Can jaguar tourism save Bolivia’s fast dwindling forests?
Mar 7, 2019, 1:36 pm By Mongabay
Few countries in the tropics have seen their trees chopped down as quickly as Bolivia did between…Saving the Cerrado: Six commodities traders to disclose supply chain data
Mar 7, 2019, 1:02 pm By MongabayA view of the Cerrado savannah and plateau tablelands. Photo by Alicia Prager. In a step toward…Reducing human-elephant encounters with calls, texts, and digital signs
Mar 6, 2019, 9:59 pm By MongabayIn India, few animals carry the kind of cultural symbolism that elephants do. Human-elephant…EU sued to stop burning trees for energy; it’s not carbon neutral: plaintiffs
Mar 6, 2019, 5:15 pm By MongabayThe Drax power stations in the United Kingdom, one of the largest users of woody biomass for energy…Proximity to towns stretches giraffe home ranges
Mar 6, 2019, 1:58 pm By MongabayGiraffes have to search a wider area for food and water when people live nearby, according to a…Philippines customs find more than 1,500 live turtles in suitcases
Mar 6, 2019, 11:48 am By MongabayCustoms officials in the Philippines have seized 1,529 live turtles that they found wrapped in duct…Record levels of deforestation in Peruvian Amazon as gold mines spread
Mar 6, 2019, 9:54 am By Mongabay
Illegal gold mining has led to historical rates of deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon, a recent…Salt fiends: Search for sodium puts Rwanda’s gorillas in harm’s way
Mar 6, 2019, 4:10 am By Mongabay
A sodium craving may be the reason endangered mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) from…Without indigenous leadership, zero-deforestation policies will fail (commentary)
Mar 5, 2019, 4:02 pm By Mongabay
In recent years, companies operating in the Brazilian soy industry, such as Grupo André Maggi,…Audio: Scott Wallace on the importance of protecting uncontacted indigenous groups in the Amazon
Mar 5, 2019, 3:15 pm By Mongabay
On today’s episode, we speak with Scott Wallace, a journalist and author of the New York Times…Late timber kingpin who plundered Myanmar’s forests unmasked
Mar 5, 2019, 1:50 pm By MongabayA secretive timber kingpin who died last year has been unmasked as the shadowy figure at the center…You’re gonna need a smaller boat: Media obscures shrinking ‘newsworthy’ fish
Mar 5, 2019, 12:15 pm By MongabayHyperbolic headlines can be like catnip for newspaper editors. So when a local fisher hauls in what…Activists fighting to save orangutan habitat from dam unfazed by legal setback
Mar 5, 2019, 11:39 am By MongabayEnvironmentalists in Indonesia have vowed to “never stop” in their fight to halt the…The hidden costs of hydro: We need to reconsider world’s dam plans
Mar 5, 2019, 11:38 am By Mongabay
The Belo Monte dam in the Brazilian Amazon. One of the biggest in the world, it was plagued by…180 years of herps: Q&A with Luis Ceríaco on Angola’s atlas of life
Mar 5, 2019, 9:32 am By MongabayAll the amphibian and reptile species that have ever been recorded in Angola have now been included…Business as usual on a reclaimed islet off Jakarta — despite closure order
Mar 5, 2019, 7:03 am By MongabayJAKARTA — Construction and commercial activities have quietly resumed on a land reclamation…Indigenous group sues Ecuador for earmarking its land for oil drilling
Mar 5, 2019, 6:00 am By MongabayPUYO, Ecuador — An indigenous community in Ecuador has filed a lawsuit against the government for…Trouble in Botswana’s elephant paradise as poaching said to rise
Mar 5, 2019, 4:49 am By MongabayThis is the first article in a two-part series on the threats to African elephants in Botswana.…Glyphosate’s kidney disease link: More science, less politics (commentary)
Mar 5, 2019, 12:08 am By Mongabay
Science advances by debate. Unlike in politics, scientific arguments need to be backed by evidence…Guatemala: Proposed new park on indigenous land treads fine ethical line
Mar 4, 2019, 4:26 pm By MongabayLA GLORIA, Guatemala — The sun was still rising when Ovidio Yat Sacul set out, machete in hand, in…
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