Q&A with marine biologist Amanda Vincent
For years marine biologists have been raising concerns about bottom trawling, a fishing technique that unintentionally scoops up non-targeted creatures as bycatch and disrupts...
Borneo’s elephants prefer degraded forests, a new study finds
New research has found that Bornean elephants most often use degraded forests with canopy heights topping out at around 13 meters (43 feet).Less than...
Indonesian graftbusters put a price tag on environmental crime
Indonesia’s anti-corruption agency, the KPK, has alleged huge losses incurred by the state as a result of illegal mining permits handed out by a...
Traditional landowners reject mining exploration bid in Bougainville
Ahead of next year’s referendum on independence from Papua New Guinea, the government of the autonomous region of Bougainville believes reopening the Panguna copper...
Range countries to lead new estimate of global snow leopard population...
The newly announced Population Assessment of the World’s Snow Leopards initiative, called PAWS for short, will be overseen by the Steering Committee of the...
Trump’s elephant, lion trophy hunting policy hit with double lawsuits
In policymaking, the Interior Dept. announced it was allowing U.S. citizens to import elephant and lion body parts to the United States last November....
A new way to measure conservation success
Scientists have proposed a framework for a new “Green List of species” that outlines a standard way of measuring species recovery and conservation success.The...
Agribusiness boomtown; profits for a few, hardships for many
Luís Eduardo Magalhães (LEM) is a soy boomtown, built on Cerrado agribusiness. Its population has grown fourfold since 2000, to 83,000 people, and is...
Local conservancies create new hope for wildlife in Kenya’s Maasai Mara...
Naboisho and roughly a dozen neighboring conservancies in Kenya’s Maasai Mara are made up of hundreds of individual plots owned by local Maasai residents...
In Jakarta, wildlife monitors find a hotspot for the illegal tortoise...
Indonesia’s capital has seen an increase in the sale of non-native species of tortoises and freshwater turtles that are prohibited for international commercial trade,...
Tech and collaboration are putting indigenous land rights on the map
Tierras Indígenas’ advanced mapping technology is bringing South America’s Chaco ecosystem into the spotlight and allowing indigenous groups to digitally map out their territories...
Study reveals the Pacific Garbage Patch is much heftier than thought...
A recent survey of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch revealed that the aggregated plastic there weighs in at 79,000 metric tons (87,100 short tons).The...
