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Field Notes

In-depth status reports on specific places — the species, ecosystems, and pressures converging on one piece of land or sea at the same time. Ten locations are planned; each is published only once it clears our editorial review.

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Southeast Asia

Borneo

Orangutans, pygmy elephants and a rhino now extinct in the wild.

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South America

Amazonas

Jaguar, deforestation frontiers, and Indigenous territories.

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Central Africa

Congo Basin

Lowland gorillas, forest elephants, and conflict minerals.

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Arctic

Svalbard

Record warming, recovering walrus, and thriving reindeer.

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Australia

Great Barrier Reef

Back-to-back mass bleaching and record coral cover decline.

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East Africa

Serengeti–Mara

A major migration count revision, and fencing that's cutting off the Mara.

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Indian Ocean

Madagascar

The world's most endangered mammal group, and enforcement that's working.

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Southeast Asia

Sumatra

A cyclone killed 7% of the world's rarest great ape.

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South America

Pantanal

The world's largest wetland, jaguars, and worsening wildfires.

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South Asia

Western Ghats

A biodiversity hotspot, a real tahr recovery, and a stalled 14-year regulation.