As Grauer’s gorillas cling to survival, new population found
Oct 26, 2017, 11:55 am By MongabayThe last 3,800 Grauer’s gorillas, a subspecies of eastern gorilla, live only in the eastern…Author Steven Kotler on tackling the biodiversity crisis with technology
Oct 25, 2017, 6:00 pm By Mongabay
Steven Kotler is a leading thinker on how technology can be employed to halt the global loss of…Two scientists and a NASA astronaut just biked across the Brazilian Amazon and want to tell you about it
Oct 25, 2017, 4:06 pm By MongabayOn Sept 26, two scientists and a NASA astronaut completed TransAmazon +25, a bike trek across the…Building conservation’s brain trust in Madagascar
Oct 25, 2017, 2:45 pm By Mongabay
ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar — Nothing says patience quite like tromping around wet woods in the…First vaquita ‘rescued’ in bid to save the porpoise from extinction
Oct 25, 2017, 1:38 pm By MongabayFor the first time, a team of scientists has captured and then released a vaquita (Phocoena sinus),…Rhino poacher sentenced to 18 years in prison
Oct 25, 2017, 9:51 am By Mongabay
In July this year, poachers killed a female black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis), and hacked off her…Crackdowns on illegal mining in Colombian Amazon not enough
Oct 25, 2017, 9:01 am By MongabayPUERTO LEGUIZAMO, Colombia – Already infamous for coca production and conflict, Colombia’s…Black rhinos in Tanzania now monitored via sensors implanted directly in their horns
Oct 24, 2017, 6:56 pm By MongabayIn a first for the species, several black rhinos in Tanzania’s Mkomazi National Park have had…The world lost an area of tree cover the size of New Zealand last year
Oct 24, 2017, 5:56 pm By MongabayLast year the world lost an area of tree cover the size of New Zealand, according to satellite data.…FSC mulls rule change to allow certification for recent deforesters
Oct 24, 2017, 12:33 pm By Mongabay
The certification organization Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) took a step toward allowing timber…New study: Risky roads cause more than just environmental harm
Oct 24, 2017, 2:56 am By MongabayRoads can be arteries that ferry goods and people, connect communities and markets and bolster…Saving the ‘Star Wars gibbon’: Q&A with primatologist Carolyn Thompson
Oct 23, 2017, 11:56 pm By MongabayIn January this year, scientists described a new species of ape – a white-browed gibbon that lives…Life and death and the jaguars of the mind (commentary)
Oct 23, 2017, 6:26 pm By MongabayIn 1913, former President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt visited a remote part of Brazil,…Temer guts Brazil’s slavery law, to the applause of elite ruralists
Oct 23, 2017, 1:23 pm By MongabayA wealthy Brazilian family in Rio de Janeiro, at home with their slaves, as portrayed in 1839. The…As Northwest salmon economy teeters on brink, Trump gives it a push
Oct 23, 2017, 9:55 am By MongabaySalmon fisherman Malcolm Sampson, an ethnic-Tsimshian and member of the Lax Kwalaams First Nation.…Economic headwinds buffet once-resilient Sumatran forest-farms
Oct 23, 2017, 1:17 am By MongabayFor more than a century, agroforests in the Sumatran port town of Krui used to be a prime example of…Helmeted hornbill, on verge of extinction, finds respite in new zone outside of known range
Oct 23, 2017, 1:04 am By MongabayA conservation area in western Borneo holds an unexpectedly rich population of the helmeted…Suite of free, open-source tools to help even non-experts monitor large-scale land use change
Oct 20, 2017, 11:28 pm By MongabayA recent study mapped the world’s dry forests using a relatively new tool that combines creative…Estonia’s trees: Valued resource or squandered second chance?
Oct 20, 2017, 5:13 pm By MongabayWhen the last of the Russian troops pulled out of Estonia in 1994, for many their departure was…Half-Earth Day to be celebrated next week
Oct 20, 2017, 2:29 pm By Mongabay
This Monday, October 23, marks the first-ever Half-Earth Day. The E.O. Wilson Biodiversity…
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