Palm oil firms using ‘shadow companies’ to hide their links to deforestation: report
Jul 9, 2018, 6:15 pm By MongabayMajor agribusiness firms are using opaque corporate structures to gain access to palm oil sourced…Investigation reveals illegal trade cartels decimating vaquita porpoises
Jul 9, 2018, 3:29 pm By MongabayA new investigation sheds light on an illegal trade that endangers the world’s smallest and most…Ice-free passage for ships through the Arctic could cause problems for marine mammals
Jul 9, 2018, 3:07 pm By Mongabay
An increasingly ice-free Arctic could test the adaptability of marine mammals, a new study has…Brazil’s political storm driving Amazon deforestation higher
Jul 9, 2018, 12:17 pm By MongabayA giant kapok tree. While deforestation was down significantly in recent years in the Brazilian…‘Better and better’: Thermal cameras turn up the heat on poachers
Jul 9, 2018, 8:05 am By MongabayNearly 2 million animals, mostly wildebeest and zebra, migrate roughly 800 kilometers (500 miles)…Peru: How chocolate saved a community and a protected area from the drug trade
Jul 6, 2018, 2:54 pm By Mongabay
Augusto Sangama confesses that, twenty years ago, his life was worth nothing. He believes others in…Latam Eco Review: Five newly described snakes named by auction in Ecuador
Jul 6, 2018, 2:49 pm By Mongabay
Among the top stories published by our Spanish-language service, Mongabay-Latam, this past week were…And then there were 12: Why don’t we hear about extinction until it’s too late? (commentary)
Jul 6, 2018, 12:25 pm By MongabayEveryone loves a wildlife story. Watching the latest blue-chip natural history series complete with…In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, July 6, 2018
Jul 6, 2018, 11:22 am By MongabayWe’ve collected a few stories that were published this week by other news outlets. Tropical…Scientists reveal yet another reason fig trees are titans of biodiversity
Jul 6, 2018, 9:19 am By Mongabay
Biologist David Mackay got a surprise when he began studying the birds visiting fig trees in his…Cerrado: traditional communities win back land from agribusiness firm
Jul 5, 2018, 2:37 pm By MongabayCatarina Lopes Leite has lived in a rural portion of Formosa do Rio Preto since being born there 59…New research calculates full carbon cost of oil palm cultivation in Indonesia’s forests
Jul 5, 2018, 11:57 am By MongabayNew research comparing the carbon costs of oil palm plantations with those of rubber production…Nearly four decades of cycling race video reveals climate change’s effects
Jul 5, 2018, 11:45 am By Mongabay
Scientists in Belgium have used 36 years of footage from an annual bicycle race to pinpoint the time…Orangutan found shot, hacked at palm plantation with history of deaths
Jul 5, 2018, 11:10 am By Mongabay
PANGKALAN BUN, Indonesia — Authorities in Indonesia are investigating the killing of a rare…Two suspected poachers arrested for killing of Sumatran elephant
Jul 5, 2018, 11:07 am By Mongabay
Authorities in Indonesia have arrested two of four suspects alleged to have killed a rare Sumatran…Lab-grown embryos raise hope of saving near-extinct rhino
Jul 5, 2018, 5:30 am By MongabayIn March this year, Sudan, the last known male northern white rhino, died at Kenya’s Ol Pejeta…Implicit gender, racial biases may hinder effectiveness of conservation science, experts warn
Jul 4, 2018, 10:54 pm By MongabayKUCHING, Malaysia — Implicit gender and race bias within the conservation community may be…Tensions mount at PNG gas project as landowners threaten to close plant for good
Jul 4, 2018, 1:55 pm By Mongabay
Landowners in Papua New Guinea’s Hela province have threatened to expand and escalate their…Fingerprinting technology gives investigators an edge against pangolin traffickers
Jul 4, 2018, 1:31 pm By Mongabay
Wildlife crime investigators now have a new method that builds on the forensic techniques used to…In Sumatra, villagers blame a coal mine for cracks in their houses, and their community
Jul 4, 2018, 1:27 pm By MongabayPADANG BIRAU, Indonesia: It’s been more than two months since Rasid has felt safe sleeping in his…
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