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					<title>The European wildcat hovers between recovery and local extinction</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/the-european-wildcat-hovers-between-recovery-and-local-extinction/</link>
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					<pubDate>11 May 2026 13:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sean Mowbray]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Sharon Guynup]]>
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							<![CDATA[Czech Republic, Europe, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Scotland, Spain, and Turkey]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Cats, Climate, Climate Change, Conservation, Critically Endangered Species, Diseases, Endangered Species, Environment, Extinction, Forests, Funding, Genetics, Habitat Loss, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Human-wildlife Conflict, Hunting, Mammals, Parasites, Population, Reintroductions, Saving Species From Extinction, Small Cats, Solutions, Species recovery, Wildlife, and Zoos]]>
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							<![CDATA[A quiet comeback story is unfolding for the European wildcat in the Czech Republic’s Lusatian Mountains. Conservationists tracking this elusive species there have spotted a male and female, named Jonáš and Tonka, the first to be found in the region in nearly a century. This small cat species lives in forests across Europe. It’s doing [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A quiet comeback story is unfolding for the European wildcat in the Czech Republic’s Lusatian Mountains. Conservationists tracking this elusive species there have spotted a male and female, named Jonáš and Tonka, the first to be found in the region in nearly a century. This small cat species lives in forests across Europe. It’s doing relatively well in some places and is imperiled in others, like the Czech Republic, where it’s critically endangered. The European wildcat (Felis silvestris), which is around the size of a large housecat, was wiped out because of disappearing habitat — and persecution. They were considered vermin and killed because they preyed on poultry and they were hunted for sport. More recently, they’re sometimes hybridizing, breeding with domestic cats. Numbers are spotty across parts of their range, so overall population numbers and trends, whether they’re rebounding or declining, is currently unknown. That’s a challenge shared by many of the world’s 30-plus small wildcat species that are often overlooked by research and funding. But they are hanging on in the Czech Republic. Earlier this year, Tonka gave birth to at least three kittens, offering hope that a slow wildcat recovery may be underway. Conservationists set up “hair traps,” wooden posts smeared with a lure that attracts the wildcats, then analyzed DNA from fur they left behind when they rubbed on them to mark their territory, as cats do. Genetically confirmed records of wildcat births are “exceedingly rare” in the country, said Kristýna Chroboková, field coordinator with the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/the-european-wildcat-hovers-between-recovery-and-local-extinction/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-318902</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Chimpanzees and gorillas among most traded African primates, report finds</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/01/chimpanzees-and-gorillas-among-most-traded-african-primates-report-finds/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/01/chimpanzees-and-gorillas-among-most-traded-african-primates-report-finds/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>07 Jan 2026 19:39:42 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Spoorthy Raman]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Terna Gyuse]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[africa]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Central Africa, East Africa, Gabon, Germany, Southern Africa, and Uganda]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Apes, Biodiversity, Chimpanzees, Conservation, Critically Endangered Species, Endangered Species, Environment, Environmental Law, Forests, Gorillas, Governance, Great Apes, Primates, Tropical Forests, Wildlife, Wildlife Trade, and Wildlife Trafficking]]>
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							<![CDATA[Between 2000 and 2023, more than 6,000 African primates were traded internationally in 50 countries, according to a newly published report. Endangered chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and critically endangered western gorillas (Gorilla gorilla) were among the 10 most-traded species, according to data from CITES, the global wildlife trade agreement. African primates are traded as trophies, for [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Between 2000 and 2023, more than 6,000 African primates were traded internationally in 50 countries, according to a newly published report. Endangered chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and critically endangered western gorillas (Gorilla gorilla) were among the 10 most-traded species, according to data from CITES, the global wildlife trade agreement. African primates are traded as trophies, for scientific research, and to be kept in zoos. Hunting monkeys and apes for food and body parts used in charms and rituals is widespread in many parts of Africa. Infants and juveniles are also captured live for the exotic pet trade. The report by U.S.-based nonprofit Pan African Sanctuary Alliance (PASA) is the first to try to capture the scale of the trade, the geographic hotspots, and the species targeted. It draws on data from the CITES trade database, seizure records from the wildlife trade monitoring NGO TRAFFIC, media reports, and other published research to present a picture of the global legal and illegal trade in African primates. “The intention is for this report to serve as both a diagnostic tool and a call to action,” lead author and wildlife crime specialist Monique Sosnowski told Mongabay by email. A chacma baboon in South Africa. The report found that these monkeys are the most traded species legally, mostly as hunting trophies. Image by Martie Swart via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0). Although the report captures international trade in primates from Africa, it doesn’t account for domestic trade, which is driven by food and other traditional uses.&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/01/chimpanzees-and-gorillas-among-most-traded-african-primates-report-finds/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-312696</doi>				</item>
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					<title>At COP30 &#038; beyond, the fight for climate justice must end corporate impunity (commentary)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/at-cop30-beyond-the-fight-for-climate-justice-must-end-corporate-impunity-commentary/</link>
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					<pubDate>17 Jun 2025 14:34:25 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Pablo Fajardo]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Erik Hoffner]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil, Germany, and Global]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Activism, Business, Climate, Climate Change, Climate Justice, Commentary, Corporate Environmental Transgressors, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporations, Corruption, Environment, Governance, Planetary Boundaries, and Social Justice]]>
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							<![CDATA[The climate crisis demands urgent action by governments to reduce emissions and to transition to new renewable energy systems for people. This means that fossil fuel corporations must be forced to stop polluting and end their decades of destruction. I am writing this from the heart of the Ecuadorian Amazon, where the struggle of Indigenous [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The climate crisis demands urgent action by governments to reduce emissions and to transition to new renewable energy systems for people. This means that fossil fuel corporations must be forced to stop polluting and end their decades of destruction. I am writing this from the heart of the Ecuadorian Amazon, where the struggle of Indigenous and frontline communities offers a warning to the world: there is a dark legacy of devastation caused by the fossil fuel industry that must not be forgotten. Climate justice cannot be achieved so long as corporate impunity reigns. Chevron’s crimes in Ecuador are well documented. For nearly four decades, the transnational corporation extracted oil from our lands with utter disregard for life, intentionally dumping more than 60 billion liters (16 billion gallons) of toxic waste into rivers and leaving 880 open pits of poison across 480 hectares (nearly 1,200 acres) of rainforest. The company made tens of billions in profits from this devastation, and when it finally seemed like it was going to be held accountable, packed up and fled the country. Chevron on the run After years of legal struggle led by affected communities, Ecuador’s courts ordered Chevron to pay $9.5 billion to clean up its mess and compensate those harmed. Instead of honoring the ruling, Chevron launched a global campaign to escape accountability — one that reveals how today’s legal and financial systems are rigged to serve corporate interests, not human rights. Chevron has filed dozens of retaliatory lawsuits against Indigenous leaders, lawyers,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/at-cop30-beyond-the-fight-for-climate-justice-must-end-corporate-impunity-commentary/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-300917</doi>				</item>
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					<title>New study upends common belief that birds escape winter to save energy</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/10/new-study-upends-common-belief-that-birds-escape-winter-to-save-energy/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/10/new-study-upends-common-belief-that-birds-escape-winter-to-save-energy/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>21 Oct 2024 15:20:28 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Abhishyant Kidangoor]]>
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						<![CDATA[Abhishyantkidangoor]]>
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							<![CDATA[Europe, European Union, and Germany]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animal Behavior, Birds, Conservation, Conservation Technology, Environment, Migration, Research, Technology, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[Scientists have long surmised that birds migrate during winters to save energy. The reasoning has been pretty obvious: far away from the biting cold, birds would need to expend less energy to keep themselves warm. New research has upended that assumption. A study published in the journal Nature Ecology &#38; Evolution found that one group [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Scientists have long surmised that birds migrate during winters to save energy. The reasoning has been pretty obvious: far away from the biting cold, birds would need to expend less energy to keep themselves warm. New research has upended that assumption. A study published in the journal Nature Ecology &amp; Evolution found that one group of Eurasian blackbirds (Turdus merula), a partially migratory species, spending time in warmer regions didn’t save energy when compared to a population of the same species that stayed put in a frigid environment. “We suspected an energy deficit for the resident birds but there was no significant difference between the net energy they spent compared to the migrants,” Nils Linek, lead author and researcher at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, told Mongabay in a video interview. “If there&#8217;s no energy benefit overall, there must be other cues or reasons to migrate.” The research is potentially the first to measure and track physiological conditions of birds over the course of their winter migration. Similar studies usually take place in a lab setting. “There are so many textbook theories about migration but until now, we haven&#8217;t been able to test this in the wild,” Linek said. As part of the study, the researchers deployed biologgers that were surgically implanted into the birds. The sensors in the loggers measured heart rate and body temperature every 30 minutes. Heart rate serves as a proxy for energy expenditure; the more the energy used, the higher the heart rate.&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/10/new-study-upends-common-belief-that-birds-escape-winter-to-save-energy/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-289026</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Bolivia looks to opaque methods, firms to build lithium powerhouse</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/12/bolivia-looks-to-opaque-methods-firms-to-build-lithium-powerhouse/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/12/bolivia-looks-to-opaque-methods-firms-to-build-lithium-powerhouse/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>12 Dec 2022 16:34:27 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Ian Morse]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Daniel]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Bolivia, China, Germany, Russia, South America, and United States]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Batteries, Climate, Climate Change, Conservation, Corporations, Environment, Lithium, Mining, and Protected Areas]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Bolivian government is set this month to choose companies that would turn the lithium in reservoirs below its salt flats into economic resources exported to the world market. Launched during a global commodities boom that emboldened the country, Bolivia’s lithium industry has struggled. The state lithium corporation, Yacimientos de Litio Bolivianos, or YLB, has [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Bolivian government is set this month to choose companies that would turn the lithium in reservoirs below its salt flats into economic resources exported to the world market. Launched during a global commodities boom that emboldened the country, Bolivia’s lithium industry has struggled. The state lithium corporation, Yacimientos de Litio Bolivianos, or YLB, has produced only a fraction of what was hoped. The solution, it thinks, is a series of new technologies designed by new companies. Six foreign firms – four from China, one from the U.S. and one from Russia – expect a decision from the Bolivian government about which will earn the opportunity to use new technologies, collectively called direct lithium extraction, or DLE, to speed up the country’s extraction of the world’s largest recorded reserves of lithium. With scant public information about neophyte technologies, the ecosystems supported by the salt flats, and the companies vying for the government tender, researchers and advocates are worried that YLB and officials are rushing into a billion-dollar development scheme that risks failure at the expense of communities and the environment. “I feel that Bolivia is somewhere down the line going to produce lithium on a commercial scale. Something I don’t know is whether this is something that is going to benefit the country,” says Juan Carlos Zuleta, a Bolivian lithium analyst and former head of YLB. Lithium is a metal predominantly incorporated into lithium-ion batteries, used in consumer electronics such as smartphones and, increasingly, in electric vehicles. Lithium demand is&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/12/bolivia-looks-to-opaque-methods-firms-to-build-lithium-powerhouse/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-263491</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Stem cells may make ‘impossible possible’ for near-extinct Sumatran rhino</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/11/stem-cells-may-make-impossible-possible-for-near-extinct-sumatran-rhino/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/11/stem-cells-may-make-impossible-possible-for-near-extinct-sumatran-rhino/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>15 Nov 2022 05:02:27 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Basten Gokkon]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Basten Gokkon]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asian Rhinos]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Europe, Germany, Indonesia, Leuser Ecosystem, Malaysia, and Southeast Asia]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Conservation, Critically Endangered Species, Endangered Species, Environment, Ex-situ Conservation, Extinction, Forests, Genetic Engineering, Genetics, Governance, Happy-upbeat Environmental, In-situ Conservation, Mammals, Megafauna, Poaching, Protected Areas, Rainforests, Rhinos, Saving Species From Extinction, Solutions, Sumatran Rhino, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[A method to produce new living cells from a dead Sumatran rhinoceros is being developed by wildlife scientists in Germany in an effort to prevent the extinction of the critically endangered species. Researchers at the German Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine are developing the method to potentially produce viable spermatozoa for breeding purposes of [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A method to produce new living cells from a dead Sumatran rhinoceros is being developed by wildlife scientists in Germany in an effort to prevent the extinction of the critically endangered species. Researchers at the German Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine are developing the method to potentially produce viable spermatozoa for breeding purposes of the Sumatran rhino (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis), according to an official statement published Nov. 8. They have used the skin samples of the last male rhino in Malaysia, known as Kertam, who died in May 2019, to grow stem cells and mini-brains as reported in their recently published paper in the journal iScience. “Even though our work is attempting to make the seemingly impossible possible — to ensure the survival of animals that would otherwise probably disappear from our planet — it must remain an exception and not become the rule,” Vera Zywitza, a scientist at the Berlin-based biomedical research institution who is the lead author of the study, said in the statement. Kertam, a young male Sumatran rhinoceros from Borneo whose genome was sequenced for this study. Image by Scubazoo. The Sumatran rhino used to roam many forests in the Southeast Asian region, but poaching and habitat loss have brought the species to the brink of extinction. Official estimates suggest that fewer than 80 rhinos remained in the world, and they all currently live in Indonesia in the wild, and some in a sanctuary. Their population is also threatened especially by low breeding rates in nature,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/11/stem-cells-may-make-impossible-possible-for-near-extinct-sumatran-rhino/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-262606</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Indonesia teams up with Germany on Sumatran rhino breeding efforts</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/06/indonesia-teams-up-with-germany-on-sumatran-rhino-breeding-efforts/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/06/indonesia-teams-up-with-germany-on-sumatran-rhino-breeding-efforts/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>03 Jun 2022 12:07:14 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Basten Gokkon]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Hayat Indriyatno]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asian Rhinos]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Asia, Borneo, Europe, Germany, Indonesia, Kalimantan, Leuser Ecosystem, Southeast Asia, and Sumatra]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Conservation, Critically Endangered Species, Environment, Extinction, Forests, Happy-upbeat Environmental, In-situ Conservation, Mammals, Megafauna, Poaching, Rainforests, Rhinos, Saving Species From Extinction, Solutions, Sumatran Rhino, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Indonesian and German scientists are collaborating on assisted reproductive technologies for critically endangered species, with a primary focus on pulling the Sumatran rhino from the brink of extinction. Indonesia’s Bogor Institute of Agriculture (IPB) and Germany’s Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW) signed the collaboration agreement in May. It calls for [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Indonesian and German scientists are collaborating on assisted reproductive technologies for critically endangered species, with a primary focus on pulling the Sumatran rhino from the brink of extinction. Indonesia’s Bogor Institute of Agriculture (IPB) and Germany’s Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW) signed the collaboration agreement in May. It calls for establishing a center for assisted reproductive technologies, or ART, and a bio bank, or store of genetic resources, at IPB, according to an official statement. It added the first joint conservation science project will be to save the Sumatran rhino (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis), a species that now can only be found in Indonesia and is down to as few as 30 individuals. “The Sumatran rhinos are now on the brink of extinction, so we have to act very fast,” Steven Seet, head of science communication at Leibniz-IZW, told Mongabay in an online interview on May 27. “What we can’t do is trial and error because the material is too precious, and as we’re working against time, we have to take the opportunity to save the species.” Representatives from the Indonesia’s Bogor Institute of Agriculture (IPB) and Germany’s Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW) at the signing of an agreement on joint conservation science projects to save critically endangered species in Indonesia, starting with the Sumatran rhino. Image courtesy of Leibniz-IZW. The wild population of the rhinos is scattered across small, fragmented pockets of forest on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo. The species once&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/06/indonesia-teams-up-with-germany-on-sumatran-rhino-breeding-efforts/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-256789</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Reptile traffickers trawl scientific literature, target newly described species</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/05/reptile-traffickers-trawl-scientific-literature-target-newly-described-species/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/05/reptile-traffickers-trawl-scientific-literature-target-newly-described-species/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>26 May 2021 20:09:03 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Pavel Toropov]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Almost Famous Animals]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[China, European Union, Germany, Global, Iran, Japan, Southeast Asia, and Vietnam]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Biodiversity Hotspots, Conservation, Ecosystems, Endangered Species, Environment, Extinction, Global Environmental Crisis, Green, Habitat Loss, Herps, Hunting, Illegal Trade, Lizards, Mass Extinction, Over-hunting, Overconsumption, Reptiles, Research, Saving Species From Extinction, Snakes, Solutions, Species Discovery, Turtles, Wildlife, Wildlife Trade, and Wildlife Trafficking]]>
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							<![CDATA[Within months of newly discovered species of snakes, geckos and turtles being described (along with their locations) by scientists, traders find and harvest the animals for sale on the Internet.]]>
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							<![CDATA[“What happens when a new species of gecko is discovered? Two Germans grab their suitcases and get on a plane,” says Sandra Altherr, telling an in-house joke. Altherr is a co-founder of Pro Wildlife, a conservation NGO in Germany. In the joke, the anonymous men with suitcases are reptile traders. Their objective is to get hold of the new species as quickly as possible and sell it to collectors. A single lizard, turtle or snake can fetch hundreds, even thousands of dollars. How do the traders know where to go? And why are Germans the butt of the joke? “Traders follow scientific literature, scanning it systematically, looking for new species,” says Altherr. A long-standing scientific convention helps their search: journals not only require a description of each new species found, but typically include the location where it was discovered. In addition, few know that Germany is a superpower in the reptile trade. “We have had the tradition of reptile keeping since the start of the nineteenth century,” explains Altherr. “The problem became huge over the last 2 or 3 decades. With technology and globalization, nature became available and accessible, and the Internet helps traders to get organized, to get in touch.” Mitchell&#8217;s rattlesnake (Crotalus mitchelii) from the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico on sale at Terraristika, the world’s largest reptile fair held in Hamm, Germany. An incredible variety of reptile species is on sale at Terraristika where reptile collectors often come to pick up orders they made online. Image courtesy&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/05/reptile-traffickers-trawl-scientific-literature-target-newly-described-species/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-243039</doi>				</item>
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					<title>As illegal forest conversion for industrial ag worsens, this moment is pivotal (commentary)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/05/as-illegal-forest-conversion-for-industrial-ag-worsens-this-moment-is-pivotal-commentary/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/05/as-illegal-forest-conversion-for-industrial-ag-worsens-this-moment-is-pivotal-commentary/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>20 May 2021 16:06:49 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sam Lawson]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Erik Hoffner]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[European Union, Germany, Global, United Kingdom, and United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[agribusiness, Agriculture, Beef, Commentary, Conservation, Deforestation, Environment, Forests, Illegal Logging, Industrial Agriculture, Palm Oil, Soy, timber trade, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Seven years ago, I published a major report for the US think-tank Forest Trends: ‘Consumer Goods and Deforestation’ revealed how international markets for commodities like beef, soy and palm oil used in a wide range of foodstuffs and other consumables the world over, were by far the most important driver of a rapidly accelerating global [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Seven years ago, I published a major report for the US think-tank Forest Trends: ‘Consumer Goods and Deforestation’ revealed how international markets for commodities like beef, soy and palm oil used in a wide range of foodstuffs and other consumables the world over, were by far the most important driver of a rapidly accelerating global deforestation and human rights crisis. It also revealed that most of this deforestation was happening illegally. The report sent shockwaves through the forest policy community. Illegal didn’t mean clandestine. This wasn’t a case of small-scale criminals entering forests under cover of darkness. Aided by rampant corruption and electoral influence-peddling, this was brazen, industrial-scale illegality, carried out by big corporations, in broad daylight. The 2014 report was the first to put a figure on the scale of the problem. The result: commercial agriculture was responsible for nearly three-quarters of recent tropical deforestation, and nearly half of that conversion was illegal. Consumer demand in wealthy overseas markets was resulting in the illegal clearance of five football fields of precious forest every minute in the tropics. Illustrating the big numbers with numerous case studies from around the world, the report showed that the impacts of this free-for-all on wildlife, the climate and forest-dependent and indigenous communities were horrific. Illegal deforestation for palm oil production in Sumatra, Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay. Now Forest Trends has published a sequel. And the news is not good. Far from tackling this huge problem, we have allowed it to&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/05/as-illegal-forest-conversion-for-industrial-ag-worsens-this-moment-is-pivotal-commentary/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-242870</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Life and new limbs: Creative thinking, 3D printers save injured wildlife</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/04/life-and-new-limbs-creative-thinking-3d-printers-save-injured-wildlife/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/04/life-and-new-limbs-creative-thinking-3d-printers-save-injured-wildlife/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>05 Apr 2021 15:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Laurel Neme]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Alaska, Brazil, Costa Rica, European Union, Germany, Global, Latin America, New Zealand, North America, Oceania, and South America]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animal Welfare, Animals, Birds, Charismatic Animals, Conservation, Crime, Endangered Species, Environment, Extinction, Green, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Poaching, Raptors, Saving Species From Extinction, Solutions, Wildlife, Wildlife Trafficking, and Zoos]]>
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							<![CDATA[Though still labor- and time-intensive, 3D printing of beaks, feet and tails holds promise for disabled wildlife ranging from toucans to penguins, and baby elephants; it may even help rare species at risk of extinction. ]]>
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							<![CDATA[When caregivers at the Weltvogelpark Walsrode bird park in Germany returned to the aviary one morning, they were heartsick to discover that a secretary bird they called Söckchen, or “Little Sock,” had broken her leg inside her enclosure. They guessed that something must have scared her and made her jump, causing a severe break. Secretary birds (Sagittarius serpentarius) need their legs. Found in Africa’s savannas, they are large, mostly terrestrial birds; their strong, sturdy legs are vital not only for walking but for capturing snakes and other prey. Often, they hunt by stomping the ground to flush out animals, then run them down and strike with their beak or feet to stun or kill them. In the wild, the loss of a leg would be a death sentence. And in captivity it was a severe debilitation. With her leg severed, Söckchen became depressed, was not eating well, and rarely walked about. To help, the bird keepers came up with an idea: a prosthetic leg made using a 3D printer. Senior bird keeper German Alonso with Söckchen. Image courtesy of Lars Thalmann. Three-dimensional printing has revolutionized the use of prosthetics to help injured animals. In the past, artificial devices fitted to wildlife were both extremely costly and time-consuming to produce. For instance, building a prosthetic tail flipper for a dolphin named Fuji in Japan in 2003 reportedly cost $100,000, and designing one for another dolphin, Winter, in Florida in 2007 required 18 months. By contrast, 3D printing can be less expensive&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/04/life-and-new-limbs-creative-thinking-3d-printers-save-injured-wildlife/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-241303</doi>				</item>
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					<title>One Health: A necessary blend of biodiversity and human health goals (commentary)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/11/one-health-a-necessary-blend-of-biodiversity-and-human-health-goals-commentary/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/11/one-health-a-necessary-blend-of-biodiversity-and-human-health-goals-commentary/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>16 Nov 2020 13:07:11 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Annie Mark]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Erik Hoffner]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Europe, European Union, Germany, and Global]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Climate Change, Commentary, Conservation, COVID-19, Deforestation, Environment, Global Environmental Crisis, Health, One Health, Planetary Health, Public Health, Rainforests, and Zoonotic Diseases]]>
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							<![CDATA[As an American living in Germany and working for an international conservation organization, I find that most everyday people I speak with do not realize that in 2008, Chancellor Angela Merkel made a commitment of €500 million per year to implement the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), with a focus on protected areas. That was [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[As an American living in Germany and working for an international conservation organization, I find that most everyday people I speak with do not realize that in 2008, Chancellor Angela Merkel made a commitment of €500 million per year to implement the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), with a focus on protected areas. That was an extraordinary commitment by the German government—something worth knowing and to be proud of. Initially intended as a four-year commitment, this annual allocation has continued through to this day, making Germany one of the world’s largest bilateral donors to biodiversity conservation. In addition to biodiversity, Germany has also shown significant leadership in the Global Health sector. As we confront a pandemic originating with the zoonotic transmission of a virus from wildlife to humans that has devastated the global economy, there is now an opportunity to combine these two commitments and areas of expertise. In so doing, we work to create a new pathway toward green recovery: One Health. The One Health approach acknowledges the interconnectedness of human, animal, and ecosystem health. In 2004, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) brought together stakeholders in global health to discuss issues at the nexus of animal, human, and ecosystem health. The symposium prompted the Manhattan Principles, which launched the modern One Health approach. Northern cassowary (Casuarius unappendiculatus) in Indonesia. Image by Rhett Butler for Mongabay. As our planet has faced growing threats from climate change and biodiversity loss, One Health became too anthropocentric, placing nature at the service of&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/11/one-health-a-necessary-blend-of-biodiversity-and-human-health-goals-commentary/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-236897</doi>				</item>
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					<title>One year on: Insects still in peril as world struggles with global pandemic</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/11/one-year-on-insects-still-in-peril-as-world-struggles-with-global-pandemic/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/11/one-year-on-insects-still-in-peril-as-world-struggles-with-global-pandemic/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>11 Nov 2020 16:05:58 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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											<reporting-project>
							<![CDATA[Almost Famous Animals and Saving Life on Earth: Words on the Wild]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Africa, Asia, Australia, Central America, Costa Rica, Europe, European Union, Germany, Global, Latin America, North America, South America, Tropics, and United States]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Agrochemicals, Animals, Bees, Beetles, Biodiversity, Biodiversity Hotspots, Butterflies, Climate Change, Conservation, Controversial, Deforestation, Ecology, Ecosystems, Endangered Species, Environment, Extinction, Extreme Weather, Farming, Food, Food Industry, food security, Forests, Global Environmental Crisis, Green, Habitat, Habitat Degradation, Habitat Loss, Herbicides, Industrial Agriculture, Insects, Land Use Change, Logging, Mass Extinction, Moths, Natural Capital, Pesticides, Pollinators, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Research, Temperate Forests, Tropical Deforestation, Weather, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[This article is a one year follow up to the award-winning series, The Great Insect Dying published in June, 2019 on Mongabay. The original series documents insect losses in Europe, the U.S. and the tropics — here’s what we know today.]]>
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							<![CDATA[A green hoverfly in Malinidi, Kenya. Image by Dino J. Martins. In the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, in the heart of a what was increasingly a global lockdown, the rains finally came to East Africa. They came after several years of drought and less-than-stellar rainy seasons. And with these rains, came the insects, says Dino Joseph Martins, the executive director of the Mpala Research Center. “There&#8217;s been this beautiful flash of butterflies and everybody&#8217;s with their families or at home, or trying to entertain their kids that are not in school, and looking at things in the garden or going on walks,” Martins said in August. Martins, an entomologist and butterfly aficionado, has become so “inundated” by questions from curious insect onlookers in lockdown that he’s considering “quitting social media” just to have some time to breathe again. “I think there has been a much broader appreciation of nature [during the pandemic] and it&#8217;s because of the loneliness of lockdown, the isolation,” says Martins. “This has been such a blow for so many people.” But, according to the scientist, the pandemic has also unexpectedly awakened many people to the marvels of the natural world and our interconnectedness with it. It’s a happy anecdote in a year that has seen not only wrenching global change due to the pandemic, but also reams of new research on the potential decline of insects around the world, often dubbed more dramatically as the “insect apocalypse” by the media. Parataxonomists building a DNA barcode&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/11/one-year-on-insects-still-in-peril-as-world-struggles-with-global-pandemic/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-236705</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Europe&#8217;s &#8216;ruthless&#8217; animal attractions: Q &#038; A with filmmaker Aaron Gekoski</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/12/europes-ruthless-animal-attractions-q-a-with-filmmaker-aaron-gekoski/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/12/europes-ruthless-animal-attractions-q-a-with-filmmaker-aaron-gekoski/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>17 Dec 2019 21:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Erik Hoffner]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Czech Republic, Europe, European Union, France, Germany, and Spain]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animal Welfare, Animals, Wildlife, Wildlife Trade, and Zoos]]>
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							<![CDATA[Wildlife photographer and filmmaker Aaron Gekoski recently traveled across Europe with fellow filmmaker Will Foster-Grundy, where the pair documented large animal attractions for tourists in Germany, Spain, France and the Czech Republic, for the Ruthless Tourism campaign of the organization Four Paws. The footage obtained by the pair shows elephants, tigers, wolves and bears performing tricks for [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Wildlife photographer and filmmaker Aaron Gekoski recently traveled across Europe with fellow filmmaker Will Foster-Grundy, where the pair documented large animal attractions for tourists in Germany, Spain, France and the Czech Republic, for the Ruthless Tourism campaign of the organization Four Paws. The footage obtained by the pair shows elephants, tigers, wolves and bears performing tricks for tourists and living in cramped, inhumane conditions. While organizations like European Association of Zoos and Aquaria member institutions are required to provide professional and humane treatment to captive animals, there are many animal-oriented attractions in Europe that do not. Mongabay interviewed Gekoski via email about what they found. Bear in makeshift enclosure, Medieval Festival Aitawak, France. Image by Aaron Gekoski/Four Paws. Mongabay: Asia&#8217;s wildlife tourism industry is often discussed here at Mongabay and elsewhere in the mainstream media, like otter cafes and such, but you point out that similarly troubling attractions featuring large animals in Europe go largely unreported. What have you seen in your travels around the continent? Whilst Asia is widely viewed as the epicenter of cruel wildlife tourism, it is happening all over the world, and in places we don’t necessarily associate with having poor animal rights records. People in the West are often guilty of pointing fingers, yet there is abuse happening right on our doorstep. This was the reason Will Foster-Grundy and I were approached by the NGO to highlight that you can, for example, go elephant riding in Germany, see wolves and bears performing in medieval festivals in France, visit circuses with lions&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/12/europes-ruthless-animal-attractions-q-a-with-filmmaker-aaron-gekoski/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-225445</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Mongabay investigative series helps confirm global insect decline</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/06/mongabay-investigative-series-helps-confirm-global-insect-decline/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/06/mongabay-investigative-series-helps-confirm-global-insect-decline/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>24 Jun 2019 11:48:56 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[The Great Insect Crisis]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Africa, Amazon, Asia, Europe, European Union, Germany, Global, Latin America, Mexico, North America, Puerto Rico, South America, Southeast Asia, and Tropics]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Agrochemicals, Animals, Beetles, Biodiversity, Biodiversity Hotspots, Butterflies, Climate Change, Conservation, Controversial, Deforestation, Ecology, Ecosystems, Endangered Species, Environment, Extinction, Extreme Weather, Forests, Global Environmental Crisis, Green, Habitat, Habitat Degradation, Habitat Loss, Herbicides, Industrial Agriculture, Insects, Land Use Change, Logging, Mass Extinction, Moths, Natural Capital, Pesticides, Pollinators, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Research, Spiders, Temperate Forests, Tropical Deforestation, Weather, and Wildlife]]>
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											<description>
							<![CDATA[Near consensus found among 24 entomologists and scientists working on 6 continents: Insects are likely in serious global decline, but much more data needed.]]>
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							<![CDATA[Read the entire series by Mongabay senior contributor Jeremy Hance here As night falls, numerous insects still fly to the artificial lights of homes in the Kenyan bush. But entomologist Dino Joseph Martins vividly recalls a time when the numbers swarming nightly above his outdoor table were staggering. “You would struggle … to eat your supper because you would have endless beetles and [flying] things falling in your … soup,” he recalls. Today, “that happens far less,” making outdoor dining more pleasant, but far more disquieting. Now Mongabay, in an exclusive four-part series, “The Great Insect Dying,” takes a deep dive into the so-called “Insect Apocalypse.” Interviews with 24 researchers on six continents, and working in 12 nations, are at the heart of the report — likely the most in-depth published on the looming insect abundance crisis by any news media outlet to date. Answers, so far, rest on the hard evidence found in a mere handful of studies, and on the anecdotal, though expert, observations by scientists. Despite limited peer-reviewed research, the scientists interviewed are in near consensus, agreeing that insects are very likely in significant decline globally. Part One of the series, an introduction to the issue, looks at the hard evidence. First news of a possible “Insect Apocalypse” broke in 2017 with groundbreaking research in temperate Europe, where researchers were stunned to learn that flying insect abundance fell by 75 percent in just 27 years in Germany’s nature reserves. Then, in 2018, tropical researchers reported that total&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/06/mongabay-investigative-series-helps-confirm-global-insect-decline/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-219729</doi>				</item>
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					<title>How to save insects and ourselves</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/06/the-great-insect-dying-how-to-save-insects-and-ourselves/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/06/the-great-insect-dying-how-to-save-insects-and-ourselves/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>13 Jun 2019 09:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[The Great Insect Crisis]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Amazon, Asia, Borneo, Central America, Costa Rica, European Union, Germany, Global, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Latin America, Netherlands, North America, Oceania, Puerto Rico, South Africa, South America, Southeast Asia, and Tropics]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Agrochemicals, Animals, Beetles, Biodiversity, Biodiversity Hotspots, Butterflies, Cattle, Climate Change, Conservation, Controversial, Deforestation, Ecology, Ecosystems, Endangered Species, Environment, Extinction, Extreme Weather, Forests, Global Environmental Crisis, Green, Habitat, Habitat Degradation, Habitat Loss, Herbicides, Industrial Agriculture, Insects, Land Use Change, Logging, Mass Extinction, Moths, Natural Capital, Pesticides, Pollinators, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Ranching, Research, Spiders, Temperate Forests, Tropical Deforestation, Weather, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[In the fourth and final story of this exclusive Mongabay series, entomologists around the world offer far ranging solutions to curb and reverse the great insect die-off.]]>
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							<![CDATA[In recent months a debate over whether a global insect apocalypse is underway has raged in the mainstream media and among researchers. To assess the range of scientific opinion, Mongabay interviewed 24 entomologists and other scientists working on six continents, in more than a dozen countries, to better determine what we know, what we don’t, and most importantly — what we should do about it. This is part 4 of a four part exclusive series written by Mongabay senior contributor Jeremy Hance. Click on the following links to read part 1, part 2, and part 3. They formed the unlikeliest of survey teams: in 2017, University of Reno entomologist Lee Dyer, graduate student Danielle Salcido, and executives from some of the world’s biggest banks spent a week roughing it at a gathering facilitated by the Earthwatch Institute. The team chatted, laughed, hiked and scrounged the coniferous forests of Arizona’s Chiricahua National Forest hunting for bugs. At night, the researchers gave presentations about the impacts of global warming on insect populations. On the last day, a researcher offered a talk on the value of native plantings around homes — a message that really connected. “They loved that talk; discussion ensued, and they left with excitement to plant native trees in their yards,” says Salcido. But she worries whether this small-scale solution undercut a week’s worth of messaging to get these powerful people to comprehend the links between a rapidly warming world, plummeting insect populations, and the impacts both may have on ecosystems and civilization.&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/06/the-great-insect-dying-how-to-save-insects-and-ourselves/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-219219</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Vanishing act in Europe and North America</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/06/the-great-insect-dying-vanishing-act-in-europe-and-north-america/</link>
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					<pubDate>06 Jun 2019 12:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[The Great Insect Crisis]]>
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							<![CDATA[Europe, European Union, Germany, Global, Mexico, North America, Puerto Rico, Tropics, and United States]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Agrochemicals, Animals, Beetles, Biodiversity, Butterflies, Climate Change, Conservation, Controversial, Deforestation, Ecology, Ecosystems, Endangered Species, Environment, Extinction, Extreme Weather, Forests, Global Environmental Crisis, Green, Habitat, Habitat Degradation, Habitat Loss, Herbicides, Industrial Agriculture, Insects, Land Use Change, Mass Extinction, Moths, Pesticides, Pollinators, Research, Spiders, Temperate Forests, Weather, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[The insects of the EU and US are the best studied in the world, and it is here that a strengthening case can be made for an alarming insect abundance decline.]]>
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							<![CDATA[In recent months a debate over whether a global insect apocalypse is underway has raged in the mainstream media and among researchers. To assess the range of scientific opinion, Mongabay interviewed 24 entomologists and other scientists working on six continents, in more than a dozen countries, to better determine what we know, what we don’t, and, most importantly, what we should do about it. This is part two of a four-part exclusive series by Mongabay senior contributor Jeremy Hance. Read Part I, &#8220;A global look at a deepening crisis&#8221; here. Tyson Wepprich, a postdoctoral research associate at Oregon State University, was only supposed to be looking at the presence or absence of butterfly species in Ohio. But news of insect decline, in blockbuster studies from Germany and Puerto Rico, changed his plans. His team is now also looking hard at overall abundance — and the early results aren’t good. “The trends are similar to those in long-term European butterfly monitoring where abundance, summed across all species, is declining at around 2 percent per year,” he says of the team’s unpublished work (Wepprich&#8217;s work is now published here), and “about twice as many species are declining rather than increasing.” Wepprich’s ongoing research is just another sign that something may be seriously amiss with the world’s insects — something some entomologists have privately suspected, but which they are only now beginning to prove and publish about. “I used to think of conservation as policies to save rare species from extinction,” Wepprich says,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/06/the-great-insect-dying-vanishing-act-in-europe-and-north-america/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-218968</doi>				</item>
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					<title>A global look at a deepening crisis</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/06/the-great-insect-dying-a-global-look-at-a-deepening-crisis/</link>
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					<pubDate>03 Jun 2019 11:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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											<reporting-project>
							<![CDATA[The Great Insect Crisis]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Africa, Europe, European Union, Germany, Global, Kenya, North America, Puerto Rico, Tropics, and United States]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Agrochemicals, Animals, Bees, Beetles, Biodiversity, Biodiversity Hotspots, Butterflies, Climate Change, Conservation, Controversial, Deforestation, Ecology, Ecosystems, Endangered Species, Environment, Extinction, Extreme Weather, Farming, Food, Food Industry, food security, Forests, Global Environmental Crisis, Green, Habitat, Habitat Degradation, Habitat Loss, Herbicides, Industrial Agriculture, Insects, Land Use Change, Logging, Mass Extinction, Moths, Natural Capital, Pesticides, Pollinators, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Research, Spiders, Temperate Forests, Tropical Deforestation, Weather, and Wildlife]]>
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											<description>
							<![CDATA[Recent surveys hint at an insect apocalypse. But are insects at risk globally? Mongabay talks with 24 scientists on 6 continents to find out in an exclusive new series.]]>
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							<![CDATA[In recent months a debate over whether a global insect apocalypse is underway has raged in the mainstream media and among researchers. To assess the range of scientific opinion, Mongabay interviewed 24 entomologists and other scientists working on six continents, in more than a dozen countries, to better determine what we know, what we don’t, and, most importantly, what we should do about it. This is part one of a four-part exclusive series by Mongabay senior contributor Jeremy Hance. Read Part II, &#8220;Vanishing act in Europe and North America&#8221; here. Dust stirred up by the wind turns a Kenyan sunset deep scarlet. Then, as day fades to night, millions, maybe billions, of insects, fly to the artificial lights of homes found at the edge of the bush. One of those residents is Dino Joseph Martins, and while his evidence is anecdotal, the entomologist is a highly qualified observer. Martins has vivid recollections of a time when the abundance of insects swirling around the lights illuminating his outdoor dinner table were staggering. “You would struggle to sit down to eat your supper because you would have endless beetles and [flying] things falling in your bowl of soup,” he said. Today, “that happens far less.” Now, dinner in the African bush may be a pleasanter affair, but it’s much more disquieting. Martins, the executive director of the Mpala Research Center, was born and raised in Kenya. As a child, he recalls visiting forests during the wet season that were filled with “tens&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/06/the-great-insect-dying-a-global-look-at-a-deepening-crisis/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-218951</doi>				</item>
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					<title>The world’s biggest reptile fair is also a hub for traffickers</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/05/the-worlds-biggest-reptile-fair-is-also-a-hub-for-traffickers/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/05/the-worlds-biggest-reptile-fair-is-also-a-hub-for-traffickers/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>30 May 2019 11:57:33 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Denise Hruby]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Shreya Dasgupta]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Europe, European Union, and Germany]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Conservation, Endangered Species, Environment, Environmental Law, Forests, Green, Herps, Rainforests, Reptiles, Tropical Forests, Wildlife, Wildlife Trade, and Wildlife Trafficking]]>
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							<![CDATA[HAMM, Germany — Two hours before the fair opens on a cold day in March, hundreds of people are already queuing in the cold. “The best merchandise is sold in the morning,” a shivering woman explains outside. She’s looking to expand her collection of exotic pet centipedes, and the Terraristika reptile fair in the German [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[HAMM, Germany — Two hours before the fair opens on a cold day in March, hundreds of people are already queuing in the cold. “The best merchandise is sold in the morning,” a shivering woman explains outside. She’s looking to expand her collection of exotic pet centipedes, and the Terraristika reptile fair in the German city of Hamm is the perfect place to do so. “You’ll find everything you wouldn’t find anywhere else,” she says. Styrofoam boxes loaded on dollies are pushed past the queue and inside the steamy warehouse, where some of the world’s most prolific wildlife breeders and traders are getting ready to sell tens of thousands of not just reptiles like snakes and lizards but also spiders, centipedes, insects and frogs. The fair itself is simply referred to as “Hamm,” after the nondescript town in the middle of Germany’s rust belt where it’s held four times a year. Touting itself as the largest reptile trade show in the world, it’s a bazaar brimming with more than 550 sellers who set up shop, reptile-enthusiasts and specialized transport companies that pick the animals up and drive them back to their clients in countries like the U.K. Some have come from as far as South Korea and the U.S., pushing past Indian giant tiger centipedes (Scolopendra hardwickei), which cost $550 a piece, and common pythons on offer as a “buy 2 get 3” deal. For buyers, sellers and middlemen, Hamm is the pinnacle of a growing international trade worth millions&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/05/the-worlds-biggest-reptile-fair-is-also-a-hub-for-traffickers/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-219032</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Information-based solutions for forest conservation projects</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/11/information-based-solutions-for-forest-conservation-projects/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/11/information-based-solutions-for-forest-conservation-projects/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>29 Nov 2018 17:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Germany and Indonesia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation, Conservation Technology, Drones, Environment, Forest Regeneration, Forestry, Forests, Monitoring, Rainforests, Redd, Reforestation, Technology, Tropical Forests, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[Forest monitoring has experienced a revolution in recent years, with vast improvements in satellite sensors, the emergence of drones, and growing ubiquity of on-the-ground technologies like smartphones and camera traps. These developments have made it easier and less costly to map forests, track reforestation and forest regeneration, and detect deforestation and degradation. But many conservationists [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Forest monitoring has experienced a revolution in recent years, with vast improvements in satellite sensors, the emergence of drones, and growing ubiquity of on-the-ground technologies like smartphones and camera traps. These developments have made it easier and less costly to map forests, track reforestation and forest regeneration, and detect deforestation and degradation. But many conservationists and foresters continue to struggle with aspects of forest management, whether it&#8217;s translating data into actionable information or communicating the results of their work. To help address this situation, in 2011 Alexander Watson, Stefan Haas, and Patrick Ribeiro founded OpenForests, which provides forest managers with a set of tools to improve data collection, processing, and analysis. OpenForests is now working with projects on five continents, ranging from forest inventorying to conservation projecting. OpenForests CEO Watson spoke with Mongabay.com ahead of his appearance at the Global Landscape Forum in Bonn, Germany where he is presenting Sunday, 2 December 2018 from 09:00-10:30. 360-degree camera capture in Colombia&#8217;s Jardín Botánico del Pacífico. AN INTERVIEW WITH ALEXANDER WATSON Mongabay: What is your background and what inspired you to start OpenForests? We founded OpenForests almost 8 years ago with the goal to develop information-based solutions for sustainable forest and conservation projects. Before founding OpenForests, we worked in the sustainable forest investment sector, overseeing plantation establishments and forest information projects in Central America and South East Asia. During all those years of working in the forestry sector in developing countries in the tropics, we observed the speed and harshness at which industrialized&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/11/information-based-solutions-for-forest-conservation-projects/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-212864</doi>				</item>
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					<title>COP23: U.S., wealthy nations curtail climate aid for developing world</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2017/11/cop23-u-s-wealthy-nations-curtail-climate-aid-for-developing-world/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2017/11/cop23-u-s-wealthy-nations-curtail-climate-aid-for-developing-world/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>16 Nov 2017 14:36:02 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Justin Catanoso]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
					</author>
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											<reporting-project>
							<![CDATA[Global Environmental Impacts of US Policy]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Australia, Canada, European Union, France, Germany, Global, and United States]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Activism, Carbon Emissions, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, climate finance, Economics, Environment, Environmental Policy, Ethics, Global Environmental Crisis, Global Warming, Green, Impact Of Climate Change, Mitigation, and Politics]]>
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							<![CDATA[In Bonn, Trump administration delegation provides cover for developed nations to stall financing for climate adaptation and loss for world’s most impacted developing nations.]]>
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							<![CDATA[A platform of climate protest signs on the grounds of the U.N. campus at COP23 in Bonn, Germany. Photo by Justin Catanoso BONN, Germany – An anxious uncertainty hung in the air at the start of the 23rd annual United Nations climate summit two weeks ago: what role would the small U.S. negotiating team play in the era of Donald Trump, a climate denier who has forced the United States to become the only country on earth to reject the Paris Agreement? As the gavel falls ending COP23 on Friday, 17 November, the answer to that question will be apparent for all to see: obstruction. Obstruction by the world’s richest nation and the planet’s second-worst greenhouse gas emitter. For two weeks, the U.S. delegation has, by all accounts, worked to deny developing nations — vulnerable to, and victims of, global warming — the financial pathway they need to adapt to climate change or recover from climate-related losses and damages. Other wealthy nations, so-called developed countries, struggling with their own economic worries, immigration crises, or controversial energy dilemmas, have apparently followed the U.S. lead and fallen in line. At stake is the wide gap between the billions raised by developing nations and the billions more needed for developing countries to endure and adapt to global warming’s dire impacts — roughly $10.3B billion in cash has been raised so far toward a pledge of $100 billion a year starting in 2020, along with a pledge for access to financing from global banks.&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2017/11/cop23-u-s-wealthy-nations-curtail-climate-aid-for-developing-world/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-201226</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Should I stay, or should I go: is U.S. facing a climate scientist brain drain?</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2017/11/should-i-stay-or-should-i-go-is-u-s-facing-a-climate-scientist-brain-drain/</link>
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					<pubDate>15 Nov 2017 13:16:40 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sean Mowbray]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
					</author>
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											<reporting-project>
							<![CDATA[Global Environmental Impacts of US Policy]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[France, Germany, Global, and United States]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, climate finance, Climate Science, Economics, Environment, Environmental Policy, Global Environmental Crisis, Global Warming, Impact Of Climate Change, Politics, and Science]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[When Pres. Trump withdrew the U.S. from the Paris Agreement last June, France and Germany offered U.S. climate researchers the opportunity to emigrate. Some are responding to the call.]]>
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							<![CDATA[Fire races through Klamath National Forest in 2014. This year&#8217;s Northern California wildfires burned through thousands of acres, leaving death and destruction in their wake. The fierceness of the flames is being tied to climate change, and the study of that link by U.S. climate scientists is vital to understanding destructive wildfires in the American West. Photo by Kari Greer / U.S. Forest Service via Flickr CC BY 2.0 via Flickr U.S. climate researchers, facing an uncertain future under a presidential administration known for its hostility to science, had a potential way out: answer a few questions on a website run by the French government, draw up a project proposal, and then maybe get offered a position at a French university, supported by enough cash for the duration of a stay there. The scientist’s spouse, could come too, and work if they pleased. A lucrative and attractive deal that has yielded a strong response. After President Trump pulled out of the Paris Climate Agreement in June, France’s Emmanuel Macron responded with a clarion call to “Make Our Planet Great Again.” He aimed part of that message directly at U.S. climate scientists with a sales pitch inviting them to avoid draconian U.S. budget cuts and hostile Trumpian rhetoric by seeking haven in France. This wasn’t hype: the French government was serious and has since set aside 30 million euros to facilitate the immigrants. The program closed several months ago having netted a couple of hundred applications, with hundreds more researchers requesting additional&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2017/11/should-i-stay-or-should-i-go-is-u-s-facing-a-climate-scientist-brain-drain/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>‘Decimated’: Germany’s birds disappear as insect abundance plummets 76%</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2017/10/decimated-germanys-birds-disappear-as-insect-abundance-plummets-76/</link>
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					<pubDate>27 Oct 2017 15:28:55 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Morgan Erickson-Davis]]>
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						<![CDATA[Morgan Erickson-Davis]]>
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							<![CDATA[Europe, Germany, and North America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Animals, Bees, Birds, Climate Change, Corn, Environment, Farming, Global Warming, Industrial Agriculture, Insects, Pesticides, Research, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Germany’s flying insect biomass has dropped 76 percent in the past 27 years, according to a study published last week in PLOS ONE. The findings have stunned biologists around the world and are prompting concern about potentially disastrous ecological consequences as another study finds the country lost 15 percent of its birds in just over [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Germany’s flying insect biomass has dropped 76 percent in the past 27 years, according to a study published last week in PLOS ONE. The findings have stunned biologists around the world and are prompting concern about potentially disastrous ecological consequences as another study finds the country lost 15 percent of its birds in just over a decade. The study was conducted by researchers at institutions in Germany and the Netherlands. Over the course of nearly 30 years, they collected flying insects within protected areas in lowland western Germany by trapping them with mesh tents that funneled into bottles of alcohol. They then measured the biomass – basically, the combined weight – of the insects to see how it changed from year to year. In total, the researchers collected 53.54 kilograms of flying insect biomass from 1989 to 2016. This may not sound like much, but the researchers say it represents millions of individual insects. The results revealed a dramatic decline in flying insects. In total, their biomass dropped 76 percent over the 27-year sampling period; collections from midsummer showed an even bigger reduction –- 82 percent. Flying insects, like this damselfly, perform many important ecological roles. Photo by Bruce Marlin via Wikimedia Commons (CC 2.5). While declines in bees and butterflies have been fairly well documented in many regions around the world, this is one of the few studies that have examined biomass trends in flying insects generally. The researchers say their results indicate a more extensive problem than previously&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2017/10/decimated-germanys-birds-disappear-as-insect-abundance-plummets-76/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>New genetic analyses help scientists rethink the elephant family tree</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2017/08/new-genetic-analyses-help-scientists-rethink-the-elephant-family-tree/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2017/08/new-genetic-analyses-help-scientists-rethink-the-elephant-family-tree/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>03 Aug 2017 08:10:40 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri (1965-2019)]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa and Germany]]>
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							<![CDATA[DNA, Elephants, Evolution, Genetics, Research, Technology, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[The first DNA analysis of ancient straight-tusked elephant fossils may be changing what we know about elephant evolution. Scientists have presumed that a species of giant elephant called Palaeoloxodon antiquus, which roamed across Europe and Asia over 30,000 years ago, was most closely related to Asian elephants. New research by a multi-institutional team shows that [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The first DNA analysis of ancient straight-tusked elephant fossils may be changing what we know about elephant evolution. Scientists have presumed that a species of giant elephant called Palaeoloxodon antiquus, which roamed across Europe and Asia over 30,000 years ago, was most closely related to Asian elephants. New research by a multi-institutional team shows that the species’ closest modern relative is actually the African forest elephant. The straight-tusked elephant, Palaeoloxodon antiquus, based on a skeletal depiction and the anatomy of the modern Asian elephant. The analysis of P. antiquus DNA changes the assumption that this species was most closed related to Asian elephants. Image credit: DFoidl, Creative Commons 3.0 Moreover, this extinct species, known as straight-tusked elephants, is more closely related to the African forest elephant than the forest elephant is to its nearest living relative, the African savanna elephant. Key to the discovery is new genetic techniques that enable scientists to analyze an increasingly varied range of biological material, including fossils more than 100,000 years old. Most genetic material this old is decayed and no longer viable for analysis. &#8220;Up until now, genetic research on bones that are hundreds of thousands of years old has almost exclusively relied on fossils collected in permafrost,&#8221; said lead author Matthias Meyer, a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, in a media release. &#8220;It is encouraging to see that recent advances in laboratory methods are now enabling us to recover very old DNA sequences also from warmer places, where DNA&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2017/08/new-genetic-analyses-help-scientists-rethink-the-elephant-family-tree/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>China flexes its new climate action muscles in Bonn; Trump administration blinks</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2017/05/china-flexes-its-new-climate-action-muscles-in-bonn-trump-administration-blinks/</link>
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					<pubDate>09 May 2017 12:59:50 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Justin Catanoso]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Mike Gaworecki]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global Environmental Impacts of US Policy]]>
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							<![CDATA[China, Europe, Germany, and United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Environment, Global Warming, and Politics]]>
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							<![CDATA[Flexing new muscles as the undisputed leader in global climate action, China is making it clear that if the Trump Administration follows through on its threat to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement, there will be an angry international backlash and a tangible geopolitical price to pay. In an apparent reaction to warnings from Chinese [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Flexing new muscles as the undisputed leader in global climate action, China is making it clear that if the Trump Administration follows through on its threat to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement, there will be an angry international backlash and a tangible geopolitical price to pay. In an apparent reaction to warnings from Chinese representatives and others issued on Monday, May 8, at the opening of the United Nation’s mid-year climate conference in Bonn, Germany, Trump administration officials have canceled a meeting in Washington, D.C., scheduled for today, in which the fate of the U.S. and the Paris agreement was to be discussed, Reuters reported. In Bonn, Chai Qimin, director of international cooperation at the Chinese government’s National Center for Climate Change Strategy, joined other diplomats in warning the U.S. against pulling out of Paris. He and others firmly suggested that retribution in the form of trade deals, a carbon tariff, and possibly even military access would be on the table when the U.S. attends international forums such as the upcoming G7 and G20 summits, according to Climate Change News. “Definitely it will impact on other diplomatic arenas, already on G7 and G20, the Major Economies Forum as well,” Chai said. “President Xi (Jinping) and our ambassador to the United Nations have said several times that withdrawing from the Paris Agreement is irresponsible, which will harm the mutual trust in the multilateral mechanism.” In Trump’s “America first” campaign, he promised a host of moves that he said would bolster&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2017/05/china-flexes-its-new-climate-action-muscles-in-bonn-trump-administration-blinks/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Climate negotiators make key breakthrough on forest protection deal ahead of Paris talks</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2015/06/climate-negotiators-make-key-breakthrough-on-forest-protection-deal-ahead-of-paris-talks/</link>
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					<pubDate>16 Jun 2015 13:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mike Gaworecki]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rebecca Kessler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Europe, Germany, and Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Climate Change, Environment, Forests, Green, Politics, and Redd]]>
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							<![CDATA[A rainforest in Borneo. Photo credit: Rhett Butler. Negotiators at U.N. climate talks in Bonn, Germany, have produced a draft agreement on the technical provisions of a plan to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. Known as REDD+, the forest conservation plan is now far more likely to be included in a climate deal [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A rainforest in Borneo. Photo credit: Rhett Butler. Negotiators at U.N. climate talks in Bonn, Germany, have produced a draft agreement on the technical provisions of a plan to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. Known as REDD+, the forest conservation plan is now far more likely to be included in a climate deal to be negotiated in Paris this December, thanks to the breakthroughs made in Bonn. The fact that a complete REDD+ draft was agreed to in Bonn came as a bit of a surprise to many observers of U.N. climate negotiations, which are notorious for proceeding at a glacial pace. Some particularly difficult issues needed to be resolved, and it seemed likely that settling them would be left to the Paris talks — even countries fully in support of REDD+ want every bargaining chip they can get. Washington, D.C.-based conservation non-profit Forest Trends said in a statement that expectations were low even though negotiators have worked hard for over a decade to reach the REDD+ deal. But there is still substantial work left to be done in Paris before REDD+ is ready to be put into action — mainly, figuring out how the whole program will be financed and implemented on a large enough scale to effectively halt deforestation and lower global emissions. &#8220;While REDD+ is finished on paper, the Paris global deal must provide the policy certainty to implement REDD+ on the ground,&#8221; Forest Trends&#8217; Gustavo Silva-Chávez said in the statement. &#8220;REDD+ must be able&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2015/06/climate-negotiators-make-key-breakthrough-on-forest-protection-deal-ahead-of-paris-talks/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-62885</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Ecuador sends aid money back to Germany over planned rainforest visit</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2014/12/ecuador-sends-aid-money-back-to-germany-over-planned-rainforest-visit/</link>
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					<pubDate>23 Dec 2014 22:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Ecuador, Germany, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Governance, Green, Oil, Politics, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, and Threats To Rainforests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Cobalt-winged parakeets (Brotogeris cyanoptera) at a clay lick in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Photo by: Jeremy Hance. A visit to a rainforest slated for oil drilling has blown up into a diplomatic row between Ecuador and Germany. Ecuador has said it will no longer partner with Germany on environmental issues and will [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Cobalt-winged parakeets (Brotogeris cyanoptera) at a clay lick in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Photo by: Jeremy Hance. A visit to a rainforest slated for oil drilling has blown up into a diplomatic row between Ecuador and Germany. Ecuador has said it will no longer partner with Germany on environmental issues and will return aid money, after the South American government discovered that German legislators were attempting to visit the much-embattled Yasuni National Park. &#8220;If they think they had the right to doubt the word of Ecuador&#8217;s government on the issue of Yasuni because they were providing funds, we&#8217;ll give them their money back with interest,&#8221; Ecuador&#8217;s Foreign Minister, Ricardo Patino, said. &#8220;Ecuador unilaterally ends all cooperation with Germany on environmental issues.&#8221; Ecuador has said it will return around $9 million in funds from Germany for environmental projects around the country. The country cancelled the visas of the visiting German legislators and did not allow them to visit Yasuni National Park as planned. The German legislators were set to meet with groups opposed to oil drilling in the park&#8212;which scientists say may be the most biodiverse on the planet&#8212;and to see on the ground the impacts of fossil fuel extraction. Top biodiversity for species groups. Yasuni sits in the small red region, which has peak biodiversity for four groups. Map by Matt Finer, Clinton Jenkins, and Holger Kreft. For her part, German Environmental Minister, Barbara Hendricks, said that canceling the visas was &#8220;completely unacceptable,&#8221; and called Ecuador&#8217;s action&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2014/12/ecuador-sends-aid-money-back-to-germany-over-planned-rainforest-visit/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-24291</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Nano-tags track baby sea turtles during their first few hours</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2014/12/nano-tags-track-baby-sea-turtles-during-their-first-few-hours/</link>
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					<pubDate>03 Dec 2014 15:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Leigh Cooper]]>
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						<![CDATA[Mongabay Editor]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Cape Verde, and Germany]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animal Behavior, Animals, Endangered Species, Environment, Green, Marine, Marine Animals, Reptiles, Sea Turtles, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Miniature acoustic tags allow researchers to track newborn sea turtles during &#8216;swimming frenzy&#8217; Baby sea turtles vanish after they scamper into the ocean. Years later, juvenile turtles may pop up thousands of kilometers away, but often scientists don&#8217;t see them again until they return to their birthplaces to nest on the beach. Now, using tiny [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Miniature acoustic tags allow researchers to track newborn sea turtles during &#8216;swimming frenzy&#8217; Baby sea turtles vanish after they scamper into the ocean. Years later, juvenile turtles may pop up thousands of kilometers away, but often scientists don&#8217;t see them again until they return to their birthplaces to nest on the beach. Now, using tiny tracking tags weighing no more than two watermelon seeds, a team has followed newborn loggerhead turtles during their first critical hours at sea, revealing how they evade predators and hitch rides on the ocean&#8217;s currents. The satellite tags used by marine biologists to track whales, sharks, and adult turtles are much too large to attach to baby turtles. This has forced biologists to use computer models to simulate where hatchlings may drift during their first few days at sea. But the models aren’t very detailed, and they ignore winds, tides, and how vigorously the turtles themselves might paddle. A new study, supported by The Future Ocean, GEOMAR, QMUL and Turtle Foundation, tracked newborn loggerhead sea turtles, all populations of which are endangered or threatened. The streamlined, lightweight tags did not affect how the turtles swam. The tags fell off after a few days. Credit: Rebecca Scott. In the new study, a team led by marine biologist Rebecca Scott of the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research in Kiel, Germany, used acoustic transmitters weighing just 0.65 grams (0.02 ounces) each. They glued these &#8220;nano-tags&#8221; to the shells of 11 newborn loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) on&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2014/12/nano-tags-track-baby-sea-turtles-during-their-first-few-hours/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Turning point for Peru&#8217;s forests? Norway and Germany put muscle and money behind ambitious agreement</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2014/09/turning-point-for-perus-forests-norway-and-germany-put-muscle-and-money-behind-ambitious-agreement/</link>
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					<pubDate>24 Sep 2014 20:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Europe, Germany, Norway, Peru, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, carbon, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Sequestration, Climate Change, Conservation, Conservation Finance, Deforestation, Energy, Environment, Forest Carbon, Forestry, Forests, Fossil Fuels, Global Warming, Governance, Green, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Land Conflict, Land Rights, Land Use Change, Logging, Mining, Mitigation, Natural Gas, Oil, Payments For Ecosystem Services, Politics, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Saving Rainforests, Solutions, Traditional People, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Norway pledges $300 million if Peru tackles deforestation crisis by 2021 From the Andes to the Amazon, Peru houses some of the world&#8217;s most spectacular forests. Proud and culturally-diverse indigenous tribes inhabit the interiors of the Peruvian Amazon, including some that have chosen little contact with the outside world. And even as scientists have identified [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Norway pledges $300 million if Peru tackles deforestation crisis by 2021 From the Andes to the Amazon, Peru houses some of the world&#8217;s most spectacular forests. Proud and culturally-diverse indigenous tribes inhabit the interiors of the Peruvian Amazon, including some that have chosen little contact with the outside world. And even as scientists have identified tens-of-thousands of species that make their homes from the leaf litter to the canopy, many thousands more remain undiscovered and nameless. Yet Peru&#8217;s forests are facing a barrage of threats: unscrupulous oil and gas companies, illegal logging, conversion for agriculture, massive road building, and industrial and artisanal gold-mining among others. Indigenous leaders have lost their lives striving to protect their forests, and some species are on the brink of extinction. The crisis has also spread beyond the forest: Peru&#8217;s government and its civil society have been roiled by social and ecological conflict stemming from forest destruction seemingly far-away from the capital in Lima. While the battle for Peru&#8217;s forests seems to have no end in sight, a new agreement announced yesterday at a landmark UN Climate Summit in New York City could prove a turning point. High biodiversity submontane forest of the Peruvian Amazon. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. Yesterday, the President of Peru, Ollanta Humala, announced that his country has signed a partnership with Norway and Germany to make his country carbon neutral in terms of deforestation and agriculture by 2021. Moreover, the Letter of Intent, as it is called, pledges to grant land&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2014/09/turning-point-for-perus-forests-norway-and-germany-put-muscle-and-money-behind-ambitious-agreement/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Germany tops energy efficiency rating while U.S. remains stuck near the bottom</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2014/07/germany-tops-energy-efficiency-rating-while-u-s-remains-stuck-near-the-bottom/</link>
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					<pubDate>21 Jul 2014 15:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, China, Europe, Germany, and United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[Climate Change, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Environment, Global Warming, Green, and Mitigation]]>
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							<![CDATA[High speed rail train in China, which comes in fourth (tied with France) in the new ranking for energy efficiency. China has the world&#8217;s largest high speed rail network. Photo by: 颐园新居 /Creative Commons 3.0. Two years after the first energy efficiency ranking report put out by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE), [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[High speed rail train in China, which comes in fourth (tied with France) in the new ranking for energy efficiency. China has the world&#8217;s largest high speed rail network. Photo by: 颐园新居 /Creative Commons 3.0. Two years after the first energy efficiency ranking report put out by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE), and the U.S. still lags widely behind most of the world&#8217;s other large economies. In the second report, the U.S. came in at number 13 out of 16 nations&#8212;even beaten by new-comer to the report, India&#8212;while Germany took the top spot. &#8220;Germany is a prime example of a nation that has made energy efficiency a top priority,&#8221; said ACEEE Executive Director Steven Nadel. &#8220;The United States, long considered an innovative and competitive world leader, has progressed slowly and has made limited progress since our last report, even as Germany, Italy, China, and other nations surge ahead.&#8221; The report considers 31 metrics across four groups: national efforts, buildings, industry, and transportation. Countries could score as much as 100 points over these metrics. Germany scored 65, while the U.S. scored only 42. China, coming in at number four, had a score of 61. &#8220;The inefficiency in the U.S. economy means a tremendous waste of energy resources and money. Across most metrics analyzed in this International Scorecard, in the past decade the United States has made limited progress toward greater efficiency at the national level&#8230;Further, the United States falls behind Canada, Australia, India, and South Korea. These scores&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2014/07/germany-tops-energy-efficiency-rating-while-u-s-remains-stuck-near-the-bottom/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-24912</doi>				</item>
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					<title>They think, therefore they spread: plants can make complex conditional decisions</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2014/07/they-think-therefore-they-spread-plants-can-make-complex-conditional-decisions/</link>
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					<pubDate>07 Jul 2014 17:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Andrew Mann]]>
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						<![CDATA[Morgan Erickson-Davis]]>
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							<![CDATA[Adaptation, Colonization, Environment, Evolution, Forests, Green, Insects, Parasites, Plants, and Strange]]>
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							<![CDATA[Decision-making ability linked to success in colonizing new environments Strong memory, being able to predict the future, and acting based on one’s surroundings are traits typically associated only with the most advanced types of animals. However, a team of German and Dutch scientists from the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ) and the University of [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Decision-making ability linked to success in colonizing new environments Strong memory, being able to predict the future, and acting based on one’s surroundings are traits typically associated only with the most advanced types of animals. However, a team of German and Dutch scientists from the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ) and the University of Göttingen found ecological evidence that plants also have these abilities. Their findings were recently published in The American Naturalist. The researchers made their discovery by studying the European barberry (Berberis vulgaris). Although becoming increasingly common in North America, the European barberry is native to European dry scrub and open forested lands. A close relative, the Oregon grape (Mahonia aquifolium) has been spreading across Europe for the past 200 years, but not as fast as some botanists predicted. To find out why, the research team compared the two species and their responses to a shared parasite. European barberries (Berberis vulgaris) have spread throughout the world due, in part, to their ability to respond to different environmental conditions. A species of fruit fly relies on the seeds of either the European barberry or the Oregon grape for development. The flies lay their eggs within the fruit so that, once hatched, the larvae can feed on the seeds. Usually only one fly larva reaches full development within the fruit, but still damages many or all of the seeds. Each plant is equipped with the ability to abort seeds when in danger of an insect predator or even stressed&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2014/07/they-think-therefore-they-spread-plants-can-make-complex-conditional-decisions/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-24977</doi>				</item>
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					<title>German government gives tigers $27 million</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2014/01/german-government-gives-tigers-27-million/</link>
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					<pubDate>14 Jan 2014 16:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Big Cats, Carnivores, Cats, Conservation, Conservation Finance, Endangered Species, Environment, Funding, Green, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Mammals, Predators, Tigers, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[At a summit in 2010, the world&#8217;s 13 tiger range states pledged to double the number of tigers (Panthera tigris) in the wild by 2020. Today, non-tiger state Germany announced its assistance toward that end. Through its KfW Development Bank, the German government has pledged around $27 million (20 million Euro) to a new program [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[At a summit in 2010, the world&#8217;s 13 tiger range states pledged to double the number of tigers (Panthera tigris) in the wild by 2020. Today, non-tiger state Germany announced its assistance toward that end. Through its KfW Development Bank, the German government has pledged around $27 million (20 million Euro) to a new program run by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. &#8220;This generous support from Germany provides great hope for this iconic species, which is currently on the brink of extinction. Saving the tiger depends on restoring its rapidly shrinking forest habitat,&#8221; says Julia Marton-Lefèvre, IUCN Director General. The monies will go to a five year program, dubbed the Integrated Tiger Habitat Conservation Programme, which will divvy out funds to conservation groups and wildlife authorities in select tiger range countries.This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2014/01/german-government-gives-tigers-27-million/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-25831</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Reversing local extinction: scientists bring the northern bald ibis back to Europe after 300 years</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/12/reversing-local-extinction-scientists-bring-the-northern-bald-ibis-back-to-europe-after-300-years/</link>
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					<pubDate>02 Dec 2013 16:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Federica Di Leonardo]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Austria, Europe, Germany, and Italy]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animal Behavior, Animals, Birds, Captive Breeding, Conservation, Critically Endangered Species, Endangered Species, Environment, Ex-situ Conservation, Green, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Migration, Poaching, Reintroductions, Rewilding, Saving Species From Extinction, Solutions, Wildlife, and Zoos]]>
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							<![CDATA[The unmistakable northern bald ibis (Geronticus eremita). Photo by: Waldrappteam. The northern bald ibis (Geronticus eremita), also called the hermit ibis or waldrapp, is a migratory bird. Once, the bald ibis lived in the Middle East, northern Africa and southern and central Europe, but due to hunting, loss of habitat and pesticide-use, the birds disappeared [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The unmistakable northern bald ibis (Geronticus eremita). Photo by: Waldrappteam. The northern bald ibis (Geronticus eremita), also called the hermit ibis or waldrapp, is a migratory bird. Once, the bald ibis lived in the Middle East, northern Africa and southern and central Europe, but due to hunting, loss of habitat and pesticide-use, the birds disappeared from most of these areas and is currently considered Critically Endangered. It became extinct in Europe 300 years ago; the bird is almost gone in Syria, with only a single individual recorded at the country&#8217;s lone breeding site in 2013; and the only stronghold left is a small population of around 500 birds in Morocco. But now, a team of scientists from Austria is working to reestablish a self-sustaining, migratory population of bald ibis in Europe. In 2002 Johannes Fritz, who had been a doctoral student in biology at the Konrad Lorenz Research Station in Austria, came up with the idea of taking northern bald ibises from zoos and imprinting them, in effect becoming their foster parent to teach them a new migratory route to Italy. After more than ten years of research and feasibility planning, the Austrian Waldrappteam, together with partners from Germany and Italy (the Parco Natura Viva Garda Zoological Park) received funding from the European Union for a Life+ Project to be held from 2014 to 2019. The aim of the project is to create a European population of at least 120 ibises that migrate autonomously from Germany to Italy. Experiments conducted&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2013/12/reversing-local-extinction-scientists-bring-the-northern-bald-ibis-back-to-europe-after-300-years/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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