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…Indonesia reports two new Javan rhino calves in the species’ last holdout
Aug 17, 2021, 9:31 am By MongabayJAKARTA — Indonesian conservation authorities have announced separate sightings of two new Javan…X-Press Pearl sinking shines a light on seafood safety in Sri Lanka
Aug 17, 2021, 8:52 am By MongabayCOLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sunitha Rathnayake, a homemaker in southern Sri Lanka, was down to the last…In Chile, a prickly coalition tries to bring a salt flat back to life
Aug 17, 2021, 7:22 am By MongabayOver the past 27 years, mining for copper by Minera Escondida, a company co-owned by…Scientists, communities battle against Philippine land reclamation project
Aug 17, 2021, 7:00 am By MongabayDUMAGUETE CITY, Philippines — Local authorities in the central Philippines pushing ahead with a…China joins the foreign fleets quietly exploiting Madagascar’s waters
Aug 16, 2021, 12:38 pm By MongabayThis is part of a two-article series on industrial fishing in Madagascar’s waters. Part one…Plantations and roads strip away Papua’s forests. They’re just getting started
Aug 16, 2021, 9:41 am By MongabayJAKARTA — An area of rainforest nearly five times the size of London has been destroyed in the…Indonesian farmers refuse to budge for train line through karst landscape
Aug 16, 2021, 6:39 am By MongabayMAROS, Indonesia — Santuwo straightens the crease in the sarong that he often wears while working…2015-2016 El Niño caused 2.5 billion trees to die in just 1% of the Amazon
Aug 16, 2021, 6:30 am By MongabayThe great drought and megafires that the Amazon experienced in recent years caused the death of 2.5…Loss of mangroves dims the light on firefly populations in Malaysia
Aug 15, 2021, 9:30 am By MongabayEvery evening, along the banks of the Rembau River in Malaysia, fireflies put on a spectacular…Swarm technology: Researchers experiment with drones to battle crop pests
Aug 13, 2021, 1:06 pm By MongabayIn some places in North America, the sound of buzzing above fields and forests may no longer…In Sri Lanka, biologists and divers build a Facebook for sea turtles
Aug 13, 2021, 11:24 am By MongabayMATARA, Sri Lanka — The Polhena reef and the surrounding shallow seas in southern Sri Lanka are…Amazon forest loss hits second highest level since 2008
Aug 13, 2021, 10:40 am By MongabayDeforestation in the Brazilian Amazon declined slightly over the past twelve months but still…Advocates raise alarm over proposal to reopen DRC forests to loggers
Aug 13, 2021, 10:30 am By MongabaySince 2002, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has had a moratorium on the issuance of new…‘Shared earth’ conservation promises to prioritize nature and people
Aug 13, 2021, 10:22 am By Mongabay“Let me turn on my video,” says David Obura halfway through our Zoom call. He holds up his phone…The Kichwa woman fighting drug traffickers and loggers in the Peruvian Amazon
Aug 13, 2021, 4:59 am By Mongabay“They may kill one, two, three of us, but others will come to defend the forest, they will not…The most widespread pig species on Earth: wild boar | Candid Animal Cam
Aug 13, 2021, 1:15 am By MongabayCamera traps bring you closer to the secretive natural world and are an important conservation tool…
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