Illegal mining in the Amazon “not comparable to any other period of its history”
Dec 20, 2018, 2:08 pm By MongabayIllegal mining has become an “epidemic” in the Amazon rainforest, destroying naturally protected…Amazon soy boom poses urgent existential threat to landless movement
Dec 20, 2018, 11:27 am By MongabaySign reading: Cursed are all fences for stopping us living and loving. Image by Mariel Mitsu.…Indonesia attack shines a light on controversial road project
Dec 20, 2018, 10:24 am By MongabayViolence in Indonesia’s easternmost region of Papua has stalled a massive infrastructure project…Investors told to wise up over cost of environmental crime
Dec 20, 2018, 10:04 am By Mongabay
Companies and their investors are exposing themselves to massive legal and financial risks…Peccary’s disappearance foreboding for other Mesoamerican wildlife
Dec 20, 2018, 8:19 am By MongabayThe white-lipped peccary (Tayassu pecari), a hairy, pig-like mammal that once lived throughout the…Scarlet macaws stalked by wildlife traffickers in Guatemala
Dec 20, 2018, 7:48 am By Mongabay
Travel the pathways of what was once the Mayan world, and you’ll see images of the scarlet macaw,…The long journey to saving the Sumatran rhino, via Borneo (commentary)
Dec 20, 2018, 3:11 am By MongabayIn 1982, an orangutan researcher working in Indonesian Borneo wrote to a colleague at the biology…Deforestation and mining threaten a monarch butterfly reserve in Mexico
6:54pm By MongabayZitácuaro, Mexico – “As long as the butterflies keep coming, we’ll still have work here,”…The true story of how 96 endangered sea turtle hatchlings survived a New York City beach
4:54pm By MongabayJuly 12 saw highs in the mid-80s in New York City this year — a typically hot, muggy NYC summer…‘Death by a thousand holes’: Scientists race to avert a salamander crisis
4:28pm By Mongabay
Any day now. That’s when Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (Bsal), the “salamander-eating”…PNG farmers use agroforestry to fight crop diseases and reduce labor
4:10pm By MongabayLAE, Papua New Guinea — Across the more than 600 islands that make up Papua New Guinea, the…Amazon forests not changing fast enough to keep up with climate change: study
1:41pm By Mongabay
A dead tree on an Amazon forest plot in Brazil in 2015. A new study finds that climate change,…Deep-sea survey of Australian marine parks reveals striking species
11:19am By MongabaySouth of Tasmania, hundreds of undersea mountains mark the deep ocean floor. Now, a monthlong survey…U.S. whale entanglement figures steady in 2017
5:50am By Mongabay
The number of whales ensnared in fishing nets and other debris in U.S. waters didn’t change much…Relative of ‘penis snake’ amphibian named after Donald Trump
Tue 8:45pm By MongabayA newly discovered species of amphibian that is related to the notorious Brazilian ‘penis snake’…The global community should address environmental issues as human rights issues (commentary)
Tue 1:02pm By MongabayLast month, the Director General of WWF International, Marco Lambertini, issued an urgent call for…Pressure mounting for the home of wild coffee and Ethiopian wolves
Tue 11:23am By Mongabay
GOBA, Ethiopia — Abdul Mohamed has an unenviable job. He’s a park ranger tasked with protecting…Christmas ad conundrum: Is a palm oil boycott the way to save apes?
Tue 11:20am By Mongabay
A Christmas advertisement deemed too political to air in the U.K. but that has been viewed more than…Bolsonaro shapes administration: Amazon, indigenous and landless at risk
Tue 10:25am By Mongabay
Bolsonaro, displaying his notorious gun gesture, has been hailed as “Latin America’s Trump,”…Bird business: The man who taught his tribe to profit from conservation
Tue 5:40am By MongabayRead the other stories in this four-part series on the indigenous groups living around Eaglenest…
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