What’s in a name? For Sri Lanka’s newest geckos, a political firestorm
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12:00pm By MongabayMajor retailers and manufacturers of cattle products who source materials from Brazil may be using…Giraffe trade to be monitored, strictly regulated
Mon 11:37pm By MongabayTrade in Africa’s iconic giraffes and their parts will now be regulated, countries voted last week…DiCaprio joins $5M effort to combat Amazon fires
Mon 3:51pm By MongabayIn response to rising deforestation and fires in the Amazon, on Sunday actor Leonardo DiCaprio and…The Pan Borneo Highway could divide threatened wildlife populations
Mon 2:18pm By MongabayThis is the fourth article in our six-part series “Traveling the Pan Borneo Highway.” Read Part…Bolsonaro expresses ‘love’ for Amazon as it burns, offers no policy shift
Mon 11:14am By MongabayAerial view of burning Amazon rainforest, near the city of Porto Velho, Rondônia state. Image by…‘Like spaghetti’: Worm-slurping, hopping rats discovered in the Philippines
Mon 7:12am By MongabayAs you explore the high altitudes of Luzon Island in the Philippines, you’ll encounter plenty of…Indonesia picks coal and oil heartland as site of new capital city
Mon 6:39am By MongabayJAKARTA — Indonesia’s new capital city will sit at the nexus of the country’s coal and oil…Sumatran elephant sanctuary under threat from bridge, port projects
Mon 4:02am By MongabayPALEMBANG, Indonesia — The planned construction of a bridge and private port in southern Sumatra…81% of Indonesia’s oil palm plantations flouting regulations, audit finds
Aug 25, 2019, 10:20 pm By MongabayJAKARTA — More than 80 percent of oil palm plantations in Indonesia, the world’s biggest…Greenpeace releases dramatic photos of Amazon fires
Aug 25, 2019, 10:12 pm By MongabayToday Greenpeace Brazil released dramatic photos of rainforest fires currently burning in the…How many fires are burning in the Amazon?
Aug 25, 2019, 6:13 pm By MongabayWhile fires burning in the Amazon have garnered worldwide attention due to last week’s mid-day…Amazon fires trigger protests worldwide
Aug 24, 2019, 2:54 pm By MongabaySÃO PAULO AND LONDON — Thousands of protesters took to the streets in cities across Brazil and…Snow leopard population overestimated in Nepal? DNA study suggests it may be
Aug 23, 2019, 6:39 pm By MongabayIn September 2014, Nepali zoologist Madhu Chetri asked his professor Morten Odden a strange question…“Extremely warm” sea temperatures are likely to cause Hawaiian corals to bleach and even die.
Aug 23, 2019, 3:49 pm By MongabayCoral reefs in Hawaiian waters are facing the prospect of another major bleaching event as ocean…Indigenous communities, nat’l parks suffer as Malaysia razes its reserves
Aug 23, 2019, 3:47 pm By MongabayKUALA KOH, Malaysia — On a daytime flight into Kuala Lumpur airport, it’s hard not to feel a…Peru aims to eliminate palm oil deforestation by 2021
Aug 23, 2019, 12:40 pm By MongabayLast week, the Peruvian Palm Oil Producers’ Association (JUNPALMA) promised to enter into an…Aimed at linking communities, Malaysian highway may damage forests
Aug 23, 2019, 10:54 am By MongabayThis is the third article in our six-part series “Traveling the Pan Borneo Highway.” Read Part…
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