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					<title>Singapore sand imports threaten an already sinking Cambodian fishing community, again</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/singapore-sand-imports-threaten-an-already-sinking-cambodian-fishing-community-again/</link>
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					<pubDate>06 Nov 2026 00:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Andy Ball]]>
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						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Cambodia, Singapore, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Coastal Ecosystems, Ecosystems, Environment, extractives, Fish, Fisheries, Freshwater, Freshwater Fish, Governance, Mining, Natural Resources, Rivers, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Editor’s note: *Cambodian fishers who spoke to Mongabay asked that pseudonyms be used, fearing reprisals. BANGKOK, Thailand — Sand mining vessels were once a familiar sight to residents of Koh Sralao, a fishing village in Cambodia’s Koh Kong province. But it had been a decade since anyone had seen them. That changed in June. “I [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Editor’s note: *Cambodian fishers who spoke to Mongabay asked that pseudonyms be used, fearing reprisals. BANGKOK, Thailand — Sand mining vessels were once a familiar sight to residents of Koh Sralao, a fishing village in Cambodia’s Koh Kong province. But it had been a decade since anyone had seen them. That changed in June. “I started seeing lots of sand-mining barges lined up, probably around 10, when I go out to fish,” said Rithy,* who spotted them in a nearby waterway. The barges are part of a mining operation 10 kilometers (6 miles) upstream of Koh Sralao on the Trapeang Rung River, which provincial authorities say they’ve approved to extract sand for export to Singapore. Official data show that since June, sand exports have been underway to the city-state, where a Mongabay investigation found it is likely being used in a government-backed reclamation project. It comes a decade after the Cambodian government banned the trade in 2017, following dredging by politically connected companies that stripped hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of sand from the surrounding estuaries, damaging ecosystems and livelihoods in the process. Now, communities, conservationists and activists are warning it could happen again. A sand mining operation runs along the Trapeang Rung River in Koh Kong Knong village, Koh Kong province, Cambodia, in September 2026. For Rithy, the operation has already blocked his access to a stretch of river where he used to fish. “It’s impossible to go now because they will destroy my nets,” he said. “Since&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/singapore-sand-imports-threaten-an-already-sinking-cambodian-fishing-community-again/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Nigeria’s shifting rainfall wreaks havoc with a beloved edible green, the waterleaf plant</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/nigerias-shifting-rainfall-wreaks-havoc-with-a-beloved-edible-green-the-waterleaf-plant/</link>
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					<pubDate>05 Nov 2026 21:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Kingsley Charles]]>
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						<![CDATA[Karen Coates]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Nigeria, and West Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Conservation, Environment, Extreme Weather, Fellows, Food, food security, Impact Of Climate Change, Natural Resources, Nutrition, Plants, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[This is Part 1 in a two-part series on Nigerian waterleaf. Part 2 will be published soon. “These are the ones that survived the rain,” Enono Koka said, gesturing at a patch of short, spindly waterleaf plants across her large farm in downtown Calabar, in southern Nigeria’s Cross River. It was an unseasonably sunny morning [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[This is Part 1 in a two-part series on Nigerian waterleaf. Part 2 will be published soon. “These are the ones that survived the rain,” Enono Koka said, gesturing at a patch of short, spindly waterleaf plants across her large farm in downtown Calabar, in southern Nigeria’s Cross River. It was an unseasonably sunny morning in early October, and the 33-year-old was harvesting some of the vegetables for breakfast the next day. Most of the crops, she explained, had perished following days of relentless rainfall between August and September. “So I&#8217;m only left with these and I&#8217;m keeping them to eat with my family in the house,” she said. Much like Koka&#8217;s experience, the months since July have been painfully rough for Joy David Okon&#8217;s nearby waterleaf farm in Calabar. Before leaving town in September to visit her son, the sexagenarian farmer had sprayed some manure around her farmland to help enrich the freshly planted stems. Then came the disappointment. Her once-flourishing vegetable garden had turned into a marshland thick with weeds by the time she returned. “See the batch I planted in August. See how they keep looking scanty because of the plenty of rains this year,” she said, pointing at a sunken bed of shriveled waterleaf. Taken together, these events hint at the mounting strain on Nigeria&#8217;s waterleaf growing cycle brought on by shifts in rainfall patterns. Despite declining annual rainfall in recent years, persistent downpours in coastal cities like Lagos and Calabar have resulted in frequent episodes&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/nigerias-shifting-rainfall-wreaks-havoc-with-a-beloved-edible-green-the-waterleaf-plant/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-334731</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Amazon mapping shows cacao expansion without deforestation in Brazil</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/amazon-mapping-shows-cacao-expansion-without-deforestation-in-brazil/</link>
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					<pubDate>05 Nov 2026 21:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Rafael Spuldar]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandre de Santi]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Atlantic Forest, Brazil, Global, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[agribusiness, Agriculture, Agroforestry, Biodiversity, Business, Cacao, Conservation, Crops, data, Ecosystems, Environment, Forestry, Forests, Industrial Agriculture, Monocultures, Natural Resources, Plants, Rainforests, Remote Sensing, Satellite Imagery, Sustainable Forest Management, Technology, Trees, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[While West Africa clears rainforest for chocolate, Brazilian farmers are reviving degraded pastures.]]>
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							<![CDATA[As record cocoa prices drive farmers in West Africa to clear native forest, a new study suggests the crop is following a different path in the Brazilian Amazon: It&#8217;s spreading onto land that was cleared long ago. Mapping by Embrapa, Brazil&#8217;s state-run agricultural research agency, found that the area on which cacao was growing in Pará, the country&#8217;s top-producing state, grew by a third between 2022 and 2024 to 116,436 hectares (287,700 acres). Nearly all of the cacao was found on old pastures and other previously cleared land, with 96% of the cacao that was mapped in Pará and 98% of it in Rondônia state located in areas deforested before 2020. This is fully compliant with the European Union’s sustainability regulations, strengthening Brazil’s position as a potential cocoa exporter. The study also found a new pattern in how the crop is grown. Until Embrapa’s 2022 mapping, all the cacao it had identified in Pará grew in agroforestry systems. Now almost two-thirds of new plantings are full-sun monocultures, where a single crop is grown in a large area without shade. This type of monoculture yields more beans per tree but is more vulnerable to pests and disease and leaves farmers dependent on a single crop. Cacao mapping in the Amazon traces back to TerraClass, a program run with Brazil’s space agency, INPE, that maps how deforested land in the Brazilian Amazon is used. Adriano Venturieri, a remote sensing specialist at Embrapa Amazônia Oriental in the city of Belém in Pará, led&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/amazon-mapping-shows-cacao-expansion-without-deforestation-in-brazil/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-335029</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Money laundering complaints target JBS, Barclays over profits linked to illegal deforestation</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/11/money-laundering-complaints-target-jbs-barclays-over-profits-linked-to-illegal-deforestation/</link>
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					<pubDate>05 Nov 2026 19:50:37 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Shanna Hanbury]]>
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						<![CDATA[Bobbybascomb]]>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Beef, Crime, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Environment, Food, Governance, Land Conflict, Land Grabbing, Land Use Change, Meat, and Natural Resources]]>
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							<![CDATA[A coalition of legal and environmental groups has filed money laundering complaints against JBS, the world’s largest meat processor, and 12 financial institutions, investors and advisers, including the U.K. bank Barclays. The complaints allegedly tie JBS profits to illegal deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. The Transnational Legal Coalition filed 14 complaints with prosecutors and financial [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A coalition of legal and environmental groups has filed money laundering complaints against JBS, the world’s largest meat processor, and 12 financial institutions, investors and advisers, including the U.K. bank Barclays. The complaints allegedly tie JBS profits to illegal deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. The Transnational Legal Coalition filed 14 complaints with prosecutors and financial regulators in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany and the Netherlands on Nov. 5. It argues that profits from cattle raised on illegally cleared land constitute “proceeds of crime” under anti-money laundering laws, potentially exposing JBS, and institutions that handle its money, to legal liability. “Illegal deforestation of the Amazon is a crime, not a business model,” Bláithín Quigley, coordinator for the Transnational Legal Coalition, said in a statement. The coalition of legal nonprofits includes Global Legal Action Network and the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, as well as advocacy groups Mighty Earth, FIND and King’s College London in the U.K. The complaints draw on a report by environmental research nonprofit AidEnvironment that linked JBS suppliers to more than 6.5 million hectares (16 million acres) of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon between 1988 and 2026. Barclays is JBS’s largest financier and earned $1.7 billion from its dealings with the company between 2018 and 2023, according to a 2024 investigation by Global Witness. An analysis by the Center for Climate Crime Analysis for the same investigation found nearly 8,000 cows reared on illegally occupied Apyterewa Indigenous territory in Pará “entered JBS’s supply chain” in the same&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/11/money-laundering-complaints-target-jbs-barclays-over-profits-linked-to-illegal-deforestation/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-335108</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Mali’s ‘Moringa Queen’ wins UN recognition for restoring degraded land</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/11/malis-moringa-queen-wins-un-recognition-for-restoring-degraded-land/</link>
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					<pubDate>05 Nov 2026 18:25:26 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Yannick Kenné]]>
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						<![CDATA[Malavikavyawahare]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Mali, and West Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Agroecology, Agroforestry, Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Degraded Lands, Drought, Ecosystems, Environment, Extreme Weather, Global Environmental Crisis, Landscape Restoration, Nature-based climate solutions, Reforestation, Restoration, and Solutions]]>
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							<![CDATA[Rokiatu Traoré, president of a social enterprise in Mali that uses agroforestry to restore degraded land and create jobs for women and youths, has been named a Changemaker at the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals Action Awards. “I work in Mali, where lands are becoming drier every year. Many farmers struggle with degraded soil, smaller [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Rokiatu Traoré, president of a social enterprise in Mali that uses agroforestry to restore degraded land and create jobs for women and youths, has been named a Changemaker at the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals Action Awards. “I work in Mali, where lands are becoming drier every year. Many farmers struggle with degraded soil, smaller harvests, and fewer economic opportunities,” Traoré said at the Oct. 29 awards ceremony in Rome. “I founded Herou Alliance to restore degraded lands and create real economic opportunities for communities in rural areas.” The Herou Alliance uses an agroforestry model that creates value by producing seedlings, training farmers, and planting trees. Since 2021, the organization has built commercial value chains around the moringa tree (Moringa oleifera). Traoré has said in a past interview that she’s sometimes even referred to as the “Moringa Queen.” The alliance develops “products derived from the leaves, flowers and seeds of this plant, which we process into different products: herbal tea, powder, honey, soap, spices, dietary supplements for the national, regional and international market,” Traoré told Mongabay by phone. The moringa tree is native to South Asia, but is now widely grown in other parts of the world, including in Africa. This fast-growing deciduous tree is sometimes called the miracle tree because of its range of uses. Almost all parts of the plant are edible, with the leaves considered especially nutritious as a source of vitamins, minerals, and proteins. The seeds can be pressed to extract the oil, and the residue&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/11/malis-moringa-queen-wins-un-recognition-for-restoring-degraded-land/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-335106</doi>				</item>
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					<title>3M agrees to pay more than $7 billion to settle &#8216;forever chemical&#8217; groundwater contamination claims</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/11/3m-agrees-to-pay-more-than-7-billion-to-settle-forever-chemical-groundwater-contamination-claims/</link>
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					<pubDate>05 Nov 2026 16:44:52 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Associated Press]]>
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						<![CDATA[Mongabay Editor]]>
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							<![CDATA[United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[Chemicals, Environment, forever chemicals, Health, Pollution, and Public Health]]>
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							<![CDATA[Chemical manufacturer 3M will pay up to $7.35 billion to settle lawsuits by people who say they were sickened by groundwater contamination from compounds used in firefighting foam and other consumer products. The St. Paul, Minnesota-based company announced the settlement Tuesday. It will pay the money over nine years to as many as 120,000 people [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Chemical manufacturer 3M will pay up to $7.35 billion to settle lawsuits by people who say they were sickened by groundwater contamination from compounds used in firefighting foam and other consumer products. The St. Paul, Minnesota-based company announced the settlement Tuesday. It will pay the money over nine years to as many as 120,000 people who say they were harmed by exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, known collectively as PFAS. The chemicals contaminated groundwater near military bases, airports and other locations where the foam was used to extinguish fires. 3M did not admit liability for the contamination under the agreement. Called “forever chemicals” because they don’t degrade naturally in the environment, PFAS have been linked to health problems including liver and immune system damage and some cancers. The chemicals are also used in nonstick, water- and grease-resistant products, including clothing and cookware. 3M chairman William Brown called the settlement a “significant milestone” that substantially reduces uncertainty from the litigation. The company previously reached settlements in other PFAS-related lawsuits, including a $450 million agreement with the state of New Jersey to settle claims of natural resource contamination and a deal to pay more than $10 billion to many U.S. public drinking water systems. Other manufacturers, including DuPont de Nemours Inc. and spinoffs Chemours Co. and Corteva Inc., have agreed to settlements totaling more than $1 billion to resolve PFAS claims. Fred Thompson, an attorney with the Motley Rice law firm that helped negotiate the 3M settlement for the plaintiffs, called&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/11/3m-agrees-to-pay-more-than-7-billion-to-settle-forever-chemical-groundwater-contamination-claims/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-335093</doi>				</item>
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					<title>This entire Indigenous territory didn’t get to vote in Brazil’s elections</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/11/this-entire-indigenous-territory-didnt-get-to-vote-in-brazils-elections/</link>
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					<pubDate>05 Nov 2026 14:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Shanna Hanbury]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Bobbybascomb]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon and Brazil]]>
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							<![CDATA[Governance, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Law, Politics, and Protected Areas]]>
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							<![CDATA[With no local polling station or means of getting to one from their remote community, residents of the Tumucumaque Indigenous Park in northern Brazil weren’t able to vote in October’s general elections. That’s according to Mitore Tiriyo Kaxuyana, a leader of the Tiriyó and Kaxuyana Indigenous peoples who spoke to Mongabay. On Oct. 22, just [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[With no local polling station or means of getting to one from their remote community, residents of the Tumucumaque Indigenous Park in northern Brazil weren’t able to vote in October’s general elections. That’s according to Mitore Tiriyo Kaxuyana, a leader of the Tiriyó and Kaxuyana Indigenous peoples who spoke to Mongabay. On Oct. 22, just three days before the presidential runoff vote, a federal court ruled that Indigenous voters nationwide must be provided with transportation and language interpreters to facilitate their right to vote. Elections officials in Amapá state, where the park is located, told Kaxuyana in a meeting on Oct. 19 that they weren’t even aware of the existence of the Tumucumaque Indigenous Park. “I felt a bit sad. I told them we have difficulty voting in our territory,” Kaxuyana, the coordinator of the Articulation of Indigenous Women of the Tiriyó, Kaxuyana and Txikiyana Peoples (AMITIKATXI), told Mongabay by phone. “They were unaware of the existence of the Tiriyó and Kaxuyana people here in Amapá. We said that we existed.” Mongabay reached out to the Amapá electoral court, the state judicial body that administers elections, for comment, but didn’t receive a response. Without polling stations in the territory, Tumucumaque Indigenous Park residents must travel by plane to vote in Macapá, the state capital. “The majority of people who live in the villages normally don’t vote,” Kaxuyana said. There are 74 villages within the 3-million-hectare (7.6-million-acre) territory, home to roughly 2,800 Brazilian citizens. The territory straddles five municipalities across two&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/11/this-entire-indigenous-territory-didnt-get-to-vote-in-brazils-elections/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>How Ghana’s new license to sell sustainable timber improves institutions &#038; cooperation (analysis) </title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/how-ghanas-new-license-to-sell-sustainable-timber-improves-institutions-collaboration-analysis/</link>
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					<pubDate>05 Nov 2026 14:16:40 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Chris Beeko]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Erik Hoffner]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, European Union, Ghana, Global, and West Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Analysis, Business, Certification, Commentary, Conservation, Environment, Forestry, Forests, Governance, International Trade, Sustainable Forest Management, timber trade, Trade, and Trees]]>
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							<![CDATA[When Ghana began its Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) process with the European Union, the attraction was clear. Europe is an important market for Ghanaian timber, international expectations around its legality were changing, and the VPA offered both market access and support for strengthening national forest governance. After a 16-year journey, last year Ghana became the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[When Ghana began its Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) process with the European Union, the attraction was clear. Europe is an important market for Ghanaian timber, international expectations around its legality were changing, and the VPA offered both market access and support for strengthening national forest governance. After a 16-year journey, last year Ghana became the first African country to earn a Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) license. In a Mongabay commentary published last year, Fred Pearce welcomed that achievement while posing an uncomfortable question: Could Ghana also be the last? With the future direction of FLEGT and the VPA model uncertain, he asked whether the long and difficult process that produced significant change in Ghana might fail to provide a pathway for others. Having been involved in this VPA process from negotiation through implementation, I believe Ghana’s experience suggests a broader way of considering that question. A forestry commission official demonstrates the nation&#8217;s timber tracking system in Ghana&#8217;s Sefwi Wiawso region. Image courtesy of European Forest Institute via Flickr. Whether or not other nations follow Ghana’s lead to their own FLEGT licenses, the process changed the way the nation’s forest sector makes policy, regulates timber, verifies legality and brings government, industry and civil society into the same governance system. Those changes now exist within Ghana’s national institutions, and in my view, this represents the most important legacy of the process. International framework  becomes national process One of the first lessons from Ghana is that externally designed frameworks cannot&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/how-ghanas-new-license-to-sell-sustainable-timber-improves-institutions-collaboration-analysis/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Indonesian company seeks CITES approval to breed and sell rare Asian golden cats</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/indonesian-company-seeks-cites-approval-to-breed-and-sell-rare-asian-golden-cats/</link>
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					<pubDate>05 Nov 2026 14:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Fernanda WenzelSpoorthy Raman]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Sharon Guynup]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Indonesia, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Business, Captive Breeding, Cats, Conservation, Controversial, Endangered Species, Environment, Environmental Law, Governance, Law, Mammals, Pet Trade, Pets, Wildlife, and Zoos]]>
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							<![CDATA[With their shiny golden or reddish-brown fur, round ears, and white and black facial markings, Asian golden cats are cute. But don’t let their looks fool you: these cats, native to China and South and Southeast Asia, are fiercely territorial, elusive, and highly solitary animals. Because of this, Asian golden cats (Catopuma temminckii) don’t reproduce [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[With their shiny golden or reddish-brown fur, round ears, and white and black facial markings, Asian golden cats are cute. But don’t let their looks fool you: these cats, native to China and South and Southeast Asia, are fiercely territorial, elusive, and highly solitary animals. Because of this, Asian golden cats (Catopuma temminckii) don’t reproduce well in captivity, and only a handful of zoos have bred them successfully, always for conservation purposes. Now, a private Indonesian company, PT Alam Nusantara Jayatama, wants to become the first in the world to commercially breed them in captivity, selling their offspring to exotic pet owners across the globe. The company is owned and run by Danny Gunalen, who owns several zoos and animal-breeding facilities in Indonesia. The Indonesian government plans to certify the facility as a legal breeder of Asian golden cats. In August, it sent a public notification to the Secretariat of CITES, the global wildlife trade treaty, which includes 184 nations and the European Union. The signatories to CITES have until Nov. 10, 2026, to object to the registration, otherwise the company will be authorized to export the cats. Only a handful of zoos around the world breed and display Asian golden cats. Image courtesy of @Zoo Heidelberg. The Asian golden cat is listed as a vulnerable species on the IUCN Red List and is a protected species in most of the countries where it lives. Only about 7,000 are thought to remain in the wild, their numbers decreasing as forests&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/indonesian-company-seeks-cites-approval-to-breed-and-sell-rare-asian-golden-cats/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>AI tiger-warning system rooted in local knowledge stalls for lack of support</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/11/ai-tiger-warning-system-rooted-in-local-knowledge-stalls-for-lack-of-support/</link>
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					<pubDate>05 Nov 2026 11:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Naina Rao]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Nepal, and South Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Artificial Intelligence, Big Cats, Bioacoustics, Biodiversity, Cats, Community Forests, Conflict, Conservation, Conservation Technology, Culture, Education, Environment, Human-wildlife Conflict, Indigenous Peoples, Mammals, Monitoring, Software, Technology, Tigers, Top Predators, Traditional Knowledge, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[In the land of tigers, prey animals like deer and monkeys are often the first to sound the alarm when they sense the predator’s presence. Forest communities in Nepal, where the success of tiger conservation has come at the cost of rising human-tiger conflict, have long known to listen for these natural alerts. This local [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In the land of tigers, prey animals like deer and monkeys are often the first to sound the alarm when they sense the predator’s presence. Forest communities in Nepal, where the success of tiger conservation has come at the cost of rising human-tiger conflict, have long known to listen for these natural alerts. This local wisdom inspired a recent pilot project using sensors dotted around a forest to detect these alarm calls and send out automated alerts telling people where tigers or leopards might be prowling, reports contributor Praveen Kumar Yadav for Mongabay. The developers said they’d hoped it could be deployed to prevent tiger attacks in the region, but they didn’t have the chance to find out: the project ended for lack of support. Nepal’s wild tiger population recently reached a record 429 individuals, with 112 residing around Bardiya National Park in the southwest. That increase has come at a cost: Between 2010 and 2024, there were 245 tiger attacks on humans, resulting in 141 fatalities, according to a recent study. To reduce encounters, researchers deployed solar-powered acoustic monitoring devices in the Dalla Community Forest, near Bardiya, between December 2024 and March 2025. These devices, costing roughly $50 each, ran an artificial intelligence model trained to listen to sounds coming from the forest and identify alarm calls from chital deer (Axis axis), rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta), and gray langurs (Semnopithecus hector). Communities in Bardiya, who share the same landscape as tigers to graze their livestock and collect firewood and&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/11/ai-tiger-warning-system-rooted-in-local-knowledge-stalls-for-lack-of-support/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Selective hunting may be making Madagascar’s largest bats smaller, study says</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/11/selective-hunting-may-be-making-madagascars-largest-bats-smaller-study-says/</link>
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					<pubDate>05 Nov 2026 10:39:07 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Shreya Dasgupta]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Hayat Indriyatno]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, and Madagascar]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Bats, Biodiversity, Conservation, Hunting, Mammals, Over-hunting, Research, Trade, Wildlife, and Wildlife Trade]]>
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							<![CDATA[Madagascar’s largest fruit bat is getting smaller, and hunting may be partly to blame, a recent study suggests. The Malagasy flying fox (Pteropus rufus) feeds mainly on fruit and nectar, making it an important pollinator and seed disperser. But the species is also hunted for meat, both for subsistence and commercial sale. Hunting is legal [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Madagascar’s largest fruit bat is getting smaller, and hunting may be partly to blame, a recent study suggests. The Malagasy flying fox (Pteropus rufus) feeds mainly on fruit and nectar, making it an important pollinator and seed disperser. But the species is also hunted for meat, both for subsistence and commercial sale. Hunting is legal in Madagascar from May to September each year; some hunters use nets to catch bats for food, while others shoot them with shotguns to sell in markets and restaurants. Researchers from the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, U.S., first noticed the apparent change while observing the bats in the wild. The animals seemed smaller than specimens held in the museum. &#8220;I was thinking about a million different angles to explain why the bats were getting smaller,” Emily Cornelius Ruhs, the study’s lead author a postdoctoral researcher at the Field Museum&#8217;s Negaunee Integrative Research Center, said in a statement. “I wondered if it was related to changes in temperature or habitat.&#8221; Co-author Steve Goodman, also from the Field Museum, suspected commercial hunting, which had intensified from the 1980s onward, might be a factor. To investigate, Ruhs and Goodman measured the skulls and teeth of 121 Malagasy flying fox specimens collected over the past 150 years. They found the bats’ skulls had become significantly smaller since 1980, while their teeth had not. The researchers suggest this could indicate that hunters are selectively shooting larger bats because they yield more meat. &#8220;If you&#8217;re the biggest bat&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/11/selective-hunting-may-be-making-madagascars-largest-bats-smaller-study-says/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Revealing Amazon land grabs targeting an uncontacted community</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/11/revealing-amazon-land-grabs-targeting-an-uncontacted-community/</link>
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					<pubDate>04 Nov 2026 21:22:39 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Aimee GabayJuan Maza]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Jonathan Vit]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil]]>
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							<![CDATA[Culture, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Indigenous Peoples, and Uncontacted Tribes]]>
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							<![CDATA[Around 500 people recently invaded Indigenous land in the Brazilian Amazon, home to an uncontacted Indigenous group. But this was no spontaneous land grab. Behind the occupation was a carefully coordinated political campaign. The territory is home to the isolated Indigenous group known as the Igarapé Ipiaçava. Yet this year, a campaign by politicians and [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Around 500 people recently invaded Indigenous land in the Brazilian Amazon, home to an uncontacted Indigenous group. But this was no spontaneous land grab. Behind the occupation was a carefully coordinated political campaign. The territory is home to the isolated Indigenous group known as the Igarapé Ipiaçava. Yet this year, a campaign by politicians and their supporters helped fuel efforts to occupy the land, using a questionable new state law to justify the push. A new Mongabay investigation traced how this political campaign intersected with a broader effort to open up the territory. We analyzed hundreds of illegal land registrations inside Ituna/Itatá and found that 97% were registered as medium or large properties — not the small holdings of struggling rural producers frequently invoked by politicians and influential agribusiness figures in their speeches and on social media. Who is really behind the push to occupy this territory? The investigation reveals a much bigger story about land, politics and agribusiness in one of the Amazon&#8217;s most contested regions. And the stakes couldn&#8217;t be higher. Experts warn that continued occupation could expose the isolated Indigenous people to violence, disease and potentially genocide. How did hundreds of people come to believe they had a right to occupy this land? And who stands to benefit? Watch the video and read Mongabay&#8217;s investigation to find out.This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/11/revealing-amazon-land-grabs-targeting-an-uncontacted-community/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Water rationing in Recife, Brazil, falls along racial lines</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/water-rationing-in-recife-brazil-falls-along-racial-lines/</link>
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					<pubDate>04 Nov 2026 19:26:48 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Adriana AmâncioÁthila GalindoYamini Benites]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Xavier Bartaburu]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil, Global, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Climate, Climate Science, Conflict, Conservation, Culture, Development, Disasters, Drinking Water, Earth Science, Environment, Extreme Weather, Flooding, Gender, Global Environmental Crisis, Health, Infrastructure, Landslides, Natural Resources, Public Health, Racism, Research, Science, Social Conflict, Water, Water Scarcity, and Weather]]>
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							<![CDATA[RECIFE, Brazil — In Ibura de Baixo, a neighborhood tucked into the South Zone region of Recife, Northeast Brazil, 27-year-old Jeyne Araújo’s day begins well before dawn. At 4 a.m., while the Pernambuco state capital sleeps, she scrapes buckets and drums across the floor outside her home. The sound marks the start of a daily [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[RECIFE, Brazil — In Ibura de Baixo, a neighborhood tucked into the South Zone region of Recife, Northeast Brazil, 27-year-old Jeyne Araújo’s day begins well before dawn. At 4 a.m., while the Pernambuco state capital sleeps, she scrapes buckets and drums across the floor outside her home. The sound marks the start of a daily scramble against scarcity: With running water flowing for only six hours a day, she must stockpile every drop before the taps run dry. The water Araújo manages to collect is far from the clean supply one would expect from a public utility. It smells strongly of chemicals and is too unpleasant to drink or cook with immediately. It froths into a thick, soapy white foam as it splashes into the bucket. “It arrives so full of chlorine that you can’t do anything with it,” she tells Mongabay. The poor quality of the tap water has taken a serious toll on her family’s health, says Araújo. For six months, her 9-year-old son, Wesley, suffered constant bouts of vomiting and stomach pain. Doctors at Recife’s Areias Hospital traced the intestinal infection back to porridge prepared with tap water. To keep her son safe, Araújo now uses part of her monthly Bolsa Família, a government social welfare program benefit of 950 reais (around $180), to buy jugs of bottled water at 6 reais ($1.12) each — an expense that further strains her already meager budget. Inside the house, stacks of dirty dishes fill the sink, a visible measure&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/water-rationing-in-recife-brazil-falls-along-racial-lines/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Mapping the ‘lines of life’ of South Sudan’s vast antelope migration</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/mapping-the-lines-of-life-of-south-sudans-vast-antelope-migration/</link>
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					<pubDate>04 Nov 2026 19:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Ryan Truscott]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Terna Gyuse]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Central Africa, East Africa, and South Sudan]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Conservation, Environment, Migration, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[The lines on the map resemble the gossamer threads of dense spiders’ webs. Conservationists in South Sudan call them the “lines of life.” The map was made by joining up millions of points of data recorded by GPS collars attached to 262 migratory antelopes since 2023. The different colors denote four different migratory species: white-eared [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The lines on the map resemble the gossamer threads of dense spiders’ webs. Conservationists in South Sudan call them the “lines of life.” The map was made by joining up millions of points of data recorded by GPS collars attached to 262 migratory antelopes since 2023. The different colors denote four different migratory species: white-eared kob (Kobus kob leucotis), tiang (Damaliscus lunatus tiang), Mongalla gazelle (Eudorcas albonotata), and bohor reedbuck (Redunca redunca). Their seasonal movements across South Sudan’s Great Nile Migration Landscape collectively represent the largest mammal migration on the planet, totaling around 6 million animals. The “lines of life” map denotes years of GPS data collected for four different species of migratory antelope living across the Great Nile Migration Landscape: yellow for the tiang; red for the bohor reedbuck; blue for the white-eared kob and white for the Mongalla gazelle. Image courtesy of African Parks. Most of these movements occur outside the boundaries of Boma and Badingilo national parks, a landscape shared with an estimated 1 million people, their cattle, and growing numbers of new towns, roads, and mines. The “lines of life” are helping conservationists to figure out where to concentrate their efforts to ensure the wildlife can keep on moving. “There are some [wildlife] corridors that come out of this, like the high-use areas, which we do now have a better handle on,” says Megan Claase, conservation manager for African Parks, the South Africa-based NGO that co-manages Boma and Badingilo with the South Sudanese government. The patterns&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/mapping-the-lines-of-life-of-south-sudans-vast-antelope-migration/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Scientists call on Ecuador to stop the rising trafficking of Galápagos iguanas</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/scientists-call-on-ecuador-to-stop-the-rising-trafficking-of-galapagos-iguanas/</link>
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					<pubDate>04 Nov 2026 12:04:51 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Spoorthy Raman]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandra Popescu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Ecuador, Galapagos, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Conservation, Crime, Critically Endangered Species, Endangered Species, Environmental Law, Governance, Law, Reptiles, Trade, trafficking, Wildlife, Wildlife Trade, and Wildlife Trafficking]]>
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							<![CDATA[Ecuadorian authorities said they caught a Russian woman at the airport in Quito, the capital city, trying to smuggle 32 live marine iguanas, endemic to the Galápagos Islands. The iguanas — bound and stuffed in eight plastic boxes — were headed to Iceland. The dehydrated lizards were transferred to a conservation center in Pichincha for [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Ecuadorian authorities said they caught a Russian woman at the airport in Quito, the capital city, trying to smuggle 32 live marine iguanas, endemic to the Galápagos Islands. The iguanas — bound and stuffed in eight plastic boxes — were headed to Iceland. The dehydrated lizards were transferred to a conservation center in Pichincha for specialized care after being found in August, authorities said. About a month later, 24 of the surviving iguanas were released back on Galápagos — where they are believed to be stolen from. In May, authorities arrested three Thai nationals with 12 young marine iguanas destined for Asian markets. A week earlier, four separate cases of these lizards mysteriously appearing on sidewalks in Guayaquil on the mainland were reported. The marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus), a threatened species, is the only lizard in the world that swims in the ocean and eats sea algae. About 11 subspecies of these colorful lizards are known to science. Under Ecuadorian laws, it&#8217;s illegal to remove any wildlife from the Galápagos. In 2025, the lizards were added to Appendix I of the CITES global wildlife trade treaty, which means they cannot be commercially traded internationally. Yet, they continue being smuggled as collectors in Europe and Asia want them as exotic pets. So far this year, authorities have confiscated nearly 50 marine iguanas. The global commerce is so lucrative that international wildlife traffickers are involved in smuggling them, experts say. Marine iguanas confiscated by authorities from a Russian woman in August 2026.&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/scientists-call-on-ecuador-to-stop-the-rising-trafficking-of-galapagos-iguanas/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Artificial mangrove roots offer temporary shield for Thailand&#8217;s eroding coastline</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/11/artificial-mangrove-roots-offer-temporary-shield-for-thailands-eroding-coastline/</link>
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					<pubDate>04 Nov 2026 10:23:06 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Naina Rao]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Southeast Asia, and Thailand]]>
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							<![CDATA[Adaptation To Climate Change, Climate, Climate Change, Coastal Ecosystems, Ecosystems, Environment, Infrastructure, Mangroves, Nature-based climate solutions, Oceans, Research, Sea Levels, and Solutions]]>
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							<![CDATA[Coastal communities near Bangkok in Thailand are testing artificial mangrove roots to combat severe shoreline erosion, reports Mongabay’s Carolyn Cowan. The shorelines of Phra Samut Chedi district, located in the Chao Phraya River Delta where Bangkok’s main waterway empties into the Gulf of Thailand, is especially vulnerable to erosion. Each year, strong surges claim 20 [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Coastal communities near Bangkok in Thailand are testing artificial mangrove roots to combat severe shoreline erosion, reports Mongabay’s Carolyn Cowan. The shorelines of Phra Samut Chedi district, located in the Chao Phraya River Delta where Bangkok’s main waterway empties into the Gulf of Thailand, is especially vulnerable to erosion. Each year, strong surges claim 20 to 60 meters (66 to 200 feet) of land, and wave energy regularly collapses dikes and inundates aquaculture farms. Several methods of protecting the coast — from mangrove restoration to bamboo fences — have proved ineffective. Researchers recently evaluated a new method: they installed artificial mangrove root systems that mimic the shape of natural mangrove roots, to see whether these would also mimic their function and prevent loss of land to the sea. A 15-month trial at 11 sites in Phra Samut Chedi and other parts of Samut Prakan province showed some success, according to a recent study. It found the engineered mangrove roots captured 16 to 88 centimeters (6 to 35 inches) of sediment behind them across 10 locations. Unlike hard-engineered structures or short-lived bamboo fences that quickly break down into marine debris, the composite wood-plastic and rubber structures of the artificial mangrove roots allow water to flow through, the researchers said. This creates localized turbulence that encourages suspended mud to settle onto the seabed, they added. “Aquaculture farmers sent us a video of the waves hitting their dikes,” Butsawan Bidorn, senior author of the study and an assistant professor of coastal engineering at&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/11/artificial-mangrove-roots-offer-temporary-shield-for-thailands-eroding-coastline/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Microplastics pollute nearly two-thirds of corals in Malaysia’s marine protected area, study finds</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/microplastics-pollute-nearly-two-thirds-of-corals-in-malaysias-marine-protected-area-study-finds/</link>
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					<pubDate>04 Nov 2026 09:33:30 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Ashley Yeong]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Yenni Kwok]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Malaysia, Peninsular Malaysia, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Conservation, Coral Reefs, Ecosystems, Environment, Fellows, Marine, Marine Animals, Marine Conservation, Microplastics, Oceans, Plastic, Pollution, Research, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[KUALA LUMPUR — Microplastics, tiny plastic particles about 5 millimeters (0.2 inches) or smaller, have settled into the skeletons of corals in a marine protected area in Malaysia, according to a recent study. The study, published in the journal Regional Studies in Marine Science, focused on Pulau Redang Marine Park, in the southern South China [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[KUALA LUMPUR — Microplastics, tiny plastic particles about 5 millimeters (0.2 inches) or smaller, have settled into the skeletons of corals in a marine protected area in Malaysia, according to a recent study. The study, published in the journal Regional Studies in Marine Science, focused on Pulau Redang Marine Park, in the southern South China Sea. Known for its turquoise blue waters and rich coral reefs, Pulau Redang has been designated as a marine protected area since 1985. Researchers from Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT) collected 200 coral fragments from five reef sites around the marine park, off the eastern coast of Peninsular Malaysia, and found that 64% of the fragments contained microplastics. Microplastics come from intentionally manufactured particles like industrial pellets and microbeads in personal care products, as well as the breakdown of larger plastic items such as plastic bottles and fishing gear. These tiny particles can be found everywhere, from mountaintops to seabeds. Once they enter the ocean, they can travel far and wide. “I was a bit surprised that I could find microplastics in the corals so easily,” lead author Ong Chai Kee told Mongabay in a video call. “The ocean is so big, and I was thinking, ‘What are the chances that these little plastics could enter so many corals?’” Malaysian marine biologist Ong Chai Kee wraps the sample containers in foil to prevent airborne contamination and prepare them for analysis. Image courtesy of Ong Chai Kee. The team sampled from two dominant hard corals: the branching&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/microplastics-pollute-nearly-two-thirds-of-corals-in-malaysias-marine-protected-area-study-finds/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>How a ‘living breakwater’ in Hawai‘i aims to create coral habitat and protect coastline</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/how-a-living-breakwater-in-hawaii-aims-to-create-coral-habitat-and-protect-coastline/</link>
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					<pubDate>04 Nov 2026 09:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jules Struck]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Autumn Spanne]]>
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							<![CDATA[Hawaii, North America, Oceania, Pacific Islands, Polynesia, and United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[Adaptation To Climate Change, Climate, Climate Change, Coastal Ecosystems, Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Coral Reefs, Ecosystems, Environment, Habitat, Habitat Degradation, Impact Of Climate Change, Islands, Marine, Nature-based climate solutions, Oceans, Research, and Solutions]]>
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							<![CDATA[On Sept. 8, Hurricane Lowell ripped across the Pacific Ocean and around Hawai‘i, sloshing huge waves onto O‘ahu’s west flank and spitting baseball-sized chunks of coral through the window of at least one home. Hawai‘i and its coastal highways, which loop several of the U.S. state’s seven inhabited islands, have been bruised by increasingly intense [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[On Sept. 8, Hurricane Lowell ripped across the Pacific Ocean and around Hawai‘i, sloshing huge waves onto O‘ahu’s west flank and spitting baseball-sized chunks of coral through the window of at least one home. Hawai‘i and its coastal highways, which loop several of the U.S. state’s seven inhabited islands, have been bruised by increasingly intense storms fueled by warming seas due to human-caused climate change and the current “super” El Niño. But a project in a western harbor on the island of O‘ahu is testing an unusual method for calming the ocean to shield communities and infrastructure. “It’s the first artificial, call it a hybrid, reef designed to protect coastlines, so to reduce coastal erosion from wave energy,” Ben Jones, the project’s lead coordinator and director of ocean science and technology at the University of Hawai‘i’s Applied Research Laboratory, told Mongabay by phone. On Sept. 18, while the island was still wringing itself out from Lowell, the project team sank the first of 60 huge concrete structures 64 meters (210 feet) off Kalaeloa Harbor, an industrial port on West O‘ahu. Eight of the structures, which each weigh 4 metric tons, had been placed as of Oct. 20, Jones said, a feat of engineering that required a special shallow-water catamaran to float the pieces out to their final resting places. A large wave caused by Hurricane Lowell crashes on the west side of O‘ahu, Hawai‘i on Sept. 8, 2026. Image by AP Photos/Craig Fujii/Honolulu Civil Beat. The project was funded with&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/how-a-living-breakwater-in-hawaii-aims-to-create-coral-habitat-and-protect-coastline/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Photograph helps identify a West African bird not seen in 13 years</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/11/photograph-helps-identify-a-west-african-bird-not-seen-in-13-years/</link>
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					<pubDate>03 Nov 2026 22:16:25 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
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						<![CDATA[Mongabay Editor]]>
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							<![CDATA[Cote D'Ivoire]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Birds, Conservation, Ecosystems, Environment, Forest Loss, Forests, Habitat Loss, Rainforests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Researchers recently spotted the brightly colored Ghana cuckooshrike in Côte d’Ivoire’s Taï National Park. The “lost” bird hadn’t been seen in 13 years, reports Mongabay’s John Cannon. Stephanie Bartlett, a field research fellow with the International Bird Conservation Partnership (IBCP), took a photo of the cuckooshrike while Paulo Ditzel, also an IBCP research fellow, called [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Researchers recently spotted the brightly colored Ghana cuckooshrike in Côte d’Ivoire’s Taï National Park. The “lost” bird hadn’t been seen in 13 years, reports Mongabay’s John Cannon. Stephanie Bartlett, a field research fellow with the International Bird Conservation Partnership (IBCP), took a photo of the cuckooshrike while Paulo Ditzel, also an IBCP research fellow, called out its movements to her. Bartlett told Mongabay she got the identifying photo of the bird first before she even saw it. “They’re scared of you,” Bartlett said. “You don’t get to get close to them, and so often you have to use the camera as a tool for identification.” Her photo revealed a small bird with an orange body and black and yellow wings. The photograph was the culmination of months of fieldwork and bird surveys supported by an instrumental team of West African researchers. “To say they were vital for this project is an understatement,” Ditzel said. The Ghana cuckooshrike (Lobotos lobatus) was last documented in 2013 in Ghana’s Atewa Forest. Ornithologists believe it’s range stretches across sections of West Africa, from Guinea to Ghana, within the Upper Guinean Rainforest. However, the bird&#8217;s likely habitat has been whittled away by logging and agriculture, leaving isolated patches of forest across its range. Ditzel and his colleagues noted that the cuckooshrike was listed by the Search for Lost Birds (SLB), a platform that documents bird species that haven’t been scientifically documented in more than a decade. The researchers had a feeling the bird might still&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/11/photograph-helps-identify-a-west-african-bird-not-seen-in-13-years/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Human-wildlife coexistence with wolves in Europe requires a holistic approach</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/podcast/2026/11/human-wildlife-coexistence-with-wolves-in-europe-requires-a-holistic-approach/</link>
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					<pubDate>03 Nov 2026 18:48:02 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Mike DiGirolamo]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Mikedigirolamo]]>
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							<![CDATA[Europe]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Biodiversity, Carnivores, Environment, Environmental Policy, Farming, Governance, Human-wildlife Conflict, Interviews, Livestock, Media, Research, Species, Species recovery, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[For a time during the 19th and 20th centuries, gray wolves were practically extinct across Western and Central Europe. Now, thanks to strict protection measures in countries across the region, their populations have risen over the past couple of decades — including a reported surge of 58% between 2012 and 2022. On the one hand, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[For a time during the 19th and 20th centuries, gray wolves were practically extinct across Western and Central Europe. Now, thanks to strict protection measures in countries across the region, their populations have risen over the past couple of decades — including a reported surge of 58% between 2012 and 2022. On the one hand, this is a conservation success story. On the other, however, it amplifies long-standing sociocultural challenges, namely human-wildlife coexistence with farmers. Wolves sometimes prey on livestock, which can cause financial harm to farmers. Joining the Newscast this week to unpack these sociocultural challenges is social scientist Emu-Felicitas Ostermann-Miyashita, from the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. Ostermann-Miyashita has studied the conflict between humans and wolves specifically in Germany, and has published suggestions for sustainable wolf-livestock coexistence. However, she says the problems are much less polarized than European media may portray them. “Some people hate wolves, some people love wolves, but that was also something which I wanted to look into whether that&#8217;s true or not,” she says. “And all of my studies which I&#8217;ve conducted so far on … the public perception or social side hint to a much more like gray [area regarding] public attitudes or public perception towards the species.” The European Union has voted to loosen the protected status of Eurasian gray wolves (Canis lupus lupus), which critics say could endanger the progress that has been made in the animal’s recovery. “Wolf populations have barely recovered after going extinct in most parts of&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/podcast/2026/11/human-wildlife-coexistence-with-wolves-in-europe-requires-a-holistic-approach/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>High expectations but no agreement on Antarctic marine protection, krill fishing</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/high-expectations-but-no-agreement-on-antarctic-marine-protection-krill-fishing/</link>
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					<pubDate>03 Nov 2026 18:02:40 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Francesco De Augustinis]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rebecca Kessler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Antarctica]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Conservation, Ecosystems, Environment, Environmental Law, Environmental Policy, Fisheries, Fishing, Governance, Law, Marine, Marine Animals, Marine Conservation, Marine Protected Areas, Oceans, Politics, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[The multilateral body charged with regulating fishing and protecting ecosystems in the Southern Ocean reached no agreements on establishing new marine protected areas or adopting new krill-fishing management measures at its recent annual meeting. The 45th meeting of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) took place Oct. 19-30 in Hobart, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The multilateral body charged with regulating fishing and protecting ecosystems in the Southern Ocean reached no agreements on establishing new marine protected areas or adopting new krill-fishing management measures at its recent annual meeting. The 45th meeting of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) took place Oct. 19-30 in Hobart, Australia, bringing together the body&#8217;s 27 members: 26 countries and the EU. Months of press conferences, boycott campaigns, lobbying activities and bilateral meetings preceded the event. Attention focused particularly on the potential adoption of a new fisheries management system for Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) and the establishment of a marine protected area in a large swathe of sea, known as Domain 1, between the Antarctic Peninsula and the South Orkney Islands. Domain 1 is where krill fishing is concentrated and also contains important feeding grounds for wildlife populations that rely primarily on the small shrimp-like crustaceans for food. “CCAMLR Members did not reach consensus on either,” Javier Arata, spokesperson for the industry Association of Responsible Krill harvesting companies (ARK), told Mongabay by email, minutes after the meeting closed. “CCAMLR adopted no new measures for the krill fishery this year,” Arata said, adding that members “were closer this year than many expected.” He said his group will keep working with all CCAMLR members, scientists and other interested parties to get both measures adopted in 2027. In response to the lack of progress, several conservation organizations, including the U.S.-based Antarctic Wildlife Alliance, the Our Antarctica campaign and the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/high-expectations-but-no-agreement-on-antarctic-marine-protection-krill-fishing/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Brazil election sparks threats to reinvade Indigenous Amazon territory</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/11/brazil-election-sparks-threats-to-reinvade-indigenous-amazon-territory/</link>
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					<pubDate>03 Nov 2026 17:09:59 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Aimee Gabay]]>
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						<![CDATA[Bobbybascomb]]>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conflict, Conservation, Culture, Governance, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Law, Protected Areas, and Violence]]>
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							<![CDATA[A federal judge issued an emergency order on Oct. 23 to deploy federal security forces to the Apyterewa Indigenous Land in Brazil’s Pará state. The order came after new evidence emerged that hundreds of former non-Indigenous occupants planned to reinvade the territory on Oct. 25, the day of Brazil’s presidential runoff election. The court order [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A federal judge issued an emergency order on Oct. 23 to deploy federal security forces to the Apyterewa Indigenous Land in Brazil’s Pará state. The order came after new evidence emerged that hundreds of former non-Indigenous occupants planned to reinvade the territory on Oct. 25, the day of Brazil’s presidential runoff election. The court order was in response to an urgent request by the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office (MPF), which documented threats of armed violence against the Parakanã Indigenous people who live in Apyterewa. Allegations suggest that the invaders expected political support following the elections. According to the case file, on Oct. 12, an Indigenous Parakanã man received 10 WhatsApp audio messages that warned of a planned invasion. Some claimed 100 to 300 people were preparing to invade and were buying tarps and tools to rebuild settlements inside. The messages repeatedly warned Indigenous residents to leave, including references to possible gunfire. “The governor said the people should return,” one audio message said. “The governor who has just won, and if Flávio [Bolsonaro] wins the presidency, then the land will be released to the people again, the land to white people.&#8221; In another audio message, an individual said: “There are a hundred, two hundred, three hundred men who used to own land there. Everyone is saying they&#8217;re going back, that the government is supporting them.&#8221; The alleged invasion was scheduled for Oct. 25, coinciding with the election which incumbent Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won in a surprise defeat&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/11/brazil-election-sparks-threats-to-reinvade-indigenous-amazon-territory/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Governments must include small-scale fishers in their plans to protect the oceans: Report</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/governments-must-include-small-scale-fishers-in-their-plans-to-protect-the-oceans-report/</link>
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					<pubDate>03 Nov 2026 16:03:14 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mark Hillsdon]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Autumn Spanne]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Conservation, Ecosystems, Environment, Environmental Law, Fisheries, Fishing, Governance, Law, Marine, Marine Conservation, Oceans, and Research]]>
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							<![CDATA[A new report finds that countries around the world have committed to supporting sustainable fishing as a way to counter marine biodiversity loss, but urges them to strengthen accountability measures and do more to support small-scale fishers. The report, jointly published by the U.K.-based nonprofit the Marine Stewardship Council and the U.S.-based global research organization [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A new report finds that countries around the world have committed to supporting sustainable fishing as a way to counter marine biodiversity loss, but urges them to strengthen accountability measures and do more to support small-scale fishers. The report, jointly published by the U.K.-based nonprofit the Marine Stewardship Council and the U.S.-based global research organization World Resources Institute (WRI), was released at the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity summit (COP 17) held Oct. 19-30 in Yerevan, Armenia, and analyzes government pledges made under the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). Launched at COP 15 in 2022, the GBF was heralded as a major breakthrough, establishing 23 targets aimed at reversing biodiversity loss by 2030. Now, at the framework’s halfway point, the new report takes stock of progress toward meeting those targets in relation to ocean biodiversity. It analyzed 812 fisheries-related commitments across the 74 National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs) from coastal and island state countries and the European Union that had met the deadline to submit their plans. NBSAPs are pathways countries are developing in pursuit of the GBF targets. The most cited commitments focused on fisheries management, stronger governance, and science and data collection. The analysis found that while all national plans included at least one fisheries-related pledge, and 60% contained a measurable metric or deadline, just 27% directly referenced an existing policy, and only 13% included both. So, while fisheries and aquaculture are broadly recognized across NBSAPs, the report says, most biodiversity pledges are only “weakly anchored”&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/governments-must-include-small-scale-fishers-in-their-plans-to-protect-the-oceans-report/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Afghanistan&#8217;s Taliban officials will attend a UN climate summit for the second time as observers</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/11/afghanistans-taliban-officials-will-attend-a-un-climate-summit-for-the-second-time-as-observers/</link>
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					<pubDate>03 Nov 2026 15:59:48 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Associated Press]]>
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						<![CDATA[Mongabay Editor]]>
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							<![CDATA[Afghanistan]]>
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							<![CDATA[Adaptation To Climate Change, Climate, Climate Change, Climate Science, Environment, Global Environmental Crisis, Governance, Impact Of Climate Change, Research, and Science]]>
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							<![CDATA[ISLAMABAD (AP) — Afghanistan&#8217;s Taliban officials have been invited and will attend the upcoming U.N. climate summit as observers. The summit starts next week in Antalya, Turkey. This marks their second attendance since returning to power in 2021. A Turkish and a Kabul official on Tuesday confirmed the Afghan Taliban&#8217;s observer status at the Conference [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[ISLAMABAD (AP) — Afghanistan&#8217;s Taliban officials have been invited and will attend the upcoming U.N. climate summit as observers. The summit starts next week in Antalya, Turkey. This marks their second attendance since returning to power in 2021. A Turkish and a Kabul official on Tuesday confirmed the Afghan Taliban&#8217;s observer status at the Conference of the Parties, or COP31. The Taliban are not formally recognized by U.N. member states, including because of the severe restrictions on women that they imposed. Afghanistan faces grave climate challenges, including drought and flooding. Critics argue against recognizing the Taliban government, while others emphasize the need for Afghan representation in climate discussions. By Victoria Milko, Associated Press Banner image: A girl carries jerrycans on a wheelbarrow after collecting water from a well at a mosque in Deh Mazang, Kabul, Afghanistan, April 2, 2026. Image courtesy of Siddiqullah Alizai via Associated PressThis article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/11/afghanistans-taliban-officials-will-attend-a-un-climate-summit-for-the-second-time-as-observers/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>UN recognizes ongoing restoration work inside Ethiopia’s Desa’a forest amid conflict</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/un-recognizes-ongoing-restoration-work-inside-ethiopias-desaa-forest-amid-conflict/</link>
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					<pubDate>03 Nov 2026 15:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Elodie Toto]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Malavikavyawahare]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, and Ethiopia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conflict, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Ecosystems, Environment, Forests, Governance, Land Conflict, Plants, Rainforests, Solutions, Trees, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[On Oct. 29, 2026, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and FAO recognized the Desa’a project, an initiative to restore Ethiopia’s forests in the Great Rift Valley, as a World Restoration Flagship during the U.N. Biodiversity Conference (CBD COP17) in Yerevan, Armenia. “It is to inspire others to take action and revive nature,” Doreen Lynn [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[On Oct. 29, 2026, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and FAO recognized the Desa’a project, an initiative to restore Ethiopia’s forests in the Great Rift Valley, as a World Restoration Flagship during the U.N. Biodiversity Conference (CBD COP17) in Yerevan, Armenia. “It is to inspire others to take action and revive nature,” Doreen Lynn Robinson, deputy director of the Ecosystems Division at UNEP, told Mongabay by phone. “Restoration, when it’s done well, brings stakeholders together because they’re working together to find solutions to common problems. We believe that by giving recognition to our flagships, they also receive some support. They’ll get technical support, monitoring support, and communication and advocacy support,” she continued. The initiative, officially called the “Restoring Desa&#8217;a landscape: Bringing the Great Rift Valley Back to Life,” is based in the Tigray region of northeastern Ethiopia, in what is known as the Afromontane forests. The Afromontane ecosystem extends across Africa, from the Arabian Peninsula south along the Rift Valley to the Drakensberg Mountains in the east, and consists of dryland forests located at elevations above 1,500 meters (4,900 feet). It is home to the endangered Ethiopian wolf (canis simensis), gelada monkey (theropithecus gelada) and giant lobelia (lobelia rhynchopetalum). This forest is also important for carbon storage, but it is on the verge of disappearing. At the beginning of the project in 2016, an estimated 74% of Ethiopia’s Desa’a Forest had “already disappeared.” Today, an estimated 70% of the remaining forest is considered degraded. Forest cover degradation can affect&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/un-recognizes-ongoing-restoration-work-inside-ethiopias-desaa-forest-amid-conflict/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Payment scheme in Botswana pays communities to coexist with wildlife</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/11/payment-scheme-in-botswana-pays-communities-to-coexist-with-wildlife/</link>
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					<pubDate>03 Nov 2026 12:25:12 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Anna Weekes]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Shreya Dasgupta]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Botswana, and Southern Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Camera Trapping, cameras, Conflict, Conservation, Conservation Finance, Elephants, Human-wildlife Conflict, Mammals, Monitoring, Payments For Ecosystem Services, Technology, Ungulates, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[A new payments scheme rewards two rural communities on the edge of Botswana’s Okavango Delta for living alongside wildlife. Residents have installed cameras around their villages and earn money from photographs of elephants, lions and other wild animals that might raid vegetable gardens or kill livestock. The scheme is part of the Harmony with Wildlife [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A new payments scheme rewards two rural communities on the edge of Botswana’s Okavango Delta for living alongside wildlife. Residents have installed cameras around their villages and earn money from photographs of elephants, lions and other wild animals that might raid vegetable gardens or kill livestock. The scheme is part of the Harmony with Wildlife program, run by conservation nonprofit Wild Impact and safari company &amp;Beyond in partnership with Gogomoga and Tsutsubega, two remote villages with fewer than 500 residents each and no paved roads, schools, shops or electricity. Okavango Delta is home to elephants, hippos and large predators, as well as about 130,000 people, including the Indigenous San communities. Wild Impact’s CEO Andrew Venter told Mongabay in a video call that wildlife commonly enters villages. Elephants, for example, eat crops and damage water boreholes, which need to be heavily fenced, but the communities are “remarkably tolerant” of wildlife, Venter said. In April 2024, rangers from the communities in the area, started helping residents document damage caused by wild animals so they could claim compensation for their losses from Botswana’s wildlife department. This sparked the idea of setting up camera traps to reveal when and where elephants and other large mammals go. The communities then jointly worked with Wild Impact to deploy cameras in a way that didn’t interfere with peoples’ privacy. After two years of watching footage of wild animals roaming through the villages, Wild Impact recognized the need to acknowledge the community’s role in conservation and promote coexistence,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/11/payment-scheme-in-botswana-pays-communities-to-coexist-with-wildlife/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Global biodiversity summit ends with shortfall of funding for Africa, despite 30&#215;30 push</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/11/global-biodiversity-summit-ends-with-shortfall-of-funding-for-africa-despite-30x30-push/</link>
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					<pubDate>03 Nov 2026 11:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Shanna Hanbury]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Bobbybascomb]]>
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							<![CDATA[Armenia and Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, climate finance, Conservation Finance, Environmental Policy, Finance, Governance, and Politics]]>
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							<![CDATA[African countries left the United Nations biodiversity conference in Yerevan, Armenia, with an unresolved funding gap for conservation. International funding for protected and conserved areas in Africa fell significantly even as countries are working toward a global agreement to protect 30% of the world’s land and oceans by 2030, known as the 30&#215;30 goal. During [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[African countries left the United Nations biodiversity conference in Yerevan, Armenia, with an unresolved funding gap for conservation. International funding for protected and conserved areas in Africa fell significantly even as countries are working toward a global agreement to protect 30% of the world’s land and oceans by 2030, known as the 30&#215;30 goal. During the Oct. 19-30 summit, roughly $1.8 billion in new funds for global biodiversity conservation was announced. Negotiators agreed to expand the pool of countries that contribute to international biodiversity finance, inviting developing countries like China and Persian Gulf states to contribute. “The first element remains the lack of funding,” Nadège Nzoyem, WWF’s regional director for the Congo Basin, had told Mongabay’s David Akana in response to a question about the biggest challenges in the run-up to the conference. “To improve wildlife monitoring, you need funds. To ensure that the forest is conserved, you also need funds.” With just over four years to go before the 2030 conservation deadline, African nations are closer to reaching the 30&#215;30 goal than the global average, but still off track. On average, African nations protect 19.9% of their land and 17.2% of their seas, compared with the global average of 18.7% of land and 10% of marine landscapes protected. That’s according to a tracker run by SkyTruth, a U.S.-based environmental watchdog. At the Yerevan summit, the African Group, representing 54 nations, had pushed for more financial support to meet global biodiversity targets. A report released during the summit found that&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/11/global-biodiversity-summit-ends-with-shortfall-of-funding-for-africa-despite-30x30-push/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>The RSPO closed the case on First Resources. Indonesian forests kept falling for palm oil (commentary)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/the-rspo-closed-the-case-on-first-resources-indonesian-forests-kept-falling-for-palm-oil-commentary/</link>
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					<pubDate>03 Nov 2026 10:27:18 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Tom Johnson]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Philip Jacobson]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Borneo, Indonesia, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Anonymous Companies, Business, Commentary, Conservation, Corporate Environmental Transgressors, Corporations, Crops, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Environment, Environmental Law, Food Industry, Forest Destruction, Forest Loss, Forestry, Forests, Governance, Industrial Agriculture, Industry, Law, Media, Palm Oil, Plantations, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Threats To Rainforests, Tropical Deforestation, Tropical Forests, and Zero Deforestation Commitments]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) — as the name suggests — sets itself up as the arbiter of what is sustainable in the palm oil industry. For that to work, it has to do two things. First, it has to make sensible rules about what is and isn’t sustainable. Second, it has to [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) — as the name suggests — sets itself up as the arbiter of what is sustainable in the palm oil industry. For that to work, it has to do two things. First, it has to make sensible rules about what is and isn’t sustainable. Second, it has to enforce those rules, to ensure that companies whose actions fall outside them do not get to market their products as sustainable. If it does not police the rules, the rules don’t really mean all that much. Evidence from a new investigation — and newly unearthed court records — shows that it has failed on that second task. In December 2025, the RSPO Complaints Panel issued its final ruling on a case that had dragged on for more than four years. In a succession of NGO reports dating back to 2017, allegations had piled up connecting Singapore-listed, Indonesian-owned First Resources, an RSPO member and major palm oil producer, to a string of other groups that were still clearing rainforests. First Resources had first committed to “zero deforestation” in 2015 and was able to access markets closed to unsustainable palm oil through its RSPO membership. But through its apparent control of so-called “shadow companies,” the theory went, the Fangiono family that owned First Resources was simultaneously able to keep expanding into rainforests. A complaint alleging that the Fangionos controlled two other groups — Ciliandry Angki Abadi and FAP Agri — was first taken up by the RSPO&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/the-rspo-closed-the-case-on-first-resources-indonesian-forests-kept-falling-for-palm-oil-commentary/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>US couple sentenced for helping finance trade in rhino horn, puma bones, other wildlife parts</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/11/us-couple-sentenced-for-helping-finance-trade-in-rhino-horn-puma-bones-other-wildlife-parts/</link>
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					<pubDate>03 Nov 2026 10:18:39 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Naina Rao]]>
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						<![CDATA[Shreya Dasgupta]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Business, Crime, Endangered Species, Endangered Species Act, Environmental Law, Governance, Illegal Trade, Law, Law Enforcement, Mammals, Rhinos, Trade, trafficking, Wildlife, Wildlife Trade, and Wildlife Trafficking]]>
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							<![CDATA[A federal court in the U.S. has sentenced two residents of the state of California for their roles as financial facilitators in a scheme trafficking wildlife body parts between the U.S. and Vietnam. Linh Luu and Kevin Le, a married couple from Anaheim, were sentenced on Oct. 23 to three years of probation and fined [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A federal court in the U.S. has sentenced two residents of the state of California for their roles as financial facilitators in a scheme trafficking wildlife body parts between the U.S. and Vietnam. Linh Luu and Kevin Le, a married couple from Anaheim, were sentenced on Oct. 23 to three years of probation and fined $10,000 each after pleading guilty to violating the Lacey Act, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Between September 2019 and May 2021, the couple processed $51,100 in payments for a Vietnam-based individual importing American black bear gall bladders and puma bones, while exporting to the U.S. lion teeth, black and white rhino horn pieces, and even a tiger pelt. Trade in all the species involved is restricted under CITES, the global wildlife trade treaty. Rhinos, tigers, and lions are also listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. Federal authorities uncovered the operation through an undercover sting. According to the Justice Department, Luu and Le met an undercover agent in a parking lot in December 2020 and accepted a $12,000 down payment in cash for a piece of rhino horn while discussing ways to evade U.S. banking regulations. The horn was later shipped to the state of Oregon disguised as a household decoration to thwart customs inspectors. Law enforcement officials said dismantling financial facilitators is essential to curbing wildlife crime. “Wildlife trafficking threatens some of the world’s most vulnerable species and fuels criminal networks that profit from their destruction,” Scott Bradford, U.S. attorney for the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/11/us-couple-sentenced-for-helping-finance-trade-in-rhino-horn-puma-bones-other-wildlife-parts/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Uncertainty surrounds controversial resort in Zanzibar forest reserve as work stalls</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/uncertainty-surrounds-controversial-resort-in-zanzibar-forest-reserve-as-work-stalls/</link>
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					<pubDate>03 Nov 2026 06:48:21 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Victoria Schneider]]>
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						<![CDATA[Terna Gyuse]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, and Tanzania]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Business, Economics, Environment, Environmental Law, Environmental Policy, Governance, Land Rights, Science, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[In March 2026, contractors built a wall along the edge of the Ngezi-Vumawimbi Forest Reserve on Pemba Island, Zanzibar, marking the boundary of what appears to be the site of the planned Mantuli luxury resort within the reserve. According to sources Mongabay spoke to, no further work has taken place since the wall was completed [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In March 2026, contractors built a wall along the edge of the Ngezi-Vumawimbi Forest Reserve on Pemba Island, Zanzibar, marking the boundary of what appears to be the site of the planned Mantuli luxury resort within the reserve. According to sources Mongabay spoke to, no further work has taken place since the wall was completed in the first half of 2026. It stands in the very northwest of the island, between a former rubber plantation and land used by local communities for homes and fields of crops like cassava and sweet potatoes. The forest reserve boundary lies just beyond the community land. Ngezi-Vumawimbi is surrounded by 10 villages, with a combined population of more than 20,000 people, according to Tanzania’s 2022 census. Members of surrounding communities enter the reserve to collect firewood and wild fruit, as well as to tend their ancestors&#8217; graves and perform other spiritual practices. Research has established that rural communities across Pemba Island derive around a third of their annual income from forest resources; around Ngezi, the forest notably provides residents with income from the bungo fruit (Saba comorensis), which locals harvest for sale between July and late September. The moist forests of Ngezi host unique species of animals and plants. Image courtesy of Emily Tanganelli. Risk to biodiversity In September 2025, a number of conservationists and researchers published an open letter opposing the Mantuli project in the journal Science. They said the project risked damaging the 1,500-hectare (3,700-acre) Ngezi-Vumavimbi forest reserve, one of East Africa’s most&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/uncertainty-surrounds-controversial-resort-in-zanzibar-forest-reserve-as-work-stalls/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Do not ‘engage formally’: UK officials advised against billionaire-run zoo ahead of CITES meeting</title>
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					<pubDate>03 Nov 2026 06:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Elisângela MendonçaSpoorthy Raman]]>
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						<![CDATA[Andy Lehren]]>
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							<![CDATA[Birds, Environmental Law, Environmental Policy, Governance, Mongabay investigation, Politics, Raptors, Wildlife, and Wildlife Trade]]>
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							<![CDATA[LONDON — British officials explicitly advised government ministers to not engage formally with Vantara, the controversial zoo founded and led by Indian billionaire Anant Ambani, according to documents obtained by Mongabay and The Guardian under the Freedom of Information Act. Ambani is the son of one of India’s richest men, Mukesh Ambani, chairman and managing [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[LONDON — British officials explicitly advised government ministers to not engage formally with Vantara, the controversial zoo founded and led by Indian billionaire Anant Ambani, according to documents obtained by Mongabay and The Guardian under the Freedom of Information Act. Ambani is the son of one of India’s richest men, Mukesh Ambani, chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries, a multinational petrochemical and telecommunications conglomerate. Internal British government communications at the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) show civil servants strongly cautioning against ministerial interactions with Vantara. A central reason why the officials warned colleagues is the U.K. role chairing a committee at CITES, the global treaty regulating trade in endangered wildlife. “Given the ongoing compliance proceedings and continued scrutiny, we do not advise ministers to engage formally with Vantara at this stage,” an unnamed DEFRA official wrote in an email on July 14. The government redacts names of many civil servants, reflecting a policy of withholding junior officials’ personal information unless they are public-facing or already considered public. In a separate internal briefing document obtained by Mongabay and The Guardian and sent later in July, U.K. officials also raised concerns about how the zoo has sought to acquire rare and endangered species. DEFRA’s headquarters in London. Image by Elisangela Mendonça. The zoo describes itself as a “wildlife rescue, rehabilitation and conservation centre” with more than 150,000 animals. In 2025, the organization drew official scrutiny after reports alleging it acquired endangered species illegally. The facility is not open&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/do-not-engage-formally-uk-officials-advised-against-billionaire-run-zoo-ahead-of-cites-meeting/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Two public servants in Brazil removed after threatening to poison Indigenous people</title>
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					<pubDate>02 Nov 2026 22:44:40 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Karla Mendes]]>
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						<![CDATA[Bobbybascomb]]>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Conflict, Conservation, Culture, Deforestation, Environment, Governance, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Law, Protected Areas, Tropical Deforestation, and Violence]]>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil’s Indigenous voters helped reelect incumbent President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Oct. 25. Following his win, two officials in the municipality of Tacuru, Mato Grosso do Sul, allegedly sent WhatsApp messages threatening to poison the water supply used by the Guarani-Kaiowá Indigenous people. The officials have been suspended; however, activists argue that’s insufficient [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil’s Indigenous voters helped reelect incumbent President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Oct. 25. Following his win, two officials in the municipality of Tacuru, Mato Grosso do Sul, allegedly sent WhatsApp messages threatening to poison the water supply used by the Guarani-Kaiowá Indigenous people. The officials have been suspended; however, activists argue that’s insufficient to curb violence against Indigenous people. &#8220;Talking about poisoning the water in Mato Grosso do Sul is not just verbal racism; it is not merely a message of hate,” said Matias Benno Rempel, coordinator of the state’s Indigenous Missionary Council (Cimi). “It is grounded in concrete reality, drawing from numerous instances where this has been a recurring tactic used against the state’s Indigenous peoples.&#8221; Shortly after it was announced that Lula won the run-off election, the officials allegedly sent WhatsApp audio messages saying that only Indigenous people voted for Lula. “I already said it, we have to [put] poison in the water. Kill those pests in the water,” the messages said, according to reports made by the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB) on social media and sent to the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples (MPI). The case is being investigated by the Federal Police and the Federal Public Ministry (MPF). The Tacuru City government suspended the two employees for 20 days, the MPF told Mongabay; disciplinary administrative proceedings were also initiated. For activists, the measures are insufficient “to put an end to the violence, or at least [to] curb acts of violence against the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/11/two-public-servants-in-brazil-removed-after-threatening-to-poison-indigenous-people/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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