Marine protected areas are getting SMART (commentary)
Mar 3, 2019, 10:43 am By MongabayThis year, World Wildlife Day will celebrate life in the world’s oceans. It’s a fitting tribute.…Video: scientists capture giant spider eating an opossum
Mar 2, 2019, 2:02 pm By MongabayFor the first time, researchers have documented a giant spider eating an opossum in the Amazon…Malaysia to ban oil palm expansion?
Mar 2, 2019, 12:29 pm By MongabayMalaysia may ban further expansion of oil palm plantations in an effort to improve the oilseed’s…Taiwan: Extinct leopard subspecies allegedly seen by rangers
Mar 2, 2019, 9:17 am By Mongabay
This week news broke that a Formosan clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa brachyura) was spotted by…Why did Serengeti’s wild dogs disappear? Study challenges controversial hypothesis
8:28pm By Mongabay
In 1991, all of the African wild dogs that previously lived in Serengeti National Park in Tanzania…Norway divests from plantation companies linked to deforestation
8:15pm By MongabayThis week, Norway released the 2018 investment holdings of its massive government pension fund.…Brazil’s Sinop Dam flouts environmental legislation (Commentary)
2:31pm By MongabayThe Sinop Dam has become a critical test case — not only on the question of clearing reservoirs…Brazil to receive first-ever results-based REDD+ payment, but concerns remain
1:49pm By MongabayThe United Nations’ Green Climate Fund (GCF) has accepted the first proposal for REDD+…Latam Eco Review: Mining bust in Peru, mining boom in Chile
1:03pm By Mongabay
A state of emergency against illegal mining in Peru, open season for new mining ports in Chile,…In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, March 1, 2019
10:46am By MongabayTropical forests Agricultural giant Cargill is aiming for a deforestation-free supply chain by 2030…In the Congo Basin, a road cuts through once-untouched ape wilderness
9:21am By Mongabay
DJOUM, Cameroon — “This right there used to be hell.” It’s early February 2019, deep in the…Protests flare as pressure mounts on dam project in orangutan habitat
8:36am By Mongabay
JAKARTA — Activists in Indonesia and abroad staged a coordinated protest on March 1 to draw…Indigenous hunters vital to robust food webs in Australia
4:32am By Mongabay
Ecologists know that when we humans start tugging at the threads of a food web, the unraveling that…Kenya: Maasai herders work to keep themselves and wildlife roaming free
Feb 28, 2019, 4:24 pm By Mongabay
OLKIRIMATIAN, Kenya — As night falls on the Olkirimatian Group Ranch, in south-central Kenya, a…Indigenous-made film explores traditional textile making in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Feb 28, 2019, 1:16 pm By MongabayBefore clothes from the outside world arrived, the Sápara people of the Ecuadoran Amazon made their…Vaquita still doomed without further disruption of totoaba cartels (commentary)
Feb 28, 2019, 12:46 pm By MongabayMy organization, the Elephant Action League (EAL), spent 14 months investigating and infiltrating…Study finds people apt to shrug off extreme weather as normal
Feb 28, 2019, 12:04 pm By MongabayClimate research has demonstrated that the overall warming of the planet is leading to a jump in…Sri Lanka scientist blames industry as award for herbicide research is axed
Feb 28, 2019, 5:39 am By MongabayA leading science advocacy group has suspended its decision to award two Sri Lankan scientists for…For the famed chimps of Gombe, human encroachment takes a toll
Feb 28, 2019, 4:56 am By MongabayGOMBE, Tanzania — On the eastern shores of Lake Tanganyika, 16 kilometers (10 miles) north of the…Abandoned plantations in forested areas may not recover fully: Study
Feb 27, 2019, 7:30 pm By MongabayEucalyptus plantations in southern India that were abandoned and left to recover for nearly 40 years…
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