Chinese turtle heist sends rare Philippine species to brink of extinction, international rescue underway
Jun 29, 2015, 11:40 am By Tiffany Roufs
On Friday, June 19, Philippine authorities raided a warehouse on the island of Palawan and…After two decades, Indonesia publishes plan for tackling invasive species
Jun 29, 2015, 7:29 am By Philip Jacobson
Twenty years after ratifying a legally binding UN convention which obligates parties to deal with…NGOs, activists fret new role for Indonesia's spy agency
Jun 29, 2015, 5:21 am By Philip JacobsonA mysterious new partnership between Indonesia's spy agency and Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM)…Satellite-based forest mapping platform hits its stride
Jun 26, 2015, 4:12 pm By Brittany StewartGlobal Forest Watch, a young online forest monitoring and alert system, provides free, near…New reserve in Peru will protect nearly a million acres of pristine forest
Jun 26, 2015, 3:54 pm By Morgan Erickson-Davis
A tract of Peruvian rainforest bigger than California's Yosemite National Park is officially more…Illegal forest clearing spotted in Aceh's biggest peat swamp
Jun 26, 2015, 8:24 am By Philip JacobsonEncroachers have been clearing forest at three locations in Aceh's biggest peat swamp since…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…
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