One of the priority areas is along the BR-319 highway, where experts warn deforestation may increase fourfold under another ...

In the Orinoco River Basin spanning Venezuela and Colombia, biodiversity and agriculture are at odds. Cattle ranching is one ...

EL VENADO, Colombia – Until recently, the rolling green hills surrounding the tiny Colombian community of El Venado were ...

In a landmark ruling in May 2017, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights affirmed the Indigenous Ogiek’s status as ...

Spanning nearly a tenth of the vast Congo Basin’s rainforest, the transboundary Dja-Odzala-Minkébé (TRIDOM) landscape is a ...

There have been three major sources of Brazilian immigrants in the twentieth century: the Northeast, where emigration offers ...

In the late 1990s, swordfish had been so overfished in the North Atlantic Ocean that its population faced the possibility of ...

A critical legal case filed by four East African NGOs against a controversial oil pipeline is facing yet another delay, but the NGOs say they remain hopeful. “What we need is for the court to hear the ...

Authorities in Nepal say they’ll continue a translocation program to even out the distribution of rhinos in the popular ...

Scientists agree that the biodiversity crisis we face today may be one of the most disruptive events in Earth’s history. The response so far has been for hundreds of billions in government and ...

Encompassing some 2,700 square kilometers, Mau Forest is considered the most important water catchment in western Kenya, ...

Bissau’s fringing shoreline along West Africa’s Atlantic coast, a protective green halo along the many bays and estuaries.