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Suriname cancels controversial Mennonite pilot program, but bigger problems loom

Suriname cancels controversial Mennonite pilot program, but bigger problems loom

Suriname President Chan Santokhi confirmed to local media this week that he shuttered a pilot program setting aside 30,000 hectares (74,131 acres) for 50...
Communities worry anew as PNG revives seabed mining plans

Communities worry anew as PNG revives seabed mining plans

Coastal communities in Papua New Guinea’s New Ireland province rely on the sea for their livelihoods and culture.But Solwara 1, a resurgent deep-sea mining...
Lula’s deforestation goals threatened by frustrated environmental agents

Lula’s deforestation goals threatened by frustrated environmental agents

Brazilian environmental agents worked hard in 2023 to control the Amazon deforestation, with impressive results that President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has used...
Comeback on the cards for Asian antelope declared extinct in Bangladesh

Comeback on the cards for Asian antelope declared extinct in Bangladesh

Nilgais, the largest antelope species in Asia, are reappearing in northwestern Bangladesh, a country that was part of their historical range but where they...
How effective are giant funding pledges by major conservation donors?

How effective are giant funding pledges by major conservation donors?

Big-name conservation philanthropy is having a moment, but does the news cycle adequately capture the nuances required when huge new pledges of funding by...
Are biodiversity credits just another business-as-usual finance scheme?

Are biodiversity credits just another business-as-usual finance scheme?

There’s a new emerging innovative finance scheme to support biodiversity conservation: voluntary biodiversity credits. These are meant to be purely voluntary, “positive investment” in...
Culture of harassment persists for women in Southeast Asia’s conservation space

Culture of harassment persists for women in Southeast Asia’s conservation space

Recent years have seen an increase in regulations addressing sexual harassment in Southeast Asia, including amendments to Vietnam’s labor code in 2019 and a...
Soraida Chindoy: the Indigenous guardian defending the sacred Putumayo mountains

Soraida Chindoy: the Indigenous guardian defending the sacred Putumayo mountains

An Indigenous woman from the Inga community in the Condagua reservation in Putumayo, Colombia, is leading the struggle against a Canadian mining company that...
Road paving in a Peruvian bird paradise threatens wildlife and ecotourism

Road paving in a Peruvian bird paradise threatens wildlife and ecotourism

In the Manu Biosphere Reserve of Southeastern Peru, one of the world’s most biodiverse protected areas, a winding dirt road has historically been the...
Irrawaddy dolphin death in Thailand’s Songkhla Lake underscores conservation needs

Irrawaddy dolphin death in Thailand’s Songkhla Lake underscores conservation needs

As few as 14 critically endangered Irrawaddy dolphins remain in the world’s smallest freshwater population of the species, in southern Thailand’s Songkhla Lake.The recent...
Green Corridors' Green Spaces team clearing a stream in KwaMashu.

Green Corridors urges citizens to be mindful of water resources National...

‘Water for Peace’ is the theme for World Water Day which coincides with South Africa’s National Water Week (20-26 March). Green Corridors, the Durban...
UN probes controversial forest carbon agreement in Malaysian Borneo

UN probes controversial forest carbon agreement in Malaysian Borneo

The government of Sabah state in Malaysian Borneo will continue to move forward with an opaque nature conservation agreement despite concerns raised by the...