Seek higher standards to honestly assess conservation effectiveness (commentary)
Apr 17, 2018, 1:03 pm By MongabayThis commentary is in response to Mongabay’s Conservation Effectiveness series. You can read…India: This draft national forest policy too gives short shrift to grasslands
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In 1987, Asad Rahmani, ornithologist and the former director of the Bombay Natural History Society…Cooperative agroforestry empowers indigenous women in Honduras
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GUALCINCE, Honduras — The Lenca call it a sacrificial stone, where their indigenous ancestors…Dogs in India are a problem for wildlife, study finds
Apr 16, 2018, 9:10 am By MongabayDogs may be a human’s best friend, but can be a deadly menace to wildlife, including endangered…Colombia grants ‘historic’ protections to rainforest, indigenous groups
Apr 13, 2018, 3:33 pm By MongabayIn a move described as “unprecedented,” Colombia’s president Juan Manuel Santos announced…Small farmers not ready as Indonesia looks to impose its palm oil sustainability standard on all
Apr 13, 2018, 10:27 am By Mongabay
JAKARTA — The Indonesian government aims to impose its homegrown sustainability standard for palm…Certified weaknesses: The RSPO’s Liberian fiasco (commentary)
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It’s late March and the latest news about the future of communities’ traditional lands has yet…In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, April 13, 2018
Apr 13, 2018, 10:00 am By MongabayTropical forests A government agency in Indonesia aims to restore peatlands and help communities…Understanding bird behavior key to developing risk reduction technologies
Apr 13, 2018, 10:00 am By MongabayYears of studying birds and their relationship with their environment taught John Swaddle, professor…Population of world’s rarest giant turtle rises to 4 with new discovery
Apr 13, 2018, 8:59 am By MongabayWhen Cu Rua, an old Yangtze giant softshell turtle, died in Vietnam in 2016, he left behind only…Most Popular Stories of Mongabay Latam, April 2 -8
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Apr 12, 2018, 4:41 pm By MongabayMonarch butterflies depend on milkweed and its poisonous compounds that are deadly to most other…Indigenous environmental activist killed in Myanmar
Apr 12, 2018, 2:23 pm By MongabayIndigenous and environmental activist Saw O Moo was reportedly killed in Myanmar’s Karen State on…Brazil’s high court curbs executive power to dismember protected areas
Apr 12, 2018, 12:20 pm By MongabayProvisional Measures (MPs) were originally instituted as a means of taking emergency action. But…NGOs acquire land in Brazil to create wildlife corridor
Apr 12, 2018, 10:30 am By Mongabay
Brazil’s Atlantic Forest is one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots. However, over the last 500…Coal company fined 2 billion rupiah for illegal waste dumping in Borneo
Apr 12, 2018, 6:39 am By MongabayResidents of villages in Indonesian Borneo who have long complained that a coal company is polluting…India’s new forest policy draft draws criticism for emphasis on industrial timber
Apr 12, 2018, 3:25 am By MongabayThe Indian government has initiated the process of revamping its national forest policy, but the new…How a family of local elites is still pitching to control a district in Borneo
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8:19pm By MongabayWhat do the world’s tiniest chameleon, a color-changing snake, and a turtle that breathes through…A wish list for an environmentally friendly NAFTA
6:08pm By MongabayThe NAFTA flag. The fate of the three-nation trade agreement is now in the hands of negotiators…
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