New species of leaf-mimicking lizard could already be victim of pet trade
Jan 23, 2019, 6:14 am By MongabayA leaf-tailed gecko can be incredibly tricky to find. These lizards in the genus Uroplatus, found…Saving the forests of the Congo Basin: Q&A with author Meindert Brouwer
Jan 23, 2019, 2:34 am By MongabayIt was an ambitious project from the start: to capture the Congo Basin rainforest in the pages of a…In Sumatra, a lone elephant leads rescuers on a cat-and-mouse chase
Jan 23, 2019, 1:47 am By Mongabay
BUKIT TIGAPULUH FOREST, Indonesia — Several hours into the search, Karina was still hiding, deep…In Borneo, dwindling forests face further fragmentation as roads spread
Jan 22, 2019, 9:18 am By MongabayJAKARTA — Road projects throughout Indonesian Borneo threaten to fragment a third of the forest…A ‘FitBit for squid’ could help track the ocean’s squishier species
Jan 21, 2019, 5:26 pm By Mongabay
Research on soft-bodied marine invertebrates such as squid and jellyfish has been slow in coming.…Ecuador’s artisans struggle to save wooden toy culture
Jan 21, 2019, 1:50 pm By Mongabay
QUITO, Ecuador – Tucked away in Quito’s historical center, along the narrow sidewalks and…Tanzania creates new reserve to protect rare colobus monkeys and trees
Jan 21, 2019, 12:13 pm By Mongabay
Tanzania has officially created a new protected area, the Magombera Nature Reserve, extending…Solomon Islands province bans logging in bid to protect environment
Jan 21, 2019, 5:40 am By MongabayCentral Island province in the Solomon Islands has blocked new logging and mining operations in an…Latam Eco Review: Pirate fishers in the Caribbean and many new reserves created
11:29am By Mongabay
The recent top stories from Mongabay Latam, our Spanish-language service, include a ‘pirate’…Madagascar’s next president to take office, bears suspect eco record
Fri 1:10pm By Mongabay
Andry Rajoelina is set to be sworn in as president of Madagascar on Jan. 19, following his victory…A sociological approach to global biodiversity loss (commentary)
Fri 12:39pm By MongabaySeveral years ago, my colleague Richard York and I were sitting outside on a Eugene, Oregon patio…In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, January 18, 2018
Fri 11:26am By MongabayTropical forests Indonesia’s plans to build thousands of kilometers of roads in New Guinea could…New space lasers offer best 3D look at global forests yet
Fri 10:00am By MongabayResearchers and forest managers working to record and reduce the rapid loss of forests are now armed…Why are more female than male Magellanic penguins stranded in South America every year?
Jan 17, 2019, 7:16 pm By Mongabay
Thousands of Magellanic penguins become stranded every year along the coast of South America, from…Can satellite data help monitor sustainable rural development?
Jan 17, 2019, 11:00 am By MongabaySpatial data from satellites are now fine-scale enough to provide land use and vegetation cover…Coffee in trouble: 60% of wild coffee species threatened with extinction
Jan 17, 2019, 9:43 am By MongabayIf you’re a coffee lover, you’re probably familiar with the two most widely grown coffee…As Brazilian agribusiness booms, family farms feed the nation
Jan 17, 2019, 9:08 am By Mongabay
This is the eighth and final story in a series by journalist Anna Sophie Gross who traveled to the…Cellphones are still endangering gorillas, but recycling old ones can help
Jan 17, 2019, 6:18 am By MongabayYou probably use it every day and don’t think once about gorillas. In today’s world, it’s…Brazilian hunger for meat fattened on soy is deforesting the Cerrado: report
Jan 16, 2019, 3:39 pm By Mongabay
The Cerrado is marked by vast plains and rugged uplands, as seen here in Maranhão state. But much…How wasps saved Asia’s forests (commentary)
Jan 16, 2019, 3:26 pm By MongabayNormally we only hear about the problems and risks of biological control, the use of one introduced…
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