Five-year sentences for elephant poachers in Republic of Congo
Feb 28, 2018, 9:36 am By Mongabay
A court in the Republic of Congo has convicted three men of killing elephants for their tusks, and…New study: Radar reveals bats are a bellwether of climate change
Feb 28, 2018, 8:53 am By MongabayScientists know that bats boost the profits of farmers by fertilizing crops and keeping hungry…Vanishing species deserve our few cents (commentary)
Feb 27, 2018, 3:17 pm By MongabayAs a conservation scientist, people often ask me, “What can I do to help save vanishing…Peru: Law prioritizes highway construction that could threaten indigenous communities
Feb 27, 2018, 1:38 pm By MongabayUCAYALI REGION, Peru — Peru has passed a controversial law that makes highway construction in…Norsk Hydro accused of Amazon toxic spill, admits ‘clandestine pipeline’
Feb 27, 2018, 11:19 am By MongabayFlooding at the Norske Hydro Alunorte facility following heavy rains in February. Photo by Instituo…African Parks to manage gorges, rock art and crocodiles of Chad’s Ennedi
Feb 27, 2018, 9:50 am By Mongabay
The government of Chad has enlisted the aid of a conservation NGO to run a massive national park in…Detecting disasters on community lands in the Amazon: film highlights indigenous struggle
Feb 27, 2018, 7:00 am By Mongabay
Tens of thousands of indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon have been fighting decades of…Cambodia’s banteng-eating leopards edge closer to extinction, new study finds
Feb 27, 2018, 6:08 am By MongabayFor Cambodia’s last remaining Indochinese leopards (Panthera pardus delacouri), extinction could…Easter Island votes for world’s newest marine reserve
Feb 27, 2018, 5:54 am By Mongabay
Stone heads loom in the imagination of most people when they think of Easter Island. Known as Rapa…On an island of plenty, a community tempered by waves braces for rising seas
Feb 27, 2018, 5:53 am By MongabayAUKI, Indonesia — “We ladies have eyes on our feet,” Susanti Maryen says after a morning spent…‘We need to act’: Scientists urge prioritization of intact forests
Feb 26, 2018, 6:12 pm By MongabayWhen it comes to habitat quality and ecosystem services, research has shown that natural landscapes…Belo Monte legacy: harm from Amazon dam didn’t end with construction
Feb 26, 2018, 5:03 pm By MongabayA girl stands alone in a flooded home in the Palifitas neighborhood of Invasão dos Padres,…Scientists aim to give engineers the tools for ecologically sensitive development
Feb 26, 2018, 2:19 pm By MongabayAhead of a housing development in Panama, an assessor tasked with figuring out how the plans might…Indonesia braces for return of fire season as hotspots flare up
Feb 26, 2018, 9:42 am By MongabayJAKARTA — Forest fires are underway in Indonesia as the rainy season tails off, marking the return…New maps reveal industrial fishing in over half of world’s oceans
Feb 24, 2018, 12:49 am By MongabayIndustrial fishing takes place across more than 55 percent of the world’s oceans, according to a…DRC breaches logging moratorium for Chinese-owned companies
Feb 23, 2018, 9:27 pm By MongabayTwo Chinese-owned companies have been awarded 6,500 square kilometers of logging concessions in the…Conservationist, imprisoned for spying, dies in Iranian prison
Feb 23, 2018, 3:43 pm By MongabayKavous Seyed Emami, a professor of sociology and a director of the Persian Wildlife Heritage…Tropical forest fragmentation nearing ‘critical point,’ study finds
Feb 23, 2018, 3:09 pm By Mongabay
Deforestation in the tropics is caused by many different human activities that vary in intensity…Volunteering on the front lines of rhino conservation (commentary)
Feb 23, 2018, 2:49 pm By MongabayIn mid-2017, Ed Warner visited Zimbabwe, which has the world’s largest black rhino population…Orangutan culture in focus in ‘Person of the Forest’: Q&A with researchers Cheryl Knott and Robert Rodriguez Suro
Feb 23, 2018, 7:28 am By MongabayRafts of research in the past few decades have convinced scientists that there’s less that…
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