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BOLIVIA - Matilde Noza says she has never chewed a coca leaf. Noza, an indigenous woman, lives in the Nueva Galilea community of the Isiboro S?cure National Park and Indigenous Territory, better known by its Spanish acronym, TIPNIS. She respects the coca plant ...

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INDONESIA - The developers of a new interactive map hope to shine a light on deforestation in Indonesia?s easternmost region of Papua, where industrial-scale agriculture threatens one of the world?s last great expanses of untouched tropical forest. ...

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CAMBODIA - Cambodia has asked Interpol to investigate Vietnam after accusing its neighbor of knowingly accepting fraudulent permits for rare, illegally logged rosewood timber for transport across their shared border. ...

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Earlier this week, the United Nations? Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued their sixth climate report since 1990, presenting a sobering assessment of how the world will respond if greenhouse gas emissions continue at their current ...

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CHINA - Leaders from 17 countries, including China and India, have joined a new initiative aimed at helping vulnerable nations deal with the fallout from climate change. ...

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ECUADOR - A group of climate advocates released detailed findings today, saying that significant climate change mitigation can be achieved via a heavy emphasis on the land sector, and without reliance on costly or largely untested technologies such as bioenerg ...

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UGANDA - On September 28, 2018, Ugandan President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni passed out 487 ranger recruits at Paraa Training Wing in Murchison Falls National Park. The African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) has been working with the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) on ...

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BRAZIL - Brazil?s presidential election has created virulent polarization in the country with consequences for the Amazon. Right-wing candidate Jair Bolsonaro won the first round of the election on October 8 with 46 percent of the valid votes, and polls show ...

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BRAZIL - The fires closing in on Erika Berenguer?s research site in Brazil?s eastern Amazon were unlike anything she had seen in years working in the forest. Smoke hung heavy the air. ...

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NICARAGUA - The first time I heard about illegal wildlife trade, my brain could only focus on poaching. People taking precious animals and plants from nature to butcher them, eat them or sell them in local or international markets. But one day, during the first ...