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		<title>Conservation news</title>
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					<title>Precision conservation: the rise of place-specific strategies where protection works best</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/where-conservation-works-best-the-rise-of-place-specific-strategies/</link>
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					<pubDate>09 Mar 2026 00:04:21 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Founder's briefs]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Analysis, Conservation, Environment, Green, Remote Sensing, and Satellite Imagery]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation has long wrestled with a deceptively simple question: not whether to act, but where action will matter most. Forest restoration, protected areas, wildlife corridors, and enforcement patrols all compete for limited funding across landscapes that differ enormously in ecology, governance, and human pressures. A growing body of research argues that improving outcomes depends less [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation has long wrestled with a deceptively simple question: not whether to act, but where action will matter most. Forest restoration, protected areas, wildlife corridors, and enforcement patrols all compete for limited funding across landscapes that differ enormously in ecology, governance, and human pressures. A growing body of research argues that improving outcomes depends less on inventing new tools than on deploying existing ones more selectively — directing interventions to places where they are most likely to deliver benefits relative to doing nothing. A 2025 perspective by Rebecca Spake and colleagues, published in Nature Ecology &amp; Evolution, describes this idea using a new label: “precision ecology.” The authors argue conservation science should move beyond estimating average effects of interventions. The goal is to predict site-specific outcomes, allowing managers to tailor actions to local conditions. The proposal draws inspiration from precision medicine, which uses patient-level data to match treatments to individuals. At its core, the argument is pragmatic. Conservation operates in heterogeneous systems, where the same intervention can succeed in one place and fail in another. As Spake and colleagues note, implementation outcomes vary across landscapes due to complex ecological and social factors, making “one-size-fits-all” strategies unreliable. The paper outlines statistical approaches — many adapted from economics and machine learning — designed to estimate how the impact of a treatment varies with environmental context. In principle, such methods could identify which forest stands would gain the most carbon from restoration, which rivers would benefit most from buffer zones, or where invasive-species&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/where-conservation-works-best-the-rise-of-place-specific-strategies/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Pascale Moehrle pressed Europe to take its seas seriously</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/pascale-moehrle-pressed-europe-to-take-its-seas-seriously/</link>
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					<pubDate>07 Mar 2026 04:14:33 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Founder's briefs]]>
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							<![CDATA[Europe]]>
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							<![CDATA[Environment, Fisheries, Fishing, Obituary, and Oceans]]>
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							<![CDATA[In recent decades Europe’s seas have become a test of whether environmental policy can keep pace with ecological decline. Scientific advice on fisheries has grown more precise, satellite monitoring has expanded, and governments have pledged to restore marine ecosystems. Yet many fish stocks remain under strain, and destructive fishing practices continue in areas meant to [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In recent decades Europe’s seas have become a test of whether environmental policy can keep pace with ecological decline. Scientific advice on fisheries has grown more precise, satellite monitoring has expanded, and governments have pledged to restore marine ecosystems. Yet many fish stocks remain under strain, and destructive fishing practices continue in areas meant to protect biodiversity. The gap between commitments and outcomes has become a familiar feature of marine policy. Environmental groups have tried to narrow that gap by translating scientific findings into political pressure. Their work often takes place in committee rooms, regulatory consultations and court filings rather than at sea. Success depends on persistence: years spent arguing for tighter catch limits, enforcement of existing rules, or the protection of habitats that are easily damaged but slow to recover. Among the figures who devoted much of their professional life to that effort was Pascale Moehrle, executive director and vice-president of Oceana in Europe from 2019 to 2025. Her death was announced by Oceana on March 4th, 2026. Over a career in conservation that began in the early 1980s, Moehrle became a prominent voice urging European governments to manage fisheries more cautiously and to treat marine ecosystems as core environmental policy instead of peripheral to it. When Moehrle assumed leadership of Oceana’s European office, debates over fisheries and marine protection were intensifying across the European Union. Scientific assessments had long warned that many fish stocks were under pressure, and that destructive fishing practices were damaging seabed habitats. The political&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/pascale-moehrle-pressed-europe-to-take-its-seas-seriously/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>200 dead, more missing in another DRC mine collapse</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/03/200-dead-more-missing-in-another-drc-mine-collapse/</link>
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					<pubDate>06 Mar 2026 21:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay Africa]]>
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						<![CDATA[Malavikavyawahare]]>
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							<![CDATA[Democratic Republic Of Congo]]>
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							<![CDATA[Extreme Weather and mine]]>
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							<![CDATA[More than 200 people have died and dozens are missing after a landslide on March 3 at the Kasasa site in the Rubaya mining area in Masisi territory, North Kivu, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. &#8220;I saw the ground collapse and [bury] many people who were there. I can&#8217;t say exactly how many, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[More than 200 people have died and dozens are missing after a landslide on March 3 at the Kasasa site in the Rubaya mining area in Masisi territory, North Kivu, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. &#8220;I saw the ground collapse and [bury] many people who were there. I can&#8217;t say exactly how many, but there were several people involved in the incident. The mine was busy as usual,&#8221; a witness who requested anonymity told Mongabay by phone. Amateur videos that have gone viral (but could not be independently verified by Mongabay) show bodies lying on the ground, with witnesses reporting that people had lost their lives and been pulled from the rubble. Since February 2025, parts of the eastern DRC, including Rubaya, have been under the control of M23, an armed group allegedly backed by Rwanda. This represented a major escalation of a long-simmering conflict in the politically volatile region. The local M23 Congo River Alliance authorities in Rubaya, including the mayor of Rubaya and his deputy, confirmed that the landslide took place but did not provide any figures about the casualties. Congolese Minister of Mines Louis Watum Kabamba, a member of President Felix Tshisekedi’s government, announced that more than 200 people, including children, had died in the disaster, which occurred on March 3 at around 3 p.m. A miner speaking on condition of anonymity, contacted by Mongabay by telephone, confirmed having seen a dozen bodies by Wednesday morning, noting that the number of victims could rise as&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/03/200-dead-more-missing-in-another-drc-mine-collapse/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Restoration of Brazil’s Atlantic Forest may hinge on market for native plants</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/restoration-of-brazils-atlantic-forest-may-hinge-on-market-for-native-plants/</link>
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					<pubDate>06 Mar 2026 18:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Sarah Derouin]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Atlantic Forest, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Atlantic Forest, Biodiversity, Biodiversity Hotspots, Conservation, Ecological Restoration, Endangered Species, Environment, Forestry, Forests, Plants, Rainforest Conservation, Rainforests, Reforestation, Restoration, Saving Rainforests, Trees, Tropical Forests, Wildlife, and Wildlife Conservation]]>
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							<![CDATA[The forests of the world are teeming with life, from the towering trees down to the microscopic organisms that quietly recycle and refuel the soil. That’s why clearing forests leads to biodiversity loss, problems with water and soil quality, and less carbon storage. In Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, restoration projects have been underway for decades to [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The forests of the world are teeming with life, from the towering trees down to the microscopic organisms that quietly recycle and refuel the soil. That’s why clearing forests leads to biodiversity loss, problems with water and soil quality, and less carbon storage. In Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, restoration projects have been underway for decades to combat clearing. While some successes have been noted, there are still barriers to starting — and sustaining — restoration efforts in the region. This is especially the case for privately owned land. Now, new research in the journal Ambio digs in to how to better balance reforestation efforts with economic benefits for landowners in the Atlantic Forest. “We wanted to go beyond the classic, cliché narrative that says biodiversity has an invaluable market value and many active principles … we wanted to answer which ones,” says study lead author Pedro Medrado Krainovic, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of São Paulo. The researchers were curious if they could find the reforestation sweet spot of increasing biodiversity, creating economic incentives and providing social support — a combination known as bioeconomics. In particular, they wanted to know if native plant species in restored patches of the Atlantic Forest could help bridge the gap between forest restoration goals and economic opportunities, by measuring how many of these species could be economically exploited. The team surveyed vegetation in areas undergoing forest restoration, noting the variety and abundance of native plants. Using patent records for plants in medical, cosmetic and&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/restoration-of-brazils-atlantic-forest-may-hinge-on-market-for-native-plants/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Sri Lankan waters under ‘close watch’ following wreckage of Iranian warship</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/sri-lankan-waters-under-close-watch-following-wreckage-of-iranian-warship/</link>
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					<pubDate>06 Mar 2026 17:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Kamanthi Wickramasinghe]]>
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						<![CDATA[Dilrukshi Handunnetti]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, South Asia, and Sri Lanka]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Environment, Environmental Law, Governance, Marine Conservation, Oceans, Oil Spills, Pollution, and War]]>
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							<![CDATA[GALLE, Sri Lanka — On March 4, an Iranian Navy frigate IRIS Dena sank some 40-50 nautical miles off the southern coast of Galle, an important maritime route in Sri Lanka. According to the Sri Lanka Navy, at least 180 personnel were initially on board the ship and it was returning from the International Fleet [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[GALLE, Sri Lanka — On March 4, an Iranian Navy frigate IRIS Dena sank some 40-50 nautical miles off the southern coast of Galle, an important maritime route in Sri Lanka. According to the Sri Lanka Navy, at least 180 personnel were initially on board the ship and it was returning from the International Fleet Review 2026, a maritime exercise held in Visakhapatnam, India, when it sent out a distress signal. Following the incident, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed that a U.S. submarine sank the Iranian warship in international waters, describing it as the first such sinking of an enemy ship by a U.S. submarine since World War II. For Sri Lanka, a strategic location at the confluence of important maritime routes, it is both a politically and environmentally distressing moment.  Speaking to media in Colombo, Buddhika Sampath, spokesman for the Sri Lanka Navy, said search and rescue troops were deployed as soon as the Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre received the distress call. “We didn’t see a ship except for some oil patches and life rafts,” Sampath told local journalists at a media briefing. “The Navy rescued 32 individuals aboard the ship, but by the time we reached the frigate, several bodies were floating near the vessel,” he said. Map shows Sri Lanka’s exclusive economic zone. Image courtesy of the Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase, Flanders Marine Institute. No oil spill yet Speaking to Mongabay, Sampath confirmed that an oil spill has not been detected yet. A total of 90 bodies&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/sri-lankan-waters-under-close-watch-following-wreckage-of-iranian-warship/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Nations not on track to meet UN 2030 pesticide risk reduction targets: Study</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/nations-not-on-track-to-meet-un-2030-pesticide-risk-reduction-targets-study/</link>
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					<pubDate>06 Mar 2026 16:46:39 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mike Gaworecki]]>
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						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Agrochemicals, Agroecology, Biology, Chemicals, Conservation, Crops, Environment, Environmental Policy, Food, Food Industry, food security, Global Environmental Crisis, Health, Industrial Agriculture, Industry, Pesticides, Pollution, Public Health, and Regulations]]>
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							<![CDATA[The world’s nations committed to halving overall threats to biodiversity from pesticides and other highly hazardous chemicals by 2030 at the 15th United Nations Biodiversity Conference in 2022. But new research finds most countries are trending in the wrong direction when it comes to ecological risks from pesticides, with the U.N.’s global risk reduction target [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The world’s nations committed to halving overall threats to biodiversity from pesticides and other highly hazardous chemicals by 2030 at the 15th United Nations Biodiversity Conference in 2022. But new research finds most countries are trending in the wrong direction when it comes to ecological risks from pesticides, with the U.N.’s global risk reduction target unlikely to be met without substantial changes to agricultural systems. In fact, only one country, Chile, is currently on track to meet the U.N. target of reducing pesticide risk by 50% by 2030, according to recent findings by a team of environmental scientists from German university RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, and published in the journal Science. Pesticide risk in this context is defined as the probability of chemical compounds — including insecticides, herbicides, and fungicides — used to control agricultural pests having adverse effects on species not directly targeted by the pesticides and, thus, on ecosystems more broadly — and ultimately on humans. The new study found that the applied toxicity of insecticides has increased for pollinating insects such as honey bees. Image by Louise Docker via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0). To determine global pesticide risk, the study researchers looked at data on pesticide use from 2013 to 2019 in 65 nations that collectively represent nearly 80% of global crop acreage. They then combined these statistics with data on the toxicity of 625 pesticides for eight different species groups, including aquatic invertebrates and plants, fish, pollinating insects, soil organisms, and terrestrial arthropods, plants and vertebrates. This&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/nations-not-on-track-to-meet-un-2030-pesticide-risk-reduction-targets-study/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>The rate of global warming is accelerating, study finds</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/03/the-rate-of-global-warming-is-accelerating-study-finds/</link>
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					<pubDate>06 Mar 2026 15:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Bobby Bascomb]]>
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						<![CDATA[Hayat Indriyatno]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Climate Change, Global Warming, Ocean, Ocean Warming, Planetary Health, Research, and Science]]>
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							<![CDATA[Earth has been steadily warming since the start of the Industrial Revolution, when humans began emitting greenhouse gases at scale. And while the rate of warming has been largely constant for the past half-century, a recent study finds it has accelerated over the last decade — an alarming trend for Earth systems, biodiversity and human [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Earth has been steadily warming since the start of the Industrial Revolution, when humans began emitting greenhouse gases at scale. And while the rate of warming has been largely constant for the past half-century, a recent study finds it has accelerated over the last decade — an alarming trend for Earth systems, biodiversity and human health. Since the 1970s, the average global temperature has increased by roughly 0.2° Celsius (0.36° Fahrenheit) per decade. “That was pretty constant, but in recent years there have been some really record-breaking hot years globally,” study co-author Stefan Rahmstorf, a professor of physics of the ocean at Potsdam University in Germany, told Mongabay in a video call. The last three years are the three warmest on record – as are all ten of the years since 2015. That sudden spike prompted a debate among climate scientists, Rahmstorf said. They questioned if the sudden warming was indeed an acceleration, or natural variation that could be explained by three other factors — El Niño, volcanic eruptions, or solar flares — which can all affect global temperatures. To find out, Rahmstorf and study co-author Grant Foster, a statistician, applied statistical analysis to global temperature data to weed out the influence of those three factors. “We filter out known natural influences in the observational data, so that the ‘noise’ is reduced, making the underlying long-term warming signal more clearly visible,” Foster said in a press release. What remained was predominantly the human-caused warming signal. The results were dramatic: since 2015,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/03/the-rate-of-global-warming-is-accelerating-study-finds/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Indonesian communities try to reclaim lands following company permit revocations</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/indonesian-communities-try-to-reclaim-lands-following-company-permit-revocations/</link>
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					<pubDate>06 Mar 2026 14:44:59 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Tonggo Simangunsong]]>
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						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and Sumatra]]>
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							<![CDATA[Corporate Environmental Transgessors, Corporate Responsibility, Corporations, Environment, Environmental Law, Forests, Land Conflict, Land Rights, Law, and Law Enforcement]]>
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							<![CDATA[MEDAN, Indonesia — Sahala Pasaribu, 35, walks on customary land his family has not been able to manage for more than three decades since PT Toba Pulp Lestari (TPL), a pulpwood company, took control of it. Now, after the government decided to revoke the company&#8217;s permit in January, he hopes it’s possible. &#8220;We feel free [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[MEDAN, Indonesia — Sahala Pasaribu, 35, walks on customary land his family has not been able to manage for more than three decades since PT Toba Pulp Lestari (TPL), a pulpwood company, took control of it. Now, after the government decided to revoke the company&#8217;s permit in January, he hopes it’s possible. &#8220;We feel free to manage our own land without the intimidation we often faced,&#8221; said Sahala, head of Natinggir village in Indonesia’s North Sumatra province. He succeeded his father, Tomu Pasaribu, who died in 2024. He has already begun replanting the land with secondary crops, such as corn and vegetables. His family also plans to restore a customary forest, which they say is sacred. But whether he, and others from dozens of Indigenous communities whose lands were held by the company, can legally reclaim their customary lands remains unclear. At the start of 2026, the government decided to revoke PT TPL’s forest utilization permit, along with those of 27 other companies, over violating environmental and forestry regulations it said contributed to deadly floods and landslides in November 2025. But according to officials, lands under these permits will be managed by state-owned companies under the sovereign investment agency Danantara. Some companies have also indicated they will appeal the revocations of their permits. Pressure from communities on the government for clarity about whether they can take back lands has so far gone unanswered. Mongabay reached out to Danantara and the ministries of environment and forestry but did not receive a&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/indonesian-communities-try-to-reclaim-lands-following-company-permit-revocations/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>This bird is disappearing from Indonesia&#8217;s forests for its song</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/03/this-bird-is-disappearing-from-indonesias-forests-for-its-song/</link>
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					<pubDate>06 Mar 2026 06:05:21 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
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						<![CDATA[Naina Rao]]>
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							<![CDATA[Indonesia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Birds, Conservation, Habitat Loss, Poaching, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[The rising popularity of songbird singing competitions in Indonesia has led to the dramatic decline of the white-rumped shama, a bird known locally as murai batu. Mongabay Indonesia video contributor Rizky Maulana Yanuar recently reported that keeping such birds is deeply rooted in local culture. In Javanese society, a man is considered to be successful [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The rising popularity of songbird singing competitions in Indonesia has led to the dramatic decline of the white-rumped shama, a bird known locally as murai batu. Mongabay Indonesia video contributor Rizky Maulana Yanuar recently reported that keeping such birds is deeply rooted in local culture. In Javanese society, a man is considered to be successful when he has a job, a house, a vehicle, a wife and a bird, Yanuar reported. Murai batu (Copsychus malabaricus) are highly coveted for their melodic voice and beauty. In contests, the birds are judged on the duration of their song, volume, rhythm, showmanship and physical presentation. Winning these prestigious contests significantly increases a bird’s market value. Champion birds can sell for tens of thousands of dollars, and prizes for the owners can even include cars. While there are plenty of facilities breeding the birds in captivity, buyers say wild-caught birds are superior. This high demand has created a financial lifeline for rural residents facing economic uncertainty. “As a farmer, harvests are very uncertain. Sometimes I have work, sometimes I don’t,” says Peni Mak Lajang, a Sumatran native who turned to poaching murai batu because of the high prices. Peni sold his first murai batu for 800,000 rupiah ($48), back when he could capture five birds in a week. Now, he considers it a “blessing” if he can catch even one in a month. Constant pressure to collect wild murai batu for singing contests has caused them to vanish from most forests across Java and&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/03/this-bird-is-disappearing-from-indonesias-forests-for-its-song/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Climate or biodiversity? Global study maps out forestation’s dilemma</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/climate-or-biodiversity-global-study-maps-out-forestations-dilemma/</link>
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					<pubDate>06 Mar 2026 02:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Biodiversity Crisis, Biodiversity Hotspots, Carbon Emissions, Climate Change, Climate Change And Biodiversity, Conservation, Deforestation, Degraded Lands, Earth Science, Ecological Restoration, Ecology, Ecosystem Restoration, Environment, Forest Carbon, Forestry, Forests, Fungi, Global Warming, Global Warming Mitigation, Green, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, IPCC, Landscape Restoration, Logging, National Parks, Oceans And Climate Change, Parks, Plants, Protected Areas, Rainforests, Research, Restoration, Saving Rainforests, Threats To Rainforests, Timber, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Planting trees is a vital strategy to combat both climate change and the biodiversity crisis. As forests grow, they sponge carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and provide renewed habitat for threatened animals, plants, fungi and countless unseen lifeforms. That ability of forests to help slow climate change has driven a push to reforest degraded lands [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Planting trees is a vital strategy to combat both climate change and the biodiversity crisis. As forests grow, they sponge carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and provide renewed habitat for threatened animals, plants, fungi and countless unseen lifeforms. That ability of forests to help slow climate change has driven a push to reforest degraded lands or even plant new forests where none existed before. It’s also spurred other strategies, like the cultivation of bioenergy crops coupled with carbon capture. But these approaches require a lot of land, and they could potentially put pressure on the species that live in these spots — if a forestation project or hectares of bioenergy row crops subsume native grasslands, for example. A recent analysis shows that around 13% of globally important, biodiversity-rich land overlaps with areas earmarked for these types of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) projects. “It&#8217;s unfortunate that we face multiple global problems all at once, including both climate change and biodiversity loss,” said Mark Urban, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Connecticut in the U.S., who wasn’t involved in the research. “When we try to fix one, we can make things worse for the other.” Agroforestry in Ethiopia. Image by Trees ForTheFuture via Flickr (CC BY 2.0). The study, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, used five existing models that guide climate action in line with the Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting warming to 1.5° Celsius (2.7° Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels to map out locations tabbed&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/climate-or-biodiversity-global-study-maps-out-forestations-dilemma/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Antarctic krill sustainability label questioned</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/03/antarctic-krill-sustainability-label-questioned/</link>
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					<pubDate>05 Mar 2026 22:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Bobby Bascomb]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rebecca Kessler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Antarctica]]>
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							<![CDATA[Fish, Fisheries, Marine Mammals, Ocean, and Whales]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) recently released a draft report for its fourth recertification of krill fishing in Antarctica by Aker QRILL Company. The certification would allow Aker to put an MSC label on its products that tells consumers the krill came from a sustainable well-managed fishery. However, the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition (ASOC), [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) recently released a draft report for its fourth recertification of krill fishing in Antarctica by Aker QRILL Company. The certification would allow Aker to put an MSC label on its products that tells consumers the krill came from a sustainable well-managed fishery. However, the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition (ASOC), a U.S.-based advocacy group, issued a formal objection to that determination, citing concerns about overfishing of a critical resource in a sensitive ecosystem. “Everything that lives in Antarctica either eats krill or eats something that eats krill,” Holly Parker Curry, ASOC’s marine protected areas campaign director, told Mongabay in a video call. It’s the base of the food chain but krill biomass has declined by 70-80% in parts of the Southern Ocean since the 1970s. That’s roughly when people started harvesting the tiny crustaceans for aquaculture fish food and dietary supplements for people. Climate change and shrunken sea ice are also contributing the dramatic drop in krill populations; krill depend on sea ice for part of their life cycle. In its said, “Antarctic krill is one of the best managed species in the world … [and] the total catch is limited to below 1% of the total biomass.” Curry said that assessment is strictly accurate, but the devil is in the details. “It&#8217;s not just about how much is caught, that&#8217;s important too, but it&#8217;s really where it&#8217;s caught,” Curry said. “A lot of the fishing for krill in the Southern Ocean, it all happens essentially in the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/03/antarctic-krill-sustainability-label-questioned/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Satellite images identify vulture breeding colonies by their droppings</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/satellite-images-identify-vulture-breeding-colonies-by-their-droppings/</link>
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					<pubDate>05 Mar 2026 19:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Ryan Truscott]]>
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						<![CDATA[Terna Gyuse]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[africa]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Central Africa, Chad, East Africa, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Sudan, and West Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Birds, Birds Of Prey, Conservation, Critically Endangered Species, Endangered Species, Environment, Poaching, Poisoning, Predators, Raptors, Scavengers, Vultures, Wildlife, Wildlife Trade, and Wildlife Trafficking]]>
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							<![CDATA[Populations of Rüppell’s vultures have fallen by more than 90% over the past four decades. Knowing exactly where these critically endangered birds breed can allow conservationists to put protective measures in place. But Rüppell’s historically occupied a vast swathe of West, Central and East Africa; finding their remaining colonies is a daunting task. A team [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Populations of Rüppell’s vultures have fallen by more than 90% over the past four decades. Knowing exactly where these critically endangered birds breed can allow conservationists to put protective measures in place. But Rüppell’s historically occupied a vast swathe of West, Central and East Africa; finding their remaining colonies is a daunting task. A team of researchers says it has successfully tested a way to find vulture colonies remotely, pinpointing dozens of potential sites across seven countries using open-access satellite imagery. The vultures helped. Like other cliff-nesting birds, their droppings lavishly daub cliff faces below their nests with whitewash. Bulgarian ornithologist Ivaylo Angelov, zoomed in on satellite images of mountainous areas across more than 6 million square kilometers (2.3 million square miles), seeking out cliffs over 20 meters (65 feet) high as well as sites documented in old bird atlases of the region. Ivaylo Angelov studies a Rüppell’s vulture nesting colony in Ethiopia in 2009. Image courtesy of Nikolay Terziev. Angelov and his colleagues pinpointed 232 previously undocumented nesting sites. Most of these were in Sudan, South Sudan and Chad, but they found others in the Central African Republic, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia. The work took weeks but was “immensely satisfying.” “I love geography, I love travel, and it was an absolute joy for me to zoom in and check all these incredible mountains,” Angelov says. “I had the feeling that I’m there.” In the region surrounding Sudan’s Jebel Marra mountains, in the southwest of the country, the team located&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/satellite-images-identify-vulture-breeding-colonies-by-their-droppings/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>25 years after ‘disaster’ declaration, major U.S. fishery makes a comeback</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/25-years-after-disaster-declaration-major-u-s-fishery-makes-a-comeback/</link>
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					<pubDate>05 Mar 2026 19:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jules Struck]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rebecca Kessler]]>
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							<![CDATA[North America, Pacific, Pacific Northwest, and United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[Bycatch, Conservation, Environment, Fish, Fisheries, Fishing, Marine Animals, Marine Biodiversity, Marine Conservation, Marine Crisis, Marine Ecosystems, Mrn-oceans, Oceans, Overfishing, Regulations, Saltwater Fish, Sustainability, Water, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[PORT ORFORD, Oregon, U.S. — Aaron Longton reached down into the rinsing sink in his garage-turned-fish-processing facility on the Oregon coast and hoisted a redbanded rockfish by its fat bottom lip. The homely fish was next in line for the dressing table, where Brian Morrissey, Longton’s “cutter-in-chief,” would deftly slice it into neat fillets, setting [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[PORT ORFORD, Oregon, U.S. — Aaron Longton reached down into the rinsing sink in his garage-turned-fish-processing facility on the Oregon coast and hoisted a redbanded rockfish by its fat bottom lip. The homely fish was next in line for the dressing table, where Brian Morrissey, Longton’s “cutter-in-chief,” would deftly slice it into neat fillets, setting aside its guts and bones for crabbing chum. Morrisey had about 250 kilograms (550 pounds) of the rockfish (Sebastes babcocki) to get through that day, and 90 kg (200 lbs) of lingcod (Ophiodon elongatus), he said, his knife unzipping yet another fish. An unthinkable abundance only 20 years ago. “These fish were really severely limited to us,” said Longton, founder of Port Orford Sustainable Seafood, a company that sells fish via a subscription program. “Now, we have huge quotas.” Redbanded rockfish (Sebastes babcocki), one of the groundfish species whose stock has been rebuilt on the U.S. West Coast, being processed at Port Orford Sustainable Seafood. Image by Jules Struck for Mongabay. The groundfish Longton hauls to his processing room from the pier down the street are the spoils of a painstakingly rebuilt industry. Twenty-six years ago, the West Coast groundfish industry, which encompasses more than 90 species of bottom-dwelling fish off Washington, Oregon and California, had overfished itself to near devastation. In response, fisheries authorities closed vast tracts of the ocean to trawling and slashed fishing quotas, throwing many fishers into painful retirement. But in the aftermath, an unlikely corps materialized of fishers, scientists, conservationists&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/25-years-after-disaster-declaration-major-u-s-fishery-makes-a-comeback/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Bringing storytelling to science: John Cannon’s approach to reporting on nature</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/bringing-storytelling-to-science-john-cannons-approach-to-reporting-on-nature/</link>
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					<pubDate>05 Mar 2026 17:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Alejandro Prescott-Cornejo]]>
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						<![CDATA[Hayat Indriyatno]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Environmental Journalism, Interviews With Environmental Journalists, Journalism, and Science]]>
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							<![CDATA[For John Cannon, reporting on nature begins with a story grounded in the truth. “Evidence-based reporting [is] at the heart of what we do at Mongabay,” he says. “I believe it’s perhaps the most profound way we can contribute to making things better.” With a biology degree from Ohio State University and a graduate degree [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[For John Cannon, reporting on nature begins with a story grounded in the truth. “Evidence-based reporting [is] at the heart of what we do at Mongabay,” he says. “I believe it’s perhaps the most profound way we can contribute to making things better.” With a biology degree from Ohio State University and a graduate degree in science writing from the University of California, Santa Cruz, Cannon has dedicated himself to this belief, reporting from around the world, including several countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America. He also was a Peace Corps volunteer in Niger. That background fuels Cannon’s curiosity as a journalist. “I find science’s disentangling of life’s mysteries on Earth incredibly inspiring, especially as we try to find our way out of the crises of climate change and biodiversity loss,” he says. Ultimately, his time is spent “connecting conservation science with the daily lives of people affected by the problems that face us today” as well as “finding ways to illustrate how interconnected we all are.” Cannon hiking through Dogon country in Mali, 2011. Image courtesy of Anne-Claire Benoit. Today, based in California with his wife and two cats adopted while living in Gaza, Cannon balances his work at Mongabay with a love of mountain biking, skiing and hiking, including taking on Spain’s Camino de Santiago and the Pacific Crest Trail across the U.S. and Canada. Cannon began writing for Mongabay as a correspondent in 2014, joined full-time in 2016, and is now a staff features writer. His&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/bringing-storytelling-to-science-john-cannons-approach-to-reporting-on-nature/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Climate change is messing with tropical plants’ flowering times, study shows</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/03/climate-change-is-messing-with-tropical-plants-flowering-times-study-shows/</link>
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					<pubDate>05 Mar 2026 17:39:31 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[David Brown]]>
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						<![CDATA[Bobbybascomb]]>
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							<![CDATA[The flowering times for many plant species have shifted due to climate change, with most of the change occurring in temperate zones. Researchers assumed the tropics, which are largely the same temperature year-round, would be insulated from such climate change-driven changes to flowering times. However, a new study challenges that assumption. Researchers examined more than [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The flowering times for many plant species have shifted due to climate change, with most of the change occurring in temperate zones. Researchers assumed the tropics, which are largely the same temperature year-round, would be insulated from such climate change-driven changes to flowering times. However, a new study challenges that assumption. Researchers examined more than 200 years of flowering plant data from herbarium collections of tropical plants across Africa, Asia and South America. They identified 33 plant species with distinct annual flowering times, and recorded data from 8,000 individual plant specimens collected between 1794 and 2024. They found that the flowering times shifted by an average of two days per decade; approximately one-third of the species flowered earlier and two-thirds shifted later. However, there were some anomalies. Brazilian amaranth trees (Peltogyne recifensis), for example, now flower 80 days later than they did in the 1950s. By 1995, the Ghanaian rattlepod shrub (Crotalaria mortonii) flowered 17 days earlier than it did in the 1950s. Study lead author Skylar Graves, from the University of Colorado Boulder in the U.S., said the findings show that herbarium specimens can be used to examine the climate impacts on plants over time. “Herbarium specimens are functionally a global and multigenerational dataset of plants,” she told Mongabay by email. “These specimens can be used for countless purposes, and with enough collections taken … you can use them to compare anything you want at any scale.” The shifts observed in tropical plant flowering times is comparable to those&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/03/climate-change-is-messing-with-tropical-plants-flowering-times-study-shows/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Seafood fraud is rampant, imperiling fish populations, report finds</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/seafood-fraud-is-rampant-imperiling-fish-populations-report-finds/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/seafood-fraud-is-rampant-imperiling-fish-populations-report-finds/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>05 Mar 2026 17:36:33 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Edward Carver]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rebecca Kessler]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Conservation, Crime, Environment, Environmental Crime, Environmental Law, Fish, Fisheries, Fishing, Food, Food Industry, Illegal Fishing, Law, Marine, Marine Animals, Marine Biodiversity, Marine Conservation, Oceans, Overfishing, Saltwater Fish, Wildlife, Wildlife Conservation, and Wildlife Crime]]>
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							<![CDATA[The global fisheries and aquaculture sector produces more than 150 million metric tons of food per year, valued at nearly $200 billion. Yet it’s plagued with fraud, according to a new report. The report, published Feb. 10 by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the International Atomic Energy Agency, both United Nations bodies, says [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The global fisheries and aquaculture sector produces more than 150 million metric tons of food per year, valued at nearly $200 billion. Yet it’s plagued with fraud, according to a new report. The report, published Feb. 10 by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the International Atomic Energy Agency, both United Nations bodies, says that up to roughly 20% of aquatic products are intentionally mislabeled as the wrong species or otherwise fraudulent, posing environmental and health risks. “A global 20% seafood fraud rate isn’t just a statistic; it’s a dire warning,” Max Valentine, a campaign director at U.S.-based marine conservation NGO Oceana, said in a statement. (An Oceana policy adviser to the NGO’s Europe branch contributed to the FAO report, but Valentine wasn’t involved with it.) “Consumers are falling victim to a bait and switch, and the fishers who play by the rules are paying the price. This is a global problem that every nation must work together to combat at its source.” The report, presented at the World Seafood Congress held Feb. 9-11 in Chennai, India, calls for governments and industry stakeholders to establish better traceability systems, use advanced detection methods, and educate the public. “Tools of great relevance are national legislation and national and international standards, which are vital in defining acceptable products and practices,” the report says. A tuna on board a fishing vessel in Indian waters in 2012. The vessel was operating outside of Indian regulations on registration and ownership, according to the international NGO&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/seafood-fraud-is-rampant-imperiling-fish-populations-report-finds/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>A sanctuary&#8230; for glacier ice?</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/03/a-sanctuary-for-glacier-ice/</link>
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					<pubDate>05 Mar 2026 16:37:46 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sam Lee]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Sam Lee]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Antarctica]]>
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							<![CDATA[Climate Change, Climate Science, Earth Science, Environment, Glaciers, and Science]]>
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							<![CDATA[Scientists in Antarctica have just inaugurated the first global repository of mountain ice cores. As the climate crisis melts glaciers all around the world, this frozen vault aims to preserve the history of the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere for future generations to study.]]>
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							<![CDATA[Scientists in Antarctica have just inaugurated the first global repository of mountain ice cores. As the climate crisis melts glaciers all around the world, this frozen vault aims to preserve the history of the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere for future generations to study.This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/03/a-sanctuary-for-glacier-ice/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Beetle known for ravaging mango trees now killing baobabs, study finds</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/beetle-known-for-ravaging-mango-trees-now-killing-baobabs-study-finds/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/beetle-known-for-ravaging-mango-trees-now-killing-baobabs-study-finds/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>05 Mar 2026 14:18:49 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Charles Mpaka]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Terna Gyuse]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Asia, Madagascar, Middle East, Oman, and Southern Africa]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Climate Change, Climate Change And Biodiversity, Climate Change And Forests, Conservation, Dry Forests, Ecology, Endangered Species, Environment, Extinction, Forestry, Forests, Plants, Research, Trees, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[A couple of years ago, Sarah Venter wrote an article gently picking apart alarm over the specter of Africa&#8217;s iconic baobabs dying off due to climate change. Her review found that while a number of famously large and ancient trees had indeed collapsed in worsening conditions, Adansonia digitata were generally proving resilient. When she heard [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A couple of years ago, Sarah Venter wrote an article gently picking apart alarm over the specter of Africa&#8217;s iconic baobabs dying off due to climate change. Her review found that while a number of famously large and ancient trees had indeed collapsed in worsening conditions, Adansonia digitata were generally proving resilient. When she heard about fears that a new pest was killing worrying numbers of baobabs in Oman, she set off to investigate, at the invitation of Oman’s Environmental Authority. There are eight species of baobab, members of the genus Adansonia. A. digitata is widely distributed across East, West and Southern Africa; one species is restricted to northwestern Australia; and the other six are found only in Madagascar, believed to be the center of origin for this striking family of trees that stand majestically on barrel-like trunks and can live for well over a thousand years. Three of Madagascar’s baobab species are threatened — A. grandidieri and A. suarezensis are listed as endangered on the IUCN Red List, and A. perrieri is critically endangered — by logging, charcoal production, wildfires, and mining of the forests they’re found in. Historical records and genetic research suggest baobabs reached Oman, on the Arabian Peninsula, centuries ago as part of the circulation of valuable plants between northeastern Africa, the Persian Gulf and South Asia by nomadic and fishing communities on the Indian Ocean. Batocera rufomaculata adult (a) and larvae (b). Images courtesy of Sarah Venter. It was the health of about 100 baobabs&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/beetle-known-for-ravaging-mango-trees-now-killing-baobabs-study-finds/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>DNA fingerprinting convicts Zimbabwe lion poachers in landmark case</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/dna-fingerprinting-convicts-zimbabwe-lion-poachers-in-landmark-case/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/dna-fingerprinting-convicts-zimbabwe-lion-poachers-in-landmark-case/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>05 Mar 2026 13:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Spoorthy Raman]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Sharon Guynup]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Southern Africa, and Zimbabwe]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Anti-poaching, Biodiversity, Conservation, Conservation Technology, Crime, DNA, Environment, Environmental Crime, Environmental Law, Lions, Mammals, Poaching, Technology, Technology And Conservation, Wildlife, Wildlife Conservation, Wildlife Crime, Wildlife Trade, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[A CSI-style investigation in Zimbabwe helped to successfully prosecute two people for killing a lion and trafficking its teeth, flesh and other body parts in February. Forensic specialists analyzed DNA collected from parts seized by authorities and matched it with a radio-collared lion that was killed two years ago. This conviction was historic: It’s the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A CSI-style investigation in Zimbabwe helped to successfully prosecute two people for killing a lion and trafficking its teeth, flesh and other body parts in February. Forensic specialists analyzed DNA collected from parts seized by authorities and matched it with a radio-collared lion that was killed two years ago. This conviction was historic: It’s the world’s first case to use a lion’s genetic material and trace it back to an individual to pin down wildlife criminals. The two defendants were sentenced to two years in prison for their crimes. The conviction is tied to a 2024 case in which poachers snared and killed a male lion near Hwange National Park, close to the world-famous Victoria Falls. Researchers knew this particular lion, as they’d tracked its movements as part of a study. When they captured and anesthetized the cat to fit it with a radio collar some years ago, biologists took blood samples and logged its genetic and health information into their database. Investigators used that DNA data to trace the origins of seized lion parts, which included three bags of meat, 16 claws and four teeth that were to be sold on the black market. Parts from captive-bred lions can be traded internationally and in Zimbabwe with the appropriate paperwork, but the sellers didn’t have permits, and proving these seized parts came from a wild lion and not a captive-bred one was key to this case. That would mean poaching, which is  illegal. African lions are the most-traded wildcats in&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/dna-fingerprinting-convicts-zimbabwe-lion-poachers-in-landmark-case/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Archived camera-trap images bring Thailand&#8217;s tapirs into focus</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/03/archived-camera-trap-images-bring-thailands-tapirs-into-focus/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/03/archived-camera-trap-images-bring-thailands-tapirs-into-focus/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>05 Mar 2026 04:47:39 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Naira Rao]]>
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							<![CDATA[Thailand]]>
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							<![CDATA[Camera Trapping, Endangered, Endangered Species, and Mammals]]>
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							<![CDATA[Archived camera-trapping images have revealed a new stronghold for Asian tapirs in Khlong Seang–Khao Sok Forest Complex, in southern Thailand. Mongabay’s Carolyn Cowan reports that a recent study found camera-trap “bycatch” data — images of species that researchers hadn’t intended to photograph — can be used to monitor Asian tapirs (Tapirus indicus). The camera traps [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Archived camera-trapping images have revealed a new stronghold for Asian tapirs in Khlong Seang–Khao Sok Forest Complex, in southern Thailand. Mongabay’s Carolyn Cowan reports that a recent study found camera-trap “bycatch” data — images of species that researchers hadn’t intended to photograph — can be used to monitor Asian tapirs (Tapirus indicus). The camera traps were originally set up in Khlong Seang–Khao Sok between 2016 and 2017 to monitor Asian black bears (Ursus thibetanus), and sun bears (Helarctos malayanus). Tapirs weren’t a target because, historically, they’ve mostly been surveyed visually, with researchers walking a path through the forest and recording any tapirs they spot along the way. Modeling based on images from the Thai forest complex suggests it could hold up to 436 tapirs, significantly more than the previous estimate of fewer than 250 individuals for all of Thailand and Myanmar combined. But researchers urge caution in interpreting this number, as tapirs may be unevenly distributed across the forest complex, suggesting a smaller actual number. Globally, the species is endangered, with fewer than 2,500 mature individuals remaining, according to a 2014 assessment. Adult Asian tapirs can weigh up to 350 kilograms (772 pounds), making them the largest of the four tapir species and the only one found outside of Latin America. In addition to being nocturnal and shy, said ecologist Naparat Suttidate from Walailak University in Thailand, Asian tapirs “are [a] large, slow-reproducing species requiring large areas of specific habitat [and] play a vital role as seed dispersers, helping to&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/03/archived-camera-trap-images-bring-thailands-tapirs-into-focus/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Emotional and psychological stresses beleaguer conservation professionals (commentary)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/emotional-and-psychological-stresses-beleaguer-conservation-professionals-commentary/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/emotional-and-psychological-stresses-beleaguer-conservation-professionals-commentary/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>04 Mar 2026 19:22:56 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Nerissa ChaoVik Mohan]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Erik Hoffner]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Commentary, Conservation, Environment, Environmental Activism, Gender and Conservation, Health, Psychology, and Social Justice]]>
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							<![CDATA[Nested within the current biodiversity crisis sits an equally complex and concerning human crisis, but one that receives even less attention: the poor mental health and well-being of the conservation workforce. The scale of this problem is clearly set out in a recent Mongabay article. In a sector that has always relied on the passion [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Nested within the current biodiversity crisis sits an equally complex and concerning human crisis, but one that receives even less attention: the poor mental health and well-being of the conservation workforce. The scale of this problem is clearly set out in a recent Mongabay article. In a sector that has always relied on the passion and commitment of individuals, where one’s value is measured by selfless dedication to the cause — which can manifest as an expectation to prioritize work above all else, take on unpaid or poorly paid work, accept poor working conditions, or compromise on personal safety — staff well-being has never been a priority. This unhealthy culture of self-sacrifice provides the context within which sector-wide stressors are impacting the well-being of the workforce. The growing ecological crisis in itself is having a significant impact on well-being, and this is set out powerfully in the Mongabay article. In addition to this, the changing funding and geopolitical landscape, which is deprioritizing conservation and climate action, further increases instability and uncertainty, putting further pressure on the conservation sector. Working in conservation isn&#8217;t all rainbows. Photo illustration of a rainforest rainbow in Malaysian Borneo by Rhett Butler/Mongabay. The impact of all of these chronic stressors are emotional and psychological distress, poor mental health and burnout, increasing the risk that conservation professionals will give up on their aspirations and leave the profession. Recent research found 27% of conservationists are suffering from moderate or severe distress, and women face particular challenges as conservationists,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/emotional-and-psychological-stresses-beleaguer-conservation-professionals-commentary/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Across South America, canopy bridges evolve as a lifeline for tree-dwelling wildlife</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/across-south-america-canopy-bridges-evolve-as-a-lifeline-for-tree-dwelling-wildlife/</link>
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					<pubDate>04 Mar 2026 18:23:28 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Luís Patriani]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Xavier Bartaburu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon]]>
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							<![CDATA[Monkeys, Primates, Sloths, Wildilfe, Wildlife Conservation, and Wildlife Corridors]]>
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							<![CDATA[Throughout the Amazon Rainforest, forest fragmentation represents an escalating and existential threat to the preservation of fauna. Driven by intensive economic development, the expansion of agribusiness and large-scale infrastructure projects — such as highways, railways, power transmission lines and gas pipelines — continues carrying profound environmental risks. Foremost among these ecological pressures are the geographic [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Throughout the Amazon Rainforest, forest fragmentation represents an escalating and existential threat to the preservation of fauna. Driven by intensive economic development, the expansion of agribusiness and large-scale infrastructure projects — such as highways, railways, power transmission lines and gas pipelines — continues carrying profound environmental risks. Foremost among these ecological pressures are the geographic isolation of animal populations and high mortality rates resulting from roadkill and other related accidents. Arboreal mammal species, including primates, sloths and porcupines, are among the most affected by this confinement, as their survival is strictly dependent on canopy connectivity. Paradoxically, these specialized tree-dwelling animals often benefit the least from standard environmental mitigation measures, such as the implementation of artificial crossings. To address critical gaps in understanding animal behavior and habitat use, biologists Justin Santiago and Lindsey Swierk from the State University of New York at Binghamton, U.S., conducted pioneering research in the heart of the Peruvian Amazon. The study site was located at the Amazon Conservatory for Tropical Studies (ACTS) Field Station within Napo-Sucusari Biological Reserve, a 1,674-hectare (4,137-acre) protected area near the city of Iquitos, in the northern region of Loreto. The researchers deployed a sophisticated system of canopy bridges that used a combination of nets, thick ropes and platforms situated at varying heights. These elements were integrated to form extensive suspended corridors designed to facilitate safe movement for wildlife from one treetop to another. A specialist installs a camera on a tree connected to the canopy bridge system in the Peruvian Amazon.&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/across-south-america-canopy-bridges-evolve-as-a-lifeline-for-tree-dwelling-wildlife/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Attention is scarce. Storytelling strategy matters more than ever</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/03/attention-is-scarce-storytelling-strategy-matters-more-than-ever/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/03/attention-is-scarce-storytelling-strategy-matters-more-than-ever/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>04 Mar 2026 16:46:44 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Environment, Environmental Journalism, Interviews With Environmental Journalists, and Journalism]]>
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											<description>
							<![CDATA[Environmental journalism has long struggled with a practical problem: how to make distant ecological change feel relevant to people whose daily lives are shaped by more immediate concerns. Scientific reports document trends in temperature, biodiversity and land use with increasing precision, yet such findings often fail to travel far beyond specialist audiences. Video, once expensive [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Environmental journalism has long struggled with a practical problem: how to make distant ecological change feel relevant to people whose daily lives are shaped by more immediate concerns. Scientific reports document trends in temperature, biodiversity and land use with increasing precision, yet such findings often fail to travel far beyond specialist audiences. Video, once expensive and difficult to distribute, is now ubiquitous. Today the constraint is attention. Content that reaches large audiences usually foregrounds human experience rather than abstract risk. One response has been to anchor environmental reporting in lived realities. Instead of beginning with emissions curves or species counts, journalists start with households, workers or communities navigating change. This approach repositions the science so climate change becomes visible as relocation, lost income, altered routines and disrupted schooling. The method carries risks, including the temptation to substitute anecdote for evidence. Used carefully, however, it can broaden understanding without sacrificing accuracy. Lucía Torres, who leads video production at Mongabay, has built much of her work around this premise. In reporting on a Mexican coastal town forced to move inland after years of storms and encroaching seas, she focused on residents’ relationships with place and each other. The aim was to document gradual disruption rather than stage dramatic suffering. Time spent off camera proved as important as filming itself. Conversations, shared meals and repeated visits helped establish trust, yielding testimony that felt less performative and more reflective of ordinary life under strain. Her broader advice to younger journalists is pragmatic. Technical skill&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/03/attention-is-scarce-storytelling-strategy-matters-more-than-ever/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Colombia’s coffee industry well placed but wary as EU deforestation rule looms</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/colombias-coffee-industry-well-placed-but-wary-as-eu-deforestation-rule-looms/</link>
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					<pubDate>04 Mar 2026 16:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Mie Hoejris Dahl]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandrapopescu]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[global forests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deforestation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EUDR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Farming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forest clearing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Forest Loss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Law Enforcement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rainforest Deforestation]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Colombia, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Coffee, Commodity agriculture, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Farming, Global Trade, Law Enforcement, Organic Farming, Rainforest Deforestation, and Trade]]>
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							<![CDATA[CIÉNAGA, Colombia — A handful of men swarm around a coffee collection center in the city of Ciénaga, shouldering burlap sacks of coffee as they move in and out of the mill. Ciénaga is a port town in the foothills of Colombia’s Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, the world’s highest coastal mountain range, and is [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[CIÉNAGA, Colombia — A handful of men swarm around a coffee collection center in the city of Ciénaga, shouldering burlap sacks of coffee as they move in and out of the mill. Ciénaga is a port town in the foothills of Colombia’s Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, the world’s highest coastal mountain range, and is known locally as the coffee capital of the Sierra Nevada region. “We hope EUDR will be to our benefit,” says Silver Polo Palomino, a coffee grower and representative of the Asociación de Agricultores Orgánicos de La Secreta (AGROSEC), a local organic coffee growers’ association in Ciénaga, speaking over the roar of the mill. Polo is one of many producers in Colombia who say they’re uncertain — and increasingly nervous — about what the implementation of the European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) will mean for their livelihoods. The regulation, set to go into force at the end of this year, will ban the import into the EU market of seven key commodities linked to deforestation. Coffee is among them. But Colombia, the world’s No. 3 coffee producer, is well prepared for the EUDR and better positioned than coffee exporters in many parts of Africa and Asia, several experts told Mongabay. Despite a fragmented sector dominated by small-scale farmers, Colombia’s coffee industry is highly organized, largely through the National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia (FNC), which represents more than 500,000 coffee-growing families. The FNC has developed a centralized georeferenced database, the Coffee Information System (SICA), designed to&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/colombias-coffee-industry-well-placed-but-wary-as-eu-deforestation-rule-looms/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Proposed shark net near Club Med resort in South Africa sparks conservation clash</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/proposed-shark-net-near-club-med-resort-in-south-africa-sparks-conservation-clash/</link>
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					<pubDate>04 Mar 2026 15:18:53 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Victoria Schneider]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Malavikavyawahare]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Africa and South Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Environment, Governance, Government, Ocean, Whale Sharks, Whales, Wildlife, and Wildlife Conservation]]>
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							<![CDATA[On Feb. 13, a juvenile humpback dolphin was caught and killed in one of the many nets strung up off the coast of South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province to protect beachgoers from sharks. The incident, near the city of Richards Bay on the country&#8217;s eastern coast, was a blow for South Africa’s population of Indian ocean [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[On Feb. 13, a juvenile humpback dolphin was caught and killed in one of the many nets strung up off the coast of South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province to protect beachgoers from sharks. The incident, near the city of Richards Bay on the country&#8217;s eastern coast, was a blow for South Africa’s population of Indian ocean humpback dolphins, which has dropped to fewer than 500 in recent decades. Shark nets, installed together with baited hooks called drum lines, aim to reduce the number of sharks that could come into contact with, and possibly harm, humans. Once entangled in these nets, which can run hundreds of meters wide, sharks have little chance of survival — nor do other species like humpback dolphins (Sousa plumbea). In the wake of the February incident, scientists working to conserve humpback dolphins issued a letter of opposition to a proposal to install another such net at a popular beach farther down the coast. Tinley Manor is a one-and-a-half-hour drive from Richards Bay, and has emerged as a flashpoint in the debate about shark nets. Municipal authorities there are proposing installing a shark net at the public beach, in view of the new Club Med luxury resort being built right next to it. The KwaZulu-Natal Sharks Board (KZNSB), as the authority responsible for bather safety in the province, says it’s acting to safeguard beachgoers, whose numbers are expected to rise significantly with the opening of the resort later this year. Indian Ocean humpback dolphins. Image courtesy of Bridget&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/proposed-shark-net-near-club-med-resort-in-south-africa-sparks-conservation-clash/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Falling Amazon river flows trigger reality check at Belo Monte power plant</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/falling-amazon-river-flows-trigger-reality-check-at-belo-monte-power-plant/</link>
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					<pubDate>04 Mar 2026 12:16:21 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Rafael Spuldar]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandre de Santi]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon Conservation, Amazon Drought, Amazon Rainforest, Climate, Climate Change, Conservation, Drought, Ecology, Energy, Environment, Hydroelectric Power, Hydropower, Indigenous Groups, Indigenous Peoples, Rivers, Water, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil bet big on a mega river dam using old data, but climate change is leaving its massive turbines high and dry.]]>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil’s largest Amazon hydropower plants are becoming increasingly vulnerable to climate change, and Belo Monte may be the clearest warning sign yet. Built on the Xingu River after years of debate over its environmental impacts and the reliability of its energy output, the mega-dam is facing a problem its planners could not solve with engineering: less water. This reality is reflected in two major studies published in late 2025 — one led by Brazil’s water and sanitation agency, ANA, and the other by the federal energy research office, EPE. From different angles, both reports conclude that climate change is fundamentally reshaping the country’s water and energy systems, requiring urgent adaptation — 43.7% of Brazil’s energy comes from hydropower plants. ANA’s report warns that hydropower plants across the Amazon region could lose up to 40% of their generation capacity over the next 20-30 years if planning continues to rely on historical water flow data rather than climate-adjusted projections. The Xingu River Basin in particular will face significantly longer and more intense dry seasons over the coming decades. Maximum river flows could decline by up to 50%, according to the study published in November 2025, while consecutive dry periods — historically around 20 days — may extend to as many as 40 days by the end of the century, with some dry spells lasting up to 150 days. Those numbers look into the future, but the severity of droughts and their impact on Amazon dams are today’s reality. In 2024, during the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/falling-amazon-river-flows-trigger-reality-check-at-belo-monte-power-plant/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Counting bats in the dark</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/03/counting-bats-in-the-dark/</link>
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					<pubDate>04 Mar 2026 08:29:02 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sam Lee]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Sam Lee]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[cameras, Conservation Technology, Technology, Technology And Conservation, Wildilfe, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[How do you count and keep track of bats? Advances in videography, including thermal cameras, have made it easier to spot bats. But these animals move fast, travel in big groups and are often found in the dark — making analysis of the data a tough task. Scientists have developed a new software called Thrutracker [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[How do you count and keep track of bats? Advances in videography, including thermal cameras, have made it easier to spot bats. But these animals move fast, travel in big groups and are often found in the dark — making analysis of the data a tough task. Scientists have developed a new software called Thrutracker Analytics that uses traditional computer vision and artificial intelligence to count bats. Watch the latest episode of Then vs Now to learnThis article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/03/counting-bats-in-the-dark/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Indonesia farmers count the costs as rains wash out Java durian harvest</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/indonesia-farmers-count-the-costs-as-rains-wash-out-java-durian-harvest/</link>
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					<pubDate>04 Mar 2026 04:23:07 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[L. Darmawan]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Mongabay Editor]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Indonesia, Java, and Southeast Asia]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Adaptation To Climate Change, Agriculture, Climate, Climate Change, Climate Change And Conservation, Climate Change And Extreme Weather, Climate Change And Food, Conservation, Environment, Farming, Food, food security, Impact Of Climate Change, Plants, and Trees]]>
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							<![CDATA[BANYUMAS, Indonesia — The first two months of the year would ordinarily see Ganjar Budi Setiaji hurrying around Plana village’s durian orchard, here in the hilly Javanese district of Banyumas. But on the last Tuesday of January, the 53-year-old father instead appeared restless. “In 2024, I harvested 3,500 durians from 300 trees,” Ganjar told Mongabay [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[BANYUMAS, Indonesia — The first two months of the year would ordinarily see Ganjar Budi Setiaji hurrying around Plana village’s durian orchard, here in the hilly Javanese district of Banyumas. But on the last Tuesday of January, the 53-year-old father instead appeared restless. “In 2024, I harvested 3,500 durians from 300 trees,” Ganjar told Mongabay Indonesia, a little ruefully. “I’ve had only 500 this year.” The durian fruit farmed by Ganjar is a mainstay in much of Southeast Asia, where its unusual texture and intense flavor profile splits opinion. Last year, Indonesia’s food minister rushed out trade data showing the archipelago’s superior production volume after Malaysia announced the durian as the kingdom’s national fruit, the latest bout of cultural fencing between the neighbors. Here in the Banyumas hills, farmers have propagated their own durian heritage since a hajj pilgrim known locally as Mbah Kromo planted an unusual durian tree in 1985 at his home in Karangsalam village. Ganjar shows drums used in the fermentation process to produce natural fertilizer. Image by L Darmawan/Mongabay Indonesia. A few years later, Mbah Kromo began offering seeds from the parent tree to his neighbors. Appreciation for the Kromo durian grew as the trees flourished across the district. Ganjar slices through a thorny Kromo durian, revealing a sweet fruit with the texture of thick cheesecake, an acquired taste to many. The Kromo durian is also unusual for producing a heavyweight fruit than can, people here say, grow up to 10 kilograms (22 pounds), with a&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/indonesia-farmers-count-the-costs-as-rains-wash-out-java-durian-harvest/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Paul Brainerd turned computers into printing presses and fortune into conservation</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/paul-brainerd-turned-computers-into-printing-presses-and-fortune-into-conservation/</link>
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					<pubDate>04 Mar 2026 01:34:41 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Founder's briefs]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[North America and United States]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Conservation, Environment, Obituary, and philanthropy]]>
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							<![CDATA[Paul Brainerd did two things that rarely sit comfortably together. He helped make publishing cheaper and easier, then spent much of what he earned trying to protect the landscapes that were being consumed by growth. He died on February 15th 2026, aged 78, at his home on Bainbridge Island, Washington. In the 1980s, when most [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Paul Brainerd did two things that rarely sit comfortably together. He helped make publishing cheaper and easier, then spent much of what he earned trying to protect the landscapes that were being consumed by growth. He died on February 15th 2026, aged 78, at his home on Bainbridge Island, Washington. In the 1980s, when most people still thought of computers as glorified typewriters, he helped turn them into printing presses. In the 1990s and after, as the Pacific Northwest’s wealth compounded, he tried to steer some of it into civic capacity: organizations that could win fights, not merely stage them. His money came from software. His method was closer to editing. Brainerd was born in Medford, Oregon, in 1947. He studied at the University of Oregon and later earned a master’s degree in journalism at the University of Minnesota. He worked in newspapers, but not in the romantic way. He was drawn to production, workflow, the awkward interface between an idea and a printed page. That interest took him to Atex, a company that built newsroom systems. When Kodak bought Atex and closed a research center in the early 1980s, Brainerd and several engineers found themselves unemployed and restless. In 1984 they founded Aldus in Seattle. Within a year they shipped PageMaker, software that, paired with Apple’s Macintosh and Adobe’s PostScript, let ordinary users design pages that printed as they appeared on screen. Brainerd coined the phrase “desktop publishing,” a neat bit of compression that made a technical shift feel&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/paul-brainerd-turned-computers-into-printing-presses-and-fortune-into-conservation/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>How the ‘wrong story’ ends up harming nature, and how we can change it</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/podcast/2026/03/how-the-wrong-story-ends-up-harming-nature-and-how-we-can-change-it/</link>
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					<pubDate>03 Mar 2026 22:17:04 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Mike DiGirolamo]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Mikedigirolamo]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Book Reviews, Books, Economics, Environment, Environmental Politics, Featured, Indigenous Communities, Indigenous Culture, Indigenous Cultures, Indigenous Peoples, Interviews, Podcast, and Politics]]>
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							<![CDATA[Indigenous scholar Tyson Yunkaporta (Apalech clan (Wik) Lostmob Nungar) joins the Mongabay Newscast to detail the Aboriginal perspectives behind his latest book, Right Story, Wrong Story: Adventures in Indigenous Thinking. The book explains how stories shape society, how they can harm us and the environment, and how they may save our species and the natural [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Indigenous scholar Tyson Yunkaporta (Apalech clan (Wik) Lostmob Nungar) joins the Mongabay Newscast to detail the Aboriginal perspectives behind his latest book, Right Story, Wrong Story: Adventures in Indigenous Thinking. The book explains how stories shape society, how they can harm us and the environment, and how they may save our species and the natural world. Yunkaporta explains how Indigenous laws, systems and lore can help us improve modern society, specifically in how humans relate first to the land, then to each other, and why this shapes how we exploit nature and care for it. Identifying the “wrong story” is critical, Yunkaporta explains, to correcting harmful behaviors or ways of governing. Ultimately, it’s a lie, he says. Personified by what he characterizes as narcissistic or selfish behavior, it’s generally seen by those who exploit the natural world at the expense of community well-being. “It&#8217;s a terrible thing to … misrepresent things, make false claims, bear false witness in a way that is bending story, the story that everybody follows. The narratives that people tell that weave together to make a community and to hold a community on the right path that&#8217;s sustainable for thousands of years.” This concept can be seen in the folk tale of Tidalik, the giant frog, who drank up all the water and hoarded it for himself. The animal kingdom came together and made Tidalik laugh. By entertaining him, it forced Tidalik to spit the water back out. Yunkaporta compares this story with the current global&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/podcast/2026/03/how-the-wrong-story-ends-up-harming-nature-and-how-we-can-change-it/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Cameroon’s decade of conflict leaves apes and conservationists in peril</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/cameroons-decade-of-conflict-leaves-apes-and-conservationists-in-peril/</link>
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					<pubDate>03 Mar 2026 21:19:11 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Orji Sunday]]>
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						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Cameroon, Central Africa, and Nigeria]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Apes, Biodiversity, Chimpanzees, Conflict, Conservation, Deforestation, Endangered Species, Environment, Featured, Forests, Gorillas, Human Rights, Mammals, Protected Areas, Rainforests, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[In August 2025, Louis Nkembi, founder of conservation NGO ERuDeF, was abducted by militia fighters in Cameroon’s Lebialem Highlands. He was held for two weeks, hidden in a secret location inside a forest. “It was a traumatic experience,” he recalls. “I can’t go back to that area until everything is resolved.” Though Nkembi was eventually [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In August 2025, Louis Nkembi, founder of conservation NGO ERuDeF, was abducted by militia fighters in Cameroon’s Lebialem Highlands. He was held for two weeks, hidden in a secret location inside a forest. “It was a traumatic experience,” he recalls. “I can’t go back to that area until everything is resolved.” Though Nkembi was eventually freed, his ordeal sheds light on the risks facing scientists, researchers, eco-guards and conservation workers protecting apes in Cameroon’s conflict hotspots, including the Lebialem Highlands. Lebialem is a global biodiversity hotspot in Cameroon’s southwest, host to dozens of endemic and threatened species, including critically endangered Cross River gorillas (Gorilla gorilla diehli), Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes ellioti), African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis), leopards (Panthera pardus), dwarf galagos (Galagoides demidovii) and white-bellied pangolins (Phataginus tricuspis). Camera trap photo of a Cross River gorillas(Gorilla gorilla deihli). Fewer than 300 are believed to survive, making them the rarest great ape subspecies. Image by ©WCS Nigeria. This irresistible richness is the root of Nkembi’s love for Lebialem. He’s spent nearly three decades documenting, surveying and conserving the area through ERuDeF (the Environmental and Rural Development Foundation), which he founded in 1999. In late 2016, Lebialem, like dozens of other parks, reserves and sanctuaries in the region, was swept up in armed conflict that continues to wrack Cameroon’s Northwest and Southwest regions. “It was something that took all of us by surprise,” Ndimuh Bertrand, executive director of Voice of Nature (VoNat), a conservation organization based in the Southwest capital Buea, tells&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/cameroons-decade-of-conflict-leaves-apes-and-conservationists-in-peril/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>No grid, no problem: How Amazon communities built their own power systems</title>
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					<pubDate>03 Mar 2026 20:38:33 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon and Brazil]]>
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							<![CDATA[Indigenous Communities, Renewable Energy, and Solar Power]]>
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							<![CDATA[Near Brazil’s Belo Monte dam, one of the world’s largest hydropower projects, the promise of abundant electricity has proved uneven. A household survey of 500 families in Altamira found that 86.8% experienced higher electricity costs after the plant began operating in 2016. Many riverside residents still endure outages, pay steep tariffs or rely on diesel [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Near Brazil’s Belo Monte dam, one of the world’s largest hydropower projects, the promise of abundant electricity has proved uneven. A household survey of 500 families in Altamira found that 86.8% experienced higher electricity costs after the plant began operating in 2016. Many riverside residents still endure outages, pay steep tariffs or rely on diesel generators. As Emilio Moran, a social anthropologist at Michigan State University, observed, “People are right under the transmission line, but the energy doesn’t come from that hydroelectric plant.” For some communities deeper in the Amazon, waiting for grid expansion has yielded little. In the Tapajós-Arapiuns Reserve near Santarém, researchers and residents have instead built small, independent energy networks, reports Mongabay contributor Jorge C. Carrasco. Launched in 2023, the pilot combines solar panels with hydrokinetic turbines placed in river currents. The aim, said project coordinator Lázaro Santos, is straightforward: “that we bring energy to contribute to improving the quality of life of these communities.” For villages long dependent on diesel, the shift has been tangible. One resident recalled that fuel deliveries required multiday boat trips, and electricity was rationed to a few evening hours. Today, a communal freezer runs around the clock, enabling food storage and modest commerce. Internet access and emergency communications have also improved. Crucially, the project trained local technicians to operate and repair the equipment. Three residents in one village can now maintain the system themselves, which builds technical confidence while lowering long-term costs. Instead of relying on distant technicians, communities can resolve&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/03/no-grid-no-problem-how-amazon-communities-built-their-own-power-systems/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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