JAKARTA — Bank of China has promised to evaluate a hydroelectric project it is helping fund in Indonesia, which activists say threatens the only known habitat of the Tapanuli orangutan, the rarest

Politicians in Papua New Guinea have thrown their support behind a plan to power the country’s development through coal.

The government of Botswana is considering measures to rein in its elephant population to address the problem of human-elephant conflicts.

Only 24 species of land snails were previously known from Belize, but a decade-long study that started in 2006 has uncovered 135 more, including 17 that are new to science.

The European Parliament begins debate March 11 on a resolution to consent to the recently signed Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) with Vietnam on the trade of timber and timber products fr

Sri Lanka hosts the latest CITES conference this May, where member states will consider proposals for protections for a wide range of species.

GOMBE, Tanzania — On the eastern shores of Lake Tanganyika, 16 kilometers (10 miles) north of the town of Kigoma in Tanzania, lies the green, dense forest of Gombe National Park.

Staff at Bardia National Park in mid-western Nepal have been looking after a “special guest” for the last eight years.

After six long years, Guyana has signed on to an agreement with the EU that should prove instrumental in securing a profitable position for the small Latin American country in the global legal

Research published in Nature last week finds that “hydraulically diverse” forests are particularly resilient in the face of drought, which could help inform strategies for restoring forests aft