Thai plan to relax fishing law stokes fear of return to...
Thai lawmakers are discussing fisheries reforms that observers say risk undoing eight years of hard-won progress on human rights and ocean protection.Many of the...
Bottom trawling in U.K.’s marine reserves, legally, is apparently a thing
In 2023, commercial fishing vessels spent more than 33,000 hours operating in the U.K.’s offshore marine protected areas, mainly using trawling and dredging methods.Bottom...
Scientists and farmers restore Aztec-era floating farms that house axolotls
In 1987, UNESCO declared the Xochimilco wetland area in southern Mexico City a World Heritage Site, recognizing in particular its chinampas, an ancient agricultural...
‘Non-market’ solutions to deforestation need more support, advocates say
In a report released May 29, three environmental groups called for a shift away from carbon markets and toward “non-market” solutions to deforestation.The Paris...
From Egypt to Syria, ‘water cancer’ chokes waterways
Water hyacinth, an invasive species from the Amazon, is a major threat to freshwater life and livelihoods in Syria’s Orontes River and in Egypt’s...
Elusive jaguarundi inspires biologists to share data across Latin America
The jaguarundi (Herpailurus yagouaroundi) is a little-known small felid with a range extending from northern Argentina to Mexico. The last confirmed sighting in the...
A tiny desert fish hits a 25 year population high in...
The critically endangered Devils Hole pupfish population has reached a 25-year high of 191 fish, offering hope for the species that lives in the...
Indigenous people and NGO grow a wildlife corridor in the world’s...
Environmental charity Climate Force is collaborating with the Eastern Kuku Yalanji people and rangers to create a wildlife corridor that runs between two UNESCO...
An ancestral solution ensures water for Peruvian alpaca farmers, but is...
A community of alpaca farmers in the high Peruvian Andes is witnessing the loss of its mountain glaciers as a result of a warming...
In Belize, flawed conservation measures threaten small-scale fishers’ livelihoods (commentary)
The Mesoamerican Reef stretches roughly 1,000 kilometers along the coastlines of Mexico, Honduras, Belize and Guatemala, and is an integral part of people’s livelihoods...
Rewilding efforts throw a lifeline to Brazil’s most trafficked endangered bird
The great-billed seed finch (Sporophila maximiliani), thought to be the most trafficked endangered bird species in Brazil, has long been coveted in the caged-bird...
Nepal court rules protected areas and forests off-limits for land distribution
Nepal’s government can’t distribute land in national parks and forest areas to landless individuals, the country’s Supreme Court has ruled, emphasizing the protection of...
