Palm oil company fined for cheating; Sulawesi farmers to reap their...
JAKARTA — The Indonesian government has ordered a palm oil company to pay 1 billion rupiah ($61,000) in fines for shortchanging villagers by not...
Indigenous midwives in Panama strive to preserve traditional medicine for maternal...
KUERIMA, Panama — Once you’re within the Ngäbe-Buglé Indigenous territory in western Panama, the vegetation of the rainforest grows thick and signs of industrial...
Community help needed! Crocworld issues appeal after 4 birds stolen from...
The team at Crocworld Conservation Centre in Scottburgh on the KZN South Coast is calling for anyone with information about 4 missing birds to...
DRC’s golden-bellied mangabeys: A little-known but much-threatened monkey
Deep in the Congo rainforest, Edward McLester witnessed a spectacle few scientists have seen: a troop of golden-bellied mangabeys (Cercocebus chrysogaster) causing a ruckus,...
DRC conflict hinders search for Itombwe nightjar, but ‘lost’ bird may...
A rare bird known only from a single specimen captured in the eastern Congo Basin nearly 70 years ago has become one of the...
In choice of mangroves or livelihood, Vietnam shrimp farmers choose the...
Shrimp farming is a leading driver of mangrove deforestation the world over. As demand for the sweet crustaceans boomed over the past few decades,...
Troubled rubber plantation in Liberia shuts down after labor unrest
Two prominent union leaders remain in prison a month after the headquarters of the Salala Rubber Corporation in Liberia was set on fire by...
Short on funds and long on risk, Venezuelan conservation groups worry...
Conservation has become a near-impossible task in many parts of Venezuela. Government funding has dried up, political pressure has scared away international donors, and...
Indigenous communities in the Bolivian Amazon combat droughts and floods
Luis Fernando Pumuy turns on the spigot outside of his house and splashes water onto most of his body, trying to cool off from...
In Cambodia, Indigenous villagers lose forest & land amid carbon offset...
This is the second article in our two-part series on Indigenous land rights and the Keo Seima REDD+ project. This series was co-written by...
Don’t even study it: Geoengineering research hits societal roadblocks
This is Part Two of a two-part story. Find Part One here. In April, researchers from the University of Washington sprayed sea salt particles...
On heavily dammed Mekong, tracking study tries to find where the...
Key migratory fish species travel hundreds of kilometers along the Mekong River, including through several active and planned hydropower dam projects in Laos, a...
