Bats key pollinators for durian production, camera traps confirm
Oct 3, 2017, 9:02 am By MongabayCamera trap footage has shown, for the first time, that a threatened bat species in Malaysia is an…USAID Wildlife Crime Tech Challenge awards three Acceleration Prizes for rapid tech developments
Oct 2, 2017, 4:38 pm By MongabayThe USAID Wildlife Crime Tech Challenge announced three winners of an Acceleration Prize worth US…Amazon community on Tapajós River invaded by wildcat miners
Oct 2, 2017, 3:09 pm By MongabayA hundred beiradeiro families — peasants and traditional fishermen — live in Montanha-Mangabal,…Can community forestry deliver for Madagascar’s forests and people?
Oct 2, 2017, 1:32 pm By MongabayANOSY REGION, Madagascar — The land in the Mandrare River Basin, in southeastern Madagascar, does…Two new ‘birdcatcher’ trees described from Puerto Rico
Oct 2, 2017, 4:33 am By MongabayFrom the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico, scientists have described two new species of Pisonia trees…Mining project in Leuser Ecosystem no longer has a valid permit
Fri 6:49pm By Mongabay
A mining project in Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosytem that has for years pitted environmental activists…Meet the new Bernie Sanders spider
Fri 2:46pm By Mongabay
Several newly discovered spider species have been named in honor of US Senator Bernie Sanders and…Brazil: A World Champion in Political and Environmental Devastation (Commentary)
Fri 11:54am By Mongabay
the Paraná state government and its state legislative assembly aim to reduce the Devonian Escarp…China sends first pandas to Indonesia under captive-breeding agreement
Fri 1:03am By Mongabay
JAKARTA — A panda couple arrived here on Thursday, kicking off a captive breeding program aimed at…New research suggests tropical forests are now a net source of carbon emissions
Sep 28, 2017, 4:45 pm By MongabayEarth’s tropical forests store an incredible amount of carbon, and as they grow they are…How effective is conservation in Madagascar? Series starts next week
Sep 28, 2017, 4:06 pm By Mongabay
To travel in Madagascar is to be reminded of just how small we are relative to our pale blue dot of…Temer walks back plan to open Denmark-sized area of Amazon to mining
Sep 27, 2017, 5:48 pm By Mongabay
A stretch of the Jari River inside the RENCA Reserve in Amapá state. Photo © Daniel Beltrá /…How much of a shock can an electric eel deliver? A scientist just found out first-hand
Sep 27, 2017, 5:35 pm By Mongabay
Last year, Kenneth Catania, a professor of biological sciences at Vanderbilt University in…Lawsuits test local governments’ ability to clean up Indonesia’s coal mining sector
Sep 27, 2017, 5:10 pm By Mongabay
A court in Indonesia has once again ruled in favor of coal mining companies whose licenses were…Camera trap records nearly extinct cuckoo bird in Sumatra
Sep 27, 2017, 12:39 pm By Mongabay
Park rangers in Indonesia said this week that they had photographed the nearly extinct Sumatran…Giant tree-dwelling rat discovered in the Solomon Islands
Sep 27, 2017, 6:37 am By Mongabay
For a long time, people living on the Vangunu Island in the Solomons spoke about the “vika”, a…Snow leopards no longer ‘endangered,’ but still in decline and in need of urgent conservation measures
Sep 26, 2017, 8:05 pm By Mongabay
The latest update to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species had bad news about the conservation…Scientists sequence plant DNA in the field to identify species within hours
Sep 26, 2017, 3:01 pm By MongabayScientists can now rapidly read the DNA of an organism—even a plant—anywhere. Researchers at the…Amazon dam operator defies order to shut down, police action looms
Sep 26, 2017, 3:01 pm By Mongabay
A 2010 Greenpeace Brazil protest against the proposed Belo Monte dam. Photo by Roosewelt Pinheiro /…The plight of predators: Q&A with the director of ‘The Hunt’
Sep 25, 2017, 3:29 pm By MongabayPredators are often depicted as the villains in films and other media. Even in wildlife…
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