Indonesia’s ‘one-map’ database blasted for excluding indigenous lands
Aug 10, 2018, 11:44 am By Mongabay
JAKARTA — International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples was marked on Aug. 9 in Jakarta by…In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, August 10, 2018
Aug 10, 2018, 11:28 am By MongabayWe’ve collected a few stories that were published this week by other news outlets. Tropical…Latam Eco Review: Turtles at risk, jungle fracking, and a mafia land grab
Aug 10, 2018, 10:14 am By Mongabay
The most popular stories from our Spanish-language service, Mongabay-Latam, last week followed what…Rare mountain-dwelling Nilgiri tahr could lose 60% of habitat as climate warms
Aug 10, 2018, 8:04 am By MongabayA new study paints a precarious picture for the rare Nilgiri tahr, an endangered goat-like species…Forest fires threaten Asian Games as hotspots flare up in Sumatra
Aug 10, 2018, 7:48 am By Mongabay
JAKARTA — The threat of haze from another season of forest fires on Indonesia’s Sumatra Island…In protecting the Javan rhino, locals gain a ‘more meaningful life’
Aug 10, 2018, 1:16 am By MongabayBANDUNG, Indonesia — Sarmidi joined a conservation program for the Javan rhino in 1980. But it…Community vs. company: A tiny town in Ecuador battles a palm oil giant
Aug 9, 2018, 5:32 pm By MongabayWIMBI, Ecuador — When Yessenia Padilla heard that her community crops were being destroyed, she…Camera trap videos help protect biodiversity of Bigal River Biological Reserve in Ecuador
Aug 9, 2018, 12:33 pm By MongabayBigal River Biological Reserve was created in 2008 in the foothill forests of northeastern Ecuador,…‘High risk’ that China’s timber from PNG is illegal: New report
Aug 9, 2018, 11:23 am By MongabayPapua New Guinea’s timber industry is plagued by illegality, including lax enforcement of forestry…In Ecuador, a pipeline cuts a trail of misery through indigenous land
Aug 9, 2018, 8:07 am By MongabaySAN JOSÉ DE WISUYÁ, Ecuador — One morning in November 2015, one of the elders, or taitas, of the…‘I can’t get out’: Farmers feel the pressure as Ecuador’s palm oil sector grows
Aug 8, 2018, 8:02 pm By MongabayJorge Jurado has been farming oil palm on Ecuador’s coast for almost 20 years, and has seen the…Industrial fishing fleets traveling farther to reel in fewer fish
Aug 8, 2018, 4:35 pm By MongabayIndustrial fishing fleets are traveling ever-farther across the globe in pursuit of a dwindling haul…A river restored breathes new life into Kuala Lumpur
Aug 8, 2018, 3:52 pm By MongabayKUALA LUMPUR — By 2012, when then-prime minister Najib Razak formally launched the River of Life…Madagascar proposes paying illegal loggers to audit or buy their rosewood
Aug 8, 2018, 11:47 am By MongabayNobody knows just how much rosewood Madagascar’s timber barons have hidden away in caches…On an island in the sun, coal power is king over abundant solar
Aug 8, 2018, 7:35 am By MongabayJAKARTA — Dolphins haven’t had it easy in Bali, a resort island in Indonesia that’s massively…Africa’s biggest cobra is five species, not one, study finds
Aug 8, 2018, 4:38 am By MongabayThe highly venomous forest cobra, the largest of Africa’s true cobras (Naja), is not one, but five…Heavy rains preceded the Laos dam collapse. Was climate change a factor?
Aug 7, 2018, 10:34 pm By Mongabay
Two weeks after a dam in the Xe-Pian Xe-Namnoy hydropower facility collapsed in southern Laos,…Myanmar’s milling industry devastated by new logging policies
Aug 7, 2018, 2:55 pm By MongabayMyanmar’s Timber Merchants Association is crying foul over what they say are the devastating…Audio: Beavers matter more than you think
Aug 7, 2018, 11:50 am By Mongabay
We discuss one of the world’s most overlooked keystone species, the beaver, on this episode of the…Soggier forest soils thwart the uptake of climate-warming methane
Aug 7, 2018, 11:06 am By MongabayRainier weather could be hampering the ability to siphon methane from the air by forest soils,…
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