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As Brazil burns, Indigenous fire brigades face an uncertain future

by Maurício Angelo 9 October 2020
Age-old Indigenous knowledge has guided the sustainable management of wilderness areas around the world: how to preserve the land, anticipating what will happen throughout the year, and adapting to how…

In a drier Amazon, small farmers and researchers work together to reduce fire damage

by Letícia Klein e Thiago Medaglia 8 October 2020
Traditional Amazonian populations have used fire for agricultural purposes for centuries, but leaving space for the forest to regenerate. The climate crisis, however, is making it increasingly difficult to control the fires. A project in the state of Pará promises an alternative to fight them.

The social network of coral reef fish: Q&A with ecologist Mike Gil

by Claudia Geib 8 October 2020
Unless you’re thinking of the colorful characters in the movie Finding Nemo, the first word you think of for coral reef fish is probably not “social.” But after spending a…

The Amazon savanna? Rainforest teeters on the brink as climate heats up

by Mongabay.com 8 October 2020
Shifting rainfall patterns, especially those exacerbated by climate change, could drive large parts of the Amazon rainforest to become drier savanna, a new study has found. Rainfall acts like a…
A community in Brazil harvests arapaima, the largest scaled freshwater fish in the world. Photo courtesy of Carlos Peres.

Our most read conservation stories for September 2020

by Mongabay.com 8 October 2020
Mongabay continued to see growth in readership in September, with traffic across our websites rising 25% over last September to 10.97 million pageviews. We've already surpassed 2019's readership (110 million…
A community in Brazil harvests arapaima, the largest scaled freshwater fish in the world. Photo courtesy of Carlos Peres.

The murky process of licensing Amazonian meat plants

by Flávia Milhorance / Diálogo Chino 8 October 2020
Meatpackers in the Amazon are eyeing the Chinese market, but their certification is often the result of intense pressure amid systematic failures to consider environmental requirements.

Deaths and media-driven panic threaten human-jackal coexistence in Sri Lanka

by Malaka Rodrigo 8 October 2020
COLOMBO — Gayan Chamila, a resident of a village near Horana in western Sri Lanka, recalled rushing to his backyard in response to hearing an animal cry. There, he found…

Research links industrial pig farming and virus outbreaks

by Sibélia Zanon 8 October 2020
In recent months, meatpacking companies in different parts of the world have been associated with large clusters of COVID-19 infections. The Tönnies meat-processing plant in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, was temporarily…

Vietnam conservation regulations improving, but much work remains

by Michael Tatarski 7 October 2020
HO CHI MINH CITY — Earlier this year, Vietnam’s prime minister called for a ban of the wildlife trade in the country in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Several months…

With the help of an app, Nunavut hunters document the changing Arctic

by Claudia Geib 7 October 2020
It’s fall in Nunavut, Canada, and Richard Kakk is hunting caribou. Snow that started in September has placed him in a landscape of white, broken only by the ice-crusted slate…

Blooms driven by climate change threaten to smother marine life in Arabian Sea

by Malavika Vyawahare 7 October 2020
On Feb. 26, 2003, a group of scientists set out to sea from Goa, India, on a routine mission. They called it "sea truthing," verifying data gathered by satellites eyeing…

Sumatran bridge project in elephant habitat may exacerbate degradation

by Taufik Wijaya 7 October 2020
OGAN KOMERING ILIR, Indonesia — Officials in Sumatra plan to build a billion-dollar bridge to the Bangka-Belitung archipelago off the island’s east coast, but conservationists warn it threatens a key…

In the Horn of Africa, conflict and illegal trade create a ‘cheetah hell’

by Elizabeth Claire Alberts 7 October 2020
The 8-week-old cheetah cubs should have been with their mother. Instead, they were penned up in a small village near Erigavo, Somaliland, after a group of nomadic livestock farmers chased…

Fires raze nearly half of Indigenous territories in Brazil’s Pantanal

by Bianca Muniz, Bruno Fonseca and Raphaela Ribeiro from Agência Pública 6 October 2020
Indigenous people say the fires “came from outside” and “destroyed everything,” including the food and medicinal plants that form an important part of their culture.

Brazilian frog believed ‘extinct’ for 50+ years, found with eDNA testing

by Peter Yeung 6 October 2020
Last recorded in 1968, Megaelosia bocainensis, a frog known for its rounded snout and granular skin, was thought extinct until researchers tracked down its environmental DNA in Brazil’s São Paulo state.

Stock indices let Brazil meatpackers shed ties to deforestation, draw investors

by Fernanda Wenzel, Naira Hofmeister, Pedro Papini 6 October 2020
The prominent placement of Brazil’s three biggest meatpackers — JBS, Marfrig and Minerva — on the country’s stock exchange has seen them net $121 million in investments.

Automakers fuelling deforestation, dispossession in Paraguay’s Gran Chaco: report

by Mongabay.com 6 October 2020
Major European automakers including Jaguar Land Rover and BMW are using leather linked to illegal deforestation in South American forests home to one of the world’s last uncontacted tribes, according…

Indonesia’s food estate program eyes new plantations in forest frontiers

by Hans Nicholas Jong 6 October 2020
JAKARTA — The Indonesian government is doubling down on a plan to establish large-scale agricultural plantations across the country, in a move that threatens widespread deforestation and the disenfranchisement of…

More than 470 oil spills in the Peruvian Amazon since 2000: Report

by Yvette Sierra Praeli 6 October 2020
Wadson Trujillo is an environmental monitor in Cuninico, an Indigenous community in northern Peru. In 2014, he was a witness to an oil spill in which thousands of barrels of…

Diary of a top environmental journalist and bad traveler: Q&A with Jeremy Hance

by Erik Hoffner 6 October 2020
Are you a ‘bad traveler’ or a ‘good’ one? Do you care about conservation and telling stories about the environment enough to risk a wild ride or two? Today marks…

Meet the red fox found in the Northern Hemisphere on Candid Animal Cam

by Romina Castagnino 6 October 2020
Camera traps bring you closer to the secretive natural world and are an important conservation tool to study wildlife. This week we’re meeting the red fox! Red foxes live across…
Flowering rainforest tree in the Colombian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

‘Deforestation-free’ isn’t working: It’s time to go forest positive (commentary)

by Charlotte Opal 5 October 2020
2020 was supposed to be a big year for forests. Six years ago this month, world leaders gathered at the UN Climate Summit and endorsed the New York Declaration on…
Flowering rainforest tree in the Colombian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Forest degradation outpaces deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: Study

by Claire Asher 5 October 2020
337,427 square kilometers of Amazon forest were degraded between 1992 and 2014 ¬(mostly due to logging and understory fires), compared to 308,311 square kilometers completely cleared.
Satellite image of Tribugá, Colombia. Courtesy of Zoom.Earth.

Battle over proposed Colombian port at Tribugá puts sustainable development in focus

by Dimitri Selibas 5 October 2020
The area surrounding the town of Nuquí and its neighboring bay of Tribugá on Colombia’s northern Pacific coast has some of highest levels of rainfall in the world, a unique…
Satellite image of Tribugá, Colombia. Courtesy of Zoom.Earth.

On a Philippine island, a tricky balancing act between development and water

by Francesca Edralin 5 October 2020
When rain falls on Bantayan Island, the supply of fresh water rises. If the rains fail, it becomes scarcer. The more than 120,000 residents of Bantayan and 22 nearby islets…

Indian embassy in Madagascar becomes first to go fully solar

by Mongabay.com 2 October 2020
The Indian embassy in Madagascar went solar to mark the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi on October 2, becoming the first Indian embassy to embrace renewable energy. An 8…

Top award for Indigenous alliance is most recent in a series of wins for the Amazon

by Sarah Sax 2 October 2020
Appreciation of the outsized role that Indigenous people play in helping to protect the planet’s biodiversity, intact ecosystems, and global carbon stocks is growing around the world. On Wednesday, the United…

Hotter tropics may worsen climate change, reforestation could lessen it: Studies

by Taran Volckhausen 2 October 2020
One recent study shows how hotter tropical forests may add significantly to climate change woes. But another suggests how active restoration of degraded tropical forests could help avoid climate disaster.

As predators return to Sweden’s wild, ecotourism looks to change mindsets

by Johan Augustin 2 October 2020
GÄSTRIKLAND, Sweden — It’s just past 7 p.m. here in the woods along the eastern coast of Sweden. A handful of people are waiting, some of them for the past…

Alcoa vs. the Amazon: How the ribeirinhos won their collective land rights

by Thais Borges and Sue Branford 2 October 2020
In 2009, traditional Brazilian Amazon communities and Catholic nuns brought the transnational mining company to the negotiating table and galvanized Amazonia’s land rights struggle.
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