Camera trap videos help protect biodiversity of Bigal River Biological Reserve in Ecuador
Aug 9, 2018, 12:33 pm By MongabayBigal River Biological Reserve was created in 2008 in the foothill forests of northeastern Ecuador,…‘High risk’ that China’s timber from PNG is illegal: New report
Aug 9, 2018, 11:23 am By MongabayPapua New Guinea’s timber industry is plagued by illegality, including lax enforcement of forestry…In Ecuador, a pipeline cuts a trail of misery through indigenous land
Aug 9, 2018, 8:07 am By MongabaySAN JOSÉ DE WISUYÁ, Ecuador — One morning in November 2015, one of the elders, or taitas, of the…‘I can’t get out’: Farmers feel the pressure as Ecuador’s palm oil sector grows
Aug 8, 2018, 8:02 pm By MongabayJorge Jurado has been farming oil palm on Ecuador’s coast for almost 20 years, and has seen the…Industrial fishing fleets traveling farther to reel in fewer fish
Aug 8, 2018, 4:35 pm By MongabayIndustrial fishing fleets are traveling ever-farther across the globe in pursuit of a dwindling haul…A river restored breathes new life into Kuala Lumpur
Aug 8, 2018, 3:52 pm By MongabayKUALA LUMPUR — By 2012, when then-prime minister Najib Razak formally launched the River of Life…Madagascar proposes paying illegal loggers to audit or buy their rosewood
Aug 8, 2018, 11:47 am By MongabayNobody knows just how much rosewood Madagascar’s timber barons have hidden away in caches…On an island in the sun, coal power is king over abundant solar
Aug 8, 2018, 7:35 am By MongabayJAKARTA — Dolphins haven’t had it easy in Bali, a resort island in Indonesia that’s massively…Africa’s biggest cobra is five species, not one, study finds
Aug 8, 2018, 4:38 am By MongabayThe highly venomous forest cobra, the largest of Africa’s true cobras (Naja), is not one, but five…Heavy rains preceded the Laos dam collapse. Was climate change a factor?
Aug 7, 2018, 10:34 pm By Mongabay
Two weeks after a dam in the Xe-Pian Xe-Namnoy hydropower facility collapsed in southern Laos,…Myanmar’s milling industry devastated by new logging policies
Aug 7, 2018, 2:55 pm By MongabayMyanmar’s Timber Merchants Association is crying foul over what they say are the devastating…Audio: Beavers matter more than you think
Aug 7, 2018, 11:50 am By Mongabay
We discuss one of the world’s most overlooked keystone species, the beaver, on this episode of the…Soggier forest soils thwart the uptake of climate-warming methane
Aug 7, 2018, 11:06 am By MongabayRainier weather could be hampering the ability to siphon methane from the air by forest soils,…Alan Rabinowitz, big cat evangelist and voice of the wild, dies at 64
Aug 7, 2018, 8:03 am By MongabayThe wildlife conservation community has lost a leader in big cat conservation. Alan Rabinowitz, an…More companies sign on to Cerrado Manifesto
Aug 6, 2018, 5:38 pm By MongabayA recently cleared portion of the Cerrado. The biome is home to 44 percent of Brazil’s…An indigenous village navigates its ecotourism success
Aug 6, 2018, 3:35 pm By MongabayReaching the village of Wae Rebo on Indonesia’s Flores Island requires a seven-hour drive down…Ocean acidity stifles coral-anchored communities
Aug 6, 2018, 10:56 am By Mongabay
New research confirms the fragility of life living in the world’s oceans, which are growing warmer…Indonesia demands cleanup after coal spill pollutes beach
Aug 6, 2018, 10:11 am By Mongabay
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia — Fishermen and environmental activists in Indonesia are demanding…Fire, more than logging, drives Amazon forest degradation, study finds
Aug 6, 2018, 9:30 am By MongabayThe shrieking rip of a chainsaw and the muffled roar of fire: both of these sounds are associated…Largest king penguin colony in the world has shrunk by 90%
Aug 6, 2018, 8:36 am By Mongabay
The world’s largest colony of king penguins has declined drastically by nearly 90 percent, a new…
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