Replanting oil palm plantations reduces frog diversity, but researchers say there are ways to fix that
Jul 6, 2016, 5:20 pm By Mike Gaworecki
It’s well known that when forests are converted to palm oil plantations, biodiversity suffers. But…Unknown, ignored and disappearing: Asia’s Almost Famous Animals
Jul 6, 2016, 1:40 pm By Laurel Neme
[caption id="attachment_187472" align="alignnone" width="768"] Often called the most beautiful of…Three Cambodian activists convicted and heavily fined — but free
Jul 6, 2016, 12:00 pm By Rod Harbinson
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]hree activists standing trial from Cambodian environmental NGO Mother Nature…5,000 wild animals killed in West Bengal, India, on World Environment Day
Jul 6, 2016, 5:40 am By Shreya Dasgupta
Last month, on World Environment Day, local hunters killed an estimated 5,000 wild animals in West…Protecting the animal that eats lemurs — why it’s important to conserve Madagascar’s largest carnivore
Jul 5, 2016, 5:00 pm By Samuel D. Merson
Unfortunately for fosa, their first major big-screen appearance came in the form of the fictitious…Can public-private partnerships preserve the dwindling biodiversity of Lagos?
Jul 5, 2016, 4:00 pm By Kolawole Talabi
“When you’re dealing with organisations that are destroying the environment, you should not be…Bornean orangutan declared ‘critically endangered’ as forests shrink
Jul 5, 2016, 1:00 pm By Loren Bell
The Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) is now critically endangered according to the International…Small time land speculators profit in advance of Amazon dams
Jul 5, 2016, 11:20 am By Tatiana Farah – Repórter Brasil
[caption id="attachment_187427" align="alignnone" width="768"] Arlindo de Oliveira points out the…New tarantula named after Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez
Jul 4, 2016, 3:20 am By Shreya Dasgupta
Scientists have discovered a new species of tarantula in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Maria mountain…UK takes action against companies importing timber from Cameroon tied to illegal logging
Jul 1, 2016, 5:00 pm By Mike Gaworecki
UK authorities have taken action against 14 companies sourcing timber from Cameroon linked to…Greenpeace fires back at Nobel laureates calling for end to campaign against genetically engineered food
Jul 1, 2016, 2:40 pm By Mike Gaworecki
More than 110 Nobel laureates have now signed on to an open letter calling for an end to the efforts…Timber plantation licenses canceled as Mentawai fight off another threat to their traditional lands
Jul 1, 2016, 1:00 pm By Mike Gaworecki
First they staved off the palm plantations, now they’ve fought off the timber companies. It was…Under government pressure, palm oil giants disband green pledge
Jul 1, 2016, 12:00 pm By Jonathan VitA landmark environmental pledge by the world’s largest palm oil producing companies folded on…Turkey’s wild bears migrate for food; but some bears prefer garbage dumps
Jul 1, 2016, 4:40 am By Shreya Dasgupta
Turkey’s brown bears migrate long distances in search of food, a new study has found. This is the…Western Amazonian and Andean forests don’t follow the ecosystem “rules” — here’s why that’s important
Jun 30, 2016, 4:20 pm By Mike Gaworecki
Forest ecology researchers have long focused on how environmental factors like climate, elevation,…Amid illegal fishing crackdown, Indonesia to buoy legal catch
Jun 30, 2016, 8:40 am By Cory RogersM Ambari
The Indonesian fisheries ministry aired plans last week to expedite its permit-issuance process and…Cement company may have caused extinction of 3 snail species
Jun 30, 2016, 3:00 am By Shreya Dasgupta
Snails are being blown to extinction. And cement companies are to blame. By quarrying limestone…Canada, Mexico, US announce joint clean energy, climate commitments
Jun 29, 2016, 7:00 pm By Mike Gaworecki
Canada, Mexico, and the United States have pledged to generate 50 percent of their electricity using…What are South Sumatrans doing to prevent another haze crisis?
Jun 29, 2016, 6:20 pm By Taufik Wijaya
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]ndonesia’s Ogan Komering Ilir was an epicenter of last year’s disastrous…Forest degradation in Brazil can have just as drastic an impact on biodiversity as deforestation
Jun 29, 2016, 4:00 pm By Mike Gaworecki
Though reducing deforestation is the chief objective of most conservation strategies in tropical…
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