Papuan chef Charles Toto serves up sustainability and environmental protection in...

Charles Toto is the founder of the Jungle Chef Community, a network of enthusiasts from across the Indonesian region of Papua who promote sustainable...

Restoring flagging oil palm plantations to forest may benefit clouded leopards,...

A team of biologists fitted four clouded leopards in the Kinabatangan region of Malaysian Borneo with satellite collars, and they gathered several months of...

China’s Belt and Road poised to transform the Earth, but at...

With its withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and its embrace of international trade tariffs, the Trump administration has pulled back from the U.S. commitment...

Indonesian oil palm smallholders sue state over subsidy to biofuel producers

A union of palm oil smallholders is challenging the allocation of a billion-dollar fund that they say fails to help them rejuvenate their low-yielding...

Sumatran tiger blamed for killing two people is captured alive after...

Authorities in Indonesia have captured alive a critically endangered Sumatran tiger blamed for the deaths of two people in an oil palm plantation.The tiger...

Indonesia’s crackdown on illegal fishing is paying off, study finds

Indonesia’s crackdown on illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing in its waters is paying off for domestic fisheries and fish recovery, according to a new...

Conservation Effectiveness series sparks action, dialogue

Our in-depth series examined the effectiveness of six common conservation strategies: Forest certification, payments for ecosystem services, community-based forest management, terrestrial protected areas, marine...

Camera trap videos capture biodiversity of conservation area in Mexico’s Yucatán...

Many ejidos, such as Ejido Caoba in the state of Quintana Roo on the Yucatán Peninsula, run sustainable forestry enterprises on their land, harvesting...

New short film captures rare spider monkey feeding behavior (commentary)

A new short film captures rarely seen footage of endangered spider monkeys feeding at a mammal clay lick in the remote Peruvian Amazon.A Rainforest...

Meet the winners of the 2018 Goldman Environmental Prize

Six of the seven winners of the 2018 Goldman Environmental Prize recipients are women.Dubbed the Green Nobel Prize, the annual award honors grassroots environmental...

Island logging must go beyond current ‘best practices’ to avoid erosion:...

  In a new study, a team of ecologists modeled what would happen if companies were allowed to log the forests of Kolombangara Island...

Open destruction in the Colombian Amazon after FARC’s exit

In 2015, 24,142 hectares of forest were lost, which is almost 20 percent of Colombia’s total forested area in that year.The main driving forces...