481 and counting: Norway’s whaling catch hits four-year high
Aug 27, 2020, 9:05 am By MongabayFour hundred and eighty-one. That’s how many minke whales Norway has killed so far this year,…Fight rages on to save centuries-old giant Philippine rosewood tree
Aug 26, 2020, 11:23 pm By MongabayMINDANAO, Philippines — For centuries, a giant Philippine rosewood tree has stood as an iconic…Bleak milestone: 500 major fires detected in Brazilian Amazon this year
Aug 26, 2020, 5:38 pm By MongabayThe number of fires in the Brazilian Amazon has risen dramatically in recent weeks and now achieved…In Cambodia, a sweeping new environment code languishes in legal limbo
Aug 26, 2020, 12:11 pm By MongabayIn Cambodia, the Mekong River winds past Southeast Asia’s largest remaining lowland evergreen…‘It’s taking away our wise men’: COVID-19 hits Peru’s Indigenous people hard
Aug 26, 2020, 9:41 am By Mongabay“This pandemic is taking away our wise men,” Zebelio Kayap, the Indigenous leader of the…Belize takes ocean action with expanded marine reserve and ban on gill nets
Aug 25, 2020, 4:22 pm By MongabayBelize, a tiny Central American nation nestled beside the Caribbean Sea, is making giant strides in…Study revealing New Guinea’s plant life ‘first step’ toward protection
Aug 25, 2020, 12:55 pm By MongabayNew Guinea’s diversity of life, cultures and landscapes has long inspired prominent scientists,…Company investigated for timber trafficking gets stimulus from Peru government
Aug 25, 2020, 9:18 am By MongabayInversiones La Oroza, a company under investigation since 2015 for alleged timber trafficking, has…Sri Lankan conservation law and the framework for ethical science research (Commentary)
Aug 25, 2020, 6:46 am By MongabayWhen it comes to conducting research on wild animals in Sri Lanka, there are two broad categories.…Spying on fear in the wild: Q&A with ecologist Meredith Palmer
Aug 25, 2020, 4:40 am By MongabayIn the late 1990s, a Yale ecologist named Oswald Schmitz and his students made an interesting…Is an African wild dog actually a dog? Candid Animal Cam meets the rare canid
Aug 25, 2020, 3:39 am By MongabayCamera traps bring you closer to the secretive natural world and are an important conservation tool…Philippine crickets, held nameless in a Hawaii museum, are finally identified
Aug 24, 2020, 8:59 pm By MongabayFor six decades, 28 crickets from the Philippines have been stored in natural history collections at…Key Amazon grain route blocked by Indigenous protest over funding, Grainrail
Aug 24, 2020, 6:07 pm By MongabayThe Kayapó Mekrãgnoti Indigenous blocakade of the BR 163 highways. Image courtesy of the Kabu…Rescuing Achilles: Southern pig-tailed macaques listed as endangered but still persecuted (commentary)
Aug 24, 2020, 4:59 pm By MongabayThe southern pig-tailed macaque (Macaca nemestrina) has recently been re-classified as endangered by…Indonesia bill weakening environmental safeguards to pass in October
Aug 24, 2020, 11:57 am By MongabayJAKARTA — Indonesian lawmakers are working overtime — defying popular opposition and their own…For South America’s wilderness areas, COVID-19 brings risk and respite
Aug 24, 2020, 10:41 am By MongabayThe Bolivian government’s decision to close all national parks in response to the COVID-19…Captive breeding helps New Zealand’s threatened black stilts take flight
Aug 21, 2020, 3:42 pm By MongabayA group of students and parents huddled behind a row of wooden boxes in New Zealand’s Godley…Sharks nearby? A bottle of seawater can hold the answer, study says
Aug 21, 2020, 2:32 pm By MongabayTwo liters of seawater, or about half a gallon. That’s all that’s needed to detect the presence…Amazon ‘women warriors’ show gender equality, forest conservation go hand in hand
Aug 21, 2020, 2:06 pm By MongabayNEW YORK — On an early December morning last year in the state of Maranhão, Brazil, half a dozen…Can we predict where Amazon fires will occur? And to what end?
Aug 21, 2020, 1:05 pm By MongabayThe world watched in horror and surprise as the Amazon burned in 2019, windblown smoke darkening the…
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