Inbreeding adds to growing threats to Africa’s smallest wildcat, study finds
Populations of the black-footed cat, a little-known feline in Southern Africa, have been declining for the last half a million years and exhibit very...
Change Hub launches Inaugural Socio-Economic: Impact Summit
South Africa’s potential to thrive depends on the pace and trajectory of its socio-economic transformation. The overall development and growth of the country is...
Indonesia biomass zone for Japan and S. Korea energy razes rainforest...
POHUWATO, Indonesia — Heavy trucks roll toward a semiremote coastline here on Indonesia’s Sulawesi Island before idling alongside a waiting barge, which will later...
New abuse allegations hit China ghost ships in Indonesia waters
Labor abuses on foreign-flagged fishing vessels in Indonesia’s remote eastern seas continue to claim lives, with Indonesian crew members bearing the brunt of exploitation...
Polar bears are suffering paw injuries likely driven by the warming...
What’s new At least two populations of polar bears in the high Arctic are developing paw injuries, possibly because of shifting sea ice conditions...
If all life mattered, what would decision-making look like? (Analysis)
In April 2013, the Supreme Court of India delivered a historic judgement recognizing the cultural, religious and spiritual rights of the Dongria Kondh Adivasis,...
Langurs in Bangladesh face extinction as hybridization between species escalates
A recent study revealed a troubling trend among the wild monkey population in Bangladesh’s northeastern forests. The study, conducted by the German Primate Centre,...
Cambodia’s once-massive national park continues to lose its forest
One of Cambodia’s largest protected areas, Botum Sakor National Park, continues to lose tree cover, recent satellite data show. Officially designated as a national...
Carbon markets must recognize Indigenous ‘high forest, low deforestation’ areas (commentary)
For us, protecting our forests is like protecting our families. They are our homes. They give us life. For decades, we’ve witnessed deforestation destroy...
Study: REDD+ doesn’t work without Indigenous peoples, but fails to engage...
The United Nations’ framework for reducing emissions by protecting forests in less-industrialized countries, known as REDD+, isn’t doing enough to prioritize Indigenous peoples in...
New survey puts human face on pollution caused by U.S. wood...
Forest biomass companies working in the U.S. Southeast in 2023 produced 9.54 million metric tons of wood pellets for export at their 28 mills...
Indigenous advocates lament decade of failures by Indonesia’s Jokowi
JAKARTA — When Joko Widodo took office in 2014 as the president of Indonesia, the world’s third-largest democracy, he was seen as a transformative...
