Timber plantations are the latest threat facing Indonesia’s Mentawai Islands
Jun 7, 2016, 3:00 pm By Mike Gaworecki
The Mentawai peoples, who live on Indonesia’s Mentawai Islands, off the western coast of Sumatra,…Can conservationists overcome their differences to save life on Earth?
Jun 7, 2016, 2:20 pm By Mongabay[dropcap]V[/dropcap]eteran Mongabay reporter Jeremy Hance’s hard-hitting series investigating…Emmylou Harris links climate change to refugee crisis, lends her voice
Jun 7, 2016, 12:20 pm By Justin Catanoso
[caption id="attachment_186893" align="alignnone" width="768"] Emmylou Harris performs for Jesuit…Arara Indians in Brazilian Amazon finally given right to their land
Jun 6, 2016, 6:20 pm By Sue Branford
[caption id="attachment_186882" align="alignnone" width="768"] The Arara Indians were nearly…Watch video of an electric eel attack
Jun 6, 2016, 6:00 pm By Mike Gaworecki
In a paper published in 1807, Prussian naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt claimed to…Two new rain frogs found in Ecuadorian Andes
Jun 6, 2016, 5:20 pm By Mike Gaworecki
Researchers with the Museum of Zoology at Catholic University of Ecuador discovered two new species…Dams threaten future of Amazonian biodiversity major new study warns
Jun 6, 2016, 4:20 pm By Claire Salisbury
[caption id="attachment_186868" align="alignnone" width="768"] River turtles in Colombia. Turtles,…China’s Wanglang panda reserve, once an ecotourism model, faces new threats
Jun 6, 2016, 1:40 pm By Wang Yan
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n late April, forest rangers caught Chen Yunxia, a young woman in her twenties,…Unclear if France will revisit ‘discriminatory’ palm oil tax
Jun 5, 2016, 10:40 pm By Loren Bell
Last month, the French Senate removed a proposed tax on palm oil from their version of the country's…10 reasons to be optimistic for forests on World Environment Day
Jun 4, 2016, 9:00 pm By Rhett A Butler
It's easy to be pessimistic about the state of the world's forests. Rates of forest loss remain…Ignoring scientists, Poland begins logging famous primeval forest
Jun 3, 2016, 3:40 pm By Jeremy Hance
The quiet of Europe's last old-growth lowland forest is being interrupted by the whirr whirr whirr…Peruvian presidential candidates spur concerns among environmentalists
Jun 3, 2016, 2:40 pm By Milton López Tarabochia
In less than a week, Peru will have a new president and, until now, the environment has not been one…1.6 million Brazilians struggle to recover from Fundão toxic waste spill
Jun 3, 2016, 1:00 pm By Zoe Sullivan
[caption id="attachment_186826" align="alignnone" width="768"] Some of the horrific damage done to…International treaty targeting illegal fishing takes effect
Jun 3, 2016, 12:20 pm By Alexandra Ossola
[dropcap]A[/dropcap] United Nations treaty aimed at preventing illegal fishing will enter into force…PanEco resigns from RSPO over ‘sheer level of inaction’
Jun 3, 2016, 5:40 am By Philip Jacobson
One of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil’s disgruntled NGO members officially called it quits…Indonesia’s Salim Group linked to ‘secret’ palm oil concessions in West Papua
Jun 3, 2016, 1:00 am By Daniel Pye
One of Indonesia’s largest conglomerates, the Salim Group, has likely acquired four palm oil…U.S. to enforce strict elephant ivory ban
Jun 2, 2016, 8:20 pm By Mongabay.com
The United States will enforce a "near-total ban" on the commercial trade of elephant ivory. The…Successes and many challenges in Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve
Jun 2, 2016, 3:20 pm By Sandra Cuffe
Other stories in Mongabay’s series on the Maya Biosphere Reserve: Killing of Guatemalan activist…More remains seized, deeper issues revealed at Thailand ‘Tiger Temple’
Jun 2, 2016, 2:20 pm By Apoorva Joshi
Today, just a day after Department of National Parks (DNP) and Wildlife Conservation Office (WCO)…The dark side of China’s foreign fishing boom
Jun 2, 2016, 7:00 am By Cory Rogers
[dropcap type="2"]F[/dropcap]rom space, there is only one stretch of ocean that lights up at night,…
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