Madagascar launches massive planting drive, eyes 60 million trees
Jan 21, 2020, 1:16 am By MongabayMadagascar has embarked on its most ambitious tree-planting drive yet, aiming to plant 60 million…Amazon’s Munduruku stage daring Christmas raid to recover sacred urns
Jan 20, 2020, 2:37 pm By MongabayIndigenous protest on the Teles Pires River, December, 2019. The sign held by two Munduruku reads:…Deforestation clips howler monkey calls, study finds
Jan 20, 2020, 12:43 pm By MongabayHowler monkeys change their calls when they’re close to deforested areas, a new study has found. A…A national park takes shape in Argentina as the forest disappears
Jan 17, 2020, 4:52 pm By MongabayTwo Darwin’s rheas (Rhea pennata) run at full speed between the thorny bushes and tall grasslands…One of four North Atlantic right whale calves spotted so far this breeding season struck by ship
Jan 17, 2020, 4:38 pm By MongabayOne of just four North Atlantic right whale calves spotted off the southeast coast of the United…In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, Jan. 17, 2020
Jan 17, 2020, 10:48 am By MongabayTropical forests Farmers in Haiti have been paid after nearly a decade for the land they lost…Belo Monte boondoggle: Brazil’s biggest, costliest dam may be unviable
Jan 17, 2020, 10:33 am By MongabayOn November 27, 2019, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, with wife Michelle Bolsonaro beside him…India’s yak herders face the end of ancient tradition in warming Himalayas
Jan 17, 2020, 3:07 am By MongabayFor many Himalayan pastoral societies, yaks are a cornerstone of their livelihoods as much as of…What is needed to keep Sri Lanka’s leopards roaming free? (Commentary)
Jan 17, 2020, 1:58 am By MongabayOn Dec. 31, a fully grown male Sri Lankan leopard (Panthera pardus kotiya) was found shot and killed…Conflict in the Chico Mendes Reserve threaten this pioneering Amazonian project
Jan 16, 2020, 5:39 pm By MongabayIn 1990, the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve, or Resex, in the Brazilian state of Acre introduced a…A new dawn: The story of deforestation in the next decade must be different to the last (commentary)
Jan 16, 2020, 12:43 pm By MongabayThis was meant to be a moment of triumph in the long battle to save the world’s forests. The year…Rangers in Indonesia’s Aceh to get guns as officials flex on violators
Jan 16, 2020, 10:35 am By MongabayJAKARTA — Forest rangers in Indonesia’s Aceh province will this year be allowed to carry…Indigenous lands hold 36% or more of remaining intact forest landscapes
Jan 16, 2020, 2:45 am By MongabayMore than one-third of the world’s remaining pristine forests, known as intact forest landscapes,…Colombia’s ‘Heart of the World’: Mining, megaprojects overrun indigenous land
Jan 15, 2020, 6:11 pm By MongabayJaime Luis Arias grew up on the southern slopes of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. An isolated…For final months of 2019, Amazon deforestation hits highest level in at least 13 years
Jan 15, 2020, 2:21 pm By MongabayDeforestation during the final five months of 2019 hit the highest level since at least 2006…2019 was second-hottest year on record, 2010s hottest decade
Jan 15, 2020, 2:17 pm By MongabayGlobal average temperatures on land and at sea in December 2019 were the second-highest recorded in…As 2019 ends, reptile-rich Sri Lanka delivers three more new gecko species
Jan 15, 2020, 7:48 am By MongabayCOLOMBO — A group of Sri Lankan herpetologists closed out 2019 in style: by introducing to science…As we act on climate, we mustn’t neglect nature (commentary)
Jan 14, 2020, 1:35 pm By Mongabay2019 was the year the environment finally broke into the mainstream. Inspired by Greta Thunberg’s…Five murdered in 2020 Brazilian Amazon land conflicts, adding to 2019 surge
Jan 14, 2020, 1:31 pm By MongabayA burned, deforested clearing inside the Karipuna Indigenous Reserve, Rondônia state. Illegal…Cost-effective conservation: Study identifies key ‘umbrella’ species
Jan 14, 2020, 10:30 am By MongabayGovernments could vastly improve the efficiency of money spent on conservation if they took a hard…
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