Liberia expands a key elephant park again, this time with help of locals
Jan 22, 2020, 12:39 pm By MongabayIn eastern Liberia, efforts are underway to formally demarcate the boundaries of Sapo National Park,…Mexico: Community forestry boosts conservation, jobs, and social benefits
Jan 22, 2020, 11:05 am By MongabayLaura Jiménez, Manuel Herrera and Elías Santiago grew up in a land where elders proudly related…Mass tree planting along India’s Cauvery River has scientists worried
Jan 22, 2020, 6:35 am By MongabayThe Isha Foundation, a spiritual organization headquartered in south India, is taking on the cause…Mongabay editor arrested in Indonesia
Jan 21, 2020, 2:56 pm By MongabayPhilip Jacobson, an award-winning editor for the environmental science news outlet Mongabay, has…Black-market anchovies: Report details Peru’s illegal fish meal industry
Jan 21, 2020, 10:36 am By MongabayPeru is the world’s leading producer of fish meal, but it’s unclear precisely how much of the…Madagascar launches massive planting drive, eyes 60 million trees
Jan 21, 2020, 1:16 am By MongabayMadagascar has embarked on its most ambitious tree-planting drive yet, aiming to plant 60 million…Amazon’s Munduruku stage daring Christmas raid to recover sacred urns
Jan 20, 2020, 2:37 pm By MongabayIndigenous protest on the Teles Pires River, December, 2019. The sign held by two Munduruku reads:…Deforestation clips howler monkey calls, study finds
Jan 20, 2020, 12:43 pm By MongabayHowler monkeys change their calls when they’re close to deforested areas, a new study has found. A…A national park takes shape in Argentina as the forest disappears
Fri 4:52pm By MongabayTwo Darwin’s rheas (Rhea pennata) run at full speed between the thorny bushes and tall grasslands…One of four North Atlantic right whale calves spotted so far this breeding season struck by ship
Fri 4:38pm By MongabayOne of just four North Atlantic right whale calves spotted off the southeast coast of the United…In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, Jan. 17, 2020
Fri 10:48am By MongabayTropical forests Farmers in Haiti have been paid after nearly a decade for the land they lost…Belo Monte boondoggle: Brazil’s biggest, costliest dam may be unviable
Fri 10:33am By MongabayOn November 27, 2019, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, with wife Michelle Bolsonaro beside him…India’s yak herders face the end of ancient tradition in warming Himalayas
Fri 3:07am By MongabayFor many Himalayan pastoral societies, yaks are a cornerstone of their livelihoods as much as of…What is needed to keep Sri Lanka’s leopards roaming free? (Commentary)
Fri 1:58am By MongabayOn Dec. 31, a fully grown male Sri Lankan leopard (Panthera pardus kotiya) was found shot and killed…Conflict in the Chico Mendes Reserve threaten this pioneering Amazonian project
Jan 16, 2020, 5:39 pm By MongabayIn 1990, the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve, or Resex, in the Brazilian state of Acre introduced a…A new dawn: The story of deforestation in the next decade must be different to the last (commentary)
Jan 16, 2020, 12:43 pm By MongabayThis was meant to be a moment of triumph in the long battle to save the world’s forests. The year…Rangers in Indonesia’s Aceh to get guns as officials flex on violators
Jan 16, 2020, 10:35 am By MongabayJAKARTA — Forest rangers in Indonesia’s Aceh province will this year be allowed to carry…Indigenous lands hold 36% or more of remaining intact forest landscapes
Jan 16, 2020, 2:45 am By MongabayMore than one-third of the world’s remaining pristine forests, known as intact forest landscapes,…Colombia’s ‘Heart of the World’: Mining, megaprojects overrun indigenous land
Jan 15, 2020, 6:11 pm By MongabayJaime Luis Arias grew up on the southern slopes of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. An isolated…For final months of 2019, Amazon deforestation hits highest level in at least 13 years
Jan 15, 2020, 2:21 pm By MongabayDeforestation during the final five months of 2019 hit the highest level since at least 2006…
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