Madagascar gemstone rush puts a wetland and its community under pressure
Dec 14, 2021, 10:09 am By MongabayANDILANA AVARATRA, Madagascar — “With a little luck, you can find a stone as big as your fist…First Nations unite to fight industrial exploitation of Australia’s Martuwarra
Dec 14, 2021, 10:00 am By MongabayWEST KIMBERLEY, Australia — November marks the end of the dry season in the Kimberley, the…In Latin America, the law is ‘a tool to silence’ environmental defenders
Dec 14, 2021, 5:24 am By MongabayWbeimar Cetina says he remembers with chilling clarity the 14 months he spent in jail in Arauca,…China’s pivot from funding coal plants to gasification slammed as more of the same
Dec 14, 2021, 5:19 am By MongabayWhen China announced, in late September, that it would stop financing the construction of new coal…Carbon and communities: The future of the Congo Basin peatlands
Dec 14, 2021, 1:02 am By MongabayThis is the fourth article in our four-part series “The Congo Basin peatlands.” Read Part One,…‘Cooling the climate for 10,000 years’: How saving wetlands can help save the world
Dec 13, 2021, 9:22 pm By MongabayBuffeted by the Atlantic Ocean on one side and the Pacific on the other, the Mitre Peninsula, at the…Camera trap study shows conservation efforts ‘are working’ on Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula
Dec 13, 2021, 5:51 pm By MongabayAfter she collected a set of camera traps from the ridgeline above Corcovado National Park,…Climate change agricultural impacts to heighten inequality: Study
Dec 13, 2021, 2:57 pm By MongabayDramatic changes in crop productivity will be felt globally in the next 10 years — a decade…Mongabay Explains: Do carbon offset markets really work?
Dec 13, 2021, 10:28 am By MongabayThousands of companies around the world have made pledges to reduce carbon emissions in the coming…For Mekong officials fighting timber traffickers, a chance to level up
Dec 13, 2021, 10:28 am By MongabayThe trafficking of illicit timber has hit the forested, tropical countries around the Mekong River…In Colombia, threatened women of the Wayuú community continue to fight rampant mining
Dec 13, 2021, 7:39 am By MongabayThis story was written in partnership with Mongabay Latam and Rutas del Conflicto. Leaving the…Conservation and food production must work in tandem, new study says
Dec 13, 2021, 7:20 am By MongabayStrictly protecting 30% of Earth’s land and sea by 2030 would contribute to food shortages and…Uganda’s ‘Dr. Gladys’ honored by U.N. for work linking conservation and health
Dec 13, 2021, 5:19 am By MongabayYears before the obsession with wild-borne pathogens latching onto humans gripped the world, Gladys…Boosting human and machine expertise with conservation tech: Q&A with Sara Beery
Dec 13, 2021, 5:04 am By MongabaySome people know that they want to be scientists from an early age. Not so with Sara Beery. The…Papua court ruling a win for local government, Indigenous groups against palm oil
Dec 13, 2021, 3:14 am By MongabayJAKARTA — A court in Indonesia has rejected a bid by two palm oil companies to have their permits…An Indigenous community in India’s Meghalaya state offers lessons in climate resilience
Dec 12, 2021, 11:00 pm By MongabayIn the village of Nongtraw in India’s northeastern state of Meghalaya, one of the world’s…Climate efforts won’t succeed without secure community rights, says Nonette Royo
Dec 12, 2021, 7:50 pm By MongabayResearch published in recent years has shown that Indigenous territories have experienced…Mongabay reporter sued in what appears to be a pattern of legal intimidation by Peruvian cacao company
Dec 10, 2021, 4:36 pm By MongabayIn November 2020, Peruvian cacao company Tamshi filed a lawsuit against Mongabay Latam staff…Indigenous communities in South Africa sue, protest off-shore oil and gas exploration
Dec 10, 2021, 1:08 pm By MongabayIn one of the largest and most spontaneous protests in post-apartheid South Africa, thousands of…Illegal mangrove logging surges in Indonesia amid economic hardship
Dec 10, 2021, 10:27 am By MongabayBATAM, Indonesia — Indonesian officials in Sumatra’s Riau Islands province have reported a 280%…
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