Nature’s frontline: Environmental news for the week of January 12, 2018
8:40am By MongabayTropical forests Virgin Atlantic has stopped buying REDD+ carbon credits from a conservation project…Natural World Heritage Sites in trouble, especially in the Tropics
Thu 6:36pm By MongabayElephants in Garamba National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo. Photo by ENOUGH Project on Visual…Colombian pipeline bombed hours after end to ceasefire
Thu 5:15pm By Mongabay
BOGOTA, Colombia – A renewed conflict could once again be on the horizon after leftist rebels…There’s a new member of the lemur family
Thu 3:15pm By MongabayScientists have found a new species of dwarf lemur in southeastern Madagascar. Grove’s Dwarf lemur…Critically endangered monkeys found in Ghana forest slated for mining
Thu 2:23pm By Mongabay
While surveying the rainforests of eastern Ghana’s Atewa mountain range, scientists stumbled upon…Poachers blamed as body of Sumatran elephant, missing tusks, found in protected forest
Thu 5:59am By MongabayPALEMBANG, Indonesia — Wildlife activists in Indonesia suspect poachers poisoned an elephant found…Wars kill wildlife in Africa’s protected areas, study finds
Thu 4:33am By Mongabay
Wars or armed conflict of any kind can have just as devastating an impact on wildlife as on people,…Lions deal blow to giraffe numbers by targeting young, study finds
Thu 3:52am By MongabayLions put a damper on the number of young giraffes that survive to maturity, according to a new…Efforts to save island wildlife from extinction get a boost from new database
Jan 10, 2018, 7:04 pm By Mongabay
Though the approximately 465,000 islands on planet Earth represent just over five percent of total…Study: Amazon dams are disrupting ecologically vital flood pulses
Jan 10, 2018, 11:35 am By MongabayThe Santo Antônio dam on the Madeira River, Brazil, is one of hundreds currently planned, under…Chocó at epicenter of Colombia’s social, environmental conflicts
Jan 10, 2018, 7:25 am By MongabayNOANAMÁ, Colombia – One wet November morning deep within Colombia’s western rainforest of…Indonesian ex-soldier among three jailed for illegal trade in Sumatran rhino, tiger parts
Jan 10, 2018, 4:58 am By MongabayMEDAN, Indonesia — A court in Indonesia has sentenced three men, including a former soldier, to…Audio: Lessons from indigenous peoples about coping with climate change, plus the call of the night parrot
Jan 9, 2018, 4:56 pm By MongabayHappy new year to all our listeners out there! On our first episode of 2018, we speak with the…Bangladeshi forests stripped bare as Rohingya refugees battle to survive
Jan 9, 2018, 3:15 pm By MongabayKUTUPALONG, Bangladesh – Look out from the high-ground in the middle of Kutupalong and two sights…Illegal Burmese wood used in British boats, says organization
Jan 9, 2018, 12:32 pm By Mongabay
Timber that is being illegally logged and smuggled out of Myanmar is ending up as decking on luxury…Brazil 2018: Amazon under attack, resistance grows, courts to act, elections
Jan 9, 2018, 11:56 am By MongabayMichel Temer, Brazil’s agribusiness-friendly president who seems likely to remain Brazil’s…2017 was third-hottest year on record in U.S. and costliest in terms of extreme weather and climate disasters
Jan 9, 2018, 11:02 am By MongabayAccording to data released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association yesterday, 2017 was…Reliance on natural healing cultivates respect for nature in Indonesian village
Jan 9, 2018, 9:51 am By MongabaySULAWESI — In a remote village on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi lies a small garden of…Global warming, pollution supersize the oceans’ oxygen-depleted dead zones
Jan 9, 2018, 1:11 am By Mongabay
Vast swaths of the world’s oceans are turning into “dead zones” as global warming and…‘AudioMoth’ device aims to deliver low-cost, power-efficient monitoring of remote landscapes
Jan 8, 2018, 1:34 pm By MongabayResearchers in the UK who have developed a low-power, open-source acoustic monitoring device say it…
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