Warming seas push India’s fishers into distant, and more ...
KANNIYAKUMARI, India — Anthoni Dhasan, 47, sits on the deck of his fishing boat at the harbor of Thengapattanam in Tamil Nadu, India’s southernmost state, pe...

Ecuador’s first Indigenous guard led by Kichwa women: Int...
Yuturi ants are peaceful until their territory is threatened. This species, also known as the ‘conga ant,’ is considered a warrior in Amazonian Kichwa Indige...

Nepal’s tigers & prey need better grassland management: I...
As winter bids adieu to the Northern Hemisphere and the mercury peaks and humidity plummets, most of Nepal’s plains and hills become tinderboxes awaiting a s...

Amid record-high fires across the Amazon, Brazil loses pr...
The number of fires shows no signs of easing as Brazil’s Roraima faces unprecedented blazes, and several Amazonian countries, including Guyana, Suriname and ...

Activists file last-gasp suit as Indonesia fails again to...
JAKARTA — Civil society advocates representing more than 2,000 customary communities in Indonesia have initiated last-ditch legal challenges over parliament’...

Bioplastics as toxic as regular plastics; both need regul...
As negotiators meet this week for the fourth round of global plastics treaty talks, scientists warn that both plant-based and petroleum-based plastics are to...

No protection from bottom trawling for seamount chain in ...
The Emperor Seamount Chain is a massive and richly biodiverse set of underwater mountains stretching about 3,000 kilometers (1,900 miles) south from the Aleu...

Uttarakhand limits agricultural land sales amid protests ...
For months, residents in the Himalayan foothills of Uttarakhand have been fighting for the introduction of land laws that would prevent agricultural land fro...

A web of front people conceals environmental offenders in...
A paper trail left by a notorious land grabber reveals how he used relatives and an employee as fronts to evade environmental fines and lawsuits, shedding li...

Mexico’s avocado industry harms monarch butterflies, will...
Monarch butterflies are returning to gardens across the United States, but a few months ago, I stood in a mountain forest in Mexico where the monarchs spend ...

Bangladesh uses satellite transmitters on saltwater croco...
DHAKA — In a breakthrough in saltwater crocodile conservation in the country, Bangladesh has started using a satellite tagging system to monitor the species’...

Ambler Road Construction Denied by Biden Administration
This past week the Biden Administration reversed a permit approved by the Trump Administration that would have allowed the Alaska Industrial Developmen...

Study challenges use of charismatic wildlife as umbrella ...
JAKARTA — In wildlife conservation management, the best species to focus on to maximize protection of a region’s biodiversity aren’t necessarily the most cha...

New calf, same threats: Javan rhinos continue to reproduc...
There’s good news and bad news for the Javan rhino, one of the most threatened large mammals on Earth. The recent sighting of a mother-and-calf pair in Indon...

Annual ocean conference raises $11.3b in pledges for mari...
ATHENS — From April 15-17, state delegates, organization representatives, academics and philanthropists met at the 9th Our Ocean Conference (OOC) in Athens t...

Brazil boosts protection of Amazon mangroves with new res...
The new extractive reserves allow resident populations to engage in traditional and sustainable extractive practices such as fishing and hunting, while keepi...

In Philippines’ restive south, conflict is linked to redu...
The Philippines’ southern region of Mindanao has a history of war and armed conflict going back more than 400 years. The contemporary conflict’s origin in th...

Indonesian capital project finally gets guidelines to avo...
JAKARTA — The Indonesian government has rolled out what it calls a “biodiversity management master plan” amid mounting criticism of the environmental and soc...

Deforestation alerts in the Brazilian Amazon fall to a 5-...
Forest clearing detected by Brazil’s deforestation alert system fell to the lowest level in nearly five years, according to data released last week by ...

UN puts spotlight on attacks against Indigenous land defe...
When around 70,000 Indigenous Maasai were expelled from their lands in northern Tanzania in 2022, it didn’t happen in a vacuum. For years, the Tanzanian gove...

Sierra Leone cacao project boosts livelihoods and buffers...
In eastern Sierra Leone, straddling the border of Liberia, lies Gola Rainforest National Park, one of the last remaining intact tracts of the tropical Upper ...

Cross-border Indigenous efforts in Peru & Brazil aim to p...
Indigenous organizations from Peru and Brazil are joining forces to push their respective governments to safeguard a 16-million-hectare (39.5-million-acre) t...

Circular solutions vital to curb enviro harm from cement ...
The concrete industry is a major carbon emitter and polluter, with severe human health impacts. But circular solutions, including electrifying cement plants,...

Malawi police arrest elephant poachers in Kasungu Nationa...
BLANTYRE — Police and wildlife department officials in Malawi have arrested two men suspected of having killed an elephant in Kasungu National Park in the co...

Snack giant PepsiCo sourced palm oil from razed Indigenou...
The US food and drink giant PepsiCo has been linked through its supply chain to Amazon deforestation and the invasion of Indigenous lands in Peru, the Bureau...

Drone cameras help scientists distinguish between drought...
How do you identify sick oaks? For a long time, detecting unhealthy oaks and identifying the disease afflicting them required a lot of manual labor. Scientis...

How predatory fishing has decimated Brazil coastal fish p...
When he was a teenager at the end of the 1980s, Evanildo Sena would come back from a day of fishing dragging 5 or 6 tons of fish with his canoe at a time — a...

In largest ever study, Indigenous and local communities r...
Indigenous peoples and local communities are already feeling the impacts of climate change, according to firsthand accounts documented in a new study. The au...

Namibia: Namibia Rhino Poaching On Rise in First Quarter ...
[VOA] Windhoek, Namibia -- Environmentalists in Namibia have accused local wildlife officials of hiding the real extent of rhino poaching in the Etosha Natio...

South Africa: Climate Change Is Causing Marine 'Coldwaves...
[The Conversation Africa] The effects of ocean warming are profound and well-documented. But sometimes changes in the patterns of winds and ocean currents ca...

Report links H&M and Zara to major environmental damage i...
Clothing giants H&M and Zara have been linked to large-scale illegal deforestation, land-grabbing, violence and corruption in the Brazilian Cerrado, acco...

Panama delays promised relocation of sinking island commu...
Plans to relocate an Indigenous community from a tiny Caribbean island off Panama to the country’s mainland to escape rising seas have been delayed due to ad...

International hesitancy to adopt environmental regulation...
The mood is tense. After months of delays, the EU will soon vote on a long-awaited piece of legislation that will require European companies to integrate env...

Uganda: Parliament Approves Merger of Wildlife Entities U...
[Nile Post] Parliament has approved the merger of the Uganda Wildlife Conservation Education Centre (UWEC) with the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA).

The environmental mismanagement of enduring oil industry ...
The petroleum industry has a long history of operational calamities, large and small, that has created an equally long history of efforts to manage the envir...

Indigenous efforts to save Peru’s Marañon River could spe...
Living deep in the Peruvian Amazon, the Kukama Kukamiria Indigenous community have spent generations with their feet in the Marañón, the river emerging from ...

Sumatra villages count cost of deadly river tsunami swell...
SOUTH PESISIR, Indonesia — Bendri lived with his wife and child just 80 meters, or 260 feet, back from the Surantih Mudiak Dalam River, which flows from Suma...

Utah’s War on Cougars
Twenty-seven states (at last count) now have “right to hunt and fish” constitutional amendments. These laws are an attempt to secure public hunting, trapping...

South Africa: African Oystercatcher Bucks the Trend in Cr...
[GroundUp] Haematopus moquini has gone from "Near Threatened" to "Least Concern" on the Red Data List

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The Wildlife News – Renovation
Dear Subscribers, Recently, Ralph Maughan, the founder of The Wildlife News, has turned over operations to myself and The Wildlife News will be supported and...

New stamps give Canadians a close-up look at the country’...
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Africa: Reptiles in South Africa Are Under Threat - but T...
[The Conversation Africa] Media reports about the biodiversity crisis and what researchers have argued qualifies as a mass extinction event tend to focus on ...

East Africa: Seychelles' Aldabra Atoll Officially Designa...
[Seychelles News Agency] Aldabra Atoll has officially been designated as an Important Shark and Ray Area (ISRA) by the International Union for Conservation o...

Nigeria: Bauchi Fights Quelea Birds, Allots N45m for Pest...
[Daily Trust] Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State has flagged off quelea birds spray at the Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa international airport Bauchi as par...

Kenya: Stray Buffalo Kills Man Aged 60 in Voi Town
[Capital FM] Voi -- A 60-year-old man with hearing impairment has died following an attack by a stray buffalo in Voi town.

Zimbabwe: No Compensation for Human-Wildlife Conflict Vic...
[New Zimbabwe] Almost two years after Cabinet discussed the establishment of a Human-Wildlife Conflict Fund (HWCRF), affected people in communities continue ...