Belo Monte boondoggle: Brazil’s biggest, costliest dam may be unviable
Jan 17, 2020, 10:33 am By MongabayOn November 27, 2019, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, with wife Michelle Bolsonaro beside him…India’s yak herders face the end of ancient tradition in warming Himalayas
Jan 17, 2020, 3:07 am By MongabayFor many Himalayan pastoral societies, yaks are a cornerstone of their livelihoods as much as of…What is needed to keep Sri Lanka’s leopards roaming free? (Commentary)
Jan 17, 2020, 1:58 am By MongabayOn Dec. 31, a fully grown male Sri Lankan leopard (Panthera pardus kotiya) was found shot and killed…Conflict in the Chico Mendes Reserve threaten this pioneering Amazonian project
Jan 16, 2020, 5:39 pm By MongabayIn 1990, the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve, or Resex, in the Brazilian state of Acre introduced a…A new dawn: The story of deforestation in the next decade must be different to the last (commentary)
Jan 16, 2020, 12:43 pm By MongabayThis was meant to be a moment of triumph in the long battle to save the world’s forests. The year…Rangers in Indonesia’s Aceh to get guns as officials flex on violators
Jan 16, 2020, 10:35 am By MongabayJAKARTA — Forest rangers in Indonesia’s Aceh province will this year be allowed to carry…Indigenous lands hold 36% or more of remaining intact forest landscapes
Jan 16, 2020, 2:45 am By MongabayMore than one-third of the world’s remaining pristine forests, known as intact forest landscapes,…Colombia’s ‘Heart of the World’: Mining, megaprojects overrun indigenous land
Jan 15, 2020, 6:11 pm By MongabayJaime Luis Arias grew up on the southern slopes of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. An isolated…For final months of 2019, Amazon deforestation hits highest level in at least 13 years
Jan 15, 2020, 2:21 pm By MongabayDeforestation during the final five months of 2019 hit the highest level since at least 2006…2019 was second-hottest year on record, 2010s hottest decade
Jan 15, 2020, 2:17 pm By MongabayGlobal average temperatures on land and at sea in December 2019 were the second-highest recorded in…As 2019 ends, reptile-rich Sri Lanka delivers three more new gecko species
Jan 15, 2020, 7:48 am By MongabayCOLOMBO — A group of Sri Lankan herpetologists closed out 2019 in style: by introducing to science…As we act on climate, we mustn’t neglect nature (commentary)
Jan 14, 2020, 1:35 pm By Mongabay2019 was the year the environment finally broke into the mainstream. Inspired by Greta Thunberg’s…Five murdered in 2020 Brazilian Amazon land conflicts, adding to 2019 surge
Jan 14, 2020, 1:31 pm By MongabayA burned, deforested clearing inside the Karipuna Indigenous Reserve, Rondônia state. Illegal…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…
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