Smuggled to death: how loopholes and lax enforcement have sealed the fate of Siamese rosewood
Jan 5, 2017, 10:20 am By Mongabay
The illegal trade in Siamese rosewood (Dalbergia Cochinchinensis) is so well-oiled that when loggers…‘Grandpa’ Pan Pan, world’s oldest male giant panda, dies in China
Jan 5, 2017, 4:20 am By Mongabay
The world lost yet another celebrity in 2016. On 28 December 2016, Pan Pan, believed to be the…Forest forecast 2017: what to expect in rainforests this year
Jan 4, 2017, 4:20 pm By Mongabay
While 2016 lacked the drama of Indonesia’s 2015 fire and haze crisis, surging deforestation in…French bank backs out of financing Indonesian coal plant
Jan 4, 2017, 3:20 pm By Mongabay
French bank Société Générale has confirmed that it will not finance the expansion of Tanjung…Local NGOs: Ecosystem services, not orangutans, key to saving Leuser
Jan 4, 2017, 12:00 pm By Mongabay[caption id="attachment_192144" align="alignnone" width="768"] Rudi Putra pictured in 2014, the year…No let-up in Thailand’s relentless, violent Siamese rosewood poaching
Jan 4, 2017, 10:40 am By Mongabay
[caption id="attachment_192136" align="alignright" width="1200"] Salak Chairacha and his team of…Exotic populations hold hope for internationally traded endangered species
Jan 4, 2017, 1:40 am By Mongabay
Many internationally traded species are on the verge of extinction in their native countries. In…Jokowi grants first-ever indigenous land rights to 9 communities
Jan 3, 2017, 11:40 pm By Mongabay
For the first time, Indonesia’s central government has recognized the rights of nine indigenous…Tropical birds may not fare so well in a warming world
Jan 3, 2017, 6:40 pm By Mongabay
Biodiversity in tropical forests is particularly high — and, it appears, particularly sensitive to…Battle for the Amazon: Tapajós Basin threatened by massive development
Jan 3, 2017, 12:20 pm By Mongabay
[embed]https://youtu.be/oEFHWABYIyI[/embed] (Leia essa matéria em português no The Intercept…As forests in East Africa disappear, so does an industry of artisans
Jan 3, 2017, 6:00 am By Mongabay
LUNGA LUNGA/HOROHORO BORDER POINT, Kenya/Tanzania - When Festus Tola first arrived in Lunga Lunga on…Elephants in Borneo slaughtered for ivory (WARNING: graphic photos)
Jan 3, 2017, 4:00 am By Mongabay
Last month, poachers slaughtered two elephants for ivory in Sabah in Malaysian Borneo. Wildlife…Food from Brazil’s Amazon finds its way to metropolitan tables
Jan 2, 2017, 1:40 pm By MongabaySAO PAOLO, Brazil - For more than a decade, cook Vângela Veloso has traveled twice a year from Sao…Restoring seagrass under siege
Jan 2, 2017, 1:20 pm By Mongabay
You need a boogie board and a wetsuit to garden with Katharyn Boyer, a biology professor at San…Sudden sale may doom carbon-rich rainforest in Borneo
Jan 2, 2017, 4:40 am By Mongabay
The fate of a forest tract in Malaysia may have shifted dramatically in just the last few months.…The year in tropical rainforests: 2016
4:00pm By Mongabay
Massive forest fires in the Congo and Amazon, surging deforestation in Brazil, and tentative steps…Illegal logging shows little sign of slowing
Fri 4:40pm By Mongabay
A report released earlier this month presents the most comprehensive scientific analysis of illegal…China to ban its elephant ivory trade within a year
Fri 2:00pm By Mongabay[caption id="attachment_186810" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Young elephant in South Africa.…Top climate stories to watch in 2017
Dec 29, 2016, 6:00 pm By Mongabay
2016 was something of a mixed bag for the global climate. On the one hand, renewable energy use has…Obama creates two new national monuments, protecting 1.65 million acres
Dec 29, 2016, 4:40 am By Mongabay
On Wednesday, United States President Barrack Obama created two new national monuments: The Bears…
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