Sustainable Palm Oil Manifesto group’s High Carbon Stock forests study would continue business as usual, environmentalists say
Oct 16, 2015, 4:02 pm By Mike GaworeckiIn the wake of escalating public attention to the impact of palm oil plantations on the environment…Study finds local people do forest monitoring as well as scientists
Oct 16, 2015, 1:03 pm By Brittany StewartA recent study, published in BioScience, details successful efforts by local citizens to monitor…Mauritius to kill 18,000 threatened native bats in ‘disgraceful’ cull
Oct 16, 2015, 11:06 am By Shreya DasguptaThe government of Mauritius has announced its plans of culling 20 percent of the endemic and…Indonesian healthcare in focus as haze worsens; NASA data show Papua ablaze
Oct 16, 2015, 9:07 am By Mongabay Haze BeatIndonesia’s ability to treat potentially fatal haze-related illnesses is being drawn into sharper…In the shadow of a metropolis, a community revives Java’s lost forests
Oct 16, 2015, 4:28 am By Philip JacobsonWhen the children of Mendiro hamlet would hear the year 1998 in school, chances were it heralded a…Scientists say frozen methane deposits off the coast of the US Pacific Northwest might be melting
10:07pm By Mike GaworeckiNew research suggests methane deposits that have been frozen in the seabed off the coasts of Oregon…Environmentalists win ‘landmark’ case against biofuel project in Sri Lanka
6:20pm By Morgan Erickson-Davis[caption id="attachment_152098" align="alignright" width="780"] A plantation in Amarawewa, near Yala…Carbon emissions from Indonesia’s peat fires exceed emissions from entire U.S. economy
4:26pm By Rhett ButlerGreenhouse gas emissions from peat fires in Borneo and Sumatra are currently exceeding emissions…Aircraft fight Sumatran fires as Indonesian minister looks to counter no-deforestation pledges
12:49pm By Mongabay Haze BeatThe international effort to contain wildfires in Indonesia continued on Thursday as a senior…Cupid’s syringe: A love potion for troubled amphibians
11:28am By Rebecca Kessler[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hen Dale McGinnity rushed to the Nashville Zoo at 3 a.m. one morning in 2011, it…The village where a curse protects the forest
2:44am By Philip Jacobson[dropcap]A[/dropcap]lthough it is administratively part of Palangkaraya in Central Kalimantan, the…Illegal wood imports to US are way down, but still worth as much as $3b a year
Wed 8:21pm By Mike GaworeckiLast week, the largest hardwood flooring retailer in the United States, Lumber Liquidators, plead…More drought, floods predicted for the Amazon
Wed 5:40pm By Mike GaworeckiSao Paulo, Brazil’s most populous city, is currently suffering from a severe drought. Meanwhile,…Illegal logging decimating birds in Ghana: ‘These numbers are shocking’
Wed 2:25pm By Morgan Erickson-Davis[caption id="attachment_151592" align="alignright" width="780"] A black Kite flies over burned…Tracking the tiny: Harmonic direction finders aid study of small amphibians
Wed 11:00am By Rebecca Kessler[dropcap]A[/dropcap]round one third of amphibian species are considered globally threatened by the…Seized: $4 million worth of ivory, rhino horn and bear paws
Wed 8:52am By Shreya DasguptaIn a major wildlife trafficking crackdown, the Beijing Forest Police have confiscated around 1,773…Indonesia hints at possible peatland license review as haze firefight continues
Wed 5:44am By Mongabay Haze BeatOngoing haze pollution on Tuesday led Riau's acting governor to extend the province’s state of…APRIL clearing forest in breach of sustainability policy: NGO
Wed 5:27am By Philip JacobsonThe main subsidiary of one of Indonesia’s second-largest pulp and paper company is involved in…Creating wild edges on fields boosts wildlife numbers and crop yield
Wed 2:36am By Shreya Dasgupta[caption id="attachment_151361" align="aligncenter" width="866"] A leafcutter bee, one of the…Plantation companies challenged by haze-causing fires in Indonesia
Wed 1:09am By Rhett ButlerWith political pressure mounting on plantation companies, including threats of fines and legal…
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