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In West Papua’s Arfak Mountains, local leaders plot ecotourism boom

Christopel Paino 9 Nov 2018

China increasingly involved in Brazil’s ambitious Amazon rail network

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 8 Nov 2018
A map of Biacou (also spelled Beacou) made by residents of the village shows the location of various protected sites. Click here to enlarge. Image courtesy of RFLP/Sergio Pedroco.

Timor-Leste: With sacrifice and ceremony, tribe sets eco rules

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 8 Nov 2018

Four of six black rhinos translocated to Chad are now dead

Mongabay.com 8 Nov 2018

Hackathon enlightens coders and conservationists alike

David Klinges 8 Nov 2018

Roads divide opinions along with forests, study finds

John Cannon 8 Nov 2018

Troika of trouble for Bolivia’s Cordillera de Sama Reserve

Mongabay Latam 8 Nov 2018

For Javan rhinos, the last holdout may also be a deadly disease hotspot

Katy Waters 8 Nov 2018

Evicted for a showpiece project, this PNG community fights for justice

Lucy EJ Woods 8 Nov 2018

Congo Basin rainforest may be gone by 2100, study finds

Morgan Erickson-Davis 7 Nov 2018

Researchers say orangutans are declining, despite Indonesian government’s claims

Mike Gaworecki 7 Nov 2018

Cerrado farm community fights for life against dam and eucalyptus growers

Anna Sophie Gross 7 Nov 2018

In funding palm oil giants, banks may share in ‘sins of the companies’

Tessa Toumbourou 7 Nov 2018

Invisible plant-enemy interactions drive diversity in forest fragments

Shreya Dasgupta 7 Nov 2018

Are deep sea reefs really a lifeboat for our vanishing corals?

Emily Clark 7 Nov 2018

Protection flip-flop leaves rare Indonesian shrikethrush in harm’s way

Petrus Riski, Rahmadi Rahmad, Themmy Doaly 7 Nov 2018

Parrotfish, critical to reef health, now protected under Mexican law

John Cannon 7 Nov 2018

The ongoing trade in conflict timber (commentary)

Arthur Blundell, Jade Saunders 6 Nov 2018

Deforestation-linked Brazilian beef still flowing into international markets: report

Claire Asher 6 Nov 2018

Research finds humans across the globe have microplastics in their stool

Mike Gaworecki 6 Nov 2018

Savanna fires, a boon to grazers, cast rhinos into a ‘food desert’

Shreya Dasgupta 6 Nov 2018

AI simplifies statewide study of leopards in south India

Vasudevan Sridharan 5 Nov 2018
A fishing boat in the town of Beheloke in southwestern Madagascar. Image by Rowan Moore Gerety for Mongabay.

Local fishers oppose $2.7 billion deal opening Madagascar to Chinese fishing

Edward Carver 5 Nov 2018

Bear-human conflict risks pinpointed amid resurgent bear population

Mongabay.com 5 Nov 2018
A Sumatran rhino in Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Face-to-face with what may be the last of the world’s smallest rhino, the Bornean rhinoceros (insider)

Jeremy Hance 4 Nov 2018
Herd of blue wildebeest in Kenya. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Wildlife’s greatest spectacle is critically endangered (insider)

Jeremy Hance 4 Nov 2018
Puma in Belize. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler.

Why top predators matter (insider)

Jeremy Hance 3 Nov 2018

Ongoing rise in sea levels will increase threats to World Heritage Sites

Mongabay.com 2 Nov 2018

How porpoise sounds helped researchers test acoustic devices

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 2 Nov 2018

In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, November 2, 2018

Mongabay.com 2 Nov 2018

Latam Eco Review: Killing jaguars for arthritis creams and wine

Mongabay.com 2 Nov 2018

Call to protect dwindling wilderness ‘before it disappears forever’

John Cannon 1 Nov 2018

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