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‘Landscape of fearlessness’: bushbuck emboldened following top-predator decline in Mozambique

Sophie Manson 6 May 2019

Most communities not seeing promised oil palm payoff in Borneo, study finds

Loren Bell 6 May 2019

All you need is human feces: The strange world of dung beetle sampling

Gianluca Cerullo 6 May 2019

Slave labor found at second Starbucks-certified Brazilian coffee farm

Daniel Camargos contributor for Repórter Brasil 3 May 2019

When losing your soil means losing your livelihood (commentary)

Sophie Erfurth 3 May 2019

In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, May 3, 2019

Mongabay.com 3 May 2019

Malaysia calls on Southeast Asia to back palm oil against ‘unfair’ claims

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 May 2019

Conservationists call for lasting ban on trade in Malagasy precious timber

Malavika Vyawahare 3 May 2019

In traffic-blighted Penang, transport upgrade plans raise hopes and fears

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 3 May 2019

In Indonesia, bigger catches for a fishing village protecting its mangroves

Aseanty Pahlevi 3 May 2019

Illegal logging poised to wipe Cambodian wildlife sanctuary off the map

Chris Humphrey 2 May 2019
Monsanto Lasso herbicide to be sprayed on food crops showing proper protective gear. Photo courtesy of the USDA

Bolsonaro administration authorizes 150+ pesticides in first 100 days

Sue Branford and Thais Borges 2 May 2019

Changing energy use in rural Africa with power from solar, clean stoves…and women

David Klinges 2 May 2019

Hippos poop a lot of silica, and that’s critical for Africa’s rivers and lakes

Shreya Dasgupta 2 May 2019

It’s now or never for Madagascar’s biodiversity, experts say

Malavika Vyawahare 2 May 2019

Huge rubber plantation in Cameroon halts deforestation following rebuke

Rachel Fritts 1 May 2019

In Sri Lanka, a tiny new orchid bears an elephant’s name

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 1 May 2019

Recently discovered Brazilian river dolphin’s calls could help us understand evolution of marine mammal communication

Mongabay.com 1 May 2019
A coastal village near the Myeik area in Myanmar. Photo by Victoria Milko.

Controversial aquaculture projects threaten Myanmar’s remaining mangroves

Wudan Yan 1 May 2019

Drone rediscovers Hawaiian flower thought to be extinct

Mongabay.com 1 May 2019
A whale shark in Mexico. Image by MarAlliance2018 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Mobile app encourages Indian fishers to free entangled whale sharks

Vasudevan Sridharan 1 May 2019

How India’s shrub frogs crossed a bridge to Sri Lanka – and changed forever

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 1 May 2019
Western Chimpanzees at Tacugama Chimp Sanctuary in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Photo by BigMikeSndTech, licensed under CC by 2.0

Western chimp numbers revised up to 53,000, but development threats loom

Ashoka Mukpo 1 May 2019

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