Notable deaths in conservation in 2020
Dec 28, 2020, 3:04 am By MongabayIt is impossible to capture all of 2020’s losses between the global pandemic, the impacts of…Nature drone photos: 2020 highlights (Insider)
Dec 24, 2020, 11:50 pm By MongabayZacambu river and an oxbow lake in the Peruvian Amazon Waves breaking on a beach in California.…Vaccinations may be vital for saving Amur tigers from virus outbreaks (commentary)
Dec 24, 2020, 8:46 am By MongabayWhile the world focuses on the development of new vaccines against COVID-19, biologists are building…Analysis: How Vietnam came to embrace a new vision of the Mekong Delta’s future
Dec 24, 2020, 2:44 am By MongabayOn any list of places menaced by climate change, Vietnam’s broad and fertile Mekong Delta ranks…In Madagascar’s hungry south, drought pushes more than 1 million to brink of famine
Dec 24, 2020, 1:11 am By MongabayAid agencies amass nutrition data diligently from the scorched south of Madagascar. But on the…Podcast: New innovations to clean up the impacts of mining
Dec 23, 2020, 1:56 pm By MongabayToday we have two stories about the impacts of mining and some of the new and innovative ways…‘Devastating’ fires engulf Brazilian Pantanal wetlands – again
Dec 23, 2020, 1:05 pm By MongabayUnder the thick blanket of smoke, relentless flames spread with dizzying speed over swaths of…Colombia’s forests lurch between deforestation and the hope for a sustainable future
Dec 23, 2020, 10:18 am By Mongabay“This is a country that has a forestry vocation,” says José Miguel Orozco, professor of forest…Traditional and Indigenous peoples ‘denounce’ planned Amazon railway
Dec 23, 2020, 8:20 am By MongabayThe 2019 signing of a memorandum of agreement between Pará Governor Helder Barbalho and a…Human rights-based conservation is key to protecting biodiversity: Study
Dec 23, 2020, 4:18 am By MongabayThe world is facing an ongoing sixth mass extinction. To curb this human-caused loss of global…Pollution, water cuts strengthen calls for environmental law reform in Malaysia
Dec 23, 2020, 2:56 am By MongabayIn September 2020, more than a million households in Malaysia’s densely populated Klang Valley…Being realistic about coal mine rehabilitation in Indonesia: An ecological perspective
Dec 23, 2020, 2:36 am By MongabaySitting cross-legged on a rough, wood plank floor, Jaidun is clad in the light-blue, button-up shirt…Soy moratorium averted New Jersey-size loss of Amazon rainforest: Study
Dec 23, 2020, 1:14 am By MongabayThe advent of the Amazon soy moratorium in 2006 seemed to usher in a new era of hope for ending…Songbird trade in Indonesia threatens wild Sunda laughingthrush
Dec 22, 2020, 5:33 pm By MongabayJAKARTA — The songbird trade in Indonesia has battered the wild population of the Sunda…Ribeirinhos win right to waterside Amazon homeland lost to Belo Monte dam
Dec 22, 2020, 8:11 am By MongabayThe Pimental dam and reservoir, part of the Belo Monte hydroelectric project. Belo Monte’s…Critical temperature threshold spells shorter lives for tropical trees
Dec 22, 2020, 7:39 am By MongabayTropical trees have shorter life spans than trees in other parts of the world, living, for example,…Liberia gave villagers control over their forests. Then a mining company showed up
Dec 22, 2020, 5:20 am By MongabayLiberia’s Nimba county lies about an eight-hour drive north of the capital, Monrovia. In the dry…Why do Eurasian badgers live with foxes? Candid Animal Cam spots badgers
Dec 22, 2020, 1:42 am By MongabayCamera traps bring you closer to the secretive natural world and are an important conservation tool…Top 10 environmental news stories of 2020
Dec 21, 2020, 7:42 pm By Mongabay2020 is a year that many people would like to forget. Here’s a look at 10 of the biggest…A Madagascar forest long protected by its remoteness is now threatened by it
Dec 21, 2020, 3:55 pm By MongabayThe mountainous forests of northern Madagascar are biodiverse beyond measure, containing plant and…
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