Palm oil companies continue to criminalize farmers in Sumatra (commentary)
Jan 14, 2019, 1:12 pm By MongabayOn a late night in December, I arrived in the village of Lunjuk on the Indonesian island of Sumatra.…Bringing the tapir back to Borneo
Jan 14, 2019, 11:15 am By Mongabay
Forty thousand years ago — 28,000 years before the Neolithic Revolution saw hunter-gatherers…With its $3.85b mine takeover, Indonesia inherits a $13b pollution problem
Jan 14, 2019, 5:55 am By MongabayJAKARTA — When the Indonesian government took a controlling stake in the operator of one of the…Latam Eco Review: Resistance, hope and camera traps
Jan 11, 2019, 5:40 pm By Mongabay
The recent top stories from Mongabay Latam, our Spanish-language service, include a call to cover…Karen indigenous communities in Myanmar have officially launched the Salween Peace Park
Jan 11, 2019, 4:10 pm By MongabayLast month, indigenous Karen communities, the Salween Peace Park Committee, and the Karen…In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, January 11, 2019
Jan 11, 2019, 10:42 am By Mongabay
Tropical forests Scientists set up a mirror for wildlife in the rainforest, with comical results…Studying human behavior to protect orangutans: Q&A with Liana Chua
Jan 11, 2019, 8:20 am By MongabaySocial anthropologist Liana Chua leads a project, POKOK, that aims to reduce the killing of…In Malta, legal loopholes give poachers cover to hunt migratory birds
Jan 11, 2019, 1:50 am By MongabayWithin a day of arriving on the Mediterranean island of Malta on their southbound migration last…Termites help to protect tropical forests during drought, study finds
Jan 10, 2019, 9:25 pm By MongabayDroughts can transform tropical forests. They kill trees and slow their growth. They also affect…Should Trump be listening to indigenous people on fire management?
Jan 10, 2019, 8:10 pm By Mongabay
It was only a tweet, but the U.S. President again this week used an inaccurate statement about…Drones with thermal cameras help detect camouflaged species
Jan 10, 2019, 3:40 pm By MongabayForestry and construction companies in the U.K. are required to ensure their work doesn’t endanger…Ocean warming projected to accelerate more than four-fold over next 60 years: Study
Jan 10, 2019, 2:14 pm By Mongabay2017 currently holds the record for hottest ocean temperatures, but, according to a new study, 2018…Protecting India’s fishing villages: Q&A with ‘maptivist’ Saravanan
Jan 10, 2019, 1:14 pm By Mongabay
CHENNAI, India — In a small fishing hamlet, one of thousands dotting India’s 7,500-kilometer…Rapid population drop weakened the Grauer’s gorilla gene pool
Jan 10, 2019, 12:39 pm By Mongabay
The recent plunge in numbers of Grauer’s gorillas in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo…Why are fewer monarch butterflies overwintering in Mexico?
Jan 9, 2019, 3:53 pm By Mongabay
Fewer and fewer monarch butterflies are reaching their overwintering grounds in Mexico every year,…Community-based conservation offers hope for Amazon’s giant South American turtle
Jan 9, 2019, 12:26 pm By Mongabay
A giant South American turtle hatchling (P. expansa) on a community-protected beach deep in the…Start them young: Uganda targets children for conservation awareness
Jan 9, 2019, 9:24 am By Mongabay
Entebbe, Uganda — At the Uganda Wildlife Conservation Education Center in Entebbe, a steady stream…George, the last known Hawaiian snail of his kind, dies at 14
Jan 9, 2019, 8:51 am By Mongabay
On the first day of 2019, George, the last known member of the Hawaiian snail species Achatinella…Audio: Rhett Butler on how sound can save forests and top rainforest storylines to watch in 2019
Jan 8, 2019, 10:15 am By Mongabay
On today’s episode, we welcome Mongabay founder and CEO Rhett Butler to discuss the biggest…Hazy figures cloud Indonesia’s peat restoration as fire season looms
Jan 8, 2019, 7:33 am By MongabayJAKARTA — Indonesia has restored degraded peatlands the size of a million football fields in the…
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