Newscast #8: Top new species discoveries of 2016, and how fig trees can save rainforests
Dec 27, 2016, 10:20 am By Mongabay
This being the last Mongabay Newscast of the year, we’re doing it a little different. Instead of…Consumer pressure to ditch deforestation begins to reach Indonesia’s oil palm plantation giants
Dec 27, 2016, 3:20 am By Mongabay
Major oil palm growers in Indonesia have increasingly found that what’s bad for the environment is…‘Casper’ the octopod threatened by deep-sea mining
Dec 27, 2016, 12:20 am By Mongabay
“Casper”, the ghost-like octopod discovered early this year, could be at risk from deep sea…Cheetah populations crash as fastest-animal disappears from 91% of its range
Dec 26, 2016, 5:00 pm By Mongabay
The world's fastest land animal is speeding toward extinction across much of its range, reports a…Indonesia’s rich list stacked with palm oil billionaires
Dec 26, 2016, 7:20 am By MongabayFourteen of the 32 Indonesian billionaires identified by Forbes magazine are palm oil tycoons,…Photos: Top 20 new species of 2016
Dec 26, 2016, 12:20 am By MongabayDiscovering a new species is always exciting -- it shows that much of our world remains to be…Study looks at positive and negative impacts of biodiversity offsets on local communities
Dec 23, 2016, 10:00 am By Mongabay
Large industrial development projects such as hydroelectric dams, oil palm plantations, and mines…What do experts have to say about Latin American wildlife trafficking?
Dec 23, 2016, 9:40 am By Mongabay
The Mongabay-Latam team spent weeks investigating the illicit world of wildlife trafficking.…Hairy crabs and deep-sea worms: 6 new species discovered in undersea hot springs
Dec 23, 2016, 3:40 am By Mongabay
Thousands of hydrothermal vents — chimney-like structures spewing hot water clouds of minerals and…Explore the “Wonders of the Annamites” in this new children’s book
Dec 22, 2016, 5:00 pm By Mongabay
The Annamite Mountains of Laos and Vietnam are home to an abundance of rare wildlife, and now you…Papua New Guinea’s oil and gas boom – blessing or curse?
Dec 22, 2016, 10:40 am By Mongabay
Papua New Guinea announced last week that it is deploying its military to quell violence in Hela…Bastion of biodiversity protected in eastern DRC
Dec 22, 2016, 7:00 am By Mongabay
The governor of a province in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo approved the boundaries of a…Hong Kong to ban ivory trade by 2021
Dec 22, 2016, 4:40 am By Mongabay
On Wednesday, Hong Kong government announced that its three-step plan to phase out domestic ivory…As accusations fly, paper giant appears to stand by its replanting of burned peat in Sumatra
Dec 22, 2016, 12:20 am By Mongabay
In the wake of last year’s devastating forest fires, Indonesian President Joko Widodo’s…Why should we care about the endemism hotspot of São Tomé and Príncipe
Dec 21, 2016, 3:00 pm By Mongabay
Most people have never heard about the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe. This island…Temer government set to overthrow Brazil’s environmental agenda
Dec 21, 2016, 2:40 pm By Mongabay
[caption id="attachment_191858" align="alignnone" width="768"] A soy barge on the lower Tapajós…Wildlife for sale: More than 5,000 traffickers arrested this year in Colombia
Dec 21, 2016, 11:20 am By Mongabay
A simple ink pen can conceal two or three freshwater fish larvae. Traffickers switch out the ink…Stone, Sand, Water: the key ingredients changing the Salween landscape
Dec 21, 2016, 11:00 am By Mongabay
[caption id="attachment_191851" align="alignright" width="1280"] Tun Lin, the 36-year-old security…Video: Two rescued pet orangutans return to the wild
Dec 21, 2016, 1:40 am By MongabayIt’s not every day that a wild animal, held captive for years, makes it home. But two Bornean…Lessons from the $2 billion coal mining lawsuit against Indonesia
Dec 20, 2016, 4:00 pm By Mongabay
Indonesia cannot be held liable for $2 billion in compensation sought by Churchill Mining for the…
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