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Indonesia to update conservation efforts for aquarium favorite cardinalfish

Indonesia to update conservation efforts for aquarium favorite cardinalfish

Indonesia’s fisheries ministry says it is working on a new conservation road map for Banggai cardinalfish (Pterapogon kauderni), a popular species in the aquarium...
Activists welcome decision to revoke permit for controversial Philippine gold mine

Activists welcome decision to revoke permit for controversial Philippine gold mine

On Sept. 15, local officials in the southern Philippine municipality of Tampakan revoked the business permit for mining firm Sagittarius Mines, Inc. (SMI), which...
Kidnapped chimps, jailed rhino horn traffickers, and seized donkey parts

Kidnapped chimps, jailed rhino horn traffickers, and seized donkey parts

Armed intruders who kidnapped three young chimpanzees from a sanctuary in the DRC have threatened to kill them unless a ransom is paid for...
U.S. charts course for adopting ropeless fishing to reduce whale deaths

U.S. charts course for adopting ropeless fishing to reduce whale deaths

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has published a report laying out a strategy to allow the use of “ropeless” or “on-demand” fishing...
New oil refinery ‘a huge disaster’ for Nigerian forest reserve

New oil refinery ‘a huge disaster’ for Nigerian forest reserve

Stubbs Creek Forest Reserve comprises nearly 300 square kilometers (116 square miles) in southern Nigeria, and is home to threatened wildlife and economically valuable...
Woman carrying wood in Yangambi - DRC.

Amid global climate and hunger crises, Africa is building a brighter...

Millions of people across the African continent are facing starvation due to climate change, COVID-19, and the war in Ukraine, which are exposing the...
Nicholas Park

Helios Eyeware Protecting The Environment & Helping The Local Community

Helios Eyewear adopts a circular economy model to address marine pollution and challenges of the fishermen community Through a campaign entitled RESIGHT, Helios Eyewear has...
How close is the Amazon tipping point? Forest loss in the east changes the equation

How close is the Amazon tipping point? Forest loss in the...

Scientists warn that the Amazon is approaching a tipping point beyond which it would begin to transition from a lush tropical forest into a...
Fires in the world’s largest wetland turns Brazilian farmers into firefighters

Fires in the world’s largest wetland turns Brazilian farmers into firefighters

Fires in 2020 ravaged an area larger than Belgium in the Brazilian Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetland, killing at least 17 million animals...
Racism, speciesism and the environmental crises (commentary)

Racism, speciesism and the environmental crises (commentary)

While environmental crises are predominantly caused by the West and industrialized countries, vulnerable groups across the whole world are carrying a disproportionately large burden...
Fish return to Southern Brazil after trawling ban

Fish return to Southern Brazil after trawling ban

Small- and large-scale fishers report an increase in the volume and variety of fish species in the Patos Lagoon and the coast of Rio...
Europe moves to protect deep-sea sites in Atlantic from bottom fishing

Europe moves to protect deep-sea sites in Atlantic from bottom fishing

The European Commission recently announced that it will protect 16,000 square kilometers (6,200 square miles) of the deep sea — known as “vulnerable marine...