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Indigenous people, not environmentalists, are the key to protecting the world’s most precious ecosystems. Click on the link to read the full article. 

14 million-hectare expansion will help land, communities, and culture. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

Two scientists say marine preserves should be designed with enough flexibility to extend protections to where animals migrate. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

Organisms may be directly affected by anthropogenic sound in many ways, including interference with their ability to detect mates, predators, or food...Click on the link below to access the full paper. 

The Gulf Stream, which curves along the southern shore of Newfoundland, is saturated with plastics. Fish that feed from the surface waters, where plastics tend to accumulate, are in an ideal position to ingest plastics. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

On Monday, Starbucks announced it would be joining the bevy of fast food eateries that have pledged to be more environmentally friendly. Click on the link below to read the full article.

By eating seabirds, the rodents weaken the flow of nutrients into the oceans, endangering coral reefs and the fish that live there. Click on the link to read the full article.

Niue Tourism chief executive Felicity Bollen said the country had set aside the next 12 months to wean itself off the habit of a lifetime. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

Olive Andrews is a marine program manager for Conservation International, where she works with Pacific Island nations to protect the ocean...Click on the link below to read the full article. 

On the second day of the 22nd Meeting of the CBD SBSTTA... the ASEAN Member States (AMS), through Myanmar, joined other Parties in recognising the importance of other effective area-based conservation measures (OECMs) in sustaining protected areas...