News

RSS
119 stories

Ñembi Guasu: Huge new conservation area in Bolivia’s Gran Chaco

Yvette Sierra Praeli 23 May 2019

Former Brazilian enviro ministers blast Bolsonaro environmental assaults

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 23 May 2019

How climate change could throw Māori culture off-balance

Ashley Stumvoll 23 May 2019

Documentary on world’s rarest ape generates film festival buzz

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 May 2019

For India’s imperiled apes, thinking locally matters

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 23 May 2019

Laurel Chor on photojournalism and Hong Kong’s ‘incredible biodiversity’

Erik Hoffner 22 May 2019

For migrating songbirds, ‘baby shark’ is more than just an annoying tune

Shreya Dasgupta 22 May 2019

The health of penguin chicks points scientists to changes in the ocean

Mongabay.com 22 May 2019

Wildlife trade summit may move to Geneva amid Colombo security concerns

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 22 May 2019

World Agroforestry Congress gathers huge group of global boosters in France

Erik Hoffner 21 May 2019

Indonesia calls on palm oil industry, obscured by secrecy, to remain opaque

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 May 2019

Bauxite mining and Chinese dam push Guinea’s chimpanzees to the brink

Jennifer O’Mahony 21 May 2019

Interest in protecting environment up since Pope’s 2015 encyclical

John Cannon 21 May 2019

Bolivia: Nature rights tribunal condemns TIPNIS project

Mongabay.com 20 May 2019

‘Resisting to exist’: Indigenous women unite against Brazil’s far-right president

Karla Mendes 20 May 2019

Volunteers find bones of new species of extinct heron at Florida fossil site

Mongabay.com 20 May 2019
A bucket of fish at a market in Labuan Bajo, Indonesia. Image by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay

Monitoring hack shines a light on fishing boats operating under cover of dark

Basten Gokkon 17 May 2019

Extreme weather puts traditional livelihoods in peril in Sri Lanka, studies warn

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 17 May 2019

Solomon Islanders imprisoned for trying to stop the logging of their forests

Louise Hunt 17 May 2019

A new election brings little hope for Solomon Islands’ vanishing forests

Louise Hunt 17 May 2019

In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, May 17, 2019

Mongabay.com 17 May 2019
Zanzibar red colobus (Piliocolobus kirkii) eating a leaf in Jozani Forest, Zanzibar. Photo: Hasin Shakur, Wikicommons GFDL 1.2

Red colobus conservation in Zanzibar: A cautiously optimistic tale

Bart Crezee 17 May 2019

In Indonesia, a flawed certification scheme lets illegal loggers raze away

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 May 2019

’Green’ bonds finance industrial tree plantations in Brazil

Mongabay.com 16 May 2019

At 2,624 years, a bald cypress is oldest known living tree in eastern North America

Mongabay.com 16 May 2019

Climate change may make hurricanes and cyclones deadlier, study finds

Gianluca Cerullo 16 May 2019

As Indonesia mulls moving the capital, indigenous groups fear another land grab

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 16 May 2019

Canopy-dwelling rainforest mammals most sensitive to human disturbance

Mongabay.com 15 May 2019

An urban ‘butterfly experience’ in Sri Lanka

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 15 May 2019

Public education could curb bushmeat demand in Laos, study finds

Mongabay.com 15 May 2019

On the island of Java, a social forestry scheme creates jobs at home

Nuswantoro 15 May 2019

Models, maps, and citizen scientists working to save the Great Barrier Reef

Marianne Messina 14 May 2019

you're currently offline