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Peru has classified wildlife trafficking as an organised crime, but challenges remain in protecting species caught up in the trade

From European cruises along the Danube, Rhine and Rhône, to adventurous explorations of the Nile, Mekong and Amazon, these are the best river cruises around the world.

A group of researchers from more than a dozen countries are calling for worldwide peatland protection and restoration. In a signed statement released Dec. 1, more than 40 scientists say the global importance of peatlands must be addressed. These swampy, waterlogged depressions haven’t yet figured into discussions around tackling the world’s most pressing environmental crises, […]

Moviegoers flocked to Lynwood Theatre for two sold-out screenings of the documentary “Wildcat” Nov. 10-11 based on the real-life story about Samantha Zwicker, a Bainbridge Island ecologist, and Harry Turner, a British war veteran who raise an orphaned ocelot and eventually reintroduce it into the jungle.

LONDON (1 December 2022) — The Jan/Feb issue of National Geographic Traveller (UK) is out now. The cover story this issue focuses on the wild side of Ne...

Josefa Mería has lived in the Peruvian city of Moyobamba, where the Andes meet the Amazon rainforest, for more than 30 years. Even in this humid tropical climate, she remembers when some 20 years ago there was such little water that services to the city were frequently cut off, angering the entire city. “There was […]

Thousands of teachers, students, children and families in the Yarinacocha district of Ucayali are being trained to operate an innovative aquaponics system recently i...

It seeks to promote food security, sustainable livelihoods and protect biodiversity.

This year’s Amazon fire season was milder than the previous two years, but there were still nearly 1,000 major fires, many of them in recently cleared areas in the Brazilian Amazon, highlighting a key link between deforestation and fires. Using ground and atmospheric data, the Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project (MAAP) documented 983 major […]

Saving the Amazon: The story of the indigenous women fighting climate change