Ecuador’s Indigenous Cofán show how to have your turtle and eat...
Inside Ecuador’s Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve, an Indigenous Cofán community has since the 1990s carried out an initiative that has contributed to an increase in...
‘Fungibility’ could sink Convention on Biodiversity’s funding mechanism Decision 15/9 (commentary)
Billions of dollars are needed for biodiversity conservation, which could be funded through the multilateral benefit-sharing mechanism established in Decision 15/9 of the UN...
Space mission that maps forests in 3D makes an early comeback
NASA’s GEDI mission, which maps the Earth’s forests in 3D using lasers, is back in operation from a hiatus, six months earlier than expected.Since...
Report reveals widespread use of smuggled mercury in Amazon gold mining
Enforcement against illegal gold mines in the Brazilian Amazon ramped up in 2023, but the contamination from the mercury used in mining will likely...
Garifuna land rights abuses persist in Honduras, despite court ruling
On the northern Caribbean coast of Honduras, Garifuna Afro-Indigenous peoples seeking to reclaim their ancestral lands have been subjected to threats and violence by...
To end turtle hunting, an African island state embraced the hunters
The island nation of São Tomé and Príncipe is home to unique species and rich marine ecosystems, including threatened sea turtles.In 2014, the country...
Thai tiger numbers swell as prey populations stabilize in western forests
Camera-trapping data revealed in a new study show a steady recovery of tigers in Thailand’s Western Forest Complex over the past two decades.The tiger...
Harnessing ‘invisible forests in plain view’ to reforest the world
Australian agronomist Tony Rinaudo’s reforestation project in Niger was failing, with 80% of his planted saplings dying, until he stumbled upon a simple solution...
‘Extinct’ trees found in Tanzania sparks hope for ecosystem recovery
Conservationists in eastern Tanzania have found two specimens of a rare tree feared to be extinct.Millettia sacleuxii was only known from six specimens in...
Loss of water means loss of culture for Mexico’s Indigenous Yaqui
The sacred waters of the Yaqui tribe in the northwestern Mexican state of Sonora have dried up after decades of overexploitation, unequal water distribution...
African markets tackle food insecurity and climate change — but lack...
Global food insecurity has risen substantially across the world due to extreme weather events, climate change and conflict.A new report by IPES-Food shows how...
A year after toxic tar sands spill, questions remain for affected...
Canada’s tar sands are the fourth-largest oil deposit in the world, but separating the bitumen creates large volumes of toxic wastewater, which is stored...
