New research shows role ancient peoples might have played in shaping Amazon rainforest
Mar 31, 2017, 3:05 pm By MongabayIt’s common for conservationists to talk about preserving nature in a “pristine” or…From CEO to Conservation Legend: An Interview with Kristine Tompkins
Mar 31, 2017, 9:30 am By MongabayIt’s difficult to formulate a description of someone like Kristine Tompkins. A pioneer in the…Do the Locomotion: Bio-inspired technology creates amphibious robots that mimic salamander movement
Mar 30, 2017, 6:14 pm By Mongabay
[caption id="attachment_194505" align="alignnone" width="384"] The Salamandra robotica II Photograph…Three new frog species found in disappearing Atlantic Forest
Mar 30, 2017, 5:03 pm By Mongabay
Three new “cryptic” species of frog have been discovered in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, one of…UN launches campaign to take out ocean trash
Mar 30, 2017, 4:27 pm By Mongabay
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) launched a global campaign last month aimed at…Al Gore and Bangladesh PM spar over coal plants in the Sundarbans
Mar 30, 2017, 3:05 pm By MongabayFormer U.S. Vice President Al Gore, star of the upcoming An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, has…In remote Indonesian villages, indigenous communities fight a hydropower dam
Mar 30, 2017, 2:21 pm By Mongabay
NORTH LUWU, Indonesia — Benyamin Langga invited me to walk with him along the rice field…El Salvador becomes first country to ban metals mining
Mar 30, 2017, 12:24 pm By Mongabay
Legislators in El Salvador made history Wednesday, passing a bill to ban all metallic mining…New species of wild ginger discovered in DR Congo
Mar 30, 2017, 11:28 am By Mongabay
In a remote mountainous rainforest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), scientists have…Indigenous peoples in Colombia play crucial role in the fight against climate change
Mar 30, 2017, 2:03 am By Mongabay
Elizabeth Apolinar enjoys her job as a lawyer in the bustling center of Bogotá these days. But now…Almost 1M hectares ‘missing’ from land holdings of major palm oil companies
Mar 29, 2017, 6:19 pm By MongabayNearly a million hectares are “missing” from landbanks of the world’s top palm oil producers,…Watch a leatherback sea turtle return to the ocean after nesting on a Costa Rica beach
Mar 29, 2017, 2:05 pm By Mongabay
While leatherback sea turtles typically do their nesting at night, a prospective mother turtle is…Thousands of anti-coal activists march in Jakarta, deliver complaints to anti-graft agency
Mar 29, 2017, 10:16 am By Mongabay
Around 2,000 people from across the Indonesian archipelago gathered in Jakarta last week to call for…The ape who escaped Indonesia’s blackmarket trade in pet orangutans
Mar 29, 2017, 8:40 am By MongabayKABANJAHE, Indonesia — Zulbaidah used to take her family’s pet orangutan on road trips. He’d…In Tanzania, a surge in sesame farming poses threat to natural forest
Mar 29, 2017, 5:31 am By MongabayNANJIRINJI A, Tanzania – Patches of scorched earth line the road on the 100-mile drive from the…New study provides a blueprint for engaging indigenous peoples in REDD+ forest monitoring
Mar 28, 2017, 5:30 pm By Mongabay
During the UN climate talks in December 2015 that would ultimately produce the Paris Climate…Communities conserving local forest in El Salvador vote to ban mining
Mar 28, 2017, 3:41 pm By MongabayCINQUERA, El Salvador – It's not far from town, but in the middle of the dry season, it's a hot…Paying for healthcare with trees: win-win for orangutans and communities
Mar 28, 2017, 12:48 pm By Mongabay
[caption id="attachment_194409" align="alignnone" width="768"] A baby orangutan. Orangutans are…Survey of previously inaccessible region of Myanmar reveals many endangered species
Mar 28, 2017, 10:55 am By Mongabay
The first-ever surveys of forests in Karen state in northern Myanmar — a region that was…Extinct mammoths and rhinos portend a grim future in a warming climate
Mar 28, 2017, 9:07 am By Mongabay
Large mammals living between about 7,000 and 25,000 years ago faced a massive upheaval in their…
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