Novel research method reveals small-scale gold mining’s impact on Peruvian Amazon
Nov 9, 2018, 10:33 am By MongabayAccording to research released yesterday, small-scale gold mining has led to the destruction of more…End of funding dims hopes for a Sumatran forest targeted by palm oil growers
Nov 9, 2018, 10:04 am By Mongabay
JAKARTA — Its name in Indonesian means “hope,” but there seems to be little of that remaining…Peru cracks down after environmental defenders’ murders
Nov 9, 2018, 9:39 am By Mongabay
Lambayaque, PERU – Authorities in Peru late last month arrested a dozen alleged members of the…Latam Eco Review: Hungry manatees and grand theft tortoise
Nov 9, 2018, 5:10 am By Mongabay
The recent top stories from our Spanish-language service, Mongabay Latam, concerned hungry manatees…In West Papua’s Arfak Mountains, local leaders plot ecotourism boom
Nov 9, 2018, 3:27 am By Mongabay
MANOKWARI, Indonesia — High in the northwestern mountains of Indonesia’s West Papua province,…China increasingly involved in Brazil’s ambitious Amazon rail network
Nov 8, 2018, 12:53 pm By Mongabay
China, with its trillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative, is poised to invest heavily in the…Timor-Leste: With sacrifice and ceremony, tribe sets eco rules
Nov 8, 2018, 11:19 am By Mongabay
Read the other stories in Mongabay’s three-part profile of the Maubere’s revival of tara bandu:…Four of six black rhinos translocated to Chad are now dead
Nov 8, 2018, 9:36 am By Mongabay
Two black rhinos have been found dead in Chad’s Zakouma National Park, adding to the two…Hackathon enlightens coders and conservationists alike
Nov 8, 2018, 9:15 am By MongabayIn a high-rise just across the Hudson River from Manhattan, a conference room echoed of clacking…Roads divide opinions along with forests, study finds
Nov 8, 2018, 8:30 am By Mongabay
Politicians and planners often sell roads as wholly beneficial to communities. New arteries open up…Troika of trouble for Bolivia’s Cordillera de Sama Reserve
Nov 8, 2018, 6:01 am By Mongabay
“This year there was a hailstorm which ruined our garlic crops,” says Hilda. A resident of the…For Javan rhinos, the last holdout may also be a deadly disease hotspot
Nov 8, 2018, 5:52 am By Mongabay
Indonesia’s Ujung Kulon National Park sits at the westernmost tip of Java Island. Its remote…Evicted for a showpiece project, this PNG community fights for justice
Nov 8, 2018, 4:56 am By Mongabay“I lost everything,” says Joe Moses, recalling the day homes in his community of Paga Hill were…Congo Basin rainforest may be gone by 2100, study finds
Nov 7, 2018, 7:51 pm By MongabayAfrica’s Congo Basin is home to the second-largest rainforest on the planet. But according to a…Researchers say orangutans are declining, despite Indonesian government’s claims
Nov 7, 2018, 3:11 pm By MongabayResearchers say a recent Indonesian government report inaccurately claims that the orangutan…Cerrado farm community fights for life against dam, eucalyptus growers
Nov 7, 2018, 12:00 pm By Mongabay
Aerial view of the Estreito dam on the Tocantins river. Formosa residents are still waiting to be…In funding palm oil giants, banks may share in ‘sins of the companies’
Nov 7, 2018, 10:04 am By MongabayOn Sept. 19, Indonesian President Joko Widodo slapped a three-year moratorium on the issuance of new…Invisible plant-enemy interactions drive diversity in forest fragments
Nov 7, 2018, 8:20 am By MongabayVery few tropical forests around the world enjoy uninterrupted contiguity. Most are divided into…Are deep sea reefs really a lifeboat for our vanishing corals?
Nov 7, 2018, 6:20 am By MongabayWhen Luiz Rocha, a fish biologist at the California Academy of Sciences, goes scuba diving, he tacks…Protection flip-flop leaves rare Indonesian shrikethrush in harm’s way
Nov 7, 2018, 2:46 am By Mongabay
MANADO, Indonesia — Wildlife photographer Henri Hebimisa remembers the excitement of his first…
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