Peru: Illegal mining devastates forests in Amazonas Region
Nov 28, 2017, 8:24 am By Mongabay“If anything happens to any of us, La Poza will burn.” Clobiz Pérez, indigenous leader of the…Indonesia to kick off 10-year plan to save critically endangered helmeted hornbill
Nov 28, 2017, 5:15 am By MongabayThe Indonesian government will next year launch a 10-year program to save the critically endangered…Storytelling empowers indigenous people to conserve their environments
Nov 27, 2017, 9:02 pm By Mongabay
The moon rides high over the Bolivian Amazon as the Tsimané people crowd around the fire to tell…Long-term droughts are killing Hawaiian forests, finds airborne laser-based study
Nov 27, 2017, 7:59 pm By Mongabay
A plant without water will wither and, eventually, die. This is easy to observe in the browned…Peru: the man who overcomes fear to defend the forest
Nov 27, 2017, 6:12 am By MongabayMADRE DE DIOS, Peru – It is 6:28 in the evening and everything is already dark in the middle of…In search of the fireface: The precarious, scandalous lives of the slow lorises of Java
Nov 26, 2017, 10:10 pm By MongabayWEST JAVA, Indonesia — Once we leave the village of Cipaganti in West Java, we turn our headlamps…Where one predator meets another: tracking sharks and fishing effort
Nov 25, 2017, 12:36 am By MongabayTechnology above the clouds is helping scientists study sharks beneath the waves. A new initiative…Brilliant blue tarantula among potentially new species discovered in Guyana
Nov 24, 2017, 3:48 am By Mongabay
While walking through the forests of Guyana’s Potaro Plateau one night in 2014, herpetologist…Culture keeps cattle ranching going in the Brazilian Amazon
Nov 23, 2017, 9:21 am By MongabayCattle ranching can be a scourge to forests, requiring vast tracts of cleared land to produce…The tenacity of tigers: how the biggest cat varies across its range (photos)
Nov 22, 2017, 8:12 pm By MongabayThroughout Asia – from muddy mangrove swamps in India to crisp temperate forests in the Russian…Water sources under threat from mining in Ecuador’s mountains
Nov 22, 2017, 7:24 pm By MongabayAZUAY PROVINCE, Ecuador — What happened on October 8 and 9 in Ecuador’s Río Blanco area was not…Damming or damning the Amazon: Assessing Ecuador / China cooperation
Nov 22, 2017, 5:24 pm By MongabayThe Coca River in Ecuador, site of the Coca Codo Sinclair dam. Photo by AgenciaAndes on Visual Hunt…RSPO tops among certification schemes, though all must improve: report
Nov 22, 2017, 3:58 pm By MongabayThe Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil has the strongest set of requirements among certification…Biofuel project near India’s rhino heartland sparks protests
Nov 22, 2017, 2:49 pm By MongabayOn July 15 this year, activist Soneswar Narah stepped up to express his views in a public hearing on…A reflection on COP23: Incremental progress but no industrialized country’s top priority (commentary)
Nov 22, 2017, 1:11 pm By MongabayI remember well the vibrancy that December evening in 2015 when word spread on the last day of the…Another blow to troubled Madagascar rare earth mine
Nov 22, 2017, 12:50 pm By MongabayA rare earth mining project in Madagascar that has been in turmoil for the last two years took…Unquestioning defence of ‘militarized conservation’ is naïve (commentary)
Nov 22, 2017, 9:57 am By Mongabay
In a recent article, Niall McCann attacks critiques of the “militarization” of conservation by…Peru: The river that will not flow
Nov 22, 2017, 7:07 am By MongabayAfter finishing his plate of yuca, rice and fried plantain, César Chávez received a call that he…eBay is outselling the darknet in the illegal wildlife trade, fret researchers
Nov 22, 2017, 6:16 am By Mongabay
Beneath the readily available surface web lurks the “darknet” (or “dark web”) — a…Indonesian mosques to take up the mantle of fighting climate change
Nov 21, 2017, 5:36 pm By MongabayIndonesia will establish 1,000 “eco-mosques,” the country’s vice president announced at this…
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