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Oct 8, 2020, 7:17 am By MongabayShifting rainfall patterns, especially those exacerbated by climate change, could drive large parts…Our most read conservation stories for September 2020
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Oct 8, 2020, 6:33 am By MongabayPoliticians and meatpackers in Brazil’s Amazonian state of Pará gathered for a celebration in…Deaths and media-driven panic threaten human-jackal coexistence in Sri Lanka
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Oct 8, 2020, 2:01 am By MongabayIn recent months, meatpacking companies in different parts of the world have been associated with…Vietnam conservation regulations improving, but much work remains
Oct 7, 2020, 8:54 am By MongabayHO CHI MINH CITY — Earlier this year, Vietnam’s prime minister called for a ban of the wildlife…With the help of an app, Nunavut hunters document the changing Arctic
Oct 7, 2020, 3:00 am By MongabayIt’s fall in Nunavut, Canada, and Richard Kakk is hunting caribou. Snow that started in September…Blooms driven by climate change threaten to smother marine life in Arabian Sea
Oct 7, 2020, 2:41 am By MongabayOn Feb. 26, 2003, a group of scientists set out to sea from Goa, India, on a routine mission. They…Sumatran bridge project in elephant habitat may exacerbate degradation
Oct 7, 2020, 2:21 am By MongabayOGAN KOMERING ILIR, Indonesia — Officials in Sumatra plan to build a billion-dollar bridge to the…In the Horn of Africa, conflict and illegal trade create a ‘cheetah hell’
Oct 7, 2020, 1:43 am By MongabayThe 8-week-old cheetah cubs should have been with their mother. Instead, they were penned up in a…Fires raze nearly half of Indigenous territories in Brazil’s Pantanal
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Oct 6, 2020, 7:34 am By MongabayPhasmahyla guttata, also known as the spotted leaf frog, is endemic to the Atlantic Forest, which is…Stock indices let Brazil meatpackers shed ties to deforestation, draw investors
Oct 6, 2020, 5:33 am By MongabayA hundred and twenty-one million dollars. That’s one-third of the 2019 net profit of the world’s…Automakers fuelling deforestation, dispossession in Paraguay’s Gran Chaco: report
Oct 6, 2020, 4:21 am By MongabayMajor European automakers including Jaguar Land Rover and BMW are using leather linked to illegal…Indonesia’s food estate program eyes new plantations in forest frontiers
Oct 6, 2020, 4:17 am By MongabayJAKARTA — The Indonesian government is doubling down on a plan to establish large-scale…More than 470 oil spills in the Peruvian Amazon since 2000: Report
Oct 6, 2020, 2:01 am By MongabayWadson Trujillo is an environmental monitor in Cuninico, an Indigenous community in northern Peru.…Diary of a top environmental journalist and bad traveler: Q&A with Jeremy Hance
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