Global consumer demands fuel the extinction crisis facing the world’s primates
Dec 29, 2019, 8:45 am By MongabayA ceaselessly growing human population and an ever-expanding world economy based on the…2019: The year rainforests burned
Dec 27, 2019, 1:04 pm By Mongabay2019 closed out a “lost decade” for the world’s tropical forests, with surging deforestation…Amazon’s Mura indigenous group demands input over giant mining project
Dec 27, 2019, 11:34 am By MongabayTuxaua (chief) Aldinelson Pavão stands beside an exploratory well drilled by Potássio do Brasil.…In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, December 27, 2019
Dec 27, 2019, 11:19 am By MongabayTropical forests Seventeen black rhinos were moved from South Africa to Malawi (CNN). A journalist…Love triangle complicates efforts to breed Sumatran rhinos
Dec 27, 2019, 9:27 am By MongabayEAST LAMPUNG, Indonesia — Efforts to breed the critically endangered Sumatran rhinoceros…Cambodian “bat man” bolsters the fight against dengue fever
Dec 26, 2019, 2:54 pm By MongabayMeet Heng Kim Seng, Cambodia’s bat man. In a few years, he went from rice to riches all because of…Photos: Top 15 new species of 2019
Dec 26, 2019, 1:28 pm By MongabayThe discovery of a new-to-science species is always an awe-inspiring bit of news, filling us with…Mega-mining project slated for Brazilian Amazon sparks controversy
Dec 26, 2019, 1:18 pm By MongabayThe sign welcoming visitors to Autazes. It reads: “The Land of Milk and Potash.” Image by Thais…Action plan for red colobus
Dec 26, 2019, 5:59 am By MongabayA final effort to find Miss Waldron’s red colobus is under way in the forests of southeastern…2019’s top 10 ocean news stories (commentary)
Dec 25, 2019, 11:15 am By Mongabay1. Climate change and oceans Climate change impacts on land made almost daily headlines this year:…‘Tainted timber’ from Myanmar widely used in yachts seized in the Netherlands
Dec 25, 2019, 8:28 am By MongabayDutch authorities carried out raids in six locations in the Netherlands seizing teak, widely used in…NGOs reject new oil palm plantation in southern Cameroon
Dec 25, 2019, 5:59 am By MongabayKRIBI, Cameroon — Alarm flashed through Cameroon’s conservation community in mid-September, when…Eu / Chinese soy consumption linked to species impacts in Brazilian Cerrado: study
Dec 24, 2019, 9:42 am By MongabayA giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) digs in the earth for food within a barbed wire-enclosed…Community conservation agreements a lifeline for Uganda’s grey crowned cranes
Dec 24, 2019, 9:09 am By MongabayKABALE DISTRICT, Uganda — Ten years ago, grey crowned cranes (Balearica regulorum) had become a…In Indonesia’s provinces, ditching coal for renewables would cut carbon and costs: study
Dec 24, 2019, 8:10 am By MongabayIn Indonesia, a major producer and consumer of coal, politicians often argue that continued reliance…New monkey discovered on “island” amid deforestation in Brazil
Dec 23, 2019, 5:09 pm By MongabayDNA analysis has revealed a “new” species of monkey that only survives today because its habitat…Audio: The best animal calls featured on the Mongabay Newscast in 2019
Dec 23, 2019, 2:40 pm By MongabayThis is our last episode of 2019, so we took a look back at the bioacoustic recordings we featured…Antonio Donato Nobre: “The forest is sick and losing its carbon-sequestration capacity”
Dec 23, 2019, 12:33 pm By Mongabay“We are almost losing the inhabitability of the planet,” states Antonio Donato Nobre, who…Largest coral reef survey in French Polynesia offers hope
Dec 23, 2019, 9:56 am By MongabayOver the course of seven months in 2012 and 2013, more than 70 scientists collaborated to study and…Brazil on the precipice: from environmental leader to despoiler (2010-2020)
Dec 23, 2019, 9:24 am By MongabayMuch of the Amazon basin rainforest in Brazil, known for its staggering biodiversity, is on lands…
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