In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, May 31, 2019
May 31, 2019, 11:10 am By MongabayTropical forests California’s new carbon dioxide emissions offset plan has critics worried that it…For Sri Lanka villagers, monkey business feeds off human actions
May 31, 2019, 10:45 am By MongabaySome residents of rural Polonnaruwa in north central Sri Lanka had little or no clue why monkeys…Chile pledges to make its fishing vessel tracking data public
May 31, 2019, 9:21 am By MongabayIn mid-May Chile finalized an agreement to publicly share proprietary data from its satellite system…Chinese banks risk supporting soy-related deforestation, report finds
Thu 10:43pm By MongabayThe homegrown banks that back the flood of soy into China have with little knowledge of the…Land grabbing, cattle ranching ravage Colombian Amazon after FARC demobilization
Thu 9:25pm By MongabayRafael Orjuela, a community leader in Cartagena de Chairá, Colombia, moved to the Amazonian…Tiny tracking tags help decode how echolocating bats navigate
Thu 1:45pm By MongabayWhile we fumble and crash without any light, bats zipping away in the dark, effortlessly skirting…The world’s biggest reptile fair is also a hub for traffickers
Thu 11:57am By MongabayHAMM, Germany — Two hours before the fair opens on a cold day in March, hundreds of people are…Rare rhino’s death should light a fire under Indonesia
Thu 7:00am By MongabayOn May 27, Monday morning, I woke to the news that Tam, the last male Sumatran rhino in Malaysia and…Community conservation in Namibia requires balance and understanding (commentary)
May 29, 2019, 1:47 pm By MongabayThis commentary is a response to an article by John Grobler published by Mongabay on February 26,…In a first, chimps found bashing tortoises against trees to get at the meat
May 29, 2019, 11:45 am By MongabayChimpanzees in Gabon’s Loango National Park have tortoises on their menu. For the first time,…What is magic without ape parts? Inside the illicit trade devastating Nigeria’s apes
May 29, 2019, 9:33 am By MongabayOHOFIA, Nigeria — The fading sunlight, half-coned and yellow, turns the evening murky. The crowing…Altered forests threaten sustainability of subsistence hunting
May 29, 2019, 7:55 am By MongabayThe way humans have changed the forests of Central and South America may be making it impossible for…Vets rule out poaching and disease in recent death of rare Javan rhino
May 29, 2019, 6:50 am By MongabayJAKARTA — Wildlife experts in Indonesia have determined that a rare Javan rhino found dead in…Otter cafés and ‘cute pets craze’ fuel illegal trafficking in Japan and Indonesia
May 28, 2019, 8:00 pm By MongabayOn World Otter Day 2019, a new documentary film has been released that shines a spotlight on the…Underwater ultrasound scanner to support manta conservation
May 28, 2019, 2:42 pm By MongabayNot all fish lay eggs. Female guppies, a common aquarium fish, can “drop” between two and 200…Audio: Chatty river dolphins in Brazil might help us understand evolution of marine mammal communication
May 28, 2019, 2:13 pm By MongabayOn today’s episode, we speak with Gabriel Melo-Santos, whose study of Araguaian river dolphins in…Conservation groups concerned as WHO recognizes traditional Chinese medicine
May 28, 2019, 3:33 am By MongabayThe World Health Organization (WHO) approved the inclusion of traditional Chinese medicine in the…A forest beset by oil palms, logging, now contends with a coal-trucking road
May 28, 2019, 3:04 am By MongabayJAMBI, Indonesia — A biodiverse patch of forest in Sumatra threatened by encroaching oil palm…Last male rhino in Malaysia dies
May 27, 2019, 8:42 am By MongabayTam, the last known male Sumatran rhino in Malaysia, died May 27 after months of declining health.…Earth’s hidden tree-microbe network mapped for the first time ever
May 27, 2019, 5:02 am By MongabayUnderneath the ground, hidden from view, there’s a massive network of fungi and bacteria hard at…
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