Getting there: The rush to turn the Amazon into a soy transport corridor
Feb 15, 2017, 2:38 pm By Mongabay
[caption id="attachment_193255" align="alignnone" width="768"] Symbols of today’s Amazon: a grain…Seven ‘most wanted’ elephant poachers arrested in Malaysia
Feb 15, 2017, 3:12 am By MongabayOn February 10, Malaysian authorities arrested seven of the country's "most wanted" elephant…Latin America palm oil production doubled since 2001 without massive uptick in deforestation
Feb 14, 2017, 6:58 pm By Mongabay
The palm oil industry’s rapid growth in Southeast Asia brought with it massive amounts of…Endangered species and habitats threatened by US-Mexico border wall
Feb 14, 2017, 4:57 pm By Mongabay
The new Trump administration in the U.S. brings with it a wave of policy and agenda shifts that are…Scanning the barcode of wildlife
Feb 14, 2017, 2:25 pm By Mongabay
It is a trade that is worth more than $15 billion a year in the global market and threatens some of…Counterintuitive: Global hydropower boom will add to climate change
Feb 14, 2017, 11:43 am By Mongabay
[caption id="attachment_193222" align="alignnone" width="768"] Thousand Island Lake in China, the…Loving apes celebrated this Valentine’s Day
Feb 14, 2017, 6:59 am By Mongabay
The world’s most peace-loving apes will be getting a little love themselves this Valentine’s…A Thai oil firm, Indonesian seaweed farmers and Australian regulators. What happened after the Montara oil spill?
Feb 14, 2017, 2:51 am By Mongabay
During 74 days in late 2009, a leak in the Montara offshore drilling platform gushed tens of…Revisiting Java’s little Africa: Indonesia’s safari potential
Feb 13, 2017, 10:39 pm By Mongabay
[caption id="attachment_193198" align="aligncenter" width="683"] Baluran National Park is still a…Trees need a little help to reclaim deforested land, study finds
Feb 13, 2017, 7:29 pm By Mongabay
Deforestation is estimated to be responsible for about 10 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, which…India’s Manas National Park illustrates the human dimension of rhino conservation
Feb 13, 2017, 4:27 pm By Mongabay
BARPETA, India -- When Babulal Orang, a field staffer in the Manas National Park in the northeast…Field Notes: Predicting how the pet trade spreads infectious disease
Feb 13, 2017, 12:59 pm By Mongabay
[caption id="attachment_193192" align="alignnone" width="768"] An animal trader at a large market in…Indonesia’s last stand for a coal industry in peril
Feb 13, 2017, 11:19 am By MongabayIndonesia’s coal industry is trying to grow in a hostile climate. As the world moves to cut carbon…Investors learning to pay heed to community land rights
Feb 13, 2017, 9:09 am By MongabayCompanies operating in Africa would do well to avoid conflicts over land with local populations,…Increasing tree cover threatens world’s most endangered antelope
Feb 13, 2017, 7:07 am By Mongabay
Expanding tree cover might sound like good news for wildlife. But for the hirola — the world’s…Forced evictions along Jakarta waterway a liability for Ahok as governor’s race nears finish line
Feb 13, 2017, 5:37 am By Mongabay
JAKARTA — Six weeks after the last of the Bukit Duri evictees moved into their new dwellings here…In one Tanzanian village, survival is intimately linked to forest conservation
Feb 12, 2017, 10:06 pm By Mongabay
NANJIRINJI A, Tanzania – When Jamila Sallimu Chikunda found out she was pregnant with her third…Chain saw injuries in Myanmar tied to illegal logging
Feb 12, 2017, 2:38 am By Mongabay
MANDALAY, Myanmar - As darkness fell in the forests of central Myanmar on a rainy evening last July,…Trophy hunters overstate contribution of big game hunting to African economies: Report
Feb 10, 2017, 3:09 pm By Mongabay
A new report released by the Humane Society International (HSI) finds that trophy hunters are…Newly discovered beetle catches a ride on the backs of army ants to get around
Feb 10, 2017, 12:23 pm By Mongabay
Dr. Christoph von Beeren of Germany’s Technical University Darmstadt was collecting “ant…
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