In DRC, Virunga deforestation escalates as fighting sends refugees into park
Virunga National Park has lost 964 hectares (2,382 acres) of forest over the last four months, according to forest monitoring platfrom Global Forest Watch....
African leaders & activists will bring new demands, hopes to COP28
As world leaders prepare to meet in Dubai for COP28, African activists bring new hopes and expectations following the first-ever Africa Climate Summit (ACS)...
Keeping herbivores at bay helps in early stages of restoration, studies...
Excluding herbivores from restoration areas may lead to an increase in both vegetation abundance and plant diversity, according to a new analysis.The global-scale analysis,...
Panama copper mine to close after Supreme Court rules concession unconstitutional
Minera Panamá, a subsidiary of the Canadian company First Quantum Minerals (FQM), will have to shut down the Cobre Panamá mine after the country’s...
SA tackles plastic pollution
The Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Barbara Creecy, says government’s initiatives aimed at tackling plastic pollution are making progress.
South Africa has achieved...
Kenyan pastoralists fight for a future adapted to climate change (commentary)
Peyton Fleming
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South Africa Today - Environment
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Collaboration key to rediscovery of egg-laying mammal in Papua’s Cyclops Mountains
Collaboration between international and local researchers, conservation authorities, NGOs and Indigenous groups was key to the success of an expedition in Indonesia’s Cyclops Mountains...
New calf brings new hope, and new concerns, for embattled Sumatran...
A male Sumatran rhino calf was born Nov. 25 at Indonesia’s Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary in Way Kambas National Park, marking the second birth at...
How Indigenous peoples and local communities can make the voluntary carbon...
The voluntary carbon market has the potential to address $4.1 trillion in nature financing gap by 2050 and support Indigenous peoples and local communities...
North Atlantic orcas reveal the troubling persistence of toxic ocean pollutants
As the top predators in the ocean, killer whales suffer from the magnifying level of pollutants that build up in the marine food web.Scientists...
Discriminatory U.S. housing policies still affect bird sightings 90 years later
Researchers have found far less data on bird sightings in neighborhoods impacted by discriminatory housing policies in the United States since the 1930s.Even with...
In Brazil’s Amazon, a clandestine road threatens a pristine reserve
Terra do Meio Ecological Station, a pristine reserve under federal protection, has suffered invasions amid efforts to open up an illegal road cutting through...
