Five-year sentences for elephant poachers in Republic of Congo
A court in the Republic of Congo has convicted three men of killing elephants for their tusks, and sentenced them to five years in...
New study: Radar reveals bats are a bellwether of climate change
Scientists know that bats boost the profits of farmers by fertilizing crops and keeping hungry insects in check. According to recent research, they also...
Vanishing species deserve our few cents (commentary)
As a conservation scientist, people often ask me, “What can I do to help save vanishing species?” In the U.S., you already do something...
Peru: Law prioritizes highway construction that could threaten indigenous communities
UCAYALI REGION, Peru — Peru has passed a controversial law that makes highway construction in border areas and maintaining trucking roads in the Ucayali...
Norsk Hydro accused of Amazon toxic spill, admits ‘clandestine pipeline’
Flooding at the Norske Hydro Alunorte facility following heavy rains in February. Photo by Instituo Evandro Chagas Norsk Hydro, a bauxite and aluminum mining...
African Parks to manage gorges, rock art and crocodiles of Chad’s...
The government of Chad has enlisted the aid of a conservation NGO to run a massive national park in the country’s northeast that is...
Detecting disasters on community lands in the Amazon: film highlights indigenous...
Tens of thousands of indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon have been fighting decades of contamination of their natural resources by foreign and domestic...
Cambodia’s banteng-eating leopards edge closer to extinction, new study finds
For Cambodia’s last remaining Indochinese leopards (Panthera pardus delacouri), extinction could be just around the corner, a new study has found. The only breeding...
Drone photography allows scientists to measure marine mammals without a catch
Scientists in Antarctica recently tested a novel technique to measure the body size and mass of wildlife — aerial photography. The method, used on...
Mangrove deforestation releases more CO2 than Poland, study finds
Seemingly nondescript messes of tangled branches and exposed roots, mangrove forests cling to the coasts of many tropical countries. However, mangroves are far from...
