A court in Indonesia has sentenced a man to five years in prison for the killing of a critically endangered Sumatran tiger in September last

Nele Marien is Forests & Biodiversity International Programme Coordinator for Friends of the Earth International. As we celebrate Earth Day – and with the UN COP30

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The government of Laos has for the first time shut down a farm where live bears were harvested for their bile, after convincing the farm’s

Intensifying heat waves, extreme floods and forest fires have devastated parts of Southeast Asia in recent years, spurring experts and authorities to look for holistic

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Brazil designated a refuge twice the size of Manhattan near the Amazonian city of Manaus in June 2024 to protect the pied tamarin, South America’s

Torricelli Mountains, a tiny mountain range in northern Papua New Guinea, is estimated to host roughly 4% of the world’s known species, many found nowhere