Brazil scraps 11 new Amazon protected areas covering 2,316 square miles
Oct 8, 2018, 1:20 pm By MongabayRio Machado, one of the scrapped protected areas. Image courtesy of SEDAM. On 25 September, state…Int’l protections not stopping pangolin overexploitation in Cameroon
Oct 8, 2018, 1:14 pm By MongabayPangolins living in Central Africa aren’t feeling the effects of a landmark decision in 2016 to…Kenya: Indigenous Ogiek face eviction from their ancestral forest… again
Oct 8, 2018, 10:55 am By Mongabay
NAKURU COUNTY, Kenya — Caroline Chepkoeh looked around her idyllic property, perched on a hilltop…Loss of forest elephant may make Earth ‘less inhabitable for humans’
Oct 8, 2018, 4:08 am By Mongabay
Children in every corner of the globe can identify an elephant in a wildlife lineup. They are as…To conserve West Papua, start with land rights (commentary)
Oct 5, 2018, 6:48 pm By MongabayLarge landscapes of intact tropical forests will figure prominently in global strategies to avert…Hunting, agriculture driving rapid decline of jaguars in South America’s Gran Chaco
Oct 5, 2018, 1:46 pm By Mongabay
New research finds that one-third of critical jaguar habitat in the Gran Chaco, South America’s…Deforestation surges in Virunga National Park in the wake of violence
Oct 5, 2018, 12:54 pm By Mongabay
In recent months, large chunks of lush tropical forest have been cleared from Virunga National Park,…81,000-square-mile indigenous reserve recognized in Brazilian Amazon
Oct 5, 2018, 12:27 pm By MongabayAt least 18 indigenous groups live within the Kaxuyana-Tunayana TI. Pictured are some of the…In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, October 5, 2018
Oct 5, 2018, 11:19 am By MongabayTropical forests The rare bongo, the world’s largest antelope, turns up for the first time on a…Business and biodiversity benefit from Kyrgyz agroforestry systems
Oct 5, 2018, 10:11 am By Mongabay
KOK-TALAA, Batken province, Kyrgyzstan — The Batken region is located in the southern part of the…Latam Eco Review: Kissable sharks and spectacled bears
Oct 5, 2018, 9:07 am By MongabayThe most popular stories from our Spanish-language service, Mongabay Latam, followed a new…Dam project pushes threatened orangutans from forest to farms
Oct 5, 2018, 7:20 am By MongabayJAKARTA — A planned hydroelectric dam that threatens the world’s most endangered great ape is…Frogs coping with fatal fungus in Panamanian forest, study finds
Oct 5, 2018, 1:19 am By Mongabay
Frogs in a tropical forest in Panama are doing better than scientists believed after a devastating…Pasture expansion driving deforestation in Brazilian protected area
Oct 4, 2018, 12:19 pm By MongabayClimate scientists were wary when the Brazilian government announced in August that its 2020 goals…Agreement bans commercial fishing across much of the Arctic, for now
Oct 4, 2018, 10:38 am By MongabayWith the Arctic’s melting ice cover leaving the ocean ice-free for longer periods of time, new…Nepali scientists deploy drones to count endangered crocodiles
Oct 4, 2018, 10:00 am By MongabayThe survey looked easy on paper. All they had to do was to go the Babai Valley in western Nepal and…Scientists urge greater protection of Brazil’s secondary forests
Oct 4, 2018, 9:03 am By MongabayWith around half the world’s forest cover cleared or otherwise degraded at some point in the…Young right whale dies, likely from entanglement in fishing gear
Oct 3, 2018, 3:36 pm By Mongabay
Entanglement in fishing gear has claimed the life of a second North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena…Identifying Zika-transmitting mosquito fast, cheaply, and on the go
Oct 3, 2018, 10:00 am By Mongabay
A team at University of Texas Austin has developed a new method for identifying whether…New tree species from Cameroon is possibly already extinct
Oct 3, 2018, 9:29 am By MongabayNearly 70 years ago, Edwin Ujor of the Nigerian Forestry Service collected a specimen of a tree from…
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