Palm oil giant’s claim it can’t control Liberian subsidiary a ‘red herring,’ NGO says
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One of Indonesia’s biggest family-owned firms is facing fresh criticism over its alleged failure…Conservation groups herald protection of tiger habitat in Malaysia
Tue 11:47pm By MongabayTigers and other wildlife in Peninsular Malaysia now have a new refuge, as the state government of…Criminalization and violence increasingly used to silence indigenous protest, according to UN report
Tue 5:59pm By MongabayAfter the Seko indigenous peoples of Indonesia rejected a plan to build a hydropower plant on their…World’s first indigenous REDD+ program ended due to illegal mining
Tue 12:20pm By Mongabay
A Paiter-Suruí elder. Image courtesy of Beto Borges. One of the world’s most successful voluntary…These Asian monkeys can’t taste the sweetness of natural sugars
Tue 11:41am By MongabayNot all monkeys have a sweet tooth. Some, like the Asian colobine monkeys, whose members live on a…Brazilian legislators break law, attack Amazon, trade freely with world: report
Tue 11:11am By MongabayA report, published this week by Amazon Watch, reveals that six prominent Brazilian politicians —…Climate mitigation has an ally in need of recognition and land rights: indigenous peoples in tropical countries
Sep 10, 2018, 4:30 pm By MongabayAs global warming continues to outpace the tepid international response, a range of…Land hoarding: what Colombia’s new administration has inherited
Sep 10, 2018, 1:16 pm By MongabaySome people say that the best way to forget something is through distance, and that is one of the…Plantations can produce more palm oil if they keep riverbanks forested
Sep 10, 2018, 12:46 pm By MongabayOil palm plantations are the biggest source of agriculture-related deforestation in Southeast Asia.…Tracking elephant movements reveals transboundary wildlife corridors
Sep 10, 2018, 12:45 pm By Mongabay
Data from satellite tracking tags deployed on elephants in Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and along the…The search for survivors in a post-nuclear reefscape
Sep 10, 2018, 9:46 am By MongabayOn the morning of March 1, 1954, the United States tested its largest thermonuclear bomb over Bikini…Aligning forces for tropical forests as a climate change solution
Sep 8, 2018, 11:22 pm By MongabayAs governors of tropical forest states and provinces descend upon San Francisco for the Global…Latam Eco Review: Salmon escape, jungle drones, and a new biosphere reserve
Sep 8, 2018, 10:20 am By MongabayThe most popular stories last week from our Spanish-language service, Mongabay-Latam, followed…Climate leadership means keeping fossil fuels in the ground in tropical forests and beyond (commentary)
Sep 7, 2018, 1:15 pm By Mongabay
Protecting tropical forests is key to mitigating climate change. When California Governor Jerry…Criminal mafias take over Colombian forests
Sep 7, 2018, 11:29 am By MongabayThere are a variety of competing land uses of the Amazon rainforest. The region in southern Colombia…In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, September 7, 2018
Sep 7, 2018, 11:15 am By MongabayTropical forests The government of Guatemala has suspended U.S. miner Tahoe Resources’ licenses…Indonesia gives in to bird traders, rescinds protection for 3 species
Sep 7, 2018, 10:45 am By MongabayJAKARTA — The Indonesian government has dropped three popular songbirds from a new list of…DNA database helps Nepal’s officials monitor tigers, punish poachers
Sep 7, 2018, 5:00 am By Mongabay
In December 2015, officials from Nepal’s Central Investigation Bureau had a hunch that something…8 species of birds have possibly gone extinct over past few decades
Sep 6, 2018, 8:53 pm By MongabayEight species of birds may have completely disappeared over the past couple of decades, a new study…A Brazilian mourns what was lost in the National Museum fire
Sep 6, 2018, 12:49 pm By MongabayBrazil’s National Museum on fire. Image by Erick Dau / Farpa. This story appears courtesy of a…
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