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Calls grow to repurpose land squandered in Cambodia’s concession policy

Calls grow to repurpose land squandered in Cambodia’s concession policy

The mismanagement of large swaths of Cambodia’s land by the country’s elites under the policy of economic land concessions has displaced thousands of rural...
Symbiotic partnerships with algae help corals weather thermal stress

Symbiotic partnerships with algae help corals weather thermal stress

Corals worldwide are facing various threats, the most pressing of which is warming water temperatures, which have increased by nearly 1 degree Celsius in...
Aziil Anwar, Indonesian coral-based mangrove grower, dies at 64

Aziil Anwar, Indonesian coral-based mangrove grower, dies at 64

Aziil Anwar, a civil servant turned award-winning mangrove restorer, has died from diabetes-related complications.Aziil gained prominence in the 1990s by pioneering a way to...
Farmers can employ a simple trick to attract wild bees to their orchards

Farmers can employ a simple trick to attract wild bees to...

To sustain wild bee populations, bee-attractive flowers need to be available during the entire growing season. Bees are very useful for us and not just...
Burt Rodrigues CEO of Biodx

Insight: Surface safety – do you know what you are buying?

Burt Rodrigues CEO of Biodx gives insight into the surface safety “Last week Education MEC for the Eastern Cape, Fundile Gade ordered legal action against...
People and wildlife living in sweet harmony

People and wildlife living in sweet harmony

Earlier this year, the Gura Ferda forest in southwest Ethiopia was surveyed to assess its conservation potential.By some estimates, wet forests contain up to...
Sumatran Indigenous seafarers run aground by overfishing and mangrove loss

Sumatran Indigenous seafarers run aground by overfishing and mangrove loss

Many among Indonesia’s Duano Indigenous community have hung up their fishing nets in response to recent environmental and economic shifts.A study published in October...
A clean and healthy environment is a human right, U.N. resolution declares

A clean and healthy environment is a human right, U.N. resolution...

On July 28, member states of the U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to adopt a historic resolution that recognizes that a clean, healthy and...
Indigenous peoples undersupported on frontline of hotter, drier, fiery world

Indigenous peoples undersupported on frontline of hotter, drier, fiery world

Jeremy Hance Article by: Jeremy Hance This story first appeared on Mongabay South Africa Today - Environment This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0...
New voyage checks in on Darwin’s species, nearly 200 years after Beagle

New voyage checks in on Darwin’s species, nearly 200 years after...

On Sept. 12, 2021, French documentary maker Victor Rault set sail from Plymouth, England, aboard his sailing ship, the Captain Darwin.His goal is to...