Severe drought and other climate impacts are driving the platypus towards extinction
Jan 29, 2020, 2:41 pm By MongabayThe devastating wildfires in Australia that have claimed the lives of more than a billion animals,…Answers in excrement: fecal analysis yields insight about wild primates
Jan 29, 2020, 12:22 pm By MongabayDid you ever think about the information we can gain from a simple sample of feces? Wildlife…What starts in the Amazon doesn’t stay there: Fires melting Andes glaciers
Jan 29, 2020, 12:21 pm By MongabayThe Zongo Glacier, analyzed in this study, sits atop Bolivia’s Huanya Potosi Mountain. Image in…Habitat loss, climate change make for an uncertain cricket harvest in Uganda
Jan 29, 2020, 11:55 am By MongabayMASAKA, Uganda — “The harvest season was good when the forests were not yet cut down, but now…Young farmers apply ancient agroforestry practices in the heart of Sardinia
Jan 29, 2020, 11:09 am By MongabayDESULO, Italy — In a late 1990s photo, a little girl with a ponytail and white apron poses at the…Despite foreign aid, Colombia struggles to rein in Amazon deforestation
Jan 29, 2020, 9:45 am By MongabayThree European countries have put up $366 million in foreign aid to fight deforestation in…Indonesian environment ministry ends WWF partnership amid public spat
Jan 29, 2020, 6:41 am By MongabayJAKARTA — The Indonesian office of international conservation NGO WWF has expressed shock at the…For Colombia, 2019 was a year of environmental discontent
Jan 28, 2020, 3:42 pm By MongabayIn Colombia, a year of crucial environmental decisions ended with a national strike that began on…Urban wildlife: managing Cape Town’s baboons
Jan 28, 2020, 3:30 pm By MongabayCAPE TOWN — In and around Cape Town, expanding urban communities press right up against the…Mongabay editor now detained 6 weeks in Indonesia
Jan 28, 2020, 2:50 pm By MongabayMongabay editor Philip Jacobson has now been detained for 42 days in Palangkaraya, Central…Indigenous, protected lands in Amazon emit far less carbon than areas outside
Jan 28, 2020, 1:56 pm By MongabayScientists know from a bevy of studies that the inclusion of indigenous peoples and local…Our growing footprint, wildlife extinctions, and the importance of contraception (commentary)
Jan 28, 2020, 1:03 pm By MongabayWe’re not exactly treading lightly on planet Earth. A new study finds more than 20,000 land animal…NGOs demand inquiry into Environment Minister aid to Amazon land grabbers
Jan 28, 2020, 12:29 pm By MongabayEnvironment Minister Ricardo Salles (center) pictured at Brasilia meeting on 6 November with Acre…Bringing rocks to a dynamite fight: Fishers take on blast fishing in Peru
Jan 28, 2020, 5:05 am By MongabayNighttime falls on the fishing port of Chimbote, a city on Peru’s Pacific coast in Huarmey…Belize officially declares wildlife corridor in key protected area complex
Jan 27, 2020, 7:06 pm By MongabayA wildlife corridor in northern Belize has been officially declared by government order and,…Melting Arctic sea ice may be altering winds, weather at equator: study
Jan 27, 2020, 3:16 pm By MongabayA young harp seal. A recently popular slogan among polar scientists asserts that: “What happens in…Impending Amazon tipping point puts biome and world at risk, scientists warn
Jan 27, 2020, 10:52 am By MongabayAmazon trees may not die immediately in a severe drought, but weakened trees can die off many years…Vale has filed hundreds of requests to exploit indigenous lands in Amazon
Jan 27, 2020, 10:29 am By MongabayEverything about Vale is huge: It’s the largest mining company in Brazil and the second-largest in…Sri Lanka’s divine pests: Peafowl problem calls for human action (Commentary)
Jan 27, 2020, 3:22 am By MongabayWhat is a pest? It implies a value judgment: harmful to whom? A pigeon is not harmful to the pigeon…Conservationists welcome China’s wildlife trade ban
Jan 26, 2020, 11:27 am By MongabayConservationists are welcoming news that the Chinese Government has temporarily banned the sale of…
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