‘The last frontier’: how red globules of nickel ore are suffocating an island’s precious wilderness

In the race to meet the demands of the energy transition, biodiversity hotspots such as Palawan in the Philippines are being increasingly mined for critical elements

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Peru accused of violating human rights after government rejects reserve for uncontacted people

Campaigners shocked after ministers voted against the 1.2m-hectare Yavari Mirim reserve after 20 years of debate

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‘The Dubai of South America’: how the promise of riches from lithium mining turned to dust in Bolivia

Politicians have long promised the critical metal will rescue the economy but Indigenous locals say the push to exploit vast reserves threatens the ecosystem and their livelihoods

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A grizzly bear comeback in California? An old dream gets new legs

A feasibility report using historical maps and ecological data is raising excitement: ‘It would be a slow process’

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World Bank announces multimillion-dollar redress fund after killings and abuse claims at Tanzanian project

Communities in Ruaha national park reject response to alleged assault and evictions of herders during tourism scheme funded by the bank

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Charity faces legal action after relocated elephants in Malawi allegedly kill 10 people

People living near Kasungu national park say they are living in fear after translocation of 263 elephants by International Fund for Animal Welfare

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Dissecting the world’s rarest whale – in pictures

Conservationists and scientists in New Zealand were astonished to find the world’s rarest whale washed ashore in the South Island in July. This month saw the first dissection of a complete specimen

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Stronghold of one of the world's rarest parrots approved for mining 🫤

Thought extinct for almost a century, the Night parrot Pezoporus occidentalis was officially rediscovered in the mid 2000s in Qld, then a larger population was found on the other side of the continent in WA. Now the WA government is developing a potash mine.

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Australia's largest night parrot population may be protected by dingoes, but mining in remote WA habitat planned

Around half of the nation's total known night parrots live in a patch of the Great Sandy Desert in Western Australia. While dingoes appear to protect them, the potential effects of a proposed road are less clear.

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How scientists debunked one of conservation’s most influential statistics

The factoid about biodiversity and Indigenous peoples spread around the world, but scientists say bad data can undermine the very causes it claims to support

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‘We don’t know where the money is going’: the ‘carbon cowboys’ making millions from credit schemes

Carbon schemes are touted as a way to transfer billions in climate finance to the developing world – but people at the Kariba project in Zimbabwe say most of the profits never arrive

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