Indonesian pulpwood firms told to protect peat are doing the opposite: Report
Aug 20, 2021, 10:14 am By MongabayJAKARTA — Pulpwood companies obliged to restore the degraded peatlands inside their concessions in…They safeguarded nature, but now Malaysia’s Mah Meri face eviction for an eco-resort
Aug 20, 2021, 9:11 am By MongabayAn Indigenous community in Peninsular Malaysia is fighting an eviction notice that could see it…Deforestation-free supply chains in Vietnam rely on working with small scale farmers (commentary)
Aug 19, 2021, 8:04 pm By MongabayAt a global level, the rate of deforestation is increasing year after year, driven by demand for…End of deforestation tracker for Brazil’s Cerrado an ‘incalculable loss’
Aug 19, 2021, 4:17 pm By MongabayThe Brazilian Cerrado savanna, a global biodiversity hotspot that has already lost half of its area…In saving the ozone layer, we avoided even more intense global warming
Aug 19, 2021, 11:21 am By MongabayAs bad as the climate crisis now unfolding appears to be, things could have been even worse, with…Burning forests to make energy: EU and world wrestle with biomass science
Aug 19, 2021, 10:52 am By MongabayMongabay published an earlier version of this story July 12, 2021. This version of the article…Underwater gardeners restore seagrass meadows to keep oceans healthy
Aug 19, 2021, 10:45 am By MongabayA group of researchers is preparing to dive into the shallow waters of Dale Bay in Wales. They’re…Malaysian timber giant Samling takes conflict over logging activity to court
Aug 19, 2021, 5:33 am By MongabayA Malaysian timber certification authority has halted its review of a conflict between Sarawak…Everything is traceable – unless you don’t want it to be (commentary)
Aug 18, 2021, 5:19 pm By MongabayIn a book published in 2016, Henrik Ringsberg of Chalmers University of Technology, wrote that…As population grows, how will thirsty cities survive their drier futures?
Aug 18, 2021, 1:20 pm By Mongabay“Apocalyptic.” That’s how it felt, says Charlene Pepler of life in Cape Town, South Africa, as…Scientists look to wheatgrass to save dryland farming and capture carbon
Aug 18, 2021, 12:00 pm By MongabayFarming in eastern Wyoming is not for the faint of heart. The semiarid landscape receives…Climate change threatens to squeeze out Indonesia’s medicinal plants
Aug 18, 2021, 11:22 am By MongabayJAKARTA — More than half of Indonesian medicinal plant species won’t be able to grow in most of…An Ecuadoran town that survived illegal miners now faces a licensed operator
Aug 18, 2021, 9:17 am By MongabayIn 2017, the name “La Merced de Buenos Aires,” or simply “Buenos Aires,” became famous…Even as the government bets big on carbon, REDD+ flounders in Madagascar
Aug 18, 2021, 8:38 am By MongabayREDD+ is an idea that has launched a thousand projects. It’s essentially a way to monetize…Weak controls fuel surge in wildlife trafficking by air across Latin America
Aug 18, 2021, 6:57 am By MongabayBrazilian authorities point to Russian biologist Kyrill Kravchenko as an international wildlife…Cambodian dam a ‘disaster’ for local communities, rights group says
Aug 18, 2021, 5:18 am By MongabayThe Lower Sesan 2 hydroelectric scheme was completed in northeast Cambodia in 2018. The reservoir…Trawling bycatch increases risk of marine life extinction in Brazil
Aug 18, 2021, 4:24 am By MongabayFishing trawlers threaten marine life with extinction along Brazil’s coast. Researchers point out…Indigenous Amazonian communities bear the burden of Ecuador’s balsa boom
Aug 17, 2021, 7:25 pm By MongabayThis story is a reporting partnership between Mongabay Latam and La Barra Espaciadora. Balsa wood…A bad fire year predicted in Brazil’s Acre state. What’s to be done?
Aug 17, 2021, 11:49 am By MongabayThe Brazilian state of Acre, nestled along the border with Peru and Bolivia in the Amazon, has been…Brazil a wreck on trawling control
Aug 17, 2021, 11:41 am By MongabayTrawling has been uncontrolled for decades in Brazil, claim public agencies, researchers and…
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