First-of-its-kind mapping platform could help protect indigenous communities
Nov 12, 2015, 7:41 am By Shreya DasguptaThirteen land rights and research groups have come together to develop the first-of-its-kind online…Adult speartooth sharks caught and tagged by scientists for first time ever
Nov 12, 2015, 3:26 am By Mike GaworeckiScientists with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO),…New analysis shows there is momentum to build on in Paris when it comes to protecting forests to stop climate change
Nov 11, 2015, 10:21 pm By Mike GaworeckiNot only are the world’s forests valuable carbon sinks, but deforestation and forest degradation…To kill or not to kill? Scientists debate specimen collection
Nov 11, 2015, 2:37 pm By Shreya DasguptaIn the mid 2000s, Patricia Parker of the University of Missouri-St. Louis and her colleagues were…Conservationists propose the ‘World Heritage Wilderness Complex’ to protect large landscapes
Nov 11, 2015, 12:48 pm By Mike GaworeckiCyril Kormos was helping create the Central Suriname Nature Reserve — 1.6 million hectares (about…Saving the unicorns: using the sun to produce freshwater and restore an endangered species
Nov 11, 2015, 11:11 am By Sue PalminteriThe lack of freshwater in arid regions of the world leads to spiraling negative effects on both wild…Community plants green shoots of hope in the land of the lost Javan tiger
Nov 11, 2015, 4:26 am By Philip Jacobson[dropcap]F[/dropcap]ew places offer a glimpse of Indonesia’s forlorn environmental track record…ASAP: reversing decline of critically endangered species in Southeast Asia
Nov 11, 2015, 2:11 am By Shreya DasguptaSpecies in Southeast Asia are in crisis. Compared with most other regions, Southeast Asian…Indonesia bans peatlands destruction
Nov 10, 2015, 8:25 pm By Rhett ButlerIn response to the fires that have hospitalized roughly 500,000 people, polluted skies over a large…An optimistic call for saving life on Earth
Nov 10, 2015, 6:42 pm By Rhett ButlerNeed an antidote to all the gloomy and frustrating environmental news? The new book No More…‘A critical gift': Peru rejoices as a new national park is born
Nov 10, 2015, 6:05 pm By Morgan Erickson-Davis[caption id="attachment_158818" align="aligncenter" width="900"] On Sunday, Peru's president Ollanta…Tiger Awareness Week hits college campuses: building student pride for an endangered apex predator
Nov 10, 2015, 2:23 pm By Sue PalminteriThis Wednesday, tigers will roam free on eight university campuses in the United States—free, that…Concern grows for jailed Cambodian activists amid civil rights crackdown
Nov 10, 2015, 1:44 pm By Rebecca KesslerCambodian authorities have detained four activists linked to the environmental group Mother Nature…Many Indonesia fires smoulder but danger is far from over
Nov 10, 2015, 6:23 am By Mongabay Haze BeatAfter months spent focusing on wildfires across Sumatra and Kalimantan, some Indonesian disaster…Forest rangers killed in Cambodia while patrolling for illegal loggers
Nov 9, 2015, 3:53 pm By Mike GaworeckiSieng Darong, a Forestry Administration ranger, and Sab Yoh, a police officer, were shot and killed…Brazil climate change report warns of failed hydropower and crops
Nov 9, 2015, 11:05 am By Glenn Scherer[caption id="attachment_158280" align="aligncenter" width="768"] Intensifying drought in the Amazon…Indonesian NGO takes aim at government for failure to handle haze
Nov 9, 2015, 9:48 am By Mongabay Haze BeatA human rights watchdog in Indonesia intervened in this year’s haze crisis on Monday to criticize…Indonesia losing billions from illegal logging
Nov 9, 2015, 2:00 am By Philip JacobsonIndonesia lost nearly $9 billion in state revenue from unreported timber sales between 2003 and…Land rights and access to credit in Sulawesi community brings prosperity to land
Nov 9, 2015, 12:42 am By Philip JacobsonEvery day at noon Bahar and Nasirah set out on foot into the South Sulawesi backcountry. The couple…With fires wreaking havoc across Indonesia, Malaysian state targets greener palm oil
Nov 8, 2015, 11:47 am By Rhett ButlerWith devastating fires in Indonesia providing a backdrop for the destruction wrought by unrestrained…
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