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Scientists and fishers team up to protect Bolivian river dolphin

Scientists and fishers team up to protect Bolivian river dolphin

Hunting, fishing, pollution and degradation and loss of habitat are the main threats facing the Bolivian river dolphin, a species of river dolphin that...
Indigenous Amazon forests absorb noxious fumes and prevent diseases from wildfires, study suggests

Indigenous Amazon forests absorb noxious fumes and prevent diseases from wildfires,...

A new decade-long study estimates forests in Indigenous lands in the Brazilian Amazon can potentially prevent about 15 million cases of respiratory and cardiovascular...
Biogas project offers lifelines to Kenyan community, forest, and rare species

Biogas project offers lifelines to Kenyan community, forest, and rare species

For decades, forest reserves in Kenya’s central highlands have been under pressure from surrounding communities seeking firewood, timber and space for farmland.This pressure has...
Indonesia’s ‘food estate’ program repeating failures of past projects

Indonesia’s ‘food estate’ program repeating failures of past projects

Some of the large-scale food plantations established by the Indonesian government under a “food estate” program have reportedly been abandoned.A field investigation in 2022...
Brazilian gold miners get free rein in Venezuela’s Indigenous lands

Brazilian gold miners get free rein in Venezuela’s Indigenous lands

In Southern Venezuela, Brazilian gold miners known as garimpeiros exploit Venezuelan Indigenous lands, leaving behind mass environmental destruction.Deforestation, sedimentation and contamination of water, soil...
Report sums up Bolsonaro’s destruction legacy and Amazon’s next critical steps

Report sums up Bolsonaro’s destruction legacy and Amazon’s next critical steps

A damning report confirms what many environmentalists already knew: that the destruction of nature in Brazil from 2019 to 2022 was a deliberate campaign...
CAPS, new gas megaproject, aims to power Central Africa, but at what cost, critics ask

CAPS, new gas megaproject, aims to power Central Africa, but at...

The Central Africa Business Energy Forum proposes to build 6,500 kilometers (4,000 miles) of pipelines linking oil and gas resources across 11 countries in...
A Ramadan reflection on Islam and climate action (commentary)

A Ramadan reflection on Islam and climate action (commentary)

Muslims everywhere are currently observing Ramadan, a month of fasting and striving to grow their faith through prayer and acts of goodness.This month also...
Ecuador project aims to protect Yasuní park borders & Indigenous peoples

Ecuador project aims to protect Yasuní park borders & Indigenous peoples

The Yasuní Strip of Diversity and Life (Franja de Diversidad y Vida), on the western border of the Yasuní National Park, was created to...
To build its ‘green’ capital city, Indonesia runs a road through a biodiverse forest

To build its ‘green’ capital city, Indonesia runs a road through...

A new toll road in Indonesia’s East Kalimantan province is under construction to improve access to the interior of Borneo, including to the nation’s...
Q&A with researcher Damber Bista

Q&A with researcher Damber Bista

Damber Bista is a Nepali conservation scientist studying the country’s population of red pandas, an endangered species.He says there needs to be much more...
15 community-based conservation opportunities to help people and the planet

15 community-based conservation opportunities to help people and the planet

A recently published horizon scan on community-based conservation identified 15 topics that offer opportunities to yield positive change for people and the planet, as...