Can community forestry deliver for Madagascar’s forests and people?
Oct 2, 2017, 1:32 pm By MongabayANOSY REGION, Madagascar — The land in the Mandrare River Basin, in southeastern Madagascar, does…Two new ‘birdcatcher’ trees described from Puerto Rico
Oct 2, 2017, 4:33 am By MongabayFrom the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico, scientists have described two new species of Pisonia trees…Mining project in Leuser Ecosystem no longer has a valid permit
Sep 29, 2017, 6:49 pm By Mongabay
A mining project in Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosytem that has for years pitted environmental activists…Meet the new Bernie Sanders spider
Sep 29, 2017, 2:46 pm By Mongabay
Several newly discovered spider species have been named in honor of US Senator Bernie Sanders and…Brazil: A World Champion in Political and Environmental Devastation (Commentary)
Sep 29, 2017, 11:54 am By Mongabay
the Paraná state government and its state legislative assembly aim to reduce the Devonian Escarp…China sends first pandas to Indonesia under captive-breeding agreement
Sep 29, 2017, 1:03 am By Mongabay
JAKARTA — A panda couple arrived here on Thursday, kicking off a captive breeding program aimed at…New research suggests tropical forests are now a net source of carbon emissions
Sep 28, 2017, 4:45 pm By MongabayEarth’s tropical forests store an incredible amount of carbon, and as they grow they are…How effective is conservation in Madagascar? Series starts next week
Sep 28, 2017, 4:06 pm By Mongabay
To travel in Madagascar is to be reminded of just how small we are relative to our pale blue dot of…Temer walks back plan to open Denmark-sized area of Amazon to mining
Sep 27, 2017, 5:48 pm By Mongabay
A stretch of the Jari River inside the RENCA Reserve in Amapá state. Photo © Daniel Beltrá /…How much of a shock can an electric eel deliver? A scientist just found out first-hand
Sep 27, 2017, 5:35 pm By Mongabay
Last year, Kenneth Catania, a professor of biological sciences at Vanderbilt University in…Lawsuits test local governments’ ability to clean up Indonesia’s coal mining sector
Sep 27, 2017, 5:10 pm By Mongabay
A court in Indonesia has once again ruled in favor of coal mining companies whose licenses were…Camera trap records nearly extinct cuckoo bird in Sumatra
Sep 27, 2017, 12:39 pm By Mongabay
Park rangers in Indonesia said this week that they had photographed the nearly extinct Sumatran…Giant tree-dwelling rat discovered in the Solomon Islands
Sep 27, 2017, 6:37 am By Mongabay
For a long time, people living on the Vangunu Island in the Solomons spoke about the “vika”, a…Snow leopards no longer ‘endangered,’ but still in decline and in need of urgent conservation measures
Sep 26, 2017, 8:05 pm By Mongabay
The latest update to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species had bad news about the conservation…Scientists sequence plant DNA in the field to identify species within hours
Sep 26, 2017, 3:01 pm By MongabayScientists can now rapidly read the DNA of an organism—even a plant—anywhere. Researchers at the…Amazon dam operator defies order to shut down, police action looms
Sep 26, 2017, 3:01 pm By Mongabay
A 2010 Greenpeace Brazil protest against the proposed Belo Monte dam. Photo by Roosewelt Pinheiro /…The plight of predators: Q&A with the director of ‘The Hunt’
Sep 25, 2017, 3:29 pm By MongabayPredators are often depicted as the villains in films and other media. Even in wildlife…At 2017 minimum, scientists ask: Is Arctic entering the Thin Ice Age?
Sep 25, 2017, 12:28 pm By Mongabay
The sun reflects over thin sea ice and a few floating icebergs near the Denmark Strait off of…Colombian president honored in Washington, D.C. for efforts to protect biodiversity
Sep 25, 2017, 12:01 pm By MongabayWASHINGTON, D.C. – He prowled the stage like a puma moving through Colombia’s rainforest. With a…Trade in wild birds going ‘unchecked’ in Vietnam: new report
Sep 25, 2017, 6:14 am By Mongabay
Thousands of birds, suspected to have been caught from the wild, are being sold openly in Vietnam,…
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