Indonesian proposal could redefine palm oil-driven deforestation as reforestation
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Jan 6, 2022, 3:28 pm By MongabayIn 2008, researcher Renato Salvatteci and colleagues boarded an expedition vessel and set sail for…Indigenous food systems can provide game-changing solutions for humankind (commentary)
Jan 6, 2022, 2:00 pm By MongabayHumanity has developed incredible technologies and processes to produce enough food on the planet to…Indonesia’s Womangrove collective reclaims the coast from shrimp farms
Jan 6, 2022, 8:20 am By MongabayTANAKEKE ISLANDS, Indonesia — Wading through a mangrove swamp in the coastal waters of…‘Great Blue Wall’ aims to ward off looming threats to western Indian Ocean
Jan 6, 2022, 3:26 am By MongabayTen countries in the western Indian Ocean are banding together to create a network of marine…Podcast: Exploring New Guinea’s extraordinary natural and cultural richness
Jan 5, 2022, 4:04 pm By MongabayIt’s difficult to overstate the enormity of biodiversity on the island of New Guinea. It…In Madagascar, beekeepers persist in the face of fires and forest loss
Jan 5, 2022, 1:40 pm By MongabayANJOZOROBE ANGAVO, Madagascar — Requiring a turbulent two-hour car ride followed by a two-hour…Josefina Tunki: ‘If we have to die in defense of the land, we have to die’
Jan 5, 2022, 7:39 am By MongabayJosefina Tunki is a mother, even though she doesn’t have any biological children. In 2019, she…Across Latin America, palm oil violations abound — with little accountability
Jan 5, 2022, 6:55 am By MongabayPalm oil producers across several Latin American countries have been the subject of complaints about…For species on the very brink of extinction, cloning is a loaded last resort
Jan 5, 2022, 5:10 am By MongabayFor many people, extinction is a term that refers to the past. It’s meant for dinosaurs, woolly…Light-fingered monkeys threaten critically endangered Príncipe thrush
Jan 5, 2022, 2:02 am By MongabayConservationists using camera traps have obtained evidence that shows mona monkeys on the island of…In the Brazilian Amazon, solar energy brings light — and new opportunities
Jan 4, 2022, 2:30 pm By MongabaySANTA HELENA DO INGLÊS, Brazil — In a small clearing at the edge of the rainforest, two rows of…In Indonesia’s Sulawesi, a community works to defuse blast-fishing crisis
Jan 4, 2022, 9:42 am By MongabayBOMBANA, Indonesia — Syukur Dullah grew up surrounded by a fringe of intact reefs off Lora, before…Community control of forests hasn’t slowed deforestation, Indonesia study finds
Jan 4, 2022, 9:09 am By MongabayJAKARTA — A “social forestry” program administered by the Indonesian government to grant land…More Zoom, less climate gloom as conferences move online, study finds
Jan 4, 2022, 8:04 am By MongabayThe COVID-19 pandemic has impacted many aspects of everyday life, including the way we work. Now,…As temperatures rise, so does risk of kidney disease, study finds
Jan 4, 2022, 7:23 am By MongabayThe impacts of burning fossil fuels are not only being felt in the environment, but are also…Farmers in Brazil’s Cerrado cotton on to the benefits of agroecology
Jan 4, 2022, 3:19 am By Mongabay“I was born in the country, at home — not in a hospital,” Gaspar Gonçalves do Amaral says…Rainforests in 2022: A look at the year ahead
Jan 3, 2022, 7:04 pm By MongabayBetween rising deforestation in the Amazon, new financial and political commitments to reduce…Mongabay’s What-To-Watch list for January 2022
Jan 3, 2022, 11:00 am By MongabayThrough a series of five short animated videos, Mongabay explored the various issues and layers…Groups welcome decline in deforestation in Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem
Jan 3, 2022, 4:17 am By MongabayJAKARTA — Deforestation inside Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem, home to some of the rarest species…
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