Amazonia’s people domesticated crops on ‘forest islands’ 10,000 years ago: Study
Jul 31, 2020, 11:23 am By MongabayAmazonia, with its towering trees, bright birds, pink dolphins and mysterious big cats, has been…Endangered and endemic: Madagascar’s lemurs susceptible to coronavirus infection
Jul 31, 2020, 9:37 am By MongabayANTANANARIVO, Madagascar — The possibility of lemurs contracting COVID-19 is worrying…Guardians of Mexico’s community forests confront climate change
Jul 31, 2020, 6:57 am By MongabayIn some Indigenous languages, two words are just not enough to convey everything encompassed by the…New assessment shows 74% of Sri Lanka’s freshwater fish threatened with extinction
Jul 31, 2020, 6:35 am By MongabayCOLOMBO — Surveys carried out in the early 1980s in the many reservoirs in Sri Lanka’s dry zone…Ornithologists discover more rare hornbills than thought on Philippine island
Jul 31, 2020, 3:20 am By MongabayMANILA — As a rare species of endemic hornbills disappeared from island after island in the…For tool-wielding chimps of Ebo Forest, logging plan is a ‘death sentence’
Jul 30, 2020, 3:59 pm By MongabayFifteen years ago, Ekwoge Abwe was trekking through Ebo Forest in Cameroon when he heard something…Does coconut oil really threaten more species than palm oil? No, it doesn’t. (commentary)
Jul 30, 2020, 3:45 pm By MongabayYou may have recently come across an article titled “Coconut oil production threatens five times…Photos:In search of Sri Lanka’s vanishing tuskers
Jul 30, 2020, 3:14 pm By MongabayMy love and passion for the wild elephants of Sri Lanka run deep within my veins, as deep as my love…Goldminers overrun Amazon indigenous lands as COVID-19 surges
Jul 30, 2020, 1:36 pm By MongabayIllegal mining within the Munduruku Indigenous Territory, 12 May, 2020.. The earth along this Amazon…Anticipated new restrictions on wildlife trade in Vietnam fall short of a ban
Jul 30, 2020, 1:14 pm By MongabayHO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — On July 23, after several months of anticipation within Vietnam’s…In syntropic agriculture, farmers stop fighting nature and learn to embrace it
Jul 30, 2020, 10:58 am By MongabayMINEIROS/GANDÚ, Brazil — Behind the wheel of his black suburban van, Paulo Borges has to squint…Migratory freshwater fish in peril as report shows population plunge
Jul 30, 2020, 10:43 am By MongabayMigratory freshwater fish are in big trouble. According to a new report, monitored populations of…Podcast: Hellbenders, super-spreaders, and other salamanders face uncertain futures
Jul 29, 2020, 8:45 pm By MongabayHellbenders are North America’s largest salamanders, living in rivers and growing to an incredible…Indigenous Ashaninka launch fundraiser to help Amazon neighbors amid pandemic
Jul 29, 2020, 5:49 pm By Mongabay“We can live three, four, five years in the forest, in our territory, until the pandemic is over,…Burning down the house? Enviva’s giant U.S. wood pellet plants gear up
Jul 29, 2020, 4:43 pm By MongabayThe handfuls of wood pellets and green sleeves seen here are part of a biomass industry-supported PR…Sri Lanka’s hourglass frog is only an hourglass frog 77% of the time
Jul 29, 2020, 4:02 pm By MongabayHORTON PLAINS, Sri Lanka — Is an hourglass frog still an hourglass frog if it doesn’t have the…First jaguar caught on camera in both Belize and Guatemala highlights need for transboundary conservation
Jul 29, 2020, 11:20 am By MongabayAn adult male jaguar nicknamed “Short-Tail” (due to his partially missing tail) was caught on…Upgrade of Indonesian palm oil certification falls short, observers say
Jul 29, 2020, 8:41 am By MongabayJAKARTA — An Indonesian government scheme to certify sustainable palm oil doesn’t do enough to…2019 was the deadliest year ever for environmental activists, watchdog group says
Jul 29, 2020, 6:09 am By Mongabay2019 was the deadliest year on record for environmental activists, according to a new report by the…‘Criminalizing’ dissent, martial law fuel attacks on Philippine environmental defenders
Jul 28, 2020, 9:23 pm By MongabayMANILA — Forty-three land and environmental defenders were killed in the Philippines in 2019,…
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