Crabbing gone commercial: Brazilian mangroves threatened by shift in local traditions
May 12, 2017, 7:09 am By MongabayIn the village of Tramataia, Brazil crab-pickers, or caranguejeiros, walk to the shoreline at night…50 new spiders discovered in Australia
May 12, 2017, 4:46 am By Mongabay
A two-week expedition in Australia's Cape York Peninsula has uncovered 50 new species of spiders.…It’s time for the insurance industry to unfriend coal
May 11, 2017, 5:42 pm By MongabayYou can’t drive a car or buy a house without insurance. Likewise, the coal industry can’t get…Facing oversupply, Indonesia scales back its coal-based electricity plan
May 11, 2017, 11:30 am By MongabayThe Indonesian government appears to be backtracking on its aggressive 35,000-megawatt, coal-centric…Palm oil firm pledges to stop deforesting after RSPO freezes its operations in Papua
May 11, 2017, 4:52 am By Mongabay
Goodhope Asia Holdings has issued a new sustainability policy, committing the palm oil giant to stop…Hong Kong Ivory traders encouraging buyers to smuggle ivory: TRAFFIC
May 11, 2017, 4:32 am By MongabaySeveral licensed ivory dealers in Hong Kong are offering strategies for buyers to take ivory out of…Industry-NGO coalition releases toolkit for making ‘No Deforestation’ commitments a reality on the ground
May 10, 2017, 2:09 pm By MongabayThere is now one set of guidelines, agreed upon by both industry and civil society, for palm oil…In Liberia, a battered palm oil industry adjusts to new rules
May 10, 2017, 1:56 pm By MongabayMONROVIA - When Liberia signed a series of contracts with international palm oil producers in the…Howler monkeys booming in Belize sanctuary 25 years after translocation
May 10, 2017, 5:22 am By MongabayThe calls of howler monkeys, once wiped out in a Central American forest known as the Cockscomb…‘Killed, forced, afraid’: Philippine palm oil legacy incites new fears
May 9, 2017, 5:33 pm By Mongabay
PROSPERIDAD, Philippines – “Without me, Guthrie would be nothing,” boasted Colonel Carlos…China flexes its new climate action muscles in Bonn; Trump administration blinks
May 9, 2017, 12:59 pm By MongabayBONN, GERMANY - Flexing new muscles as the undisputed leader in global climate action, China is…The rise and fall of Regina Lopez, the Philippines’ maverick environment minister
May 9, 2017, 11:58 am By MongabayQUEZON CITY, Philippines -- On June 20, 2016 Rodrigo Duterte, the newly elected president of the…Extremely rare bay cat filmed in Borneo
May 9, 2017, 7:30 am By MongabayScientists have filmed the extremely secretive bay cat (Catopuma badia) in a new location that is…DRC’s Garamba National Park: The last giraffes of the Congo
May 9, 2017, 4:00 am By MongabayGaramba National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo – Scientist Mathias D’haen said he…Protected species in Gulf of Mexico could take decades to recover from Deepwater Horizon oil spill
May 8, 2017, 7:00 pm By MongabayResearch released last month suggested that the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster and oil spill caused…Peruvian Supreme Court acquits Máxima Acuña in case brought by mining company Yanacocha
May 8, 2017, 6:14 pm By MongabayLIMA, Peru - The Permanent Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of Peru acquitted…Coal miners owe the Indonesian government hundreds of millions of dollars
May 8, 2017, 2:12 pm By MongabayIndonesia is now one of the world’s largest exporters of coal, an industry that contributes around…Anti-trafficking activist held without trial in Madagascar
May 8, 2017, 1:51 pm By MongabayClovis Razafimalala heads Lampogno, an organization seeking an end to illegal rosewood trafficking…Indigenous groups, activists risk arrest to blockade logging in Malaysia
May 8, 2017, 1:43 pm By Mongabay
GUA MUSANG, Malaysia – In their fight for the rights of peninsular Malaysia’s native people, the…Guaviare: Colombia’s frontline in the country’s battle to stop deforestation in the Amazon
May 8, 2017, 3:53 am By MongabaySan José del Guaviare, Colombia - Flying over the gateway to the Amazon in Colombia’s…
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