Court order fails to stop poison fishing in Bangladesh Sundarbans
According to the Bangladesh Forest Department, the Sundarbans mangrove forest in Bangladesh shelters about 210 species of white fish, 24 species of shrimp, 14...
Wild mushroom harvest helps keep trees standing in Mozambique
For the first time, native mushroom species in Mozambique are being harvested for sale in the capital, Maputo.The project provides extra income for hundreds...
Transgenics contaminate a third of Brazil’s traditional corn in semiarid region
A new study identified the presence of up to seven transgenic genes in single seeds of traditional, or “creole” corn from more than 1,000...
Your lesson for World Cleanup Day – when you recycle your...
Our country’s post-consumer recycling rates for beverage bottles are high but they could be higher if South Africans would learn one simple rule –...
Road upgrade through remote Tanzanian park threatens wildlife (commentary)
After a pause of more than 10 years, road upgrading through Katavi National Park has restarted.Critics worry about the possible effects on long term...
For South Africa’s small fishers, co-ops prove a necessary, but bumpy,...
Victoria Schneider
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Nepali researchers yet again photograph snow leopard, leopard in same place
Nepali researchers capture images of a snow leopard and a common leopard in the same location in the Gaurishankar Conservation Area, adding to the...
‘Owls are valuable only when alive’: Q&A with conservationist Raju Acharya
Raju Acharya, a pioneering owl conservationist in Nepal, shares his passion and challenges for studying and protecting the country’s 23 owl species, which are...
A forest gave Cambodia’s captive elephants a new life. Now they’re...
Until 2020, the Elephant Valley Project in eastern Cambodia had developed into a self-sustaining sanctuary where aging captive elephants could live out their days...
Cambodia approves, then suspends, marble mine in Keo Seima REDD+ project
The Cambodian government has suspended a planned marble mine inside a wildlife sanctuary that it had approved just months earlier.It’s not clear why this...
In a world of climate risks, Sri Lanka is finding ways...
In a landscape of interconnected and mutually compounding risks, climate change has emerged as a key risk factor for Sri Lanka, specifically for vulnerable...
Nests of hope: Nepal’s vulture colonies hold on amid new threats
A new study finds that two colonies of critically endangered white-rumped vultures (Gyps bengalensis) in Nepal have maintained stable numbers for more than a...
