Indonesia’s point man for palm oil says no more plantations in Papua
Mar 2, 2020, 4:22 am By MongabayJAKARTA — A top Indonesian official has declared a halt to new oil palm plantations in the…Fallout: Threatened species in Australia continue to struggle after fires
Feb 28, 2020, 7:17 pm By MongabayThe landscape spanning the border region of the eastern Australian states of New South Wales (NSW)…Bid to get ‘aquatic wild meat’ off the menu and under protection
Feb 28, 2020, 1:46 pm By MongabayScientists and conservationists have long expressed concern about the consumption of bushmeat,…Unsung Species: One of Earth’s rarest land mammals clings to a hopeful future (commentary)
Feb 28, 2020, 1:26 pm By MongabayCuriosity displayed in female huemul. Image by Joel Berger. A blue whale has a big heart the size of…Fire in Australia is a symptom of a degraded ecosystem (commentary)
Feb 28, 2020, 1:24 pm By MongabayFire is not natural to Australia, as incomprehensible as that may seem today. When humans first…Plastic trash kills half a million hermit crabs on remote islands each year
Feb 28, 2020, 12:06 pm By MongabayRemote islands are often held up as vestiges of pristine wilderness. In stark contrast, the Cocos…Marginalized voices from resource conflicts enter the mainstream via video
Feb 28, 2020, 11:28 am By MongabayIABOAKOHO, Madagascar — The only light for many miles came from the glow of the makeshift screen…Raze here, save there: Do biodiversity offsets work for people or ecosystems?
Feb 28, 2020, 11:26 am By MongabayANTSOTSO, Madagascar — Moussa Evariste, 53, treads lightly on sinewy legs across fields of grass…Companies leave communities to grapple with mining’s persistent legacy
Feb 28, 2020, 7:12 am By MongabayThe scale of excavation for copper and gold in the 1970s and 1980s at the Panguna mine, then one of…‘Unless impunity is fought, we will not get anywhere’: Q&A with community forestry expert Lucía Madrid
Feb 28, 2020, 6:15 am By MongabayLucía Madrid spent her childhood in a land of trees and a time of flux. It was the 1980s in…Activists skeptical of win as court orders Papua plantation maps published
Feb 28, 2020, 6:06 am By MongabayJAKARTA — A court in Indonesia has ordered the government to publish detailed maps of oil palm…‘Out of control’: Unprecedented fires ravage Brazil’s Pantanal wetlands
Feb 27, 2020, 11:07 pm By MongabayPORTO JOFRE, Brazil – Only fragile wisps of freshly-sprouted grass dotted the charred plot of…‘Intense’ human pressure is widespread among terrestrial vertebrates, study finds
Feb 27, 2020, 5:16 pm By MongabayA new study assessing the cumulative impacts of human activities on wildlife found that the vast…On anniversary of nun’s murder Amazon land rights activists at high risk
Feb 27, 2020, 12:19 pm By MongabayDorothy Stang carried to her grave in 2005. Photo credit: Brasil de Fato on Visual hunt / CC…Bolivia and Paraguay unite to protect critically endangered guanacos
Feb 26, 2020, 9:56 pm By MongabayThe guanaco (Lama guanicoe), the spindly, wild forebear of the llama, ranges across a broad reach of…Call for prosecution of Indonesian politician who kept baby orangutan as pet
Feb 26, 2020, 9:07 pm By MongabayMEDAN, Indonesia — Conservation and wildlife activists have called on Indonesian authorities to…Barrage of mining requests targets Brazil’s isolated indigenous peoples
Feb 26, 2020, 5:12 pm By MongabayThe Yanomami Indigenous Territory, an area with one of the highest numbers of applications for…Western monarch butterfly numbers critically low for second straight year
Feb 26, 2020, 2:17 pm By MongabayMonarch butterfly populations are at a critical low, according to the annual Western Monarch Count…BlackRock’s commitment to responsible investing must include human rights (commentary)
Feb 26, 2020, 1:34 pm By MongabayA forest in Brazil is set on fire to make way for soy plantations. An oil pipeline leak in South…China beefs up wildlife trade ban as COVID-19 outbreak intensifies
Feb 26, 2020, 12:51 pm By MongabayChina has banned the trade and consumption of wild animals in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak…
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