The financial case against coal power in Indonesia
Sep 6, 2017, 4:06 pm By Mongabay
Closing the gap between those who have electricity and those who do not is no easy feat, especially…Apply Animal Welfare Act rules to recreational hunting, says advocacy group
Sep 6, 2017, 2:40 pm By MongabayAn animal advocacy group wants landowners with captive wildlife for hunt to be governed under the…Healthy soils can boost food security and climate resilience for millions (commentary)
Sep 6, 2017, 11:37 am By Mongabay
Tougou village in northern Burkina Faso has a challenging climate for farming. During the dry…DNA barcoding helps identify endangered species from market specimens of sharks and rays
Sep 6, 2017, 10:53 am By MongabayMarkets around the world sell products made from the processed parts of wild animals and plants,…A global view from a mountain town: how conservation became ingrained in Monteverde
Sep 6, 2017, 6:00 am By Mongabay
Sitting in a cloud forest on top of the Cordillera de Tilarán, the mountaintop town of Monteverde,…India and Nepal team up to rescue flooded rhinos
Sep 5, 2017, 5:09 pm By Mongabay
The devastating monsoons hitting South Asia this year haven’t just affected the region’s human…Fishing mortality of mako sharks ten times higher than fisheries’ estimates
Sep 5, 2017, 4:09 pm By MongabayIt’s no secret that widespread overfishing is driving many shark species to extinction. Many of…Indigenous communities resist Chinese mining in Amazonian Ecuador
Sep 5, 2017, 2:12 pm By MongabayIndigenous community speakers during a ceremony at last weekend’s tribunal which accused the…80% of Bornean orangutans live outside protected areas
Sep 5, 2017, 7:08 am By Mongabay
Four fifths of wild orangutans in Kalimantan, the Indonesian portion of Borneo, live outside…381 new species described from the Amazon over two-year period
Sep 4, 2017, 7:46 am By Mongabay
A new species of wild animal or plant is reported from the Amazon once every two days, concludes a…Saving the Serranía de San Lucas, a vital link in the ‘jaguar corridor’
Sep 1, 2017, 1:57 pm By MongabayThe “jaguar corridor” is a historic link that runs from Mexico all the way down the spine of…Taking on the plastic straw: Q&A with Adrian Grenier, actor and ocean activist
Sep 1, 2017, 6:29 am By Mongabay
Sometimes humans invent things, seemingly benign things, that end up having profound and…Jackie Chan joins the fight for endangered pangolins
Sep 1, 2017, 2:40 am By MongabayMartial arts superstar Jackie Chan has joined the fight to stop the poaching of the world’s most…Philippine palm oil plan ‘equals corruption and land-grabbing,’ critics say
Aug 31, 2017, 5:04 pm By Mongabay
DAVAO CITY, Philippines – If the street Pedro Arnado was looking down was on the Philippine…Collateral damage: Snow leopards and trophy hunting in Kyrgyzstan
Aug 31, 2017, 2:48 pm By Mongabay
BOKONBAYEVO, Kyrgyzstan – Kyrgyz folklore is laden with stories that warn its adherents against…‘Ecological disaster’: controversial bridge puts East Kalimantan’s green commitment to the test
Aug 30, 2017, 8:37 pm By MongabayBALIKPAPAN, Indonesia — Truck driver Bayu Santoso is one of thousands of people expected to take…App combines computer vision and crowdsourcing to explore Earth’s biodiversity, one photo at a time
Aug 30, 2017, 3:10 pm By Mongabay
Taxonomy goes online in the 21st century Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection…Temer, besieged by protests, clarifies order to open Amazon to mining
Aug 30, 2017, 11:10 am By MongabayThe Serra dos Carajás iron mine in northeastern Brazil, showing deforestation caused by the min…New crab with star-shaped outgrowths discovered in Taiwan
Aug 30, 2017, 4:10 am By Mongabay
A small seamount by Peng-Chia-Yu Island, located 60 kilometers (~37 miles) off Taiwan, is prized for…Few answers for Indonesians who wonder what chemicals are dumped in their water
Aug 29, 2017, 4:29 pm By Mongabay
Indonesia has robust laws meant to ensure communities can easily obtain information about pollutants…
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