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
11:27am By MongabayConservationists are welcoming news that the Chinese Government has temporarily banned the sale of…Brazil’s Bolsonaro creates Amazon Council and Environmental Police force
Jan 24, 2020, 4:06 pm By MongabayEnvironment Minister Ricardo Salles (right), pictured in August 2019 with President Jair Bolsonaro.…Unknown saviors of the environment: Thirty-five men create a forest from barren land
Jan 24, 2020, 3:34 pm By MongabayPrinson Daimari is overwhelmed with pride every time he visits the lush green forest with birds’…Iridescence helps these ‘living jewels’ hide in plain sight
Jan 24, 2020, 12:39 pm By MongabayA new study in Current Biology shines a light on how iridescence in jewel beetles (Sternocera…In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, Jan. 24, 2020
Jan 24, 2020, 11:13 am By MongabayTropical forests The fires in Australia have destroyed huge areas of world heritage-listed…Mongabay staffer Philip Jacobson released from jail, transferred to ‘city detention’
Jan 24, 2020, 11:04 am By Mongabay“Mongabay staffer Philip Jacobson was just moved from prison to ‘city detention’ in…Window tech could save billions of birds, and it’s already here
Jan 24, 2020, 11:00 am By MongabayThis may sound familiar: you’re sitting at home, absorbed in your daily activities, when THUD; a…After a mine killed their river, a Brazil tribe fights for a new home
Jan 24, 2020, 10:28 am By MongabayOne year after a tailings dam collapsed in Brazil’s southwestern state of Minas Gerais, unleashing…Covering environmental defenders can put journalists in dangerous situations (insider)
Jan 24, 2020, 10:01 am By MongabayIn April at the U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, I was listening to a panel where Sônia…Indonesia forest fires push orangutans into starvation mode, study finds
Jan 24, 2020, 8:22 am By MongabayJAKARTA — The fires that raze vast swaths of Indonesian Borneo every year are having a lasting…Canada working towards new future for Indigenous-led conservation
Jan 23, 2020, 3:14 pm By MongabayIndigenous people currently manage or have tenure on 40% of the world’s protected areas and…Philippine study finds microplastics inside a commonly consumed fish
Jan 23, 2020, 3:00 pm By MongabayDUMAGUETE, Philippines — Microplastics for breakfast? It might be likely as a newly published…
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