Historical analysis: The Amazon’s mineral wealth — curse or blessing?
Dec 21, 2020, 11:29 am By MongabayA 1553 illustration by conquistador Pedro Cieza de León showing the Potosi silver mountain which…Sighting of super rare Chacoan fairy armadillo in Bolivia ‘a dream come true’
Dec 21, 2020, 9:11 am By MongabayThe four-wheel-drive bumped over a rutted road. Rain that began as soon as they left the pavement…Poor governance fuels ‘horrible dynamic’ of deforestation in DRC
Dec 21, 2020, 8:02 am By MongabayThere’s a saying in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) that refers to “Article 15,” a…2020’s top ocean news stories (commentary)
Dec 21, 2020, 3:00 am By Mongabay1. The ocean in a worldwide pandemic As the year that challenged the world with a widespread…Indonesia’s biofuel bid threatens more deforestation for oil palm plantations
Dec 21, 2020, 1:16 am By MongabayJAKARTA — An Indonesian government program to phase out diesel for an alternative made from palm…Peruvian court absolves cacao company of illegal Amazon deforestation
Dec 18, 2020, 4:37 pm By MongabayA local court in Peru today reversed a ruling against employees of a company charged with illegal…Bold sustainability commitments: an interview with Microsoft’s Lucas Joppa
Dec 18, 2020, 10:03 am By MongabayDespite the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 has been the year of the climate commitment, with a number of…Brazilian woman threatened by Amazon loggers wins global human rights award
Dec 18, 2020, 7:20 am By MongabayOsvalinda Alves Pereira and her husband Daniel stand in the doorway of their home in Pará state…In an oil spill’s aftermath in Peru, new voices lead an Indigenous fight for justice
Dec 18, 2020, 5:53 am By MongabayFlor de María Paraná, 47, describes the bleakest moment of her life as the one that made her the…Environmentalists seek to block Bahamas oil drilling bid near U.S. coast
Dec 18, 2020, 4:48 am By MongabayThe entry of STENA ICEMAX, a hulking 750-foot drilling vessel, into Bahamian this week signaled that…Land inequality is worsening and fueling other social ills, report says
Dec 18, 2020, 3:40 am By MongabaySmallholders and family farms, Indigenous people, rural women, youth, and landless rural communities…When invaders moved onto their land, Brazil’s Karipuna people pushed back
Dec 18, 2020, 2:29 am By MongabayThe Karipuna Indigenous Territory in the Brazilian Amazon, home to a tribe that was nearly wiped…Widodo Ramono, the man on a mission to save Sumatran rhinos
Dec 17, 2020, 4:39 pm By MongabayBOGOR, Indonesia — Indonesian biologist Widodo Sukohadi Ramono is one of the longest-standing and…Report: Illegal Russian lumber flooded Europe despite timber laws
Dec 17, 2020, 7:58 am By MongabayTimber linked to one of Russia’s largest illegal logging scandals has entered the E.U. despite…Nazareth Cabrera fights for Colombia’s Indigenous Uitoto with the strength of her words
Dec 17, 2020, 7:30 am By MongabayNazareth Cabrera is like a manicurist, they say. Everything that is bitter, she sweetens and makes…To fund biodiversity conservation, redirect subsidies from these three industries (commentary)
Dec 17, 2020, 5:31 am By MongabayAmid the COVID-19 pandemic, biodiversity conservation funding from tourism and donations has dried…As minister and activists trade barbs, Madagascar’s forests burn
Dec 17, 2020, 4:00 am By MongabayA long and intense fire season is exacting a grim toll across Madagascar. At its onset in May, a…Indonesia allows use of destructive seine and trawl nets in its waters again
Dec 17, 2020, 1:29 am By MongabayJAKARTA — The Indonesian government will reopen some of its waters to fishing with seine and trawl…Report finds litany of labor abuses on RSPO-certified oil palm plantations
Dec 17, 2020, 12:40 am By MongabayJAKARTA — A coalition of NGOs has documented rampant labor abuses in five oil palm plantations in…France’s tropical forest conservation efforts: an interview with AFD’s Gilles Kleitz
Dec 16, 2020, 6:40 pm By MongabaySince hosting the United Nations Climate Change Conference in 2015 which resulted in the Paris…
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