Musicians and Indigenous communities join to fight illegal logging in Peru
Dec 21, 2017, 6:13 pm By MongabayLIMA, Peru — Music creates connections, unites cultures and helps to spread great ideas. This is a…Ecuador eases restrictions on environmental organizations
Dec 21, 2017, 6:10 pm By MongabayIn the last four years, Ecuador’s social organizations have tiptoed over a series of obligations…Experts to China: cooperate or South China Sea fisheries may collapse
Dec 21, 2017, 4:33 pm By Mongabay
For years, sovereign rights in the South China Sea have been an object of fierce contention among…Consensus grows: climate-smart agriculture key to Paris Agreement goals
Dec 21, 2017, 11:55 am By MongabayA Peruvian potato farmer. There are an estimated 400 million small-scale farmers around the world.…Palm oil’s ecological footprint extends to distant forests, study finds
Dec 21, 2017, 7:48 am By MongabayPalm oil, a leading driver of tropical deforestation, may be also wreaking enormous damage on…Amazon dam impacts underestimated due to overlooked vine growth: study
Dec 20, 2017, 5:49 pm By MongabayOne of over 3,500 islands created by the Balbina mega-dam in the Brazilian Amazon. A new study has…Know your ESA: an online resource for Endangered Species Act docs and data
Dec 20, 2017, 1:46 pm By MongabayDo you know where your endangered species are? A new online tool offers access to and analyses of a…Armed conflict was not always ‘good’ for preventing deforestation in Colombia (commentary)
Dec 20, 2017, 12:25 pm By MongabayThe peace deal last year in Colombia has elicited a variety of opinions. One of the loudest comes…Indonesia seeks to slap money-laundering label on illegal fishing
Dec 20, 2017, 3:32 am By MongabayJAKARTA — Indonesia is lobbying the United Nations to allow governments worldwide to pursue…The toughest snake on Earth lives in central Africa and eats baby rodents
Dec 19, 2017, 12:10 pm By MongabayThe fury of rodent mothers may have given rise to the toughest of all snakes. The skin of the…Mine tailings dam failures major cause of environmental disasters: report
Dec 19, 2017, 11:42 am By Mongabay
The Imperial Metals Mount Polley gold and copper mine tailings dam disaster in British Columbia,…Agroforestry boosts rice and biodiversity in India
Dec 19, 2017, 10:56 am By MongabayWEST BENGAL, India — For the tough, weather-beaten farmers in the rural heartland of West Bengal,…For indigenous kids in Indonesian Borneo, an early start to forest stewardship
Dec 19, 2017, 8:00 am By Mongabay
PUNAN ADIU, Indonesia — It’s no ordinary day here in the tiny village of Punan Adiu, tucked away…Zanzibar’s red colobus monkeys much more numerous than thought
Dec 18, 2017, 2:44 pm By MongabayZanzibar is home to many more individuals of an endemic monkey species than biologists previously…Do protected areas work in the tropics?
Dec 18, 2017, 1:08 pm By MongabayIn 1986, Patricia Wright, then a budding primatologist, spent weeks combing the rainforests of…EU-LatAm trade deal good for agribusiness; bad for Amazon, climate
Dec 18, 2017, 12:11 pm By MongabayArcher Daniels Midland (ADM) soy silos in Mato Grosso along the BR-163 highway, where Amazon…Malaysia’s last female Sumatran rhino falls ill
Dec 17, 2017, 11:23 pm By MongabayIman, the last female Sumatran rhino (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) in the Malaysian state of Sabah, has…‘A vicious cycle towards extinction:’ Hunting and trade can push even abundant wildlife populations to the brink
Dec 15, 2017, 2:40 pm By MongabayThe U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s announcement in November that it was lifting a ban on the…Colombian community leader allegedly murdered for standing up to palm oil
Dec 15, 2017, 2:38 pm By MongabayColombian community leader Hernan Bedoya, who defended collective land rights for Afro-Colombian…Recognition of Mentawai tribes marks Indonesia’s latest piecemeal concession to indigenous groups
Dec 15, 2017, 3:12 am By MongabayThe indigenous inhabitants of Indonesia’s Mentawai district, a cluster of islands off the…
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