The unrecognized cost of Indonesia’s fires (commentary)
Oct 7, 2019, 7:09 am By MongabayThree decades ago, scientists surveying the forests of Malaysian Borneo discovered a plant extract…EU market a factor as Sri Lanka pulls its punches on protection for lizards
Oct 6, 2019, 11:37 am By MongabayCOLOMBO — With its spectacular green coloration and reddish eyes set behind a knob-like snout, the…Expedition finds new humpback breeding ground and sends first deep divers to Amazon Reef
Oct 4, 2019, 4:24 pm By MongabayA scientific expedition launched by environmental NGO Greenpeace has discovered a new humpback…Vatican calls landmark meeting to conserve Amazon, protect indigenous peoples
Oct 4, 2019, 11:52 am By MongabaySeeing the Amazon gravely at risk, the Vatican has called a conference to help protect the world’s…In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, October 4, 2019
Oct 4, 2019, 11:21 am By MongabayTropical forests An insect could help farmers battle invasive cacti in Kenya (Biographic). The world…Hundreds protest pollution from coal-fired power plant in Java
Oct 4, 2019, 9:51 am By MongabayCILACAP, Indonesia — Hundreds of people in this city in central Java staged a protest this week…Sumatra survey looks to identify at-risk rhinos for captive breeding
Oct 4, 2019, 7:48 am By MongabayAs Indonesia prepares to launch a new captive-breeding facility for Sumatran rhinos (Dicerorhinus…Demand for charcoal threatens the forest of Madagascar’s last hunter-gatherers
Oct 3, 2019, 3:05 pm By MongabayMIKEA FOREST, Madagascar — A spear, an ax, a fire starter crafted from cow horn, a hand-carved…How bioacoustics can transform conservation – Wildtech event in Palo Alto
Oct 3, 2019, 1:26 pm By MongabaySatellites have revolutionized forest monitoring, but there remains a major gap in biodiversity…Brazil land reform head fired amid push to legalize cleared Amazon land
Oct 3, 2019, 1:09 pm By MongabayBrazilian far-right President Jair Bolsonaro has fired the head of the federal agency in charge of…Study tracks first incursion of poachers into ‘pristine’ African forest
Oct 3, 2019, 11:21 am By MongabayElephant poachers are using logging roads to infiltrate some of the last remaining pristine forests…Brazilian beef industry plays outsized role in tropical carbon emissions: report
Oct 3, 2019, 10:56 am By MongabayDaily life on a cattle ranch in the Brazilian Amazon. Image © Erik Lopes courtesy of The Nature…As wildfires roil Sumatra, some villages have abandoned the burning
Oct 3, 2019, 10:56 am By MongabayUPANG CERIA/GELEBAK DALAM, Indonesia — Boat drivers sometimes decide not to work when the smoke is…Indonesian enforcement questioned as fires flare up on the same concessions
Oct 3, 2019, 6:39 am By MongabayJAKARTA — At least three companies whose concessions were burned in the 2015 fires that razed huge…Finally, Latin America is tackling wildlife trafficking (commentary)
Oct 2, 2019, 4:19 pm By MongabayI’ve been working on combating the illegal and unsustainable international wildlife trade for more…Bid to breed Sumatran rhino is handicapped by bureaucratic ‘quibbling’
Oct 2, 2019, 12:38 pm By MongabayJAKARTA — Scientists attempting a last-ditch attempt to breed the most threatened rhino species on…Report links major brands to illegal oil palm plantation in orangutan haven
Oct 2, 2019, 12:02 pm By MongabayJAKARTA — Major consumer brands including Nestlé, Kellogg’s and Hershey have been getting some…Manila’s informal settlers face relocation in exchange for clean bay
Oct 2, 2019, 6:43 am By MongabayMANILA — On a Wednesday afternoon, Rosemary Herela peers out the makeshift window of her home…Audio: Traveling the Pan Borneo Highway with Mongabay’s John Cannon
Oct 1, 2019, 4:48 pm By MongabayOn today’s episode of the Mongabay Newscast, we speak with our adventurous Middle East-based staff…‘We have to be in it together’: Remembering indigenous rights heroine Den Upa Rombelayuk (commentary)
Oct 1, 2019, 3:22 pm By MongabayIt was a sunny afternoon in Tobelo, a town on the eastern Indonesian island of Halmahera, when I met…
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