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		<title>Conservation news</title>
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					<title>To boost conservation of kelp forests, start by naming them (commentary)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/to-boost-conservation-of-kelp-forests-start-by-naming-them-commentary/</link>
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					<pubDate>12 Nov 2026 01:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Helen WalneSwati Thiyagarajan]]>
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						<![CDATA[Erik Hoffner]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Global, South Africa, and Southern Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Coastal Ecosystems, Commentary, Conservation, Ecosystems, Environment, Governance, Mangroves, Marine, Marine Animals, Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal, Marine Conservation, Oceans, Seagrass, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Beneath the coppery fronds of the only floating bamboo kelp forest in the world, a creature shapeshifts across the reef. A tuberculate cuttlefish (Sepia tuberculata) has just escaped a predator using “pseudomorph-ink” — a ‘false body’ strategy of emitting ink clouds that resemble its shape — while the actual animal jets away in the opposite [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Beneath the coppery fronds of the only floating bamboo kelp forest in the world, a creature shapeshifts across the reef. A tuberculate cuttlefish (Sepia tuberculata) has just escaped a predator using “pseudomorph-ink” — a ‘false body’ strategy of emitting ink clouds that resemble its shape — while the actual animal jets away in the opposite direction. Once hidden under a rock or in a crevice, its superb camouflage and mimicry will protect it from detection. This animal lives in the Great African Seaforest, which stretches for more than 1,300 kilometers (just over 800 miles) from South Africa to Namibia. This ecosystem is just one of many such kelp forests across the world that together house thousands of kinds of creatures all hiding, breeding, sheltering and feeding. However, their homes are in trouble. Proponents say kelp forests like the Great African Seaforest deserve the same attention that other marine ecosystems like coral reefs and mangrove forests receive. Image courtesy of Jannes Landschoff / Sea Change Project. Fringing a third of the world’s coastlines in temperate and polar waters, kelp forests are one of the most biodiverse nearshore ecosystems on our planet and are probably as biologically important as rainforests. Despite this, less than 2% of them are meaningfully protected and warming water could wipe out up to 25 million hectares (almost 62 million acres) of kelp forests by 2050. Then, this August, the global ocean surface hit its highest temperature on record. Kelp forests are biodiversity powerhouses that provide valuable ecosystem&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/to-boost-conservation-of-kelp-forests-start-by-naming-them-commentary/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>How would the Amazon react if it dried up? A 25-year-old field study has the answer</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/how-would-the-amazon-react-if-it-dried-up-a-25-year-old-field-study-has-the-answer/</link>
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					<pubDate>11 Nov 2026 16:56:47 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Luís Patriani]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Xavier Bartaburu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Adaptation To Climate Change, Climate, Climate Change, Climate Science, Drought, Earth Science, Ecosystems, Environment, Extreme Weather, Forests, Global Environmental Crisis, Impact Of Climate Change, Rainforests, Research, Science, and Threats To Rainforests]]>
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							<![CDATA[A question hangs in the air while the soil of the planet&#8217;s largest tropical rainforest grows increasingly dry: What is the Amazon&#8217;s future facing extreme droughts in a warming world? To try to predict the fate of the biome, an ambitious experiment subjected an area of Amazon vegetation in Pará in northern Brazil to severe [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A question hangs in the air while the soil of the planet&#8217;s largest tropical rainforest grows increasingly dry: What is the Amazon&#8217;s future facing extreme droughts in a warming world? To try to predict the fate of the biome, an ambitious experiment subjected an area of Amazon vegetation in Pará in northern Brazil to severe water stress for two decades. The findings reveal a surprising reshuffle of how the forest survives. The Esecaflor Project (Forest Drought Study Project) is the longest-running and most extensive scientific investigation of its kind ever conducted in a tropical forest. It has been underway for 25 years, during which its creators have sought to understand how the Amazon might respond to a prolonged lack of water in the soil. The experimental drought began in 2001. Covering a one-hectare (2.5-acre) area within the roughly 318,000 hectares (786,000 acres) of Caxiuanã National Forest in Pará, the project installed 6,000 transparent, rectangular plastic panels beneath the tree canopy, between 1 and 4 meters (3.3 and 13 feet) above the ground, to divert about 50% of rainwater away through gutters and channels. An undisturbed plot of equal size serves as a comparison area. In both forest plots, researchers monitor soil moisture, air temperature, tree growth, sap flow and root development, while two 40-m-(131-ft-)tall towers equipped with NASA radar transmit data to the agency&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the U.S. state of California for processing. Plastic panels installed beneath the canopy in the Esecaflor Project study area divert rainwater to&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/how-would-the-amazon-react-if-it-dried-up-a-25-year-old-field-study-has-the-answer/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Epidemiologist Neil Vora joins Mongabay&#8217;s board as it expands global reach and planetary health coverage</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/epidemiologist-neil-vora-joins-mongabays-board-as-it-expands-global-reach-and-planetary-health-coverage/</link>
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					<pubDate>11 Nov 2026 16:47:22 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Environment, Health, One Health, Planetary Health, Public Health, and Zoonotic Diseases]]>
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							<![CDATA[Neil Vora has worked on Ebola outbreaks in Liberia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo and ran New York City’s COVID-19 contact-tracing operation that traced more than 700,000 people. Now the physician and epidemiologist is joining Mongabay’s board of directors. The Ebola deployments came during nearly a decade at the U.S. Centers for Disease [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Neil Vora has worked on Ebola outbreaks in Liberia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo and ran New York City’s COVID-19 contact-tracing operation that traced more than 700,000 people. Now the physician and epidemiologist is joining Mongabay’s board of directors. The Ebola deployments came during nearly a decade at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Over time, Vora turned his attention to the conditions that let diseases jump from animals to people in the first place: forest clearing, the wildlife trade, factory farming. “Some researchers believe the West African Ebola epidemic began with an axe,” he said in a 2023 TED Talk, describing how farmers in rural Guinea cleared forest to survive. He argues that protecting forests and wildlife, along with better public health and animal husbandry, can lower the risk of the next pandemic. He now leads the Preventing Pandemics at the Source Coalition, which pushes governments and funders to tackle the ecological causes of emerging diseases. Before that, he was a senior adviser on One Health at Conservation International. &#8220;We&#8217;re honored to have Neil join Mongabay&#8217;s board of directors,&#8221; said Rhett Butler, Mongabay founder and CEO. &#8220;His knowledge and experience at the intersection of public health and conservation will be particularly valuable as Mongabay builds out its planetary health reporting.&#8221; &#8220;I deeply appreciate how his work has connected deforestation and environmental degradation to human wellbeing,&#8221; Butler added. &#8220;And on a personal level, I feel a kinship with Neil as a fellow reptile and amphibian&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/epidemiologist-neil-vora-joins-mongabays-board-as-it-expands-global-reach-and-planetary-health-coverage/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-335432</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Audit says Europe’s marine protected areas failing as 2030 deadline looms</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/audit-says-europes-marine-protected-areas-failing-as-2030-deadline-looms/</link>
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					<pubDate>11 Nov 2026 16:14:04 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Edward Carver]]>
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						<![CDATA[Autumn Spanne]]>
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							<![CDATA[Europe and European Union]]>
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							<![CDATA[30x30 conservation target, Conservation, Deep Sea, Ecosystems, Environment, Environmental Policy, Fisheries, Fishing, Governance, Marine, Marine Protected Areas, Oceans, Overfishing, and Protected Areas]]>
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							<![CDATA[The European Union has for many years been a key player in international biodiversity negotiations, pushing hard for the world’s nations to protect 30% of their land and sea by 2030 — known as the 30&#215;30 initiative. Yet a new audit highlights that the EU is itself off track to fulfill this commitment, at least [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The European Union has for many years been a key player in international biodiversity negotiations, pushing hard for the world’s nations to protect 30% of their land and sea by 2030 — known as the 30&#215;30 initiative. Yet a new audit highlights that the EU is itself off track to fulfill this commitment, at least when it comes to its marine environment. The European Court of Auditors (ECA), the EU’s independent auditing body, published a report on Oct. 26 that says the EU “has not established a marine protected area network that effectively protects the marine environment” and that it’s “highly unlikely” the bloc will meet its 30% target by 2030. The auditors reported that in the type of EU marine protected area (MPA) that covers the most area, Natura 2000 sites, apparent fishing activity is 72% higher than in other European waters. The vast majority of that fishing effort, about 85%, involved the “most destructive bottom-contact gear,” such as bottom trawls that drag weighted nets, damaging seafloor habitats. The audit points to a long-standing problem with MPAs in Europe and beyond: Designation doesn’t necessarily lead to meaningful protection. Many are “paper parks” that lack strong rules, management or enforcement. “The report bolsters the growing criticism of the EU&#8217;s &#8216;paper parks&#8217; — campaigners have been calling out the prevalence of destructive fishing practices, in particular bottom-trawling, within MPAs,” John Condon, lead for marine ecosystems at ClientEarth, a U.K.-headquartered NGO, told Mongabay in an email. ClientEarth is part of an umbrella&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/audit-says-europes-marine-protected-areas-failing-as-2030-deadline-looms/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-335575</doi>				</item>
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					<title>US companies apply to explore deep-sea mining in area bordering Pacific island states</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/us-companies-apply-to-explore-deep-sea-mining-in-area-bordering-pacific-island-states/</link>
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					<pubDate>11 Nov 2026 15:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Elizabeth Claire Alberts]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rebecca Kessler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Oceania, Pacific Islands, and Pacific Ocean]]>
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							<![CDATA[Business, Conservation, Deep Sea, Deep Sea Mining, Environment, Environmental Law, Environmental Policy, Governance, Industry, Islands, Law, Marine, Marine Conservation, Marine Protected Areas, Mining, Natural Resources, Oceans, Politics, and Protected Areas]]>
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							<![CDATA[Two U.S. companies have applied to the U.S. government for seabed mining exploration licenses in two large patches of international waters near the Cook Islands, Kiribati and French Polynesia in the South Pacific Ocean. Local government officials and environmental organizations are pushing back. The applications are part of a broader move by U.S. companies to [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Two U.S. companies have applied to the U.S. government for seabed mining exploration licenses in two large patches of international waters near the Cook Islands, Kiribati and French Polynesia in the South Pacific Ocean. Local government officials and environmental organizations are pushing back. The applications are part of a broader move by U.S. companies to stake claims to the international seabed through a controversial U.S. permitting process. The process bypasses the U.N.-linked multilateral body tasked with regulating deep-sea mining activities on the high seas and protecting the marine environment. Beyond the two South Pacific sites, U.S. companies are also seeking rights through this process to large seabed blocks in international waters near Guam in the western Pacific and in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ), a vast area between Hawai‘i and Mexico, a recent Mongabay investigation showed. Most of these areas harbor polymetallic nodules, avocado-sized rocks that contain nickel, manganese, copper, cobalt and other minerals. In the South Pacific, Delaware-incorporated American Deep Sea Minerals, Inc. (ADSM) and Florida-based American Ocean Minerals Corporation (AOM) have both applied to the U.S. government to explore areas of the seabed for their mining potential, with a view to eventually extract and sell seabed minerals. Their plans focus on two areas: a 101,064-square-kilometer (39,021-square-mile) pocket of international waters bounded by the exclusive economic zones (EEZs) of the Cook Islands, Kiribati and French Polynesia; and a 89,645-km2 (34,612-mi2) area south of the Cook Islands’ EEZ. Louisa Castledine, a spokesperson for the Cook Islands-based ocean advocacy collective Ocean Ancestors,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/us-companies-apply-to-explore-deep-sea-mining-in-area-bordering-pacific-island-states/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-335570</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Angolan hunters protect Southern Africa’s internationally important wetland</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/angolan-hunters-protect-southern-africas-internationally-important-wetland/</link>
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					<pubDate>11 Nov 2026 13:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Ryan Truscott]]>
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						<![CDATA[Terna Gyuse]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Angola, and Southern Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Climate Change, Degraded Lands, Environment, Environmental Policy, Forest Destruction, Governance, Hunting, Indigenous Peoples, Peatlands, Poaching, Rivers, Tropics, Water, Wetlands, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Four years ago, elders from several different communities in Angola’s southeastern highlands approached environmental anthropologist Kerllen Costa, saying they’d noticed an influx of people from outside the highlands coming there to hunt for bushmeat without obtaining permission from local chiefs. Sometimes the outsiders recruited locals to hunt on their behalf. These hunting parties were disregarding [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Four years ago, elders from several different communities in Angola’s southeastern highlands approached environmental anthropologist Kerllen Costa, saying they’d noticed an influx of people from outside the highlands coming there to hunt for bushmeat without obtaining permission from local chiefs. Sometimes the outsiders recruited locals to hunt on their behalf. These hunting parties were disregarding local hunting rules, the elders told Costa. They weren’t following traditional leaders’ prescriptions on where and when to hunt, how many animals to kill, or how much of their haul to share with villagers. “They asked for help to reinforce the traditional ways,” said Costa, who is Angola director of the National Geographic Okavango Wilderness Project (NGOWP) and co-founder of Fundação Lisima, a conservation group. Months of discussions ensued, at the end of which each village across the landscape nominated one Watcher. Their job is to keep watch over their woodlands, monitor popular hunting trails, and ensure that the animals are hunted in line with traditional rules. “They have a concept that every single person in the landscape is a watcher,” Costa said. “The farmer, the fisherman, the beekeeper — they&#8217;re always watching what&#8217;s happening, whether it be what a person is doing or a change in the ecosystem.” The source lake of the Cuito river, in Moxico province. The Cuito is one of two major rivers feeding the Okavango river and Botswana’s giant Okavango delta. Image courtesy of Kostadin Luchansky/AIB/NGOWP. The landscape they’re watching over is the Lisima Lya Mwono, or “the source of&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/angolan-hunters-protect-southern-africas-internationally-important-wetland/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Brazil’s post-election challenge: What President Lula needs to change to keep the Amazon forest standing (commentary)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/brazils-post-election-challenge-what-president-lula-needs-to-change-to-keep-the-amazon-forest-standing/</link>
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					<pubDate>11 Nov 2026 13:29:28 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Philip M. Fearnside]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Climate Change, Commentary, Conservation, Deforestation, Environment, extractives, Fossil Fuels, Infrastructure, Natural Resources, Oil, Oil Drilling, and Roads]]>
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							<![CDATA[With Brazil´s 25 October election, Amazonia narrowly escaped a catastrophic threat. Now that Flávio Bolsonaro has been defeated and President Lula reelected, those concerned with the future of Amazonia must face what needs to be done to avoid the various still-pending threats to the region. These include the very real possibility of the forest collapsing [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[With Brazil´s 25 October election, Amazonia narrowly escaped a catastrophic threat. Now that Flávio Bolsonaro has been defeated and President Lula reelected, those concerned with the future of Amazonia must face what needs to be done to avoid the various still-pending threats to the region. These include the very real possibility of the forest collapsing from the combined effect of ongoing global climate change from greenhouse gas emissions (see here and here), regional climate change from deforestation (see here and here) and forest degradation as from logging, fire and edge effects (see here and here). Climate change Like the Amazon forest, global climate is also fast approaching a tipping point (see here and here). Global warming is close to escaping from human control, leading to a “runaway greenhouse” with temperatures shooting upward even if humans reduce their “direct” emissions from fossil fuels and deforestation to zero, while forest fires, soil and ocean warming and other “indirect” anthropogenic sources fuel ever more warming to create a “hothouse Earth.” If the climate tipping point is crossed before the Amazon forest collapses, the changed climate would quickly destroy the remaining forest, and, conversely, if the forest were to collapse first, the resulting greenhouse gas emissions would quickly push the climate system past its tipping point. The two threats are therefore intimately interconnected. Brazil would be devastated, along with most of the world. Mass mortality of the human population would eclipse virtually all other concerns. For a limited time, we can withstand temperatures a&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/brazils-post-election-challenge-what-president-lula-needs-to-change-to-keep-the-amazon-forest-standing/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Testing the next generation of wildfire tech: Interview with XPRIZE Foundation’s Andrea Santy</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/testing-the-next-generation-of-wildfire-tech-interview-with-xprize-foundations-andrea-santy/</link>
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					<pubDate>11 Nov 2026 12:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Abhishyant Kidangoor]]>
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						<![CDATA[Abhishyantkidangoor]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation, Conservation Technology, Disasters, Environment, Extreme Weather, Fires, Forests, Interviews, Interviews with conservation players, and Technology]]>
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							<![CDATA[How do you detect and mitigate destructive wildfires? That question was at the heart of an $11 million competition that culminated recently after four years. In 2023, the nonprofit XPRIZE Foundation launched the XPRIZE Wildfire competition to identify innovative technologies that could detect and respond to wildfires. The competition focused on two tracks: satellite-based detection [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[How do you detect and mitigate destructive wildfires? That question was at the heart of an $11 million competition that culminated recently after four years. In 2023, the nonprofit XPRIZE Foundation launched the XPRIZE Wildfire competition to identify innovative technologies that could detect and respond to wildfires. The competition focused on two tracks: satellite-based detection of small fires across large landscapes, and autonomous detection, navigation, and suppression of wildfires without human intervention. “We have been seeing more destructive fires,” Andrea Santy, executive director of the foundation’s wildfire program, told Mongabay in a video interview. “The fire season isn&#8217;t any longer just a season. It was becoming year-round.” The competition’s final round of testing took place earlier this year. The space-based wildfire detection aspect of the competition required participants to detect fires across a large landscape in Australia within 10 minutes. The autonomous response part, meanwhile, tested the ability of teams to detect and suppress a fire in rural Alaska within 10 minutes of it starting. While no one team claimed the grand prize in either of the tracks, Santy said the whole journey left her with a “huge amount of confidence that the technology over the past several years has been developing.” The competition now enters a phase where XPRIZE will work with the teams to translate the technologies into scalable solutions that can be deployed for real-world applications. While no teams claimed the grand prize, Andrea Santy, pictured above, said she has developed confidence that the technology has massively&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/testing-the-next-generation-of-wildfire-tech-interview-with-xprize-foundations-andrea-santy/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>US brand StarKist suspends tuna sourcing from vessels accused of exploiting Indonesian fishers</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/us-brand-starkist-suspends-tuna-sourcing-from-vessels-accused-of-exploiting-indonesian-fishers/</link>
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					<pubDate>11 Nov 2026 12:39:25 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Basten Gokkon]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Yenni Kwok]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Global, Indonesia, North America, South Korea, Taiwan, and United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[Business, Certification, Conflict, Crime, Environment, Environmental Law, Fish, Fisheries, Fishing, Food, Food Industry, Forced labor, Human Rights, Industry, Marine, Marine Conservation, Natural Resources, Oceans, Saltwater Fish, Slavery, Sustainability, and Tuna]]>
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							<![CDATA[U.S. tuna brand StarKist has announced a halt on purchases from fishing vessels linked to forced labor practices in a recent report. It also says it has hired an outside firm to investigate after an Indonesian migrant fishers’ union demanded a binding labor agreement with the company. In a statement sent to Mongabay on Nov. [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[U.S. tuna brand StarKist has announced a halt on purchases from fishing vessels linked to forced labor practices in a recent report. It also says it has hired an outside firm to investigate after an Indonesian migrant fishers’ union demanded a binding labor agreement with the company. In a statement sent to Mongabay on Nov. 10, StarKist said it has “zero tolerance” for forced labor and human rights violations throughout its supply chain. “We take all allegations of labor and human rights violations seriously, including those recently raised by FOSPI and Global Labor Justice (GLJ),” Matthew Hall, StarKist’s head of global sustainability, said in the statement. The statement was issued nearly two months after U.S.-based GLJ published a report as part of a campaign with the Taiwan-based Indonesian migrant fishers’ union, FOSPI-PMFU. The report, “On the Hook: Forced Labor in StarKist’s Supply Chain,” said it found indications of forced labor among Indonesian migrant fishers working on board Taiwanese vessels in StarKist’s Pacific albacore tuna supply chain. Taiwanese fishers unload albacore from a tuna longliner. Image courtesy of NOAA Central Library Historical Fisheries Collection. StarKist, owned by South Korean seafood giant Dongwon Industries, sells Pacific albacore tuna in the United States. The brand accounts for 42% of the U.S. market share of processed tuna imports, “making its sourcing practices significant for the wider industry,” GLJ said. In the StarKist statement, Hall said the company had appointed an independent third-party firm, Key Traceability, to conduct a probe and had opened its internal&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/us-brand-starkist-suspends-tuna-sourcing-from-vessels-accused-of-exploiting-indonesian-fishers/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Rising seas could reshape habitats for more than 40% of world’s land vertebrates</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/rising-seas-could-reshape-habitats-for-more-than-40-of-worlds-land-vertebrates/</link>
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					<pubDate>11 Nov 2026 02:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Carolyn Cowan]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Global, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amphibians, Animals, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Ecosystems, Conservation, Ecosystems, Environment, Habitat, Habitat Degradation, Habitat Loss, Mammals, Reptiles, Research, Sea Levels, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Sea level rise driven by climate change could see more than 42% of terrestrial land vertebrates lose parts of their habitats to the ocean by the end of the century, according to new research. The global study, recently published in Science, overlaid habitat suitability maps calculated for 34,120 land vertebrates — roughly 90% of all [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Sea level rise driven by climate change could see more than 42% of terrestrial land vertebrates lose parts of their habitats to the ocean by the end of the century, according to new research. The global study, recently published in Science, overlaid habitat suitability maps calculated for 34,120 land vertebrates — roughly 90% of all known amphibian, reptile, bird and mammal species — with sea level rise projections associated with five Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) climate change scenarios, ranging from low to high emissions outlooks. “Conservation planning needs to consider not only where species occur today, but also which parts of their habitat are projected to remain above water in the future,” co-author of the study Zhong-Wen Jiang, a postdoctoral researcher at Sun Yat-sen University in China, told Mongabay in an email. The study found between 14,325 and 15,324 of the species examined would be exposed to habitat loss due to coastal inundation by the year 2100, depending on the climate scenario. Yet only 5.9% of these species are considered at risk from climate change, according to their IUCN Red List assessments. Up to 63% of birds, 52% of mammals, 36% of reptiles and 24% of amphibians will likely be affected, the study found, with reptiles, narrow-ranging species and already threatened species particularly vulnerable. Overall, reptiles are likely to experience nearly double the amount of habitat loss of birds or mammals. The finding that such a significant number of species will be affected by sea level rise highlights&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/rising-seas-could-reshape-habitats-for-more-than-40-of-worlds-land-vertebrates/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-335395</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Investigation: Fungus may have killed Atlantic Forest amphibians in the 1970s and &#8217;80s</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/investigation-fungus-may-have-killed-atlantic-forest-amphibians-in-the-1979s-and-80s/</link>
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					<pubDate>10 Nov 2026 21:24:07 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sean Mowbray]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Sharon Guynup]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Atlantic Forest, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amphibians, Biodiversity, Conservation, Diseases, Ecosystems, Environment, Forests, Frogs, Rainforests, Research, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[In the 1970s and ’80s, frogs in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest began dying off. Researchers have proposed various causes, from severe cold snaps to acid rain. Now, scientists believe they have solved this decade-old amphibian “cold case.” The culprit, it seems, may be the highly contagious pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd). It causes a deadly infectious skin [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In the 1970s and ’80s, frogs in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest began dying off. Researchers have proposed various causes, from severe cold snaps to acid rain. Now, scientists believe they have solved this decade-old amphibian “cold case.” The culprit, it seems, may be the highly contagious pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd). It causes a deadly infectious skin disease, chytrid, in amphibians. The investigation was recently published in the journal Molecular Ecology. Researchers from the U.S. and Brazil studied specimens collected from Boracéia research station in the Atlantic Forest. William Ronald Heyer, a former curator at the Smithsonian in the U.S., had gathered and preserved 370 frogs from 17 species for scientific study during the 1970s and ’80s. But no one collected the amphibians from 1979 to 1982 — a period when there was a drastic decline in frogs. “There&#8217;s a gap right when the decline happened,” said Jack Boyette, who is first author on this new study, a Smithsonian graduate fellow and Pennsylvania State University Ph.D. candidate. “So, we have this really amazing temporal collection before and after the decline.” When the team analyzed the specimens, they found no trace of Bd in 1978. But from 1983 onwards, it was widespread, indicating a “really rapid expansion,” Boyette said. In science, there’s sometimes a “detection lag” — and this was one of those cases. Though the pathogen wasn’t described until 1999, it began devastating populations in the 1970s after emerging in Asia. Bd/chytrid has driven declines in more than 500 species across the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/investigation-fungus-may-have-killed-atlantic-forest-amphibians-in-the-1979s-and-80s/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Beat it: Den Staat farmers in South Africa use drumming and fire to deter elephants</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/beat-it-den-staat-farmers-in-south-africa-use-drumming-and-fire-to-deter-elephants/</link>
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					<pubDate>10 Nov 2026 19:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Bernard Chiguvare]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Karen Coates]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, South Africa, and Southern Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Animals, Biodiversity, Conflict, Conservation, Culture, Elephants, Environment, Farming, Fellows, Human-wildlife Conflict, Solutions, Wildlife, and Wildlife Corridors]]>
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							<![CDATA[“Last night we had a very big fight with an elephant in our tomato field,” said Joeman Moyo, a farmer at Den Staat farm in South Africa’s Limpopo region. “We used a torch &#8230; to make a fire. The elephant would go away but return when I put out the torch. I also burned a [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[“Last night we had a very big fight with an elephant in our tomato field,” said Joeman Moyo, a farmer at Den Staat farm in South Africa’s Limpopo region. “We used a torch &#8230; to make a fire. The elephant would go away but return when I put out the torch. I also burned a tire, but this did not scare it away for long. It kept coming back when the fire died down.” Moyo, who looks after a 5-hectare (12.4-acre) plot, described an experience reflecting the challenges facing Den Staat’s smallholder farmers, as elephants enter their fields at night and threaten crops that provide an income. Farmers use several creative methods to deter the animals, including beating metal tins, hanging empty white plastic containers on wires and lighting fires. The history of this land is important background for understanding the situation today. Den Staat is land reclaimed by a community whose members and ancestors were affected by forced removals under apartheid. The farm was returned to the Machete community in 2010, and it is now held collectively through a Community Property Association (CPA). (Left) Joeman Moyo showing one of the areas where an elephant destroyed his tomatoes the previous night. (Right) Moyo, where he burned tires the previous night to scare away elephants. Images by Bernard Chiguvare. Today, more than 160 people live on the farm where they often face encounters with elephants, which residents say are their biggest concern because they are the most destructive. However, elephants are&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/beat-it-den-staat-farmers-in-south-africa-use-drumming-and-fire-to-deter-elephants/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Is your gym attire setting you up for health problems?</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/is-your-gym-attire-setting-you-up-for-health-problems/</link>
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					<pubDate>10 Nov 2026 19:40:48 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Ouma Elvine Tina]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Karen Coates]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa and Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Chemicals, Consumption, Culture, Environment, Fellows, forever chemicals, Gender, Health, Pollution, and Public Health]]>
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							<![CDATA[Kenya&#8217;s fitness boom runs on activewear built for stretch, sweat and shine yet almost no one asks what&#8217;s actually in the fabric. By 7 a.m. on a Saturday, Riverside Square in Nairobi&#8217;s Westlands neighborhood is already filling up. Dozens arrive in matching leggings and sports bras, water bottles clipped to armbands, ready for a running [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Kenya&#8217;s fitness boom runs on activewear built for stretch, sweat and shine yet almost no one asks what&#8217;s actually in the fabric. By 7 a.m. on a Saturday, Riverside Square in Nairobi&#8217;s Westlands neighborhood is already filling up. Dozens arrive in matching leggings and sports bras, water bottles clipped to armbands, ready for a running loop that will most often end with coffee. Four years ago, this was the routine of four friends and a goal to keep fit. Today it is We Run Nairobi, the city&#8217;s largest free running community.  On its best mornings, it pulls more than 1,200 people through the streets of  Nairobi’s most upscale neighborhoods. Running clubs are only the most visible edge of a much larger shift. Fitness challenges circulate on TikTok and Instagram. Step-count groups swap targets on WhatsApp and the fitness app Step-Up. Gyms that once sat half-empty now run waitlists. At the Nairobi Bariatric Centre, a clinic that struggled to get clients when it opened three decades ago, doctors now see 10-15 patients a day. Amid this shift, reports show that nearly 90% of Kenya&#8217;s cosmetic surgery patients are women. Kenya, where carrying extra weight was once read as a sign of prosperity, is in the middle of a wellness reckoning, and the reasons are real: The World Health Organization&#8217;s Kenya office reported in 2025 that noncommunicable diseases now account for 41% of deaths and half of all hospital admissions in the country. Powering all of it, quite literally, is what people&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/is-your-gym-attire-setting-you-up-for-health-problems/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>‘You need strong willpower’: IUCN’s Kazi Zenifar Azmiri on being a woman wildlife biologist</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/you-need-strong-willpower-iucns-kazi-zenifar-azmiri-on-being-a-woman-wildlife-biologist/</link>
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					<pubDate>10 Nov 2026 18:53:48 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Usraat Fahmidah]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Calvin Rock]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Bangladesh, and South Asia]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Biology, Birds, Conservation, Culture, Environment, Fellows, Gender, Interviews, Interviews with conservation players, Media, Research, Wildlife, and Women In Science]]>
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							<![CDATA[For more than a decade, Kazi Zenifar Azmiri has played a crucial part in protecting wildlife in Bangladesh. Zenifar is a program associate at the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Her work centers primarily on the rescue and rehabilitation of threatened vultures like the white-rumped vulture (Gyps bengalensis) and Himalayan griffon vulture (Gyps [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[For more than a decade, Kazi Zenifar Azmiri has played a crucial part in protecting wildlife in Bangladesh. Zenifar is a program associate at the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Her work centers primarily on the rescue and rehabilitation of threatened vultures like the white-rumped vulture (Gyps bengalensis) and Himalayan griffon vulture (Gyps himalayensis). Bangladesh’s vulture populations have declined steeply over the years, largely because of exposure to veterinary painkillers that are toxic to the birds when they feed on the carcasses of treated cattle. Today, however, populations have shown signs of stabilization, aided by conservation efforts such as the establishment of vulture safe zones and a ban on drugs that can kill vultures feeding on the animals’ carcasses. Zenifar’s work involves tracking migratory birds, fitting them with identification rings and satellite tags that reveal their journeys. The collected data help researchers understand what threats the birds face. She also helps conserve ducks, dolphins, crocodiles and turtles across Bangladesh. From wetlands where these migratory birds gather to river systems and coastal areas that sustain these dolphins and crocodiles, she is often found doing fieldwork in remote corners of the country. On many of her trips, she says, she is the only woman in the group. In the local communities she works alongside, she has sometimes encountered attitudes that question her presence in the field. “I remember this fisherman we were working with locally,” she recalls. As they walked to meet a family she needed to interview, he asked&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/you-need-strong-willpower-iucns-kazi-zenifar-azmiri-on-being-a-woman-wildlife-biologist/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>DRC residents sue Chinese mining company over alleged pollution in Kolwezi</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/drc-residents-sue-chinese-mining-company-over-alleged-pollution-in-kolwezi/</link>
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					<pubDate>10 Nov 2026 12:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Anne NzouankeuWill Mbuyu]]>
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						<![CDATA[Malavika Vyawhare]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[africa]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Central Africa, and Democratic Republic Of Congo]]>
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							<![CDATA[Governance, Mining, Natural Resources, Pollution, and Water Pollution]]>
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							<![CDATA[Twenty-seven residents of Kolwezi, a major copper and cobalt mining hub in southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, have taken Chinese-controlled mining company COMMUS to court, accusing it of polluting their water, air and soil and putting their health and livelihoods at risk. The lawsuit against Compagnie Minière de Musonoie Global (COMMUS), controlled by Chinese mining [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Twenty-seven residents of Kolwezi, a major copper and cobalt mining hub in southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, have taken Chinese-controlled mining company COMMUS to court, accusing it of polluting their water, air and soil and putting their health and livelihoods at risk. The lawsuit against Compagnie Minière de Musonoie Global (COMMUS), controlled by Chinese mining giant Zijin Mining, was announced in a Nov. 3 statement by human rights organizations Afrewatch and RAID, which are supporting the plaintiffs. The case raises questions about the environmental and human costs of industrial mining in the DRC, one of the world&#8217;s leading producers of copper and cobalt, minerals essential to technologies used in the global energy transition. For residents living near COMMUS&#8217;s operations, the dispute is about more immediate concerns: access to clean water, deteriorating health and the loss of livelihoods that once depended on local waterways. &#8220;COMMUS found us living here. Before, we lived well,&#8221; said one resident, who was quoted anonymously in the statement. &#8220;We used to fish, vegetables grew naturally along the stream, and we used its water for cooking and washing. But COMMUS polluted our stream, blocked it and diverted its course,&#8221; the resident said. The resident alleged that fish had disappeared from the stream, that the water now caused skin problems and that exposure to the surrounding air produced facial irritation. &#8220;We asked the authorities to come and see what was happening, but we never received any help,&#8221; the resident said. The first hearing took place Nov. 3 before&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/drc-residents-sue-chinese-mining-company-over-alleged-pollution-in-kolwezi/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>A year after a wastewater spill in the Philippines, communities fight to save a dying sea</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/a-year-after-a-wastewater-spill-in-the-philippines-communities-fight-to-save-a-dying-sea/</link>
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					<pubDate>10 Nov 2026 05:17:44 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Pippo Carmona]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Philippines, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Business, Chemicals, Coastal Ecosystems, Conservation, Coral Reefs, Disasters, Environment, Health, Industry, Marine, Marine Conservation, Marine Protected Areas, Oceans, Pollution, and Water Pollution]]>
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							<![CDATA[MANJUYOD, Philippines — For years, Jonalyn Rentuaya, president of Alangilanan United Seaweed Growers Association, began her mornings the same way. By 6:00 a.m., she and other seaweed growers in the Alangilanan neighborhood of Manjuyod, would be wading in the shallows of Bais Bay, out on their lines, tending their crop. Then, on Oct. 26, 2025, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[MANJUYOD, Philippines — For years, Jonalyn Rentuaya, president of Alangilanan United Seaweed Growers Association, began her mornings the same way. By 6:00 a.m., she and other seaweed growers in the Alangilanan neighborhood of Manjuyod, would be wading in the shallows of Bais Bay, out on their lines, tending their crop. Then, on Oct. 26, 2025, the usually clear waters deepened to the color of dark tea. A flood of waste from an ethanol plant about a kilometer away had poured into the bay. “It was maybe around 7:00 a.m. when the dike broke,” Rentuaya says. “Those on the shore immediately ran for safety because it was like a tidal wave. The pressure was strong.” The embankment holding the waste effluent of Universal Robina Corporation’s (URC) ethanol distillery collapsed, unleashing 255 million liters (67.4 million gallons) of wastewater into the bay, equivalent to about 100 Olympic-sized swimming pools of toxic ooze. Bacteria in the waste multiplied, consuming the dissolved oxygen that fish and other marine life need to breathe. Fish suffocated and seaweed on the lines died, and with them, the livelihoods of the coastal communities vanished. The spill reached 17 coastal villages across Bais and Manjuyod and affected at least 3,000 fishers, fish pen operators and seaweed growers, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) said on Nov. 3, 2025, according to Mongabay reporting at the time. The spill’s impact was compounded by the bay’s ecological significance. Bais Bay opens into the Tañon Strait, the narrow channel separating Negros,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/a-year-after-a-wastewater-spill-in-the-philippines-communities-fight-to-save-a-dying-sea/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>El Niño&#8217;s hidden toll on trees emerges years later in Papua New Guinea rainforest</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/el-ninos-hidden-toll-on-trees-emerges-years-later-in-papua-new-guinea-rainforest/</link>
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					<pubDate>09 Nov 2026 23:22:18 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Matthew Burkhart]]>
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						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
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							<![CDATA[Melanesia, Oceania, Pacific Islands, and Papua New Guinea]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Climate, Climate Change, Climate Science, Conservation, Drought, Earth Science, Ecosystems, El Nino, Environment, Extreme Weather, Forests, Global Environmental Crisis, Plants, Rainforests, Research, Science, Trees, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[When the El Niño drought ended in a remote Papua New Guinea rainforest, the trees did not immediately recover. Many kept dying. That is one of the findings of a recent study of more than 21,000 trees in the Wanang Forest Dynamics Plot, a 50-hectare (124-acre) research site in northern Papua New Guinea. Researchers measured [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[When the El Niño drought ended in a remote Papua New Guinea rainforest, the trees did not immediately recover. Many kept dying. That is one of the findings of a recent study of more than 21,000 trees in the Wanang Forest Dynamics Plot, a 50-hectare (124-acre) research site in northern Papua New Guinea. Researchers measured tree mortality before, during and two years after the catastrophic 2015-17 El Niño drought and found that mortality was significantly higher after the drought than before or during it. “It was after the drought, the post-drought period, that you could actually see those trees dying,” said Hayden Wagia, the study’s lead author and a faculty botanist at the Papua New Guinea University of Technology’s School of Forestry. The findings suggest the effects of drought can linger long after rainfall returns. Trees that survive a severe dry period may still be weakened enough to die later, although the researchers say their study cannot determine exactly what caused the delayed deaths. The 2015-17 drought brought a substantial reduction in rainfall to the Wanang forest. According to the study, only 5.2% of the area’s total precipitation fell during the dry season during the drought, compared with 13.1% before it and 9.6% afterward. One of the study&#8217;s most striking findings was how differently trees responded depending on where they grew. Valley trees experienced relatively high mortality before and during the drought but recovered quickly afterward. Ridge trees showed the opposite pattern, with mortality increasing after the drought and remaining&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/el-ninos-hidden-toll-on-trees-emerges-years-later-in-papua-new-guinea-rainforest/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>South Korea’s beloved squid may vanish from its waters due to climate change, heat waves</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/south-koreas-beloved-squid-may-vanish-from-its-waters-due-to-climate-change-heat-waves/</link>
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					<pubDate>09 Nov 2026 10:13:28 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Kelly Kasulis-Cho]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Yenni Kwok]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, East Asia, and South Korea]]>
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							<![CDATA[Climate, Climate Change, Conservation, Environment, Extreme Weather, Fisheries, Fishing, Food, Food Industry, food security, Global Environmental Crisis, Heatwave, Impact Of Climate Change, Marine, Marine Animals, Natural Resources, Ocean Warming, Oceans, Squid, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[SEOUL — Many South Koreans remember days when squid was inexpensive, everyday food: Stir-fried with spicy chili flakes, steamed in a bath of water and soju, or dried and eaten as a bar snack along with a pint of ice-cold beer. Kim Tae-won, a professor at the Department of Ocean Sciences at South Korea’s Inha [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[SEOUL — Many South Koreans remember days when squid was inexpensive, everyday food: Stir-fried with spicy chili flakes, steamed in a bath of water and soju, or dried and eaten as a bar snack along with a pint of ice-cold beer. Kim Tae-won, a professor at the Department of Ocean Sciences at South Korea’s Inha University, recalled when he was in high school in the 1990s, “squid was one of the major fishery resources in Korea’s East Sea.” “It was abundant, affordable and a familiar part of everyday meals,” he told Mongabay. But squid prices have skyrocketed in South Korea. One reason is that the country’s squid catch has been declining dramatically, with the current volume only one-sixteenth of that in 2002, according to the country’s national statistics service. Between 2023 and 2025, South Korea’s most prominent fisheries did not produce even 10% of the annual squid catch recorded in the peak production year of 1999, when roughly 225,122 tons of squid were caught from the Korean Peninsula’s surrounding seas. &nbsp; Pacific flying squid (Todarodes pacificus) drying at Daepo Port. Image by Bernard Gagnon via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain). A new study, published in the journal Communications Earth &amp; Environment in October, gives a worrying prediction. It estimates that by the 2040s, South Korea will become “a zero-catch state” for the Pacific flying squid (Todarodes pacificus), the country’s most popular squid species, due to climate change and marine heat waves. Researchers at Pukyong National University (PKNU) in Busan cross-examined fishery&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/south-koreas-beloved-squid-may-vanish-from-its-waters-due-to-climate-change-heat-waves/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Peru’s drive for critical minerals threatens a disappearing glacier</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/perus-drive-for-critical-minerals-threatens-a-disappearing-glacier/</link>
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					<pubDate>06 Nov 2026 18:21:03 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Euan Wallace]]>
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						<![CDATA[Alexandra Popescu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Latin America, Peru, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Critical Minerals, Ecosystems, Energy Transition, Freshwater, Glaciers, Governance, Health, Lithium, Mining, Natural Resources, Regulations, Water, and Water Scarcity]]>
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							<![CDATA[Like many in the community of Phinaya, in southeastern Peru, Donato Bermúdez makes his living from alpacas. His flock of 500 roams the slopes beneath the vast Quelccaya glacier, the site of the second-largest tropical ice cap in the world. Reaching 5,600 meters (18,400 feet), its white peak is home to centuries of tradition. “We [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Like many in the community of Phinaya, in southeastern Peru, Donato Bermúdez makes his living from alpacas. His flock of 500 roams the slopes beneath the vast Quelccaya glacier, the site of the second-largest tropical ice cap in the world. Reaching 5,600 meters (18,400 feet), its white peak is home to centuries of tradition. “We believe the glacier is essentially alive,” Bermúdez, a lifelong resident and former community president of Phinaya, told Mongabay by phone. “We say it gives us the water, the lifeblood that flows to the community.” But he and other Phinaya locals now fear that a threat may be looming from the other side of the mountain. In the shadow of Quelccaya, long-delayed lithium and uranium mining projects are gaining fresh momentum under President Keiko Fujimori, who is determined to put transition minerals firmly on Peru’s economic agenda. “Lithium and uranium mining would be catastrophic for the Quelccaya glacier,” said Yolanda Quispe, 44, a community leader and park ranger from Phinaya, who has spent a lifetime beneath the glacier. “The fauna and flora that exist around it, the people — all of this would be destroyed,” she told Mongabay over the phone. Through Peruvian subsidiary Macusani Yellowcake, Canadian firm American Lithium controls major deposits of lithium and uranium — two minerals the Peruvian government describes as critical to the clean energy transition — across at least 174 concessions covering more than 1,090 square kilometers (421 square miles) in the department of Puno, beneath the Quelccaya glacier. The&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/perus-drive-for-critical-minerals-threatens-a-disappearing-glacier/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>As loggerhead turtles spread west, Mediterranean beach resorts learn to share the sand</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/as-loggerhead-turtles-spread-west-mediterranean-beach-resorts-learn-to-share-the-sand/</link>
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					<pubDate>06 Nov 2026 17:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Anna NapolitanoManuela Callari]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Morgan Erickson-Davis]]>
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							<![CDATA[Europe and Mediterranean Sea]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Coastal Ecosystems, Conservation, Ecosystems, Environment, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Herps, Hope and optimism, Marine, Marine Animals, Marine Conservation, Reptiles, Sea Turtles, Solutions, Turtles, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[ASCEA and CASTEL VOLTURNO, Italy, and BARCELONA, Spain — In the early hours of a warm July day, regular rows of still-folded sun umbrellas stand along the shores of Castel Volturno, a coastal town in the Italian region of Campania, located about 35 kilometers (22 miles) northwest of Naples. A small group gathers around a [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[ASCEA and CASTEL VOLTURNO, Italy, and BARCELONA, Spain — In the early hours of a warm July day, regular rows of still-folded sun umbrellas stand along the shores of Castel Volturno, a coastal town in the Italian region of Campania, located about 35 kilometers (22 miles) northwest of Naples. A small group gathers around a control screen while a drone flies along the coast, searching for tractor-like tracks emerging from the waves. At the slightest sign, group members will quickly reach the location and fence off the area. Summer is the nesting season for the loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta). Loggerheads inhabit warm portions of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans, as well as the Mediterranean Sea. However, despite its broad range, the species is listed as vulnerable to extinction by the IUCN. These large marine reptiles spend roughly two decades maturing at sea before the females return to land — usually to the same beaches where they hatched — to lay their own eggs. Historically, loggerhead nesting in the Mediterranean has been concentrated in the warm sands of the sea’s eastern and central basins — primarily in Greece, Türkiye, and Cyprus — while the western basin has served mainly as a foraging ground by juvenile turtles. But over the past five decades, increasing numbers of nests have begun to appear in the western basin, including on the shores of Italy, France, and Spain. Researcher Fulvio Maffucci pilots a drone use to find loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) nesting sites.&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/as-loggerhead-turtles-spread-west-mediterranean-beach-resorts-learn-to-share-the-sand/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Drought driven by climate change is redefining how disease spreads, study finds</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/drought-driven-by-climate-change-is-redefining-how-disease-spreads-study-finds/</link>
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					<pubDate>06 Nov 2026 16:16:11 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Adam Litchkofski]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil, Global, and Senegal]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Climate, Climate Change, Conservation, Disasters, Diseases, Drought, El Nino, Environment, Extreme Weather, Global Environmental Crisis, Health, Impact Of Climate Change, Planetary Boundaries, Planetary Health, Public Health, Research, and Science]]>
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							<![CDATA[As climate change intensifies, drought is widening globally, causing alterations in water-dependent pathogen patterns, leaving scientists scrambling to understand how infectious disease transmission is evolving. They’ll need to act quickly to predict and prepare for future outbreaks: In 2025, annual drought affected approximately 30% of the globe’s land surface, a near doubling of area since [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[As climate change intensifies, drought is widening globally, causing alterations in water-dependent pathogen patterns, leaving scientists scrambling to understand how infectious disease transmission is evolving. They’ll need to act quickly to predict and prepare for future outbreaks: In 2025, annual drought affected approximately 30% of the globe’s land surface, a near doubling of area since 2000. Currently, one child dies every 90 seconds from a waterborne disease. Many species of microorganisms are known to infect humans via waterborne illnesses or via hosts like mosquitoes that need water to reproduce. So, it was long thought that when drought shrank or dried up water sources, infectious disease would decrease. Scientists now know this isn’t true, and a recent paper sheds light on the ecological processes defining this drought-disease paradox. “When people think about drought, they think about water shortage, wildfire, loss of agriculture, et cetera,” study co-author Pieter Johnson, a disease ecologist at the University of Colorado Boulder in the U.S. told Mongabay in a phone interview. “But drought is also influencing how plants and animals interact, including how they interact with parasites,” and also which among those pathogens might be winners or losers as drought spreads. A typical river during drought: As a waterbody shrinks, proximity of animals and microorganisms is increased, aiding the transmission of infectious disease — an effect defined by the drought-disease paradox. Image by Arushdeep Singh via Unsplash. The review paper published in the journal Trends in Ecology &amp; Evolution examined 100 previous studies focusing solely on&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/drought-driven-by-climate-change-is-redefining-how-disease-spreads-study-finds/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>&#8216;Stringing me along&#8217;: After 7 years, trial in Indigenous forest guardian killing delayed again</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/stringing-me-along-after-7-years-trial-in-indigenous-forest-guardian-killing-delayed-again/</link>
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					<pubDate>06 Nov 2026 15:41:52 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Karla Mendes]]>
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						<![CDATA[Nandithachandraprakash]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Conflict, Conservation, Culture, Environment, Environmental Law, Governance, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Law, Law Enforcement, Murdered Activists, and Violence]]>
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							<![CDATA[Why hasn&#8217;t the trial for the 2019 killing of forest guardian Paulo Paulino Guajajara and the attempted killing of fellow guardian Láercio Guajajara, in the Brazilian Amazon, taken place yet? &#8220;[T]here are no available slots on the court’s hearing calendar,&#8221; the advisory staff to the judge in the case told Mongabay in an emailed statement, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Why hasn&#8217;t the trial for the 2019 killing of forest guardian Paulo Paulino Guajajara and the attempted killing of fellow guardian Láercio Guajajara, in the Brazilian Amazon, taken place yet? &#8220;[T]here are no available slots on the court’s hearing calendar,&#8221; the advisory staff to the judge in the case told Mongabay in an emailed statement, one year after claiming lack of time for it to be held in 2025, sparking outrage among Guajajara Indigenous, activists and authorities. &#8220;They’re just stringing me along. Because if they actually intended to resolve this, they would have done it by now,&#8221; Paulo Guajajara’s father, José Maria Paulino Guajajara, told Mongabay by phone. &#8220;This is taking way too long — it’s been seven years already! That’s exactly why I’m here, feeling pretty fed up, to say the least.&#8221; &#8220;It’s as if we aren’t seen as human beings, right? When someone kills an Indigenous person, it’s as if it’s nothing at all — just the same as killing any animal,&#8221; Laércio Guajajara told Mongabay by phone. &#8220;We have a lot of negative thoughts about the justice system regarding this case.&#8221; On Nov. 1, 2019, Paulo Guajajara and Laércio Guajajara were fired upon in an alleged ambush by illegal loggers in the Arariboia Indigenous Territory, in northeastern Maranhão state. In August 2025, a long-awaited anthropological report of the collective damages to the Indigenous community as a result of the crimes was concluded and attached to the court case, bringing hope to the Guajajara people, activists and the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/stringing-me-along-after-7-years-trial-in-indigenous-forest-guardian-killing-delayed-again/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Mediterranean fisheries commission adopts species management plans but punts on deep-sea protections</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/mediterranean-fisheries-commission-adopts-species-management-plans-but-punts-on-deep-sea-protections/</link>
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					<pubDate>06 Nov 2026 14:43:47 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Francesco De Augustinis]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Autumn Spanne]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Europe, Greece, Italy, Mediterranean Sea, Morocco, and Spain]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Conservation, Environment, Environmental Law, Fish, Fisheries, Fishing, Governance, Law, Marine, Marine Animals, Marine Conservation, Oceans, Regulations, Saltwater Fish, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[The international organization responsible for regulating fisheries in the Mediterranean and Black seas concluded its annual meeting with the adoption of new management plans for some iconic species. However, it declined to pass expected fishing restrictions to protect certain ecologically important habitats. Half of all assessed species in the region are overexploited. The 49th session [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The international organization responsible for regulating fisheries in the Mediterranean and Black seas concluded its annual meeting with the adoption of new management plans for some iconic species. However, it declined to pass expected fishing restrictions to protect certain ecologically important habitats. Half of all assessed species in the region are overexploited. The 49th session of the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM), a body of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), took place in Rome Oct. 26-30, bringing together 23 member countries and the European Union. The meeting achieved some milestones, including establishing long-term harvest strategies for European hake (Merluccius merluccius) and deep-water rose shrimp (Parapenaeus longirostris) in the Strait of Sicily, and for giant red shrimp (Aristaeomorpha foliacea) in the Strait of Sicily, the Ionian Sea between Greece and southern Italy, and the Levantine Sea in the easternmost Mediterranean. However, the commission postponed making a decision on the establishment of two Fisheries Restricted Areas: One covering a cold-water coral reef between Spain and Morocco, and another expanding protection for deep-sea areas. Both proposals had broad agreement just a few months earlier, observers said. “It is disappointing that, despite multiple proposals to restrict fishing to protect sensitive habitats, countries could not reach agreement and instead delayed adoption,” Esther Wozniak, senior policy officer for sustainable fisheries at the U.S.-based NGO The Pew Charitable Trusts, who took part in the meeting as an observer, said in a press release. “There was, however, important progress on improving fisheries management that&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/mediterranean-fisheries-commission-adopts-species-management-plans-but-punts-on-deep-sea-protections/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Singapore sand imports threaten an already sinking Cambodian fishing community, again</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/singapore-sand-imports-threaten-an-already-sinking-cambodian-fishing-community-again/</link>
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					<pubDate>06 Nov 2026 00:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Andy Ball]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Asia, Cambodia, Singapore, and Southeast Asia]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Coastal Ecosystems, Ecosystems, Environment, extractives, Fish, Fisheries, Freshwater, Freshwater Fish, Governance, Mining, Natural Resources, Rivers, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Editor’s note: *Cambodian fishers who spoke to Mongabay asked that pseudonyms be used, fearing reprisals. BANGKOK, Thailand — Sand mining vessels were once a familiar sight to residents of Koh Sralao, a fishing village in Cambodia’s Koh Kong province. But it had been a decade since anyone had seen them. That changed in June. “I [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Editor’s note: *Cambodian fishers who spoke to Mongabay asked that pseudonyms be used, fearing reprisals. BANGKOK, Thailand — Sand mining vessels were once a familiar sight to residents of Koh Sralao, a fishing village in Cambodia’s Koh Kong province. But it had been a decade since anyone had seen them. That changed in June. “I started seeing lots of sand-mining barges lined up, probably around 10, when I go out to fish,” said Rithy,* who spotted them in a nearby waterway. The barges are part of a mining operation 10 kilometers (6 miles) upstream of Koh Sralao on the Trapeang Rung River, which provincial authorities say they’ve approved to extract sand for export to Singapore. Official data show that since June, sand exports have been underway to the city-state, where a Mongabay investigation found it is likely being used in a government-backed reclamation project. It comes a decade after the Cambodian government banned the trade in 2017, following dredging by politically connected companies that stripped hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of sand from the surrounding estuaries, damaging ecosystems and livelihoods in the process. Now, communities, conservationists and activists are warning it could happen again. A sand mining operation runs along the Trapeang Rung River in Koh Kong Knong village, Koh Kong province, Cambodia, in September 2026. For Rithy, the operation has already blocked his access to a stretch of river where he used to fish. “It’s impossible to go now because they will destroy my nets,” he said. “Since&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/singapore-sand-imports-threaten-an-already-sinking-cambodian-fishing-community-again/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Nigeria’s shifting rainfall wreaks havoc with a beloved edible green, the waterleaf plant</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/nigerias-shifting-rainfall-wreaks-havoc-with-a-beloved-edible-green-the-waterleaf-plant/</link>
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					<pubDate>05 Nov 2026 21:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Kingsley Charles]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Karen Coates]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Nigeria, and West Africa]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Conservation, Environment, Extreme Weather, Fellows, Food, food security, Impact Of Climate Change, Natural Resources, Nutrition, Plants, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[This is Part 1 in a two-part series on Nigerian waterleaf. Part 2 will be published soon. “These are the ones that survived the rain,” Enono Koka said, gesturing at a patch of short, spindly waterleaf plants across her large farm in downtown Calabar, in southern Nigeria’s Cross River. It was an unseasonably sunny morning [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[This is Part 1 in a two-part series on Nigerian waterleaf. Part 2 will be published soon. “These are the ones that survived the rain,” Enono Koka said, gesturing at a patch of short, spindly waterleaf plants across her large farm in downtown Calabar, in southern Nigeria’s Cross River. It was an unseasonably sunny morning in early October, and the 33-year-old was harvesting some of the vegetables for breakfast the next day. Most of the crops, she explained, had perished following days of relentless rainfall between August and September. “So I&#8217;m only left with these and I&#8217;m keeping them to eat with my family in the house,” she said. Much like Koka&#8217;s experience, the months since July have been painfully rough for Joy David Okon&#8217;s nearby waterleaf farm in Calabar. Before leaving town in September to visit her son, the sexagenarian farmer had sprayed some manure around her farmland to help enrich the freshly planted stems. Then came the disappointment. Her once-flourishing vegetable garden had turned into a marshland thick with weeds by the time she returned. “See the batch I planted in August. See how they keep looking scanty because of the plenty of rains this year,” she said, pointing at a sunken bed of shriveled waterleaf. Taken together, these events hint at the mounting strain on Nigeria&#8217;s waterleaf growing cycle brought on by shifts in rainfall patterns. Despite declining annual rainfall in recent years, persistent downpours in coastal cities like Lagos and Calabar have resulted in frequent episodes&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/nigerias-shifting-rainfall-wreaks-havoc-with-a-beloved-edible-green-the-waterleaf-plant/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Amazon mapping shows cacao expansion without deforestation in Brazil</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/amazon-mapping-shows-cacao-expansion-without-deforestation-in-brazil/</link>
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					<pubDate>05 Nov 2026 21:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Rafael Spuldar]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandre de Santi]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Atlantic Forest, Brazil, Global, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[agribusiness, Agriculture, Agroforestry, Biodiversity, Business, Cacao, Conservation, Crops, data, Ecosystems, Environment, Forestry, Forests, Industrial Agriculture, Monocultures, Natural Resources, Plants, Rainforests, Remote Sensing, Satellite Imagery, Sustainable Forest Management, Technology, Trees, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[While West Africa clears rainforest for chocolate, Brazilian farmers are reviving degraded pastures.]]>
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							<![CDATA[As record cocoa prices drive farmers in West Africa to clear native forest, a new study suggests the crop is following a different path in the Brazilian Amazon: It&#8217;s spreading onto land that was cleared long ago. Mapping by Embrapa, Brazil&#8217;s state-run agricultural research agency, found that the area on which cacao was growing in Pará, the country&#8217;s top-producing state, grew by a third between 2022 and 2024 to 116,436 hectares (287,700 acres). Nearly all of the cacao was found on old pastures and other previously cleared land, with 96% of the cacao that was mapped in Pará and 98% of it in Rondônia state located in areas deforested before 2020. This is fully compliant with the European Union’s sustainability regulations, strengthening Brazil’s position as a potential cocoa exporter. The study also found a new pattern in how the crop is grown. Until Embrapa’s 2022 mapping, all the cacao it had identified in Pará grew in agroforestry systems. Now almost two-thirds of new plantings are full-sun monocultures, where a single crop is grown in a large area without shade. This type of monoculture yields more beans per tree but is more vulnerable to pests and disease and leaves farmers dependent on a single crop. Cacao mapping in the Amazon traces back to TerraClass, a program run with Brazil’s space agency, INPE, that maps how deforested land in the Brazilian Amazon is used. Adriano Venturieri, a remote sensing specialist at Embrapa Amazônia Oriental in the city of Belém in Pará, led&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/amazon-mapping-shows-cacao-expansion-without-deforestation-in-brazil/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>How Ghana’s new license to sell sustainable timber improves institutions &#038; cooperation (analysis) </title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/how-ghanas-new-license-to-sell-sustainable-timber-improves-institutions-collaboration-analysis/</link>
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					<pubDate>05 Nov 2026 14:16:40 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Chris Beeko]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Erik Hoffner]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, European Union, Ghana, Global, and West Africa]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Analysis, Business, Certification, Commentary, Conservation, Environment, Forestry, Forests, Governance, International Trade, Sustainable Forest Management, timber trade, Trade, and Trees]]>
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							<![CDATA[When Ghana began its Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) process with the European Union, the attraction was clear. Europe is an important market for Ghanaian timber, international expectations around its legality were changing, and the VPA offered both market access and support for strengthening national forest governance. After a 16-year journey, last year Ghana became the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[When Ghana began its Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) process with the European Union, the attraction was clear. Europe is an important market for Ghanaian timber, international expectations around its legality were changing, and the VPA offered both market access and support for strengthening national forest governance. After a 16-year journey, last year Ghana became the first African country to earn a Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) license. In a Mongabay commentary published last year, Fred Pearce welcomed that achievement while posing an uncomfortable question: Could Ghana also be the last? With the future direction of FLEGT and the VPA model uncertain, he asked whether the long and difficult process that produced significant change in Ghana might fail to provide a pathway for others. Having been involved in this VPA process from negotiation through implementation, I believe Ghana’s experience suggests a broader way of considering that question. A forestry commission official demonstrates the nation&#8217;s timber tracking system in Ghana&#8217;s Sefwi Wiawso region. Image courtesy of European Forest Institute via Flickr. Whether or not other nations follow Ghana’s lead to their own FLEGT licenses, the process changed the way the nation’s forest sector makes policy, regulates timber, verifies legality and brings government, industry and civil society into the same governance system. Those changes now exist within Ghana’s national institutions, and in my view, this represents the most important legacy of the process. International framework  becomes national process One of the first lessons from Ghana is that externally designed frameworks cannot&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/how-ghanas-new-license-to-sell-sustainable-timber-improves-institutions-collaboration-analysis/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Indonesian company seeks CITES approval to breed and sell rare Asian golden cats</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/indonesian-company-seeks-cites-approval-to-breed-and-sell-rare-asian-golden-cats/</link>
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					<pubDate>05 Nov 2026 14:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Fernanda WenzelSpoorthy Raman]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Sharon Guynup]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Asia, Indonesia, and Southeast Asia]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Business, Captive Breeding, Cats, Conservation, Controversial, Endangered Species, Environment, Environmental Law, Governance, Law, Mammals, Pet Trade, Pets, Wildlife, and Zoos]]>
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							<![CDATA[With their shiny golden or reddish-brown fur, round ears, and white and black facial markings, Asian golden cats are cute. But don’t let their looks fool you: these cats, native to China and South and Southeast Asia, are fiercely territorial, elusive, and highly solitary animals. Because of this, Asian golden cats (Catopuma temminckii) don’t reproduce [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[With their shiny golden or reddish-brown fur, round ears, and white and black facial markings, Asian golden cats are cute. But don’t let their looks fool you: these cats, native to China and South and Southeast Asia, are fiercely territorial, elusive, and highly solitary animals. Because of this, Asian golden cats (Catopuma temminckii) don’t reproduce well in captivity, and only a handful of zoos have bred them successfully, always for conservation purposes. Now, a private Indonesian company, PT Alam Nusantara Jayatama, wants to become the first in the world to commercially breed them in captivity, selling their offspring to exotic pet owners across the globe. The company is owned and run by Danny Gunalen, who owns several zoos and animal-breeding facilities in Indonesia. The Indonesian government plans to certify the facility as a legal breeder of Asian golden cats. In August, it sent a public notification to the Secretariat of CITES, the global wildlife trade treaty, which includes 184 nations and the European Union. The signatories to CITES have until Nov. 10, 2026, to object to the registration, otherwise the company will be authorized to export the cats. Only a handful of zoos around the world breed and display Asian golden cats. Image courtesy of @Zoo Heidelberg. The Asian golden cat is listed as a vulnerable species on the IUCN Red List and is a protected species in most of the countries where it lives. Only about 7,000 are thought to remain in the wild, their numbers decreasing as forests&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/indonesian-company-seeks-cites-approval-to-breed-and-sell-rare-asian-golden-cats/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Water rationing in Recife, Brazil, falls along racial lines</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/water-rationing-in-recife-brazil-falls-along-racial-lines/</link>
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					<pubDate>04 Nov 2026 19:26:48 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Adriana AmâncioÁthila GalindoYamini Benites]]>
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						<![CDATA[Xavier Bartaburu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil, Global, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[RECIFE, Brazil — In Ibura de Baixo, a neighborhood tucked into the South Zone region of Recife, Northeast Brazil, 27-year-old Jeyne Araújo’s day begins well before dawn. At 4 a.m., while the Pernambuco state capital sleeps, she scrapes buckets and drums across the floor outside her home. The sound marks the start of a daily [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[RECIFE, Brazil — In Ibura de Baixo, a neighborhood tucked into the South Zone region of Recife, Northeast Brazil, 27-year-old Jeyne Araújo’s day begins well before dawn. At 4 a.m., while the Pernambuco state capital sleeps, she scrapes buckets and drums across the floor outside her home. The sound marks the start of a daily scramble against scarcity: With running water flowing for only six hours a day, she must stockpile every drop before the taps run dry. The water Araújo manages to collect is far from the clean supply one would expect from a public utility. It smells strongly of chemicals and is too unpleasant to drink or cook with immediately. It froths into a thick, soapy white foam as it splashes into the bucket. “It arrives so full of chlorine that you can’t do anything with it,” she tells Mongabay. The poor quality of the tap water has taken a serious toll on her family’s health, says Araújo. For six months, her 9-year-old son, Wesley, suffered constant bouts of vomiting and stomach pain. Doctors at Recife’s Areias Hospital traced the intestinal infection back to porridge prepared with tap water. To keep her son safe, Araújo now uses part of her monthly Bolsa Família, a government social welfare program benefit of 950 reais (around $180), to buy jugs of bottled water at 6 reais ($1.12) each — an expense that further strains her already meager budget. Inside the house, stacks of dirty dishes fill the sink, a visible measure&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/water-rationing-in-recife-brazil-falls-along-racial-lines/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Mapping the ‘lines of life’ of South Sudan’s vast antelope migration</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/mapping-the-lines-of-life-of-south-sudans-vast-antelope-migration/</link>
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					<pubDate>04 Nov 2026 19:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Ryan Truscott]]>
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						<![CDATA[Terna Gyuse]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Central Africa, East Africa, and South Sudan]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Conservation, Environment, Migration, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[The lines on the map resemble the gossamer threads of dense spiders’ webs. Conservationists in South Sudan call them the “lines of life.” The map was made by joining up millions of points of data recorded by GPS collars attached to 262 migratory antelopes since 2023. The different colors denote four different migratory species: white-eared [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The lines on the map resemble the gossamer threads of dense spiders’ webs. Conservationists in South Sudan call them the “lines of life.” The map was made by joining up millions of points of data recorded by GPS collars attached to 262 migratory antelopes since 2023. The different colors denote four different migratory species: white-eared kob (Kobus kob leucotis), tiang (Damaliscus lunatus tiang), Mongalla gazelle (Eudorcas albonotata), and bohor reedbuck (Redunca redunca). Their seasonal movements across South Sudan’s Great Nile Migration Landscape collectively represent the largest mammal migration on the planet, totaling around 6 million animals. The “lines of life” map denotes years of GPS data collected for four different species of migratory antelope living across the Great Nile Migration Landscape: yellow for the tiang; red for the bohor reedbuck; blue for the white-eared kob and white for the Mongalla gazelle. Image courtesy of African Parks. Most of these movements occur outside the boundaries of Boma and Badingilo national parks, a landscape shared with an estimated 1 million people, their cattle, and growing numbers of new towns, roads, and mines. The “lines of life” are helping conservationists to figure out where to concentrate their efforts to ensure the wildlife can keep on moving. “There are some [wildlife] corridors that come out of this, like the high-use areas, which we do now have a better handle on,” says Megan Claase, conservation manager for African Parks, the South Africa-based NGO that co-manages Boma and Badingilo with the South Sudanese government. The patterns&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/mapping-the-lines-of-life-of-south-sudans-vast-antelope-migration/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Microplastics pollute nearly two-thirds of corals in Malaysia’s marine protected area, study finds</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/microplastics-pollute-nearly-two-thirds-of-corals-in-malaysias-marine-protected-area-study-finds/</link>
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					<pubDate>04 Nov 2026 09:33:30 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Ashley Yeong]]>
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						<![CDATA[Yenni Kwok]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Malaysia, Peninsular Malaysia, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Conservation, Coral Reefs, Ecosystems, Environment, Fellows, Marine, Marine Animals, Marine Conservation, Microplastics, Oceans, Plastic, Pollution, Research, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[KUALA LUMPUR — Microplastics, tiny plastic particles about 5 millimeters (0.2 inches) or smaller, have settled into the skeletons of corals in a marine protected area in Malaysia, according to a recent study. The study, published in the journal Regional Studies in Marine Science, focused on Pulau Redang Marine Park, in the southern South China [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[KUALA LUMPUR — Microplastics, tiny plastic particles about 5 millimeters (0.2 inches) or smaller, have settled into the skeletons of corals in a marine protected area in Malaysia, according to a recent study. The study, published in the journal Regional Studies in Marine Science, focused on Pulau Redang Marine Park, in the southern South China Sea. Known for its turquoise blue waters and rich coral reefs, Pulau Redang has been designated as a marine protected area since 1985. Researchers from Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT) collected 200 coral fragments from five reef sites around the marine park, off the eastern coast of Peninsular Malaysia, and found that 64% of the fragments contained microplastics. Microplastics come from intentionally manufactured particles like industrial pellets and microbeads in personal care products, as well as the breakdown of larger plastic items such as plastic bottles and fishing gear. These tiny particles can be found everywhere, from mountaintops to seabeds. Once they enter the ocean, they can travel far and wide. “I was a bit surprised that I could find microplastics in the corals so easily,” lead author Ong Chai Kee told Mongabay in a video call. “The ocean is so big, and I was thinking, ‘What are the chances that these little plastics could enter so many corals?’” Malaysian marine biologist Ong Chai Kee wraps the sample containers in foil to prevent airborne contamination and prepare them for analysis. Image courtesy of Ong Chai Kee. The team sampled from two dominant hard corals: the branching&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/microplastics-pollute-nearly-two-thirds-of-corals-in-malaysias-marine-protected-area-study-finds/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>How a ‘living breakwater’ in Hawai‘i aims to create coral habitat and protect coastline</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/how-a-living-breakwater-in-hawaii-aims-to-create-coral-habitat-and-protect-coastline/</link>
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					<pubDate>04 Nov 2026 09:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jules Struck]]>
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						<![CDATA[Autumn Spanne]]>
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							<![CDATA[Hawaii, North America, Oceania, Pacific Islands, Polynesia, and United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[Adaptation To Climate Change, Climate, Climate Change, Coastal Ecosystems, Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Coral Reefs, Ecosystems, Environment, Habitat, Habitat Degradation, Impact Of Climate Change, Islands, Marine, Nature-based climate solutions, Oceans, Research, and Solutions]]>
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							<![CDATA[On Sept. 8, Hurricane Lowell ripped across the Pacific Ocean and around Hawai‘i, sloshing huge waves onto O‘ahu’s west flank and spitting baseball-sized chunks of coral through the window of at least one home. Hawai‘i and its coastal highways, which loop several of the U.S. state’s seven inhabited islands, have been bruised by increasingly intense [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[On Sept. 8, Hurricane Lowell ripped across the Pacific Ocean and around Hawai‘i, sloshing huge waves onto O‘ahu’s west flank and spitting baseball-sized chunks of coral through the window of at least one home. Hawai‘i and its coastal highways, which loop several of the U.S. state’s seven inhabited islands, have been bruised by increasingly intense storms fueled by warming seas due to human-caused climate change and the current “super” El Niño. But a project in a western harbor on the island of O‘ahu is testing an unusual method for calming the ocean to shield communities and infrastructure. “It’s the first artificial, call it a hybrid, reef designed to protect coastlines, so to reduce coastal erosion from wave energy,” Ben Jones, the project’s lead coordinator and director of ocean science and technology at the University of Hawai‘i’s Applied Research Laboratory, told Mongabay by phone. On Sept. 18, while the island was still wringing itself out from Lowell, the project team sank the first of 60 huge concrete structures 64 meters (210 feet) off Kalaeloa Harbor, an industrial port on West O‘ahu. Eight of the structures, which each weigh 4 metric tons, had been placed as of Oct. 20, Jones said, a feat of engineering that required a special shallow-water catamaran to float the pieces out to their final resting places. A large wave caused by Hurricane Lowell crashes on the west side of O‘ahu, Hawai‘i on Sept. 8, 2026. Image by AP Photos/Craig Fujii/Honolulu Civil Beat. The project was funded with&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/how-a-living-breakwater-in-hawaii-aims-to-create-coral-habitat-and-protect-coastline/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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