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Mongabay’s What-To-Watch list for June 2022

Mongabay.com 6 Jun 2022
WCS’s Dr. Cristián Samper in the Andean Paramo at Chingaza National Park in Colombia. Credit WCS

WCS CEO to depart conservation group for the Bezos Earth Fund

Mongabay.com 11 May 2022
Forest fire in a deforested area in an undesignated public forest in Altamira, Pará on Jul 31, 2021. Photo © Christian Braga/Greenpeace

Amazon deforestation surges in April

Mongabay.com 6 May 2022
A caracal in Africa.

Mongabay’s What-To-Watch list for May 2022

Mongabay.com 3 May 2022

To stop plastic pollution, we must stop plastic production, scientists say

Mongabay.com 28 Apr 2022
Forest fire in a deforested area in an undesignated public forest in Porto Velho, Rondônia on July 29, 2021. Photo © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

Amazon deforestation dips slightly in March, but remains high

Mongabay.com 9 Apr 2022
Shouf Biosphere Reserve restoration project, Lebanon

Mongabay’s What-To-Watch list for April 2022

Mongabay.com 1 Apr 2022

Stamping out savanna fires doesn’t bolster carbon sink by much, study finds

Mongabay.com 23 Mar 2022
Aerial view of an area in the Amazon deforested for cattle ranching -- the biggest driver of deforestation in the Amazon -- in Lábrea, Amazonas state on Sep 15, 2021. Photo © Victor Moriyama / Amazônia em Chamas (Amazon in Flames Alliance)

Amazon deforestation starts 2022 on the fastest pace in 14 years

Mongabay.com 15 Mar 2022

A marine mystery unfolds with the discovery of nitrogen-fixing plankton

Mongabay.com 2 Mar 2022

Mongabay’s What-To-Watch list for March 2022

Mongabay.com 2 Mar 2022
Amazon rainforest in Brazil

January deforestation in the Amazon highest in 14 years

Mongabay.com 11 Feb 2022

Scientists’ secret weapon to monitor the Southern Ocean? Elephant seals

Mongabay.com 11 Feb 2022

Two storms in two weeks carve trail of death and destruction in Madagascar

Mongabay.com 7 Feb 2022

Mongabay’s What-To-Watch list for February 2022

Mongabay.com 3 Feb 2022

Cuba boosts marine protected coverage with new area spanning reefs to mangroves

Mongabay.com 27 Jan 2022

In Africa, temperatures rise, but adaptation lags on West’s funding failure

Mongabay.com 19 Jan 2022
Colombia

Coastal deforestation fuels more frequent storms in West Africa, study warns

Mongabay.com 11 Jan 2022

Mongabay’s What-To-Watch list for January 2022

Mongabay.com 3 Jan 2022

Court order blocks Shell’s seismic surveys off South Africa’s Wild Coast

Mongabay.com 31 Dec 2021

Conservation deaths in 2021

Mongabay.com 30 Dec 2021

Holy loach! Fish missing for decades rediscovered in Turkey’s Batman River

Mongabay.com 21 Dec 2021

Wildlife death toll from 2020 Pantanal fires tops 17 million, study finds

Mongabay.com 17 Dec 2021
Global Forest Watch tree cover loss 2001-2021 set on Planet imagery from Jun-Sep 2020.

Mongabay reporter sued in what appears to be a pattern of legal intimidation by Peruvian cacao company

Mongabay.com 10 Dec 2021

Mongabay’s What-To-Watch list for December 2021

Mongabay.com 6 Dec 2021
NASA Landsat image showing fishbone deforestation along roads in Sao Joao da Baliza, Roraima, Brazil in 2021.

The Amazon has highest October forest loss since at least 2007

Mongabay.com 12 Nov 2021

Côte d’Ivoire braces to save what’s left of its single-digit forest cover

Mongabay.com 12 Nov 2021
Zoom.earth satellite image showing an area of forest cleared for a cacao plantation outside of Tamshiyacu, Peru.

Peruvian court dismisses defamation case against Mongabay journalist

Mongabay.com 4 Nov 2021
Jane Goodall interviewing Mongabay founder and CEO Rhett Ayers Butler for her Hopecast podcast.

Jane Goodall’s Hopecast podcast features Mongabay founder

Mongabay.com 3 Nov 2021

2°C warming limit? More like 3°C and hotter, leading climate scientists say

Mongabay.com 2 Nov 2021

Hungry like the maned wolf pup: Clips give rare glimpse of elusive canine

Mongabay.com 26 Oct 2021
Aerial view of an area in the Amazon deforested for cattle pasture in Candeias do Jamari, Rondônia state. Overflights organized by the Amazon in Flames Alliance -- Amazon Watch, Greenpeace Brazil and the Brazilian Climate Observatory -- between September 13th and 17th documented land use change and fire around the cities of Porto Velho, Rondônia, and Lábrea, Amazonas. Photo © Victor Moriyama / Amazônia em Chamas (Amazon in Flames Alliance)

Brazil reports increase in Amazon logging

Mongabay.com 11 Oct 2021

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