One of the main social and economic challenges facing Amazonian countries is inequality.  Although the standard of living of the lower economic strata is better now than at any time in history, tens ...

Conservation groups in Panama are trying to halt the construction of a new port in the Pacific province of Chiriquí that they say could destroy breeding grounds and nurseries for marine species. The ...

It’s been one year after Mexico’s government announced the creation of 20 new protected areas, covering roughly 2.3 million hectares (5.7 million acres). But the country’s environment ministry, ...

Marco Andres Vizcaino Garcia is probably the most qualified naturalist guide a person could hire during their visit to ...

Nestled in the thorny shrubs of the dry forests of Veracruz in the Gulf of Mexico, a small bird lights a spark for a promising future. After flying under scientists’ radar for many years, the Mexican ...

Changing rainfall patterns have led to increasingly frequent flooding in western Uganda’s Kasese district, destroying farmers’ homes and fields. The damage is exacerbated by the loss of tree cover, as ...

Over the course of just eight years, the forests surrounding Indonesia’s Lake Poso, an ecological and evolutionary “gem” on ...

The first biodiversity survey ever conducted in one of northwestern Cambodia’s last forest frontiers has found potentially ...

In September 2024, Vida Livre Institute, a wildlife rescue center, received an unusual call from the Rio de Janeiro Botanical ...

As forests continue to be cleared and forested landscapes degraded by human activity, their loss can significantly affect the ...

Intense protests flared up last December in communities opposed to Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa’s plans to build two ...

In Nagasaki prefecture, on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu, J-Power, the operator of the aging Matsushima coal-fired ...