U.S. lumber company found importing high-risk Peruvian timber
Jan 23, 2020, 2:26 pm By MongabayAn investigation by illegal-logging watchdog Timberleaks has found that a New Orleans-based lumber…Catastrophic Amazon tipping point less than 30 years away: study
Jan 23, 2020, 12:40 pm By MongabayThe Amazon supplies half its own rainfall through evaporation and transpiration from trees, but…Subsistence farming topples forests near commercial operations in Congo
Jan 23, 2020, 11:03 am By MongabayThe effects of commercial logging, mining and farming can ripple beyond the boundaries of the…Audio: The sounds of tropical katydids and how they can benefit conservation
Jan 22, 2020, 4:38 pm By MongabayOn today’s episode of the Mongabay Newscast we speak with Laurel Symes, a biologist who is using…Liberia expands a key elephant park again, this time with help of locals
Jan 22, 2020, 12:39 pm By MongabayIn eastern Liberia, efforts are underway to formally demarcate the boundaries of Sapo National Park,…Mexico: Community forestry boosts conservation, jobs, and social benefits
Jan 22, 2020, 11:05 am By MongabayLaura Jiménez, Manuel Herrera and Elías Santiago grew up in a land where elders proudly related…Mass tree planting along India’s Cauvery River has scientists worried
Jan 22, 2020, 6:35 am By MongabayThe Isha Foundation, a spiritual organization headquartered in south India, is taking on the cause…Mongabay editor arrested in Indonesia
Jan 21, 2020, 2:56 pm By MongabayPhilip Jacobson, an award-winning editor for the environmental science news outlet Mongabay, has…Black-market anchovies: Report details Peru’s illegal fish meal industry
Jan 21, 2020, 10:36 am By MongabayPeru is the world’s leading producer of fish meal, but it’s unclear precisely how much of the…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…
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