Nepal’s human-wildlife conflict relief system hits roadblock with new guidelines
New guidelines intended to streamline relief and compensation for human-wildlife conflict victims in Nepal have instead created a bottleneck in the process.Implementation challenges arise...
Seabird poop is recipe for coral recovery amid climate-driven bleaching
Researchers have found that nutrients from seabird poop led to a doubling of coral growth rates and faster recovery after bleaching events, promoting overall...
Gharial conservation plan leaves Nepal fishing communities searching for new jobs
Since the creation of Chitwan National Park, some Indigenous Bote people who have lost access to their ancestral lands and livelihoods have been employed...
Rewilding Ireland: ‘Undoing the damage’ from a history of deforestation
Eoghan Daltun has spent the past 14 years successfully rewilding 29 hectares (73 acres) of farmland on the Beara Peninsula in southwestern Ireland.Ireland is...
We’re losing species faster than we can find them, study shows
Researchers compiled a database showing the number of lost species is increasing faster than rediscovered species: since 1800, more than 800 amphibian, bird, mammal...
‘Shocking’ mortality of infant macaques points to dangers of oil palm...
As oil palm plantations encroach on rainforests, wild primates increasingly enter them to forage, where they face the threat of being eaten by feral...
U.S. natural gas expansion would surrender world to fatal warming, experts...
The United States is planning a major expansion of its export infrastructure for liquified natural gas (LNG), a fossil fuel mostly containing methane. Public...
Norwegian salmon farms gobble up fish that could feed millions in...
Norwegian salmon farms are taking huge amounts of wild fish from West Africa, mining the food security of the region, according to a report...
Smallest wildcat of the Atlantic Forest faces enormous threats
The southern tiger cat (Leopardus guttulus) is at great risk due to the relentless destruction of its habitat, mainly caused by deforestation.Its distribution is...
Not waiting for the government, Myanmar’s Karen people register their own...
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Biden’s new sanctions on Russia should include timber exports (commentary)
U.S. President Joe Biden responded to the death of dissident Aleksei Navalny with new sanctions that target hundreds of Russian entities and individuals, but...
Harsh dry season sours harvest prospects for Java coffee farmers
Indonesia is the world’s fourth-largest producer of coffee, after Brazil, Vietnam and Colombia, but the archipelago’s farmers are less productive than their competitors.In East...
