Indigenous groups blast Amazon state’s plan to legalize wildcat mining
Jan 22, 2021, 12:40 pm By MongabayAn illegal mining camp within Yanomami territory. The new law just passed in Roraima could greatly…Plantations, mines didn’t worsen flood, Indonesia says. The data begs to differ
Jan 22, 2021, 5:06 am By MongabayJAKARTA — The Indonesian government has denied that deforestation for oil palm plantations and…No safe space for Philippines’ Indigenous youth as military allowed on campus
Jan 22, 2021, 1:24 am By MongabayMANILA — Indigenous youths harboring from a military-led counterinsurgency in the Philippines may…Signs, but no sightings: The phantom rhinos of Sumatra’s Bukit Barisan Selatan
Jan 21, 2021, 11:25 pm By MongabayBANDAR LAMPUNG, Indonesia — In a two-week survey of the thick forest of Sumatra’s Bukit Barisan…Podcast: With just 10 years left to save Sumatran elephants, what can be done now?
Jan 21, 2021, 8:27 pm By MongabayThe Sumatran elephant is a small Asian elephant whose numbers are dwindling as their lowland forest…In ‘dire’ plea, Brazil’s Amazonas state appeals for global COVID assistance
Jan 21, 2021, 4:21 pm By MongabayA woman with COVI-19 boards a plane in the Amazon to be taken to a Brazilian hospital in 2020.…‘Spectacular’ orange-furred bat described from West African mountain
Jan 21, 2021, 1:29 pm By MongabayAn orange-furred bat, new to science, has been described from the caves and mining tunnels of the…Fears for rosewood as Guinea-Bissau prepares to lift six-year logging ban
Jan 21, 2021, 12:41 pm By MongabayThree men are piling wood on a solitary truck parked along the only the road to Djendo, a small town…Papua tribe moves to block clearing of its ancestral forest for palm oil
Jan 21, 2021, 11:25 am By MongabayJAKARTA — Indigenous people in Indonesia’s easternmost Papua province are protesting against a…Nigeria emerges as Africa’s primary export hub for ivory, pangolin scales
Jan 21, 2021, 9:06 am By MongabayWhen Singaporean customs officials opened a shipping container en route to Vietnam from Nigeria on…Well, hello there: Glass frogs ‘wave’ to communicate near noisy waterfalls
Jan 21, 2021, 8:57 am By MongabayBecca Brunner was standing chest-deep in an Ecuadoran rainforest stream, holding up audio equipment…Brazil’s collapsing Manaus health service escalates COVID Indigenous risk
Jan 20, 2021, 2:27 pm By MongabayVanda Ortega, an indigenous nurse, becomes the first person to receive the COVID-19 vaccine in…Environmental assassinations bad for business, new research shows
Jan 20, 2021, 1:38 pm By MongabayThe old adage of “money talks” is being given a modern data analysis stress test and applied to…Pet trade relies on ‘disposable’ wild chameleons from Madagascar
Jan 20, 2021, 11:29 am By MongabayDIANA REGION, Madagascar — With the sun still low in the sky, my taxi boat pulled up to a floating…Big cat comeback: Jaguars prowl Argentina’s Iberá Wetlands after 70 years
Jan 20, 2021, 10:20 am By MongabayIt’s been 70 years since jaguars left their round, four-toed footprints in the ground of the…Video: Romania’s deadly fight against illegal logging
Jan 20, 2021, 9:08 am By MongabayFor thousands of years, Romania’s forests have played a central role in shaping its dramatic…Palm oil plantations, coal mines linked to deadly Indonesia flood
Jan 20, 2021, 5:50 am By MongabayJAKARTA — Recent floods that inundated large areas of the southern part of Indonesian Borneo might…Nature-based solutions needed to enhance climate resilience in Southeast Asia (commentary)
Jan 19, 2021, 4:00 pm By MongabayThe year 2020 reminded us that a healthy humankind is impossible without a healthy planet. From the…Mozambique’s new fisheries law expands protections but old problems persist
Jan 19, 2021, 8:51 am By MongabayA new fisheries law enacted this month in Mozambique is being hailed as a landmark by…An eye in the sky on deforestation: Q&A with Jean Jardeleza and Kim Carlson
Jan 18, 2021, 5:40 am By MongabayThough other stories might have dominated the headlines, 2020 was a year of tremendous change in…
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