Aided by weather, Sri Lanka’s lockdown leads to decline in air, sea pollution
May 21, 2020, 8:23 pm By MongabayCOLOMBO — The COVID-19 pandemic has sent half the global population into some form of lockdown.…Consider what’s below the canopy, too, when counting up protected forest areas (commentary)
May 21, 2020, 6:28 pm By MongabayThe screech of scarlet macaws high overhead. The dawn rumble of howler monkeys. The hammering of a…Coronavirus puts Brazil’s quilombos at risk; will assistance come?
May 21, 2020, 12:37 pm By MongabayA quilombola woman. “No one points out in the mainstream media that quilombolas are a high-risk…Tigers threatened by a vast network of planned roads across Asia
May 21, 2020, 11:21 am By MongabayA Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae). Photo by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay. The Bukit Tigapuluh…Evidence that fish flourish in a community-managed marine area offers hope
May 21, 2020, 9:19 am By MongabayMarine protected areas have expanded rapidly in the past decade. Even so, less than 8% of the…Community forest enterprises provide win for forests and people: Study
May 21, 2020, 7:58 am By MongabayWhat do countries like Mexico, Guatemala, Nepal and Namibia have in common? All four are home to…As their land claim stalls, Brazil’s Munduruku face pressure from soybean farms
May 21, 2020, 7:15 am By MongabaySANTARÉM, Brazil — The landscape near the indigenous Munduruku villages of Santarém, in…Calls for end to business with paper giant APP over Sumatra land disputes
May 21, 2020, 3:12 am By MongabayJAKARTA — A broad coalition of civil society groups has called on investors and buyers to stop…Kafka in the Amazon: Volunteer forest fire fighter charged with arson still in limbo
May 20, 2020, 4:32 pm By MongabayBurned Amazon forest in the Alter do Chão Reserve last September, a fire which the volunteer…Projeto Harpia: Saving the Amazon’s largest raptor for more than 20 years
May 20, 2020, 2:56 pm By MongabayThe harpy eagle (Harpia harpyja) lives in tropical forests stretching from the south of Mexico to…North America’s looming salamander pandemic: Are we ready?
May 20, 2020, 12:51 pm By MongabayAround 2008, a mysterious disease started killing off the fire salamanders in the Netherlands, and…Historic agreement gives monarch butterflies the ‘right-of-way’
May 20, 2020, 12:06 pm By MongabayThe side of the road isn’t usually thought of as ideal habitat. But for insects, such as…Ecuador’s Kichwa implement innovative approach to rainforest conservation
May 20, 2020, 11:29 am By MongabayThe need to conserve and protect global forests is clear and urgent. Indigenous populations like the…Indonesia may bar citizens from working on foreign fishing boats after spate of deaths
May 20, 2020, 11:25 am By MongabayJAKARTA — Indonesia is considering a ban to prevent its citizens going abroad to work on foreign…China offers buyouts to wildlife farmers in response to pandemic
May 20, 2020, 10:32 am By MongabayThe Chinese government is offering to buy out animals on wildlife farms, and to help farmers change…From crisis to solutions for communities and African conservation (commentary)
May 20, 2020, 12:02 am By MongabayThe coronavirus (covid-19) pandemic has created a profound crisis for conservation efforts in…Tech made to find galaxies sets its sights on wildfires
May 19, 2020, 4:51 pm By MongabayIn mid-October, 1991, a wildfire swept across the hillsides of northern Oakland, California, killing…Siberia experiences hottest spring on record, fueling wildfires
May 19, 2020, 12:35 pm By MongabayA few hundred miles south of the Arctic Circle, the small town of Boguchany in Siberia, Russia, had…How a changing climate threatens Sri Lanka’s dragonflies and damselflies (commentary)
May 19, 2020, 11:00 am By MongabayAs climate change impact dramatically alters the world we live in, the biodiversity around us is…For Indonesia’s captive wildlife, lockdown measures may prove deadly
May 19, 2020, 10:36 am By MongabayJAKARTA — Measures aimed at halting the spread of the novel coronavirus in Indonesia have meant…
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