With new law, Indonesia gives miners more power and fewer obligations
May 13, 2020, 9:34 am By MongabayJAKARTA — Indonesia’s parliament has passed a controversial bill that effectively gives miners…Will fish boom amid pandemic-driven fishing bust?
May 13, 2020, 7:00 am By MongabayWhen World War II broke out in 1939, it triggered an unintended fisheries experiment in the North…Bats: Resistant to viruses, but not to humans
May 13, 2020, 6:06 am By MongabayThe inhabitants of Culden village in northern Peru heard that the virus that causes COVID-19, the…Philippines bids farewell to satellite that launched enviro policy into the space age
May 12, 2020, 9:58 pm By MongabayMANILA — When reports came out that the microsatellite Diwata-1 of the Philippines had re-entered…Seed by seed, a women’s collective helps reforest Brazil’s Xingu River Basin
May 12, 2020, 12:41 pm By MongabayOn any given morning, women from Brazil’s Moygu and Arayó villages can be found gathering…Indonesia moves to end smallholder guarantee meant to empower palm oil farmers
May 12, 2020, 5:46 am By MongabayJAKARTA — Palm oil companies will no longer be required to allocate a fifth of their land for…Amazon indigenous leader: Our survival is at stake. You can help (commentary)
May 12, 2020, 5:17 am By MongabayI used my Brazilian name above, but in my community, I am known as Wino Këyashëni. I belong to the…What is a sun bear? Candid Animal Cam heads to Asia to meet this elusive bear
May 12, 2020, 3:13 am By MongabayCamera traps bring you closer to the secretive natural world and are an important conservation tool…Indonesian environmental poet and Dayak leader Yohanes Terang, 1956-2020
May 11, 2020, 8:27 pm By MongabayYohanes Terang, the well-known and respected Dayak poet who took up social and environmental…Market-based solutions cannot solely fund community-level conservation (commentary)
May 11, 2020, 4:48 pm By MongabayI am writing this from Bukit Lawang (North Sumatra, Indonesia) a prominent ecotourism town on the…Bolsonaro revives a plan to carve a road through one of Brazil’s last untouched areas
May 11, 2020, 3:16 pm By MongabayThe plan to extend the BR-163 highway to the border with Suriname was originally drawn up by the…In defense of bats in a COVID world (commentary)
May 11, 2020, 1:50 pm By MongabayMuch is being said lately about wild animals and epidemics these days. And it is true, the…Yehimi Fajardo: A voice for the birds of Putumayo
May 11, 2020, 12:54 pm By MongabayPUTUMAYO, Colombia – Yehimi Fajardo only had to hear the shriek of the common potoo (Nyctibius…Climate tipping point ecosystem collapses may come faster than thought: Studies
May 11, 2020, 12:49 pm By MongabayA coral reef in Indonesia. Coral reefs — especially Australia’s Great Barrier Reef — have…Canadian company positions for mining ban lift in Argentine province
May 11, 2020, 10:45 am By MongabayLike much of the world, Argentina remains locked down, its citizens more or less homebound due to…New bill could legalize ‘land banking’ by Indonesian plantation firms
May 10, 2020, 11:24 pm By MongabayA little-known provision in a sweeping deregulation package now before the Indonesian parliament…Pandemic lockdown gives Philippine province time to rethink planned split-up
May 10, 2020, 9:42 pm By MongabayPALAWAN, Philippines — A landmark vote on dividing the biodiverse Philippine province of Palawan…Amazon deforestation increases for 13th straight month in Brazil
May 9, 2020, 2:26 pm By MongabayDespite the global economic slowdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, deforestation in the Brazilian…Sri Lanka’s marbled rock frog may not be on brink of extinction, modeling suggests
May 9, 2020, 3:14 am By MongabayUDUDUMBARA, Sri Lanka — Twelve years ago, as a young undergraduate, Kanishka Ukuwela was trekking…Insects decline on land, fare better in water, study finds
May 8, 2020, 1:09 pm By MongabayInsects touch nearly every corner of life on this planet, filling endless functional roles and…
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