Indonesia’s fires burned mostly abandoned and degraded land, not forests
Dec 13, 2019, 7:54 am By MongabayJAKARTA — It was large swaths of degraded and idle land, and not forested land, that accounted for…Audio: Mongabay investigation reveals large-scale land invasion in Peruvian Amazon
Dec 12, 2019, 5:30 pm By MongabayOn today’s episode of the Mongabay Newscast, we speak with Chris Fagan about the investigative…Indonesian dam raises questions about UN hydropower carbon loophole
Dec 12, 2019, 5:09 pm By MongabayEmmy Hafild, senior advisor to the chairman of PT NSHE at the COP 25 climate conference. Image by…Encoded in the genes: Scientists devise a ‘lifespan clock’ for vertebrates
Dec 12, 2019, 11:10 am By MongabayThere’s some uncertainty about his exact age at death, but it’s now been confirmed that…Analysis: The Tanah Merah project is a bellwether for Jokowi’s permit review
Dec 11, 2019, 10:54 pm By MongabayThis article was co-published with The Gecko Project. When Indonesian government officials received…Conservation biologist and wildtech journalist Sue Palminteri, 1965-2019
Dec 11, 2019, 5:54 pm By MongabayWhether it was radio-collaring elephants across the savannas of East South Africa, competing…Vanishing sea ice in the Arctic could shake up seabird migrations
Dec 11, 2019, 10:30 am By MongabayFor seabirds, an Arctic Ocean with less sea ice could provide some tantalizing alternatives to the…Our fires weren’t as bad as in the Amazon, Indonesian officials claim
Dec 11, 2019, 8:12 am By MongabayJAKARTA — The Indonesian government has attempted to downplay the scale of its land and forest…The Sri Lankan legume: Extinct, rediscovered, and now at risk again (commentary)
Dec 11, 2019, 1:00 am By MongabayCOLOMBO — The recent rediscovery of the endemic plant known as the Sri Lanka legume by three young…Amazon deforestation paces ahead of recent historical norm
Dec 10, 2019, 11:39 pm By MongabayDeforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is continuing to pace ahead of recent historical norms despite…It’s time for Climate Bonds Initiative to scrap its hydro certification scheme (commentary)
Dec 10, 2019, 2:43 pm By MongabayThe world urgently needs to embrace effective financial incentives to arrest the climate crisis, but…Orca grandmothers help improve survival odds of their grandkids, study finds
Dec 10, 2019, 11:20 am By MongabayMost animals die after they’re done reproducing. But a handful of species, including humans and…COP25: Laura Vargas inspires with power of faith in defense of forests
Dec 10, 2019, 10:41 am By MongabayLooking toward heaven in the Indonesian rainforest. The Interfaith Rainforest Initiative (IRI) is an…Indonesia to capture 3 wild Sumatran rhinos to add to breeding population
Dec 10, 2019, 9:55 am By MongabayEAST LAMPUNG, Indonesia — Officials in Indonesia say they hope to capture three Sumatran rhinos…Revealed: Government officials say permits for mega-plantation in Papua were falsified
Dec 10, 2019, 8:00 am By MongabayThis article was co-published with The Gecko Project. Indonesian government officials have alleged…Killings of environmental defenders on the rise in the Philippines
Dec 10, 2019, 6:15 am By MongabayMANILA — Named the most dangerous country in the world for land and environmental defenders, the…Hopes dim as COP25 delegates dicker over Article 6 and world burns: critics
Dec 9, 2019, 3:29 pm By MongabayDelegates have set a low bar at the COP25 climate summit, putting the world’s future at risk,…A celebratory kind of revolution: Peruvian villagers hold a bird festival (commentary)
Dec 9, 2019, 2:37 pm By MongabayThey left at five o’clock in the morning and traveled all day, sitting in their dugout canoes…Evidence ‘unfounded’ against NGO volunteers accused of setting Amazon fires
Dec 9, 2019, 12:50 pm By MongabayBurnt Amazon forest in Alter do Chão in September. Image by Jader Paes/Agência Pará/Fotos…Coca farms close in on protected areas, isolated tribes in Peruvian Amazon
Dec 9, 2019, 11:18 am By MongabayATALAYA, Peru — Pascual cuts the motor and our dugout canoe glides below a massive tree trunk…
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