3+ week, 4+ day ago   (1966+ words) “Sometimes people get upset with me and say ‘They’re still around,’ but I want people to stop and think,” Raggett says. “During the next three months of my treatment … during my radiotherapy, I would work on the elephant book in…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (1791+ words) Russell Mittermeier has a running joke about Bill Konstant. The two have worked together, off and on, for more than four decades, and Mittermeier writes in the foreword to Wrestles With Wolves that Konstant seems to have a tolerance of…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (602+ words) But there is a weakness in this logic that we rarely confront directly. Focusing conservation investment exclusively on protected area protection, while ignoring the organized crime infrastructure surrounding it, is a little like trying to stop drug use in a…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (436+ words) A park on paper can still burn. It can still be poached, logged, ignored, or resented. The work requires science, salaries, political agreements, national investment, school programs, local trust, and daily maintenance. It requires people who remain after the first…...

6+ day, 16+ hour ago   (1099+ words) intact floodplains and swamps. These create suitable habitat for wildlife, including savanna elephants (Loxodonta...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (564+ words) Deep within Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem, one of the most important peat swamp forests left on Earth is being cleared, drained, and burned. The Singkil peat swamp is the largest of three remaining coastal peat swamp forests on Sumatra’s west coast,…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (481+ words) and killed an estimated 58 Tapanuli orangutans. Habitat destruction for small-scale agriculture and logging...“Successes like this can only continue if their habitat remains protected.” Female orangutans breed only...than half of a 300-hectare (740-acre) orangutan habitat restoration effort in Indonesia’s West…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (351+ words) of Mount Anak Krakatau near their last remaining habitat, conservation authorities said. “The Javan rhinos...particularly vulnerable to threats in a single habitat. Since 2011, official counts had shown the population...lost most of its historical range to hunting and habitat…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (844+ words) Many raptor species, such as ospreys, return to the same wintering site year after year. “They are literally faithful to the same tree, whether it’s in Ghana, whether it’s in Guinea, or whether it’s in Gambia,” Mackrill said. Millions of…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (492+ words) these projects successfully blend ecological restoration with public engagement, their impact is usually...