Malaysia’s last female Sumatran rhino falls ill
Dec 17, 2017, 11:23 pm By MongabayIman, the last female Sumatran rhino (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) in the Malaysian state of Sabah, has…‘A vicious cycle towards extinction:’ Hunting and trade can push even abundant wildlife populations to the brink
Dec 15, 2017, 2:40 pm By MongabayThe U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s announcement in November that it was lifting a ban on the…Colombian community leader allegedly murdered for standing up to palm oil
Dec 15, 2017, 2:38 pm By MongabayColombian community leader Hernan Bedoya, who defended collective land rights for Afro-Colombian…Recognition of Mentawai tribes marks Indonesia’s latest piecemeal concession to indigenous groups
Dec 15, 2017, 3:12 am By MongabayThe indigenous inhabitants of Indonesia’s Mentawai district, a cluster of islands off the…DNA analysis shows Sumatran rhinos peaked during last Ice Age, never recovered
Dec 14, 2017, 12:30 pm By Mongabay
The critically endangered Sumatran rhino has been on an arc toward extinction for nearly 12,000…Top Argentine glacier scientist charged over cyanide mine spill
Dec 14, 2017, 12:29 pm By Mongabay
The Perito Moreno glacier in Argentinean Patagonia. Ricardo Villalba, former Director of the…Building a refuge where trawlers now ravage Cambodia’s marine life
Dec 14, 2017, 12:20 pm By MongabayKEP ARCHIPELAGO, Cambodia – It’s not long before midnight and an outlaw trawler has been…Locals fear for their lives over planned dam in Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem
Dec 14, 2017, 8:24 am By Mongabay
ACEH TAMIANG, Indonesia — Maksum, a resident of Aceh Tamiang district in northern Sumatra,…Land reclamation threatens extremely rare spoon-billed sandpipers in China
Dec 14, 2017, 6:51 am By MongabayOne of the world’s rarest birds — the tiny spoon-billed sandpiper — could soon lose a…African Parks backs marine reserve brimming with wildlife in Mozambique
Dec 14, 2017, 5:57 am By MongabayA sliver of ocean on the Southern Africa coast is getting a new chance at success thanks to an…For Papuan villagers practicing conservation, a bid to formalize the familiar
Dec 14, 2017, 2:54 am By MongabayTAMBRAUW, Indonesia — It took more than two hours by boat, through a driving rain, to reach the…Bees for trees: testing a potential tool for reducing human-elephant conflict
Dec 13, 2017, 7:47 pm By MongabayWhen times are tough for elephants, knocking over a tree may be the best way to get at the food…How will Trump Admin policy rollbacks impact efforts to combat climate change?
Dec 13, 2017, 5:17 pm By MongabayGiven that Donald Trump tweeted in 2012 that he believes concern about global warming is the result…Mining concessions in Ecuador stalled over compliance with indigenous rights
Dec 13, 2017, 1:31 pm By MongabayQUITO, Ecuador – Indigenous communities in Ecuador celebrated this week after President Lenin…Brazil / UK push offshore oil pact, a potential climate change disaster
Dec 13, 2017, 1:18 pm By MongabayExploitation of the pre-salt layer off the coast of Brazil could result in the burning of a carbon…Light pollution lures nighttime pollinators away from plants
Dec 13, 2017, 12:10 am By MongabayPopulations of bees, bats, butterflies and other pollinators have been declining for decades due to…Companies still not doing enough to cut deforestation from commodities supply chains: report
Dec 12, 2017, 6:40 pm By Mongabay
The latest “Forest 500” rankings are out today from the Global Canopy Programme (GCP), and the…Latin America-Europe trade pact to include historic indigenous rights clause
Dec 12, 2017, 5:55 pm By MongabayA young Guarani-Kaiowá man. This indigenous group has lost most of its ancestral land in Brazil’s…Saving Sumatran orchids from deforestation, one plant at a time
Dec 12, 2017, 4:32 pm By Mongabay
When tropical forests are felled and converted into land for oil palm or rubber plantations, it’s…Audio: Amazon tribe’s traditional medicine encyclopedia gets an update, and conservation effectiveness in Madagascar examined
Dec 12, 2017, 3:24 pm By MongabayOn today’s episode, we’ll get an update on an ambitious effort to document traditional…
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