Conservation International announced today that they will be hosting a live chat session with Mike Hoffman, a mammalogist at the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The live chat will discuss issues of primates in peril. Here are some details from Conservation International…...

Here are some of this week’s environmental news headlines… New Group of Endangered Lemurs Found in Madagascar Researchers in Madagascar have confirmed the existence of a population of greater bamboo lemurs more than 400 kilometers (240 miles) from the only other place where the Criticall...

“Four southern African countries have been approved to sell a total of 108 metric tonnes of government owned elephant ivory as a one-time exception to the international moratorium on ivory sales that has been in place since 1989 to protect these endangered animals from poachers.” ~ ENS K...

Bringing you into the debate, and the solutions… Although Protecting Our Environment has certain stances on many issues, we also strongly believe that there any many possible solutions or opinions that can benefit any problem. That’s why we have created this new component to our site....

SANTIAGO, Chile, July 1, 2008 (ENS) - The International Whaling Commission wound up its annual meeting here Friday without achieving new protections for whales or resolving the deep rifts that divide the member governments into pro-whaling and pro-conservation factions. The meeting centered on the f...

NAIROBI, Kenya, June 26, 2008 (ENS) - Kenya’s Tana River Delta, inhabited by 350 species of birds, lions, elephants, rare sharks and reptiles, is about to be converted to sugar cane production over the objections of conservationists and local communities. Kenya’s National Environment Man...

SANTIAGO, Chile, June 24, 2008 (ENS) - With whaling nations and their allies on one side and pro-conservation nations on the other, annual meetings of the International Whaling Commission have been increasingly gridlocked and acrimonious. But today at the 60th annual IWC meeting in Santiago there wa...

WASHINGTON, DC, June 23, 2008 (ENS) - The U.S. Supreme Court today accepted a request by the U.S. Navy that the court review a series of lower court rulings that restrict the Navy’s use of loud sonar blasts in submarine detection training exercises off the coast of Southern California. The Nav...

BOSTON, Massachusetts, June 23, 2008 (ENS) - Many bird species migrating to Massachusetts from points south are arriving earlier each spring as temperatures warm along the east coast of the United States. Some of those species migrate thousands of miles from South America, but a new study shows that...

African Rhino Numbers Rise, Yet One Type Sinks Into Extinction . GLAND, Switzerland, June 17, 2008 (ENS) - Populations of most African rhinos are increasing as a result of conservation efforts, but one sub-species, the Northern white rhino, may already be extinct, the world’s most expert rhino...