Indonesia’s big development push in Papua: Q&A with program overseer Judith J. Dipodiputro
Oct 27, 2017, 11:16 pm By MongabayWhen Indonesian President Joko Widodo took office in October 2014, he made it clear that one of his…Palm oil mounts ‘new offensive’ in Colombia while workers decry labor conditions
Oct 27, 2017, 5:36 pm By MongabayMAGDALENA MEDIO, Colombia – It is a usual hot and humid day at one of the oil palm plantations in…The charcoal hunters
Oct 27, 2017, 4:31 pm By Mongabay
KATHA, Myanmar – The train rocked from side to side like a sketchy funhouse. It was the rainy…‘Decimated’: Germany’s birds disappear as insect abundance plummets 76%
Oct 27, 2017, 3:28 pm By MongabayGermany’s flying insect biomass has dropped 76 percent in the past 27 years, according to a study…Brazilian police nab Amazon timber thieves who faked forest credits
Oct 27, 2017, 11:17 am By Mongabay
Brazilian Federal Police participate in the Anhangá Arara operation, a raid resulting in the arrest…Major global companies commit to halting destruction of Brazilian Cerrado
Oct 27, 2017, 11:02 am By MongabayStarting around 2004, the deforestation rate in the Brazilian Amazon began a precipitous decline. By…RAPP to retire some concessions in Sumatra amid government pressure
Oct 27, 2017, 3:43 am By MongabayJAKARTA — Under pressure from President Joko Widodo’s administration, Indonesia’s…Can technology drive conservation? Experts discuss in Mongabay tech forum
Oct 27, 2017, 1:15 am By MongabayCan technology drive conservation? That was the question Mongabay founder Rhett Butler recently…Agroforestry: An increasingly popular solution for a hot, hungry world
Oct 26, 2017, 4:09 pm By MongabayAt first glance Cameroon’s western regions seem lush, but a closer look shows a land degraded by…Burning down the house: Myanmar’s destructive charcoal trade
Oct 26, 2017, 2:00 pm By MongabayBHAMO, Myanmar – A trader turns off his truck’s engine at yet another checkpoint and, again, the…Supporting conservation by playing a game? Seriously? (commentary)
Oct 26, 2017, 12:46 pm By MongabayCan you answer important questions about conservation by playing a game? Yes, and it works. In…Lemur species losing favorite food to climate change, new study says
Oct 26, 2017, 12:08 pm By MongabayBamboo-eating lemurs in Madagascar could be slowly starving as a changing climate slashes the…As Grauer’s gorillas cling to survival, new population found
Oct 26, 2017, 11:55 am By MongabayThe last 3,800 Grauer’s gorillas, a subspecies of eastern gorilla, live only in the eastern…Author Steven Kotler on tackling the biodiversity crisis with technology
Oct 25, 2017, 6:00 pm By Mongabay
Steven Kotler is a leading thinker on how technology can be employed to halt the global loss of…Two scientists and a NASA astronaut just biked across the Brazilian Amazon and want to tell you about it
Oct 25, 2017, 4:06 pm By MongabayOn Sept 26, two scientists and a NASA astronaut completed TransAmazon +25, a bike trek across the…Building conservation’s brain trust in Madagascar
Oct 25, 2017, 2:45 pm By Mongabay
ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar — Nothing says patience quite like tromping around wet woods in the…First vaquita ‘rescued’ in bid to save the porpoise from extinction
Oct 25, 2017, 1:38 pm By MongabayFor the first time, a team of scientists has captured and then released a vaquita (Phocoena sinus),…Rhino poacher sentenced to 18 years in prison
Oct 25, 2017, 9:51 am By Mongabay
In July this year, poachers killed a female black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis), and hacked off her…Crackdowns on illegal mining in Colombian Amazon not enough
Oct 25, 2017, 9:01 am By MongabayPUERTO LEGUIZAMO, Colombia – Already infamous for coca production and conflict, Colombia’s…Black rhinos in Tanzania now monitored via sensors implanted directly in their horns
Oct 24, 2017, 6:56 pm By MongabayIn a first for the species, several black rhinos in Tanzania’s Mkomazi National Park have had…
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