Raising beef cattle on grass can create a higher carbon footprint than feedlots, new study suggests
Dec 5, 2017, 3:09 pm By Mongabay
The popularity of grass-fed beef owes much to the claim that the meat from cattle raised on pastures…Mammal diversity may increase carbon storage in rainforests
Dec 5, 2017, 2:50 pm By Mongabay
Amazonian rainforests bustle with activity: Monkeys snag fruit from branches in the canopy;…Huge new ocean reserves announced in Mexico, Arctic
Dec 5, 2017, 2:28 pm By Mongabay
The past couple weeks have brought major news about two important new marine reserves. On November…Entanglements hamper reproduction as right whale population slides
Dec 5, 2017, 9:46 am By Mongabay
It’s been a rough year for North Atlantic right whales. Fifteen died in the first 10 months of the…Orangutans process plants into medicine, study finds
Dec 4, 2017, 5:42 pm By MongabayThe natural world is full of medicines, many of which have been tapped by pharmaceutical companies…Kenyan farmers reap economic, environmental gains from ABCDs of agroforestry
Dec 4, 2017, 5:32 pm By MongabayKERICHO, Kenya – Less than a decade ago, the hills of Tuiyobei village in Kenya’s Rift Valley…Ferrogrão grain railway threatens Amazon indigenous groups, forest
Dec 4, 2017, 12:04 pm By MongabayAn Amazon grain terminal at night. International and Brazilian agribusiness interests are pushing…Extreme seasonal changes in Amazon river levels threaten forest conservation by indigenous people
Dec 4, 2017, 11:38 am By MongabayRivers in the Amazon are cycling between increasingly severe states of flood and drought, as…The curious case of the phantom hippo teeth
Dec 4, 2017, 10:50 am By MongabayThink of the illegal wildlife trade, and elephant tusks and rhino horns come to mind. But another of…Pulp and paper giant sues Indonesian government over peat protection obligation
Dec 3, 2017, 11:51 pm By MongabayJAKARTA – A subsidiary of Indonesia’s second-largest pulp and paper firm is suing the government…Citizen journalist jailed 7 years for reporting environmental disaster in Vietnam
Dec 1, 2017, 7:01 pm By Mongabay
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam – A Vietnamese court has sentenced 22-year-old Nguyen Van Hoa, an…‘They want to occupy and take our land’: Land conflicts increase in Brazil
Dec 1, 2017, 2:45 pm By Mongabay
Deforestation is rife in the Brazilian state of Rondônia, which lies deep in the western Amazon…Catch-all fisheries are squeezing Asia’s seahorses
Dec 1, 2017, 1:50 pm By MongabaySome of the fishing boats around Phu Quoc Island off southwestern Vietnam use trawl nets that drag…Forced out or killed: rare chimps go missing from Cameroon mountain forest
Dec 1, 2017, 12:50 pm By Mongabay
The new “farm-to-market” road commissioned by the Cameroon Agriculture Ministry is largely…Harnessing the power of camera trap bycatch data to monitor threatened species (commentary)
Dec 1, 2017, 10:56 am By MongabayThe sun bear (Helarctos malayanus), a charismatic tropical Ursid, occurs throughout Southeast Asia,…From rescue to research: training detection dogs for conservation
Dec 1, 2017, 10:08 am By MongabayEcologists on Santa Cruz island off California had a big problem with small creatures. Argentine…Petition for Indonesian government to save Sumatran rhino garners global support
Dec 1, 2017, 4:07 am By MongabayOver 100,000 people have signed an online petition calling for the Indonesian government to do more…New research might finally establish true identity of the mysterious Yeti
Nov 30, 2017, 6:00 pm By MongabayThe legend of the Yeti, a mysterious, ape-like, bipedal creature rumored to live in the Himalayas,…Indonesians race to save their disappearing lakes, before it’s too late
Nov 30, 2017, 11:49 am By MongabayLAKE LIMBOTO, Indonesia — Anton Kui has fished here since he was in fifth grade. He remembers he…‘Extreme concern’: Report gives glimpse into scale of Kalimantan bird trade
Nov 30, 2017, 4:15 am By MongabayJAKARTA — Tens of thousands of birds, many of them protected species on the brink of extinction,…
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