Brazilian ‘quilombo’ community entitled with 220,000 hectares of rainforest
Longtime residents of one of the country’s thousands of Quilombo communities have been given land titles for the first time.Quilombo communities are Brazilian peoples...
Jaguar numbers rising at field sites, WCS says
WCS reports that jaguar numbers have risen by almost 8 percent a year between 2002 and 2016 at study sites in Central and South...
How Tibetan Buddhism and conservation efforts helped Eurasian otters thrive in...
The Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra) is now locally extinct in most of its former range in China due to hunting for its pelt, water...
the Brazilian Supreme Court’s New Forest Code ruling
Last week Brazil’s Supreme Court rejected a legal challenge by environmentalists, upholding the constitutionality of most, though not all, of Brazil’s New Forest Code...
Climate change imperils tiny animal in the world’s most extreme continent
Soil researchers have found that a microscopic nematode is vanishing from Antarctica’s Dry Valleys — and they believe it’s because of climate change.Scottnema lindsayae...
Honduras arrests alleged mastermind of Berta Cáceres’s murder
On March 2 Honduran authorities arrested a hydroelectric company executive they say orchestrated the murder of indigenous activist Berta Cáceres two years ago.David Castillo...
In Colombia, a national park’s expansion announced as deforestation progresses
Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos affirmed that the country’s largest natural park, Chiribiquete National Park, will now be 1.5 million hectares larger.Chiribiquete is located...
Europe’s beetle species plummet as trees disappear
A new report by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) finds nearly 18 percent of saproxylic beetles are threatened with extinction...
How effective is environmental restoration?
How effective is environmental restoration? On today’s episode, we seek answers to that question through the lens of a much needed new project at...
Bornean bearded pigs seen adapting to oil palm habitats, study finds
Bornean bearded pigs appear to thrive in oil palm plantations, but remain heavily dependent on nearby forests as their primary habitat, a recent study...
Mexico City dwellers shoulder future of their urban ‘Water Forest’
The territory, which conservationists and area residents are working to preserve, includes a large swath of southern Mexico City.The term “urban forest” typically describes...
Budiardi, labeled a ‘provocateur’ and jailed in a dispute with a...
“The palm oil fiefdom” is an investigation by Mongabay and The Gecko Project, an initiative of the UK-based research house Earthsight.The article reveals how...
