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Report highlights business, political players behind Philippine environment defender deaths

by Imelda Abano, Leilani Chavez 24 September 2019
MANILA — Development banks and other investors are fueling the violence against people in the Philippines who are protecting their land and environment from destructive industries, eco-watchdog Global Witness reveals…

Greta and Mesoamerica’s five great forests (commentary)

by Jeremy Radachowsky and Chris Jordan 23 September 2019
This week’s Climate Strike mobilized and inspired millions of people around the world, including us. On Friday, we stood with young protesters in New York’s Battery Park, listening to Greta…

Prompted by Amazon fires, 230 investors warn firms linked to deforestation

by Sue Branford 23 September 2019
Major investors with $16.2 trillion in assets warn hundreds of companies to either meet supply chain deforestation commitments or risk economic consequences.

Paradise, polluted: Cook Islands tries to clean up its tourism sector

by Monica Evans 23 September 2019
This story is part of a series on Marae Moana, the massive, recently enacted multiple-use marine protected area covering the Cook Islands’ entire exclusive economic zone. Other stories in the…

Sri Lanka eyes lucrative charismatic species to save lesser-known ones

by Malaka Rodrigo 23 September 2019
COLOMBO — Wildlife conservation managers have long known that to protect a species, it helps if the animal is what’s known as charismatic: rare, endangered, beautiful, impressive, dangerous, or a…

15 years after tsunami, Aceh reckons with an inconsistent fisheries recovery

by Sonali Prasad 23 September 2019
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia — Aceh is one of those destinations that glimmer chimerically on the horizon, alluring with its newness, but ever receding, ever retreating in memory with the passage…

‘From possibility to certainty’: Climate strikers seek action to avert disaster

by Imelda Abano 22 September 2019
NEW YORK CITY — Climate change continues to pose an existential threat to many low-lying Asian and the Pacific island countries, with rising seas putting people’s lives, livelihoods, environment and…

Sri Lanka wields mangroves, its tsunami shield, against climate change

by Dilrukshi Handunnetti 22 September 2019
KOGGALA/UNAWATUNA, Sri Lanka — About 140 kilometers (87 miles) south of Colombo, the Sri Lankan capital, lies the coastal town of Koggala, named after a picturesque lake and identified with…

Bolsonaro’s Brazil unlikely to achieve Paris Agreement goals: experts

by Elisângela Mendonça 22 September 2019
The president’s aggressive environmental deregulation, along with rising deforestation leave Brazil with little chance of reducing its carbon emissions.

On World Rhino Day, looking back on an eventful year

by Mongabay.com 22 September 2019
September 22 marks World Rhino Day, a global event established to celebrate the world's five rhinoceros species, as well as to reflect on the challenges facing them. Of the five…

Youth climate strikes sweep Asia ahead of UN Climate Action Summit

by Leilani Chavez 21 September 2019
In Asian society, where young people are expected to be submissive to elders, a vocal youth movement demanding climate justice from their governments is rising.

As climate crisis deepens, wildlife adapts, maybe with lessons for us

by Mongabay.com 20 September 2019
Recent studies of Twitter posts have shown that people can be quick to shrug off extreme weather as normal. However, researchers are also finding that some wildlife — maybe better…

In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, September 20, 2019

by Mongabay.com 20 September 2019
Tropical forests Deforestation in Brazil is affecting one of the country’s most biodiverse rivers (Biographic). A new “atlas” tracks infrastructure development in Indonesian Papua (CIFOR Forests News). A market for…
Silhouette of man standing by oil palm tree on a plantation still belonging to local residents in Malen Chiefdom in Pujehun district of Sierra Leone, West Africa.

Industrial palm oil investors struggle to gain foothold in Africa

by Ashoka Mukpo 20 September 2019
It was the “next new frontier” for palm oil. A “mutually beneficial relationship” that would be a win-win for struggling nations in Africa and multinational producers running out of land…
Silhouette of man standing by oil palm tree on a plantation still belonging to local residents in Malen Chiefdom in Pujehun district of Sierra Leone, West Africa.

‘Full-blown crisis’: North America has lost nearly 3 billion birds since 1970

by Mongabay.com 20 September 2019
Bird populations are crashing in North America. And it's not just the rare and threatened species that are disappearing ⁠— even the common, seemingly widespread backyard birds like sparrows, warblers…

All set to strike: Students, youths and activists clamor for climate justice

by Imelda Abano 20 September 2019
NEW YORK — Today marks the start of protests across the planet as millions witness the youth-led climate strike demanding governments take urgent and transformative action on climate change. Young…

New lease on life beckons for Arroceros, Manila’s hidden jungle

by Reynaldo Santos Jr 20 September 2019
MANILA — It’s said that when the mayor of the Philippine capital Manila looks out the window of his office, he often sees four things: the murky yet thriving Pasig…

Gravely injured orangutan rescued near site of controversial hydropower project

by Hans Nicholas Jong 20 September 2019
JAKARTA — A severely injured and malnourished orangutan has been rescued from a plantation near a Sumatra forest where a hydropower project threatens the only known habitat of this particular…

World’s biggest meatpackers buying cattle from deforesters in Amazon

by André Campos - Repórter Brasil 19 September 2019
This story was produced via a co-publishing partnership between Mongabay and Repórter Brasil and can be read in Portuguese here. Brazilian meatpacking giants JBS, Marfrig and Frigol bought cattle from ranches…

Will a massive marine protected area safeguard Cook Islands’ ocean?

by Monica Evans 19 September 2019
This story is part of a series on Marae Moana, the massive, recently enacted multiple-use marine protected area covering the Cook Islands’ entire exclusive economic zone. Other stories in the…
Forest in West Papua. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Palm oil giant Korindo silences critical report with cease-and-desist letter

by Hans Nicholas Jong 19 September 2019
JAKARTA — The Forest Stewardship Council, the world’s foremost body certifying the sustainable forestry industry, has delayed the publication of its findings into a palm oil company’s operations in Indonesia,…
Forest in West Papua. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

As climate change disrupts the annual monsoon, India must prepare (Commentary)

by S. Gopikrishna Warrier 19 September 2019
Research and recent events demonstrate that climate change is intensifying and destabilizing the annual monsoon, with impacts not just for India but the world.

Climate change threatens some island conifers with extinction

by Nanditha Chandraprakash 19 September 2019
Pines, firs, junipers, cedars — the world’s magnificent conifers have adapted to survive in unique landscapes and adverse environments, from snowy mountains and drought-ridden lowlands, to small, lonely islands. But…

Massive protected area around ‘Atlantic Galapagos’ one step closer to becoming reality

by Mongabay.com 18 September 2019
Bringing the protection of the “Atlantic Galapagos” one step closer to becoming a reality, the Governor of St. Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha, Philip Rushbrook, designated a large-sale Marine…

Pan Borneo Highway development endangers the Heart of Borneo

by John Cannon 18 September 2019
A planned highway network in the Malaysian state of Sabah on the island of Borneo threatens the forests protected as part of the Heart of Borneo agreement made with Indonesia…

Deforestation increase dovetails with armed conflict in Colombia, study finds

by Antonio José Paz Cardona 18 September 2019
Many of the world’s armed conflicts occur in areas with high biodiversity, according to a 2009 study published in Biological Conservation. The study found that more than 80 percent of…

The Arctic and climate change (1979 – 2019): What the ice record tells us

by Gloria Dickie 18 September 2019
As 2019 melt season nears end, 40 years of satellite data reveal a rapidly warming polar region, with no end in sight, plus multiple impacts for a changing planet. This story has been updated.

Gran Chaco: South America’s second-largest forest at risk of collapsing

by Rodolfo Chisleanschi 17 September 2019
The straight, strong trunk of a quebracho tree twisted mid-air as it fell to the ground, its crash the last sound in a cacophony of axe blows that increasingly wounded…

‘We’ve been negligent,’ Indonesia’s president says as fire crisis deepens

by Hans Nicholas Jong 17 September 2019
JAKARTA — Indonesia’s president has admitted negligence on the part of the government, as top officials engage in a blame game amid the worst spate of forest fires since 2015…

Indigenous communities, wildlife under threat as farms invade Nicaraguan reserve

by Taran Volckhausen 17 September 2019
Torrential rain creates a deafening roar as it strikes the metal roof of community leader Ubence Zelaya’s two-bedroom home on the southern border of the Mayagna indigenous territory. Zelaya lives…
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