In Rio de Janeiro, a forest slowly returns to life, one species at a time
Mar 21, 2022, 8:50 pm By“Without the fruit of the juçara palm to eat Without a strong branch to perch on Without an…Brazil’s ecosystem of crime in the Amazon (commentary)
Mar 21, 2022, 8:30 pm ByIt’s a long way from Kyiv to Itaituba, but Brazil’s busy wildcat gold prospectors don’t need a…Pharmaceutical water pollution detected deep in the Brazilian Amazon
Mar 21, 2022, 6:16 pm ByMany of us imagine the Brazilian Amazon to be pristine. But evidence of humanity’s modern…Fourth round of U.N. talks fail to finalize a treaty to manage the high seas
Mar 21, 2022, 1:31 pm ByU.N. member states failed on March 18 to finalize a legally binding tool to sustainably manage the…‘Studying a ghost’: In Cape Town, urban caracals give researchers lots to ponder
Mar 21, 2022, 12:48 pm ByEven in the isolated, scrubby plains of the savanna, spotting the black ear tufts of a caracal…Researchers turn to drones for that big-picture view of the forest canopy
Mar 21, 2022, 11:44 am ByTropical forests across the world are hurting. Climate change is intensifying drought and wildfires…2021 Amazon deforestation map shows devastating impact of ranching, agriculture
Mar 21, 2022, 9:15 am ByThe Amazon lost millions of hectares of primary forest in 2021, mostly as the result of cattle…Poor waste management turns dump sites into death traps for Sri Lanka’s elephants
Mar 20, 2022, 5:47 am ByCOLOMBO — It took a tweet from Hollywood superstar Leonardo DiCaprio to bring the issue of…Indigenous communities in Ecuador struggle with the aftermath of another oil spill
11:00pm ByQUITO, Ecuador — On Jan. 28, 2022, Ecuador’s Heavy Crude Oil Pipeline (known by its Spanish…World’s biggest tropical crop bank opens in Colombia, taking food research high tech
4:34pm ByAs more people are born onto this great green planet, the demand for food grows. Feeding the nearly…Probe finds palm oil firm illegally clearing forest in Sumatra wildlife haven
3:35pm ByJAKARTA — A palm oil company responsible for clear-cutting forests in an Indonesian ecosystem…‘We have a full pharmacopoeia of plants’: Q&A with Māori researcher Nicola Macdonald
12:00pm ByAt low tide, on many a craggy corner of Aotearoa New Zealand’s coastline, you can find clusters of…Road project threatens to derail Nepal’s conservation gains, study says
10:20am ByKATHMANDU — Nepal entered 2022 with encouraging news related to its tiger population. As a census…Sloth, giant armadillo, and fishing cat conservationists win Future for Nature Award 2022
12:43am ByThree people known for their work with sloths, fishing cats and giant armadillos were announced this…In Puerto Rico, a marathon effort builds to restore mangroves and dunes
Thu 4:43pm ByIn 2017, Hurricane Maria, a Category 5 storm, struck Puerto Rico. The hurricane dried up four basin…Fate of Indonesian rainforest the size of Belgium hangs in the balance (commentary)
Thu 2:15pm ByIn November 2018, Earthsight published an in-depth investigation in collaboration with Mongabay into…Can a reforestation project stop land grabs? Villagers in the DRC give it a try
Thu 1:55pm ByKINANDU, Democratic Republic of the Congo – A small group of residents from Kinandu village, 19…New law would tie U.S. conservation funding to human rights protection
Thu 1:39pm ByLawmakers from the U.S. House of Representatives have introduced a bill that, if passed, would…Pandemic hit the pause button on the discoveries of new species
Mar 16, 2022, 8:02 pm ByIn November 2011, when a pregnant beaked whale drifted ashore on New Zealand’s Waiatoto Spit,…Podcast: Tree kangaroos may be key to New Guinea forest conservation
Mar 16, 2022, 5:11 pm ByThe fifth episode in the New Guinea series of Mongabay Explores looks at the various tree kangaroo…
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