Cost-effective conservation: Study identifies key ‘umbrella’ species
Jan 14, 2020, 10:30 am By MongabayGovernments could vastly improve the efficiency of money spent on conservation if they took a hard…To deter Chinese sea claims, Indonesia puts its fishers on the front line
Jan 14, 2020, 9:53 am By MongabayJAKARTA — Indonesia is ramping up its fisheries in the waters around its northern Natuna Islands,…Indonesia’s push to become a tourism paradise sidelines land rights
Jan 14, 2020, 6:28 am By MongabayJAKARTA — President Joko Widodo’s focus on building tourism hotspots has created an increasingly…One six-week expedition discovered ten new songbird species and subspecies in Indonesia
Jan 13, 2020, 5:33 pm By MongabayA six-week expedition to three small island groups near Sulawesi, Indonesia has yielded five new…Conservationists in peril: Scientists, campaigners risk their lives for their work
Jan 13, 2020, 2:03 pm By MongabayToward the end of 2014, Tanya Rosen, a former New York-based international lawyer, found herself…Update to biodiversity treaty proposes protecting at least 30% of Earth
Jan 13, 2020, 1:55 pm By MongabayA proposed update to the global treaty governing plant and animal life on Earth calls for nearly a…Goldman Prize winner launches new environmental foundation in the Cook Islands
Jan 13, 2020, 1:15 pm By MongabayGoldman Environmental Prize winner Jacqueline Evans has launched the Moana Foundation to advance…Communities in Brazilian Cerrado besieged by global demand for soy
Jan 13, 2020, 12:02 pm By MongabayA sign points to several of the large farms that make up the Agronegocio Condominio Cachoeira do…Ten actions for Brazilian scientists to engage in environmental politics (commentary)
Fri 1:00pm By MongabayBrazil is the most biologically diverse country in the world, harboring 10 to 18% of the world’s…Indonesian officials wield sharia law in defense of Sumatran rhinos
Fri 11:22am By MongabayEAST LAMPUNG, Indonesia — The government of the Indonesian province of Aceh, notorious for public…In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, Jan. 10, 2020
Fri 11:02am By MongabayTropical forests Forest countries and food companies must build “trust,” one commentator says…Activists seek purge after Indonesia court rules forest plantations illegal
Fri 5:58am By MongabayJAKARTA — Environmental activists have called on the Indonesian government to swiftly crack down…Philippine fern efficiently absorbs arsenic, copper from toxic mining soil
Jan 9, 2020, 3:00 pm By MongabayMANILA — Filipino scientists have discovered what might be the next big indigenous plant material…Rare plant species are especially vulnerable to climate change, and rarity is more common than previously understood
Jan 9, 2020, 1:50 pm By MongabayRare plant species are far more likely to go extinct than common species, yet we know surprisingly…Polly share a cracker: Study finds grey parrots are good Samaritans
Jan 9, 2020, 11:04 am By MongabayIt looked like a game of parrot poker, but the token exchange counter set up by European researchers…Forest loss moves swiftly once 50% deforestation ‘tipping point’ reached
Jan 9, 2020, 8:34 am By MongabayScientists believe they’ve uncovered a tipping point in the deforestation of landscapes across…Pangolins top the charts while climate stories lag: Insights on our 2019 reporting (insider)
Jan 8, 2020, 6:27 pm By MongabayMongabay’s traffic hit a new record in 2019, with pageviews increasing 34% to 102 million and…Tool use in puffins may point to ‘underestimated’ intelligence in seabirds
Jan 8, 2020, 9:13 am By MongabayThe camera traps that ecologist Annette Fayet had set up didn’t provide the clues she had hoped to…Palm oil processors top plantations in destroying proboscis monkey habitat
Jan 8, 2020, 8:27 am By MongabayJAKARTA — The oil palm processing industry has become the biggest threat to the iconic and…The fight is on to save the last clean waterway in Brazil’s Manaus
Jan 8, 2020, 8:01 am By MongabayMANAUS, Brazil — At the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, Jó Farah wades knee-deep through the…
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