How small is too small? The uncertain fate of Madagascar’s forest fragments
Oct 18, 2017, 11:14 am By Mongabay
ANKAFOBE, Madagascar — When he first told colleagues at the Missouri Botanical Garden that lemurs…One man’s quest to save the world’s wildest places: an interview with Hansjörg Wyss
Oct 18, 2017, 9:10 am By Mongabay
In the late 1950s, a young graduate student from Switzerland named Hansjörg Wyss took a summer job…Munduruku stand off against Amazon dam builders potentially explosive
Oct 17, 2017, 12:18 pm By MongabayA Munduruku warrior prepares to occupy the São Manoel dam. Photo by Juliana Rosa Pesqueira A…SMART and well-Connected: reserve patrol data system adds communications capacity
Oct 17, 2017, 11:46 am By Mongabay
Increasingly well-funded poaching gangs, as well as the pressure of ever-growing surrounding human…Study maps out reptiles’ ranges, completing the ‘atlas of life’
Oct 17, 2017, 8:26 am By MongabayAcross the swath of vertebrate lifeforms that inhabit Earth, scientists have a pretty good idea…Acidifying oceans a bad trip for marine ecosystems
Oct 17, 2017, 7:17 am By Mongabay
A more acidic ocean under climate change threatens to reconfigure entire ecosystems by advantaging…When a rhino calls in the forest, this guy hears It: Q&A with a Javan rhino researcher
Oct 16, 2017, 4:59 pm By MongabayHow much can we learn about a species that is rarely ever spotted by humans? The Javan rhinoceros…Questioning militarization is essential for successful and socially just conservation (commentary)
Oct 16, 2017, 1:11 pm By MongabayConstructive engagement with concerns about the rise in militarized forms of conservation are very…Indonesia to miss carbon emissions target under existing climate policies: study
Oct 16, 2017, 12:35 pm By Mongabay
Indonesia, a top carbon polluter, has a plan to cut its emissions. But unless it takes more drastic…Farming and forest loss: study exposes malaria’s best friends
Oct 16, 2017, 5:41 am By Mongabay
A new study exposes the role of deforestation in amplifying malaria transmission, finding that…Photo of ‘resurrected’ extinct Indonesian tiger is actually leopard, scientists say
Oct 15, 2017, 10:21 pm By Mongabay
A recent photo that sparked speculation that an Indonesian tiger species had come back from…Mexico takes ‘unprecedented’ action to save vaquita
Oct 15, 2017, 7:18 pm By MongabayA team of marine mammal experts is searching for the last vaquitas (Phocoena sinus) in the Gulf of…Photos: night owls
Fri 2:33pm By Mongabay
Are there any sounds that terrify you? Spectacled Owl. Julie Larsen Maher / WCS From deep within the…Conservation leaders in Africa call for a crackdown on biopiracy
Fri 1:53pm By Mongabay
Today, Malaysia is one of the world’s biggest producers of palm oil. Together with Indonesia, the…Grasberg mine’s riches still a distant glitter for Papuan communities
Fri 11:31am By Mongabay
High hopes that the world’s biggest gold mine will finally bring meaningful benefit to the…Seafood calendar promotes sustainable, seasonal eating in India
Fri 10:07am By MongabayThe modernization of fishing practices over the past 50 years has secured India’s position as the…Indigenous group scores legal victory as dam floods their lands
Oct 12, 2017, 3:23 pm By Mongabay
A brief legal battle related to the Barro Blanco hydroelectric project in western Panama concluded…Cash for conservation: Do payments for ecosystem services work?
Oct 12, 2017, 2:23 pm By Mongabay
As far as conservation strategies go, payments for ecosystem services (PES) are based on a…Ivory is out in the U.K., as gov’t moves to shutter legal trade
Oct 12, 2017, 9:33 am By Mongabay
The U.K.’s government has announced that it will shut down the legal ivory trade within its…Island-hopping toxic toad threatens iconic Komodo dragon
Oct 11, 2017, 5:07 pm By MongabayOn the islands of Wallacea, one of the world’s hottest biodiversity hotspots, a quiet yet deadly…
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