Indonesian president pledges to accelerate long-delayed indigenous rights law
Jun 26, 2015, 5:19 am By Philip JacobsonIndonesian President Joko Widodo reiterated his commitments yesterday to a number of indigenous…Do we need to move 'beyond certification' to save forests?
Jun 25, 2015, 1:29 pm By Rhett Butler
Over the past two years dozens of companies have established 'zero-deforestation' or…Meager post-Ebola harvests worsen food insecurity in West Africa
Jun 25, 2015, 10:46 am By Rebecca Kessler
The chaos caused by the Ebola outbreak made it much more than a public health issue in affected West…Video: camera traps highlight wildlife diversity of 'forgotten' park
Jun 25, 2015, 9:47 am By Jeremy HanceThings appeared to be on the upswing in Cambodia's vast Virachey National Park in the early 2000s.…Status change to come for Indonesia's partial logging moratorium?
Jun 25, 2015, 6:28 am By Philip Jacobson
Indonesia's Environment and Forestry Ministry might upgrade the partial logging moratorium from a…Filipino fishermen operating illegally in Indonesia's Sangihe Islands
Jun 25, 2015, 4:41 am By Philip JacobsonIndonesia’s crackdown on illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing has so far focused on…Indonesia's booming caged-bird trade is fueling trafficking and threatening extinction
Jun 25, 2015, 2:41 am By Philip JacobsonIndonesia is a global hub for the wild bird trade, given its abundance of bird species and…Amazon tribe creates 500-page traditional medicine encyclopedia
Jun 24, 2015, 1:50 pm By Jeremy Hance
In one of the great tragedies of our age, indigenous traditions, stories, cultures and knowledge are…Video: Vet describes emotional toll of responding to brutal rhino poaching
Jun 24, 2015, 12:10 pm By Rebecca Kessler
In March 2012 poachers struck a South African game reserve. They drugged three rhinos and hacked off…Indigenous Indonesians file land claim against IndoMet coal project
Jun 24, 2015, 5:06 am By Philip JacobsonA few months before BHP Billiton’s Haju mine is set to begin operations in Indonesia’s Central…On the fence about wildlife fencing: new paper outlines research needed to resolve debate
Jun 23, 2015, 7:56 pm By Brittany Stewart
Fencing is used to protect wildlife against poaching and human encroachment, and also to protect…Bunge: if you clear peatlands, we won't buy your palm oil
Jun 23, 2015, 3:04 pm By Rhett ButlerPalm oil growers who plan to convert peatlands and rainforests for new plantations have been warned:…Social-media firestorm defends popular man-eating tiger in India, raising conservation questions
Jun 23, 2015, 2:34 pm By Rebecca Kessler
On May 8, 56-year-old forest guard Rampal Saini was attacked and killed by a tiger named Ustad with…Cat update: lion and African golden cat down, Iberian lynx up
Jun 23, 2015, 10:50 am By Jeremy HanceA new update of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has categorized the West…Indonesia to revive controversial sugarcane plan in Aru?
Jun 23, 2015, 7:09 am By Philip JacobsonThe Indonesian agriculture minister's recent comments that the Aru archipelago in the country's…Controversy emerges over alleged deforestation policy breach by APRIL supplier
Jun 23, 2015, 1:30 am By Rhett Butler
Less than three weeks after APRIL unveiled a sustainability policy that is supposed to protect…Bengkulu governor orders review of mining permits
Jun 23, 2015, 12:34 am By Philip JacobsonThe governor of Indonesia's Bengkulu province reiterated his commitment to bringing mining in the…Bunge palm oil supplier plans to clear peatlands for plantations
Jun 22, 2015, 5:19 pm By Rhett Butler
BLD Plantation Bhd, a Malaysian palm oil company, plans to clear some 14,000 hectares of peatlands…Turkish government bears down on rural resistance to mining and hydro projects
Jun 22, 2015, 10:46 am By Rebecca Kessler
Over the past two decades, industry has encroached rapidly on Turkey's Black Sea region, a…Norway, Colombia target partnership to save rainforests
Jun 22, 2015, 1:16 am By Rhett ButlerNorway and Colombia are in talks to establish a partnership to protect the South American country's…
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