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A development project in a Bali mangrove bay gets a new...

A controversial plan...
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...
Home to rare corals, a Chilean fjord declines in spite of protection

Home to rare corals, a Chilean fjord declines in spite of...

The Comau Fjord, in the Chilean region of Patagonia, is one of the only sites in the world where the cold-water coral Desmophyllum dianthus...
After Bruno Pereira’s murder, widow Beatriz Matos strives for Indigenous rights

After Bruno Pereira’s murder, widow Beatriz Matos strives for Indigenous rights

In an interview with Mongabay, anthropologist Beatriz Matos, widow of Indigenous specialist Bruno Pereira, tells of the duties she assumed on Feb. 14 as...
Dhaka faces manifold problems as water bodies diminish

Dhaka faces manifold problems as water bodies diminish

A study by the Bangladesh Institute of Planners, or BIP, says the capital has lost 36% of its water bodies since 2010.Dhaka city has...

The science of combating climate science misinformation

Researchers are increasingly...
Second chance for Lula as controversial Amazon dam goes up for renewal

Second chance for Lula as controversial Amazon dam goes up for...

In the biological and cultural hotspot of the Volta Grande in Brazil’s Amazon, Indigenous communities and scientists have teamed up to monitor the impacts...

Conservation groups press world leaders to protect 30% of the planet

Thirteen nature conservation...
Indonesia eyes enrolling more ports in fight against illegal fishing

Indonesia eyes enrolling more ports in fight against illegal fishing

Only four of Indonesia’s nearly 2,500 ports implement the Port State Measures Agreement (PSMA), an international treaty that targets illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU)...