For forest communities without a legal footing, new guideline is a starting template
Jun 10, 2020, 1:43 am By MongabayForest communities around the world struggling to achieve the legal recognition that would give them…Indonesia’s lobster export safeguards won’t end smuggling, scientists warn
Jun 10, 2020, 1:41 am By MongabayJAKARTA — Scientists and conservationists are calling for more stringent control and monitoring of…Report names the banks financing destructive oil projects in the Amazon
Jun 9, 2020, 5:23 pm By MongabayFive of the biggest financial institutions in the world invested a combined $6 billion in oil…Less than a thousand remain: New list of animals on the brink of extinction
Jun 9, 2020, 2:43 pm By MongabayThe giant panda, tiny tamaraw buffalo, riverine rabbit and Iberian lynx all have something in…Overlap of fire, COVID-19 peaks: A ‘catastrophe’ for Brazil’s Amazon
Jun 9, 2020, 2:30 pm By MongabayResearchers have detected the “first major fire of 2020” in the Brazilian Amazon three months…‘Every time an elder dies, a library is burnt’: Amazon COVID-19 toll grows
Jun 9, 2020, 12:03 pm By MongabayMunduruku indigenous elder Acelino Dace died of COVID-19 at age 77 on 3 June. Image courtesy of El…Grasslands claim their ground in Madagascar
Jun 9, 2020, 7:30 am By MongabayMadagascar is often called the “red island” because of its iron-rich soils. In school, Malagasy…What is an American alligator? Candid Animal Cam goes to North America
Jun 9, 2020, 5:13 am By MongabayCamera traps bring you closer to the secretive natural world and are an important conservation tool…Scientists agree on the need to protect of 30% of the sea. But which 30%?
Jun 8, 2020, 3:43 pm By MongabaySail 200 nautical miles, or 370 kilometers, from any coastline, and you’ll enter a region called…In lockdown’s calm, glossy ibis finds prime nesting conditions in Sri Lanka
Jun 8, 2020, 2:02 pm By MongabayBUNDALA, Sri Lanka – The glossy ibis (Plegadis falcinellus) is a fairly rare but regular winter…‘I’ll never be ready for this port,’ locals say of Colombia’s proposed project
Jun 8, 2020, 12:03 pm By MongabayTRIBUGÁ, Colombia — Aida Leides Palacios Moreno strolls through the narrow dirt streets in the…Climate conundrum: Could COVID-19 be linked to early Arctic ice melt?
Jun 8, 2020, 10:23 am By MongabayAs the pandemic deepened in mid-May, masked participants boarded the German research vessels Maria…Caught on camera: Rare finless porpoises sighted in Hong Kong waters
Jun 8, 2020, 7:42 am By MongabayTwo silvery-white porpoises glide through the ocean, captured in the lens of a drone camera. The…Lockdown allowed illegal fishing to spike in Philippines, satellite data suggest
9:00pm By MongabayMANILA — Illegal fishing appeared to spike during the Philippines’ lockdown period as commercial…Our most-read conservation news stories in May 2020
12:45pm By MongabayMongabay produced a record number of stories and continued to see strong readership during May. Our…In Hawai’i, researchers work to slow the rapid death of a beloved tree
Jun 5, 2020, 5:48 pm By MongabayHawaiian myth says that ‘ōhi‘a lehua trees were created by Pele, the goddess of fire and…Conservation insights from an enormous aspen clone: Q&A with ecologist Paul Rogers
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Jun 5, 2020, 1:13 pm By MongabayTen days after showing his first symptoms, Dannes Piaguaje struggled to breathe as he leaned over a…Baby humpback whales bulk up in Hawaii ahead of migration [VIDEO]
Jun 5, 2020, 12:29 pm By MongabayNewly released video footage gives us a glimpse of a rarely seen behavior: baby humpback whales…Mystery ailments, asymptomatic individuals: Spotlight on monkeypox in chimps
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