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New appointments, new policies don’t bode well for Brazilian Amazon

Jenny Gonzales 4 Feb 2019

Latam Eco Review: Seeing red over pink dolphins and flamingos

Mongabay.com 1 Feb 2019
Fresh oil palm fruit bunches. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Study finds palm oil industry mimics Big Tobacco on health issues

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Feb 2019
A common octopus (Octopus vulgaris). Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

Octopus farming unsustainable, unethical, and unnecessary, scientists warn

Mongabay.com 31 Jan 2019

Will President Bolsonaro withdraw Brazil from the Paris Agreement? (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 31 Jan 2019

Wildlife rangers in DRC park report waning motivation, job satisfaction

Mongabay.com 31 Jan 2019
Three Xunan-Kab workers consume honey from a broken cerumen pod. At harvest time, beekeepers use syringes to extract the honey. Whereas European honeybees store their honey and pollen and rear their larvae in honeycomb, Xunan-Kab store honey and pollen in cerumen pods, and use honeycomb only for larvae. Image by Richard Arghiris for Mongabay.

House of the Royal Lady Bee: Maya revive native bees and ancient beekeeping

Jennifer Kennedy, Richard Arghiris 31 Jan 2019

Cities could help conserve pollinator communities

Mike Gaworecki 30 Jan 2019

Warmer waters shrink krill habitat around Antarctica

Mongabay.com 30 Jan 2019

Borneo study explores links between farm expansion and deforestation

Hans Nicholas Jong 30 Jan 2019

Bolsonaro government reveals plan to develop the ‘Unproductive Amazon’

Jan Rocha 28 Jan 2019

Indigenous communities in post-FARC Colombia struggle to destigmatize sacred coca leaf

Margaux Maxwell 23 Jan 2019

Saving the forests of the Congo Basin: Q&A with author Meindert Brouwer

Mongabay.com 23 Jan 2019

Can satellite data help monitor sustainable rural development?

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 17 Jan 2019

Coffee in trouble: 60% of wild coffee species threatened with extinction

Shreya Dasgupta 17 Jan 2019

As Brazilian agribusiness booms, family farms feed the nation

Anna Sophie Gross 17 Jan 2019

Brazilian hunger for meat fattened on soy is deforesting the Cerrado: report

Giovanni Ortolani 16 Jan 2019

Agroforestry empowers Morocco’s mountain women

Monica Pelliccia 16 Jan 2019

Bolsonaro acts; Brazil’s socio-environmental groups resist

Sue Branford and Thais Borges 14 Jan 2019

Palm oil companies continue to criminalize farmers in Sumatra (commentary)

Gaurav Madan 14 Jan 2019
Borneo orangutan. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Studying human behavior to protect orangutans: Q&A with Liana Chua

James Fair 11 Jan 2019

Rapid population drop weakened the Grauer’s gorilla gene pool

John Cannon 10 Jan 2019

Hazy figures cloud Indonesia’s peat restoration as fire season looms

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Jan 2019

Flashing lights ward off livestock-hunting pumas in northern Chile

John Cannon 7 Jan 2019

Policymakers are not adequately factoring land use and human diets into climate mitigation strategies: Study

Mongabay.com 4 Jan 2019
Topher White of Rainforest Connection installing a bioacoustic device in the forest canopy. Image by Ben Von Wong.

Eavesdrop on forest sounds to effectively monitor biodiversity, researchers say

Shreya Dasgupta 3 Jan 2019

Brazil’s indigenous agency acts to protect isolated Kawahiva people

Sue Branford 3 Jan 2019

COP24: Green groups warn of pitfalls in ‘forests for climate’ deal

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 Jan 2019

Agroforestry helps Tajikistan farmers overcome resource pressures

Daniyar Serikov 2 Jan 2019

Bolsonaro hands over indigenous land demarcation to agriculture ministry

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 2 Jan 2019
Fungi in Yunnan, China. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Rainforests: storylines to watch in 2019

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Jan 2019
Rainforest in Sarawak, Malaysia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

The biggest rainforest news stories in 2018

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Dec 2018

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