Singapore's 'western island' plan could bury most of its remaining coral reefs
Conservationists say the land reclamation project threatens breeding coral colonies and the fishing grounds of the Indigenous Orang Laut.
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Nature & Biodiversity
Ecosystems, species protection, forests and water.
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The climate crisis and biodiversity loss are two faces of one problem: in a warming world species shift, ecosystems lose their capacity to store carbon, and forest loss accelerates the warming in turn. This section covers forests and water, whether protected areas actually protect, long-term monitoring of species populations, and the law meant to hold it all together.
UN says forest restoration pledges far outpace work on the ground
Barely a fifth of the more than 1 billion hectares promised for restoration is actually being restored, a new report finds.
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Coral reefs are running out of time to recover between heat waves, global assessment finds
Bleaching events now arrive every four to six years, and scientists warn the strengthening El Niño could bring another.
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Brazil creates four Amazon reserves as plans to pave the BR-319 highway move ahead
The reserves protect more than 668,000 hectares of rainforest, but experts warn that enforcement along the road remains weak.
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Virus kills sardines along 2,600 km of African coast, raising fears for endangered penguins
Scientists want commercial sardine fishing paused, but South Africa's task team has held off, as the industry warns a closure would cost 1.2 billion rand.
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Anthrax suspected in deaths of 46 hippos in Zambia as human cases are investigated
Authorities have confirmed the disease in one hippo and one person so far, and are urging residents not to handle or eat meat from animals found dead.
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Fires in Indonesian Borneo leave critically endangered orangutans with nowhere to flee
Blazes fueled by a strong El Niño have burned thousands of hectares in and around Gunung Palung National Park, killing one orangutan and forcing dozens more from the forest.
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Why do people poach? A Zambia prison survey finds opportunity, not greed, drives most wildlife crime
A survey of 302 Zambian prison inmates finds most turned to poaching out of opportunity or hardship, not organized greed, challenging standard assumptions about wildlife crime.
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Living inside a Vietnamese biodiversity corridor comes with a real income boost, study finds
Households inside two protected wildlife corridors in Vietnam's Annamite mountains earned about 25% more than their neighbors outside, largely thanks to conservation payments and ecotourism jobs.
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A Maine dam removal aims to give endangered Atlantic salmon a path home
The Cherryfield ice-control dam on the Narraguagus River has been replaced with a nature-like fishway, part of a $9.1 million project meant to help one of the last wild Atlantic salmon runs in the United States.
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A mining boom is closing in on the world's rarest great ape
A Mongabay investigation finds gold mine expansion, cyclone damage, and rising fire risk squeezing the last stronghold of the Tapanuli orangutan, with no coordinated recovery plan in place.
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Endangered Irrawaddy dolphins show signs of a cautious comeback in the Mekong
Six new calves born this year lifted Cambodia's critically endangered Irrawaddy dolphin population to 118, a rare bright spot after decades of decline driven mainly by illegal fishing gear.
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