Fires burned 26% of forestry giant’s South Sumatra plantations in 2015
Feb 4, 2016, 3:20 pm By <a class="author-link" href="http://news.mongaPeat fires burned 293,065 hectares of land within concessions managed by Asia Pulp & Paper (APP)…A railroad that crosses the Amazon could be an unfeasible, expensive dream for Peru
Feb 4, 2016, 10:12 am By <a class="author-link" href="http://news.monga[caption id="attachment_177538" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Illegal gold miners have benefited…Two new jewel-eyed tree frog species discovered in Taiwan, display strange reproductive behavior
Feb 4, 2016, 8:03 am By <a class="author-link" href="http://news.mongaIn the island country of Taiwan, researchers have identified two new species of tree frogs with…With haze threatening return, Indonesian forestry giant pushes peatlands restoration model
Feb 4, 2016, 2:01 am By <a class="author-link" href="http://news.mongaLast year some two million hectares of land in Indonesia went up in flames across Sumatra, Borneo,…How are NGOs innovating to reach palm oil financiers and companies?
Feb 4, 2016, 12:06 am By <a class="author-link" href="http://news.mongaPart four in a five-part series on the attitudes of palm oil financiers towards company…Lack of land rights for local communities could scare away investment
Feb 3, 2016, 6:15 pm By <a class="author-link" href="http://news.mongaResearch has shown that land held by indigenous and local communities tends to be more effectively…Oil extraction threatens to expand further into Ecuadorean rainforest under new 20-year contract
Feb 3, 2016, 9:41 am By <a class="author-link" href="http://news.monga[caption id="attachment_177384" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Oil blocks 79 and 83 in Sápara…Previously undiscovered lion population found in Ethiopia
Feb 3, 2016, 2:38 am By <a class="author-link" href="http://news.mongaIn a remote part of northwestern Ethiopia, in Alatash National Park, wildlife conservationists have…Primate-Watching: In the Year of the Monkey, let’s build a Conservation Movement
Feb 3, 2016, 1:24 am By Commentary by <a class="author-link" href="httRuss Mittermeier, long-time Chair of the IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group and Executive Vice-Chair…New deforestation hotspot threatens southern Peru’s tremendous biodiversity
7:45pm By <a class="author-link" href="http://news.mongaThe lower Las Piedras River, in the far west Amazon rainforests of the Madre de Dios region of…Managing fish stock –and fishermen– along Brazil’s Canaticu River
11:04am By <a class="author-link" href="http://news.monga[caption id="attachment_177266" align="alignnone" width="800"] Ribeirinhos setting out to fish along…Studying Cecil: development and deployment of lion-tracking technology
8:20am By <a class="author-link" href="http://news.mongaSix months after Cecil the Lion was shot by an American bow hunter, the furor about his death has…India has most cases of social and environmental conflict, according to environmental justice atlas
7:24am By <a class="author-link" href="http://news.mongaOften-controversial developmental projects, such as hydropower plants and mining activities, are…Do poor environmental practices affect palm oil firms’ bottom lines on a scale meaningful for investors and financiers?
Mon 11:21pm By <a class="author-link" href="http://news.mongaPart two in a five-part series on the attitudes of palm oil financiers towards company…Vast majority of Canada’s Great Bear Rainforest made permanently off-limits to industrial logging
Mon 7:08pm By <a class="author-link" href="http://news.mongaAn agreement announced today will protect the vast majority of Canada’s Great Bear Rainforest, one…Imperiled Amazon freshwater ecosystems urgently need basin-wide study, management
Mon 5:09pm By <a class="author-link" href="http://news.monga[caption id="attachment_177054" align="alignleft" width="768"] The Amazon rainforest generates about…A small team in Tanzania is using nothing but lights to save lions and leopards
Mon 4:06pm By <a class="author-link" href="http://news.mongaPhilipo Ormorijei is a local guide who lives in the Maasai village of Nainokanoka, in the Ngorongoro…Top Vatican official: climate change action is a “moral imperative”
Mon 3:54pm By <a class="author-link" href="http://news.monga[caption id="attachment_176978" align="alignleft" width="768"] Cardinal Peter Turkson prior to the…Elephant poachers kill British helicopter pilot, 5 suspects arrested
Mon 6:51am By <a class="author-link" href="http://news.mongaOn January 29, elephant poachers shot and killed Roger Gower, a British helicopter pilot, in…The week in environmental news – Jan 29, 2016
Jan 30, 2016, 7:38 pm By <a class="author-link" href="http://news.mongaThese photos of effects from climate change are haunting [Huffington Post] The people of Bangladesh…
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