts fear it won’t be…Marine flyways are the missing map we can use to boost seabird conservation (commentary)
Mar 30, 2026, 1:34 pm By
Last week, governments, conservationists and civil society from around the world gathered in Brazil…Asia now hub of growing illegal wildlife trade across 100+ countries, study shows
Mar 30, 2026, 1:28 pm By
Wildlife trade is decimating the planet’s biodiversity, driving declines in more than 31,500 wild…
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