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Haze compensation to poor stalls as Indonesia spends on new palm oil cartel

Mongabay Haze Beat 23 Nov 2015

Poisonous amphibians may be more likely to go extinct

Erin E.A. Ross 23 Nov 2015

Camera trap pictures help nab tiger poacher

Shreya Dasgupta 23 Nov 2015
These baby orangutans were confiscated from a trafficker in Indonesia's Aceh province in 2015. Photo by Junaidi Hanafiah.

First-ever conviction for orangutan trafficking in Aceh

Chik Rini 23 Nov 2015

A dam and mine disaster in Brazil causes major environmental damage — and serves as a warning against future tragedies

Carolina Torres 22 Nov 2015

Environmentalist gunned down by illegal miners in Peru

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Nov 2015

New fund lands $4M to protect the Amazon

Mongabay.com 20 Nov 2015

South African ranchers propose controversial plan to save our rhinos

Brittany Stewart 20 Nov 2015

More than half of the Amazon’s tree species may be threatened with extinction

Shreya Dasgupta 20 Nov 2015

EU scheme failing to stop timber trafficking, finds audit

John Cannon 20 Nov 2015

Birds, butterflies, and flowers might be blander than expected in the tropics

Alison F. Takemura 20 Nov 2015

New rat species find sheds light on Philippine mammalian diversity

Kolawole Talabi 20 Nov 2015

RSPO pledges reform after NGO exposes shoddy palm oil audits

Mongabay.com 20 Nov 2015
A kelp forest off the California Coast, where pockets of full protection alternate with zones allowing limited fishing. Photo by Greg Asner.

Ocean protections drift behind those on land, but science can help

Natalie Jacewicz 20 Nov 2015

Technology for Restoring Wildlife to the Wild, Wild West

Katie Taylor 20 Nov 2015
Firefighters created fire breaks by setting back burns during the 2013 Rim Fire in California’s Sierra Nevada. Photo by Mike McMillan, U.S. National Park Service.

Small, controlled fires are the only way to prevent large wildfires, researchers argue

Lindzi Wessel 20 Nov 2015

Trouble in paradise: Wakatobi’s ‘sea gypsies’ adjust to life in a marine park

Melati Kaye 20 Nov 2015

New ‘Forest 500’ report finds both public and private sector have long way to go on deforestation

Mike Gaworecki 20 Nov 2015
Tourists can spread invasive species on unwashed fishing kits. Photo courtesy of Paula Rosewarn.

Invasive species hop on tourists worldwide

Amy McDermott 20 Nov 2015

Palm oil company revs up deforestation in Malaysia

Ethan Harfenist 19 Nov 2015

Latin American wildlife trafficking takes to the air

Lindsay Fendt 19 Nov 2015

Could these technologies reduce shark attacks and culls?

Roz Evans 19 Nov 2015
The study authors counted carcasses from hundreds of markets like this one, where visitors can purchase whole birds and their body parts. Photo by Gerhard Nikolaus.

Vanishing vultures: Africa’s fetish and bushmeat trade is driving its scavengers to extinction

Brendan Bane 19 Nov 2015

Fires smoulder and floods soak Sumatra as RSPO calls for palm oil reform

Mongabay Haze Beat 19 Nov 2015

The impacts of haze on Southeast Asia’s wildlife

Jose Hong 19 Nov 2015

Rising global temperatures could shrink paychecks by almost one-fourth

Mike Gaworecki 19 Nov 2015

Wolves of the microscopic world: new Dracula ant species found in Madagascar

Vinod Malwatte 18 Nov 2015

The miraculous Moringa tree: potential solution for world malnutrition

Taryn Farber 18 Nov 2015

Farmed and legally exported Colombian poison frogs take on the illegal pet trade

John-Rob Pool 18 Nov 2015

50% of world’s natural history specimens may have wrong names

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Nov 2015

VP Kalla fans flames in Manila as Indonesia presses on with water bombing

Mongabay Haze Beat 18 Nov 2015

Rapidly-spreading fire destroyed over half of the Amazon forest in the Brazilian state of Maranhão

Carolina Torres 18 Nov 2015

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