European bill passes to ban imports of deforestation-linked commodities
Imports of 14 types of commodities into the European Union will soon have to be verified for possible association with deforestation in the countries...
Why the UK water industry is broken
Sewage spills damage the environment, including chalk streams: a rare shallow-water habitat in England.
As a child swimming off the coast of south Devon in the...
Cooperation over confrontation to win the rhino war
In September we celebrate the wonder of books and reading with National Book Week (5-11 September) and International Literacy Day (8 September). It is...
Bringing people virtually to Africa’s bushmeat hubs
BONN, Germany (September 2022) – In the Congo Basin, over two million metric tonnes of wild meat – equivalent to tens of millions of...
Eight new-to-science geckos described from biodiversity haven Madagascar
Scientists have described eight new-to-science species of geckos from Madagascar, all about the length of your thumb.They were elevated to species level following DNA...
Indonesia amnesties 75 companies operating illegally inside forest areas
As many as 75 companies that operate illegally inside forest areas in Indonesia have been pardoned under an amnesty scheme.These companies paid fines totaling...
Cambodian mega dam’s resurrection on the Mekong ‘the beginning of the...
Cambodian authorities have greenlit studies for a major hydropower dam on the Mekong River in Stung Treng province, despite a ban on dam building...
Pioneer agroforester Ermi, 73, rolls back the years in Indonesia’s Gorontalo
Ermi Mauke, 73, has spent the past 40 years planting a mix of trees on the fringe of Bogani Nani Wartabone National Park in...
British Columbia delays promised protections as old growth keeps falling
Two years after British Columbia’s majority party promised a logging “paradigm shift” to conserve what’s left of the province’s tall old growth forests, Mongabay...
Thailand’s contentious plan to curtail bottom trawling unfolds in slow motion
To rebuild its dwindling fish stocks, Thailand has implemented a series of reforms to its fishing sector since 2015, reining in illegal fishing while...
Industrial mining’s tropical deforestation footprint spills beyond concessions
Indonesia, Brazil, Suriname and Ghana account for 80% of all tropical deforestation linked directly to industrial mining, a new study has found.In two out...
Sri Lanka eyes major compensation case over X-Press Pearl sinking
Sri Lanka has received $2.5 million in the third interim payment for the sinking of the X-Press Pearl cargo ship in June 2021, giving...
