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Surge in legal land clearing pushes up Indonesia deforestation rate in 2024
Indonesia’s deforestation is once again rising after several years of decline, with 2024 marking the highest rate since 2021.
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In Nepal’s Chitwan, elephant’s shooting, death raises eyebrows
On the morning of Jan. 5, a soldier deployed at the Chitwan National Park shot a wild elephant (Elephas maximus) after it ...
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Tourists are back at this Instaworthy Philippine town, but can its sewage system keep up?
The Philippines’ western island province of Palawan tops tourists’ bucket lists for its picturesque main destination, El Nido ...
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Kenya revives poisoning campaign to curb invasive Indian house crows
NAIROBI ― Introduced to East Africa in 1891, in Zanzibar, to deal with domestic food waste, Indian house crows are now ...
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Indonesia targets 2.3m hectares of protected forests for food & biofuel crop production
The Indonesian government is targeting protected forest areas as part of its plan to convert 20 million hectares (50 million ...
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Oaxaca Indigenous leader’s killing leaves land defenders’ safety in doubt
Ayuuk leader Arnoldo Nicolás Romero, a municipal commissioner of the Buena Vista ejido in San Juan Guichicovi, a town and ...
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How illicit mining fuels violence in eastern DRC: Interview with Jean-Pierre Okenda
On Jan. 28, the Rwanda-backed rebel group M23 captured Goma, capital city of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s mineral-rich North Kivu province. The fall of Goma marks a shocking chapter in a ...