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…Podcast: Tiger on the highway
Dec 16, 2020, 12:45 pm By MongabayThe Trans-Sumatran Highway is a $1.1 billion dollar project spanning 2,700 kilometers – from Banda…On plantations and in ‘protected’ areas, Sumatran elephants keep turning up dead
Dec 16, 2020, 11:32 am By MongabayThe pungent stench of an elephant carcass filled the acacia plantation. Estimates placed its death…Belo Monte dam’s water demands imperil Amazon communities, environment
Dec 16, 2020, 11:10 am By MongabayLorena Curuaia tries to rescue fish trapped in the mud at the confluence of Ambê Creek and the…In the Colombian Amazon, a leader trains her people to save the forest
Dec 16, 2020, 6:58 am By MongabayMaría Clemencia Herrera Nemerayema did not get a diploma when she finished primary school at the…Lasers reveal steep decline in ecosystem function of degraded Amazon forests
Dec 16, 2020, 6:18 am By MongabayEvery year, growing swaths of the Amazon rainforest are degraded by logging, fragmentation, and…No endangered listing for monarch butterflies as western count hits alarming low
Dec 16, 2020, 5:28 am By MongabayThe iconic monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) meets the criteria to be listed under the U.S.…Tropical forests can take the heat, study finds. Dryness? Not so much
Dec 16, 2020, 5:18 am By MongabayThe Biosphere 2 project, run by the University of Arizona, maintains a replica of a humid tropical…An oil palm front advances on an Indigenous community in Peru
Dec 16, 2020, 1:43 am By Mongabay“The invasions do not stop, the deforestation does not stop, and the threats do not stop,” Iván…Fishing fail: WTO negotiators flunk deadline to end harmful fisheries subsidies by 2020
Dec 15, 2020, 12:13 pm By MongabayWorld Trade Organization negotiators failed to agree on rules to ban harmful subsidies to fisheries…‘She goes and helps’: Noemí Gualinga, Ecuador’s mother of the jungle
Dec 15, 2020, 8:02 am By MongabayThere was a time when Noemí Gualinga, a leader of the Indigenous Kichwa Sarayaku people of the…
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