Indonesia calls on palm oil industry, obscured by secrecy, to remain opaque
May 21, 2019, 8:19 am By MongabayJAKARTA — Environmental activists in Indonesia have denounced a recent call by the government to…Bauxite mining and Chinese dam push Guinea’s chimpanzees to the brink
May 21, 2019, 6:19 am By MongabayBOKÉ, Guinea — As he looks out on a landscape devastated by bauxite mining, Lamarana Camara…Interest in protecting environment up since Pope’s 2015 encyclical
May 21, 2019, 2:35 am By MongabayJust before Pope Francis released Laudato Si’, an encyclical, or formal letter from the pope, on…Bolivia: Nature rights tribunal condemns TIPNIS project
May 20, 2019, 6:18 pm By MongabayThe International Rights of Nature Tribunal has issued its ruling on the Bolivian government’s…‘Resisting to exist’: Indigenous women unite against Brazil’s far-right president
May 20, 2019, 10:14 am By MongabayIn a country where women account for almost half of Brazil’s 900,000 native people, female…Volunteers find bones of new species of extinct heron at Florida fossil site
May 20, 2019, 9:18 am By MongabayIn November 2017, two volunteers assisting researchers of the Florida Museum of Natural History dig…Monitoring hack shines a light on fishing boats operating under cover of dark
May 17, 2019, 10:01 pm By MongabayJAKARTA — Many of the fishing vessels operating in Indonesia’s waters at night do so undetected,…Extreme weather puts traditional livelihoods in peril in Sri Lanka, studies warn
May 17, 2019, 3:23 pm By MongabayJAFFNA, Sri Lanka — For Nataraja Kumar, 47, a fisherman from Guru Nagar, a sleepy coastal village…Solomon Islanders tried to stop the logging of their forests – and may pay the price
May 17, 2019, 3:00 pm By MongabayThis is the second story in a two-part series on logging in the Solomon Islands. The first article,…A new election brings little hope for Solomon Islands’ vanishing forests
May 17, 2019, 2:59 pm By MongabayHONIARA, Solomon Islands — The Solomon Islands is the biggest exporter, after Papua New Guinea, of…In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, May 17, 2019
May 17, 2019, 11:27 am By MongabayTropical forests With around 80,000 left, koalas have been declared “functionally extinct” in…Red colobus conservation in Zanzibar: A cautiously optimistic tale
May 17, 2019, 7:24 am By MongabayThabit Masoud is proud of the work he and his colleagues have pulled off on Zanzibar. As part of the…In Indonesia, a flawed certification scheme lets illegal loggers raze away
May 16, 2019, 7:41 am By MongabayJAKARTA — A massive series of seizures of timber from rare tree species has thrown into question…’Green’ bonds finance industrial tree plantations in Brazil
May 16, 2019, 6:58 am By MongabayInvestments known as green bonds that are intended to slow climate change can finance the operation…At 2,624 years, a bald cypress is oldest known living tree in eastern North America
May 16, 2019, 6:35 am By MongabayAncient bald cypress trees tower along the Black River in the state of North Carolina in the United…Climate change may make hurricanes and cyclones deadlier, study finds
May 16, 2019, 5:15 am By MongabayWeeks after the deadly cyclone Idai tore through Malawi, Zimbabwe and Mozambique, the human toll is…As Indonesia mulls moving the capital, indigenous groups fear another land grab
May 16, 2019, 1:32 am By MongabayJAKARTA — In the wake of Indonesian President Joko Widodo’s announcement that he intends to move…Canopy-dwelling rainforest mammals most sensitive to human disturbance
May 15, 2019, 3:29 pm By MongabayNew research using arboreal camera traps finds that canopy-dwelling mammals are particularly…An urban ‘butterfly experience’ in Sri Lanka
May 15, 2019, 2:38 pm By MongabayTake a lifelong love for conservation, pair it with the right support group, and what do you get? An…Public education could curb bushmeat demand in Laos, study finds
May 15, 2019, 12:29 pm By MongabayFines and the threat of disease could dissuade consumers from buying bushmeat, according to recent…
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