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In a Colombian wetland, oil woes deepen with the arrival of fracking

Mauricio Ochoa, Semana Sostenible 15 Apr 2020

Land conflicts escalate with spread of COVID-19 in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Apr 2020

Positive ways forward for chocolate industry tainted by deforestation and child labor (commentary)

Marianne Martinet 15 Apr 2020

Philippine government flips local officials’ entry ban for mining ship

Mongabay.com 14 Apr 2020

China releases list of animals to be farmed after COVID-19

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 14 Apr 2020

For Brazilian agribusiness, leaving the Amazon forested is ‘a problem’

Fernanda Wenzel/oeco 14 Apr 2020

South American indigenous peoples close territories in response to COVID-19

Yvette Sierra Praeli 14 Apr 2020
Vladimir Plahotniuc and Asif Chaudhry shake hands at a meeting with the Atlantic Council in 2018.

Former U.S. envoy under scrutiny for links to sanctioned Moldovan oligarch, land baron

Jack Davies 14 Apr 2020
Newly established oil palm plantation in Central Kalimantan. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Indonesia won’t ‘sacrifice economy’ for more ambitious emissions cuts

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Apr 2020
Lion. Image by Tambako the Jaguar via Flickr (CC BY-ND-2.0)

Coronavirus is a crisis for South Africa’s captive lions, campaigners warn

James Fair 13 Apr 2020
Mountain gorilla in neighboring Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda. Photo for Mongabay.com by Rhett A. Butler.

For great apes at risk of infection, COVID-19 is also an economic threat

Heather Richardson 13 Apr 2020

Using satellites to alert an Amazonian indigenous community of coca encroachment (insider)

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Apr 2020

Amazonian leader takes Indigenous pepper to the Brazilian market and teaches how to live a good life

Débora Menezes 13 Apr 2020

What one of the world’s most active volcanoes tells us about missing trees

Malavika Vyawahare 13 Apr 2020

As COVID-19 rages, Sri Lankans find solace in traditional practices

Malaka Rodrigo 13 Apr 2020
The Javari River where it forms the border between Peru and Brazil. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Despite COVID, Amazon deforestation races higher

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Apr 2020
...probably a Natal dwarf puddle frog in the Gambia. Image by Thomas Brown via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA-2.0)

The frog that wasn’t there: Survey shines a light on Uganda’s amphibians

Fredrick Mugira 11 Apr 2020
View of Suralaya coal power plant in Cilegon city, Banten Province, Indonesia.

Green groups target South Korea’s bailout of coal power plant builder

Basten Gokkon 10 Apr 2020
Aerial view of Javari river in the Brazilian Amazon. Image by Rhett A. Butler

In Brazil, COVID-19 outbreak paves way for invasion of indigenous lands

Sam Cowie 10 Apr 2020

COVID-19 forces Sea Shepherd to suspend patrols to protect last vaquitas

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 10 Apr 2020

Colombian indigenous groups rush to protect elders, leaders from COVID-19

Taran Volckhausen 10 Apr 2020

Reproductive woes spell need for more viable females in Sumatran rhino program

Basten Gokkon 10 Apr 2020

80 percent of conservation careers negatively affected by COVID pandemic (commentary)

Kristi Foster 9 Apr 2020

Field research, interrupted: How the COVID-19 crisis is stalling science

Liz Kimbrough 9 Apr 2020

A tale of two Nigerian reserves underscores importance of community

Orji Sunday 9 Apr 2020

Shamans in the city: Brazil clinic offers traditional Amazonian treatments

Débora Menezes 9 Apr 2020

Chinese ban on eating wild animals likely to become law: Q&A with WCS’s Aili Kang

Malavika Vyawahare 9 Apr 2020

Ocean optimism: Study says we can restore marine health

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 9 Apr 2020

Great Barrier Reef suffers biggest bleaching event yet

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 9 Apr 2020
Red howler monkey in the Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Will the next coronavirus come from Amazonia? Deforestation and the risk of infectious diseases (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 8 Apr 2020

Cattle put Paraguay’s Chaco biome at high risk, but report offers hope

Sarah Sax 8 Apr 2020

Hanging with Romi: Get to know our camera trap expert and host of Candid Animal Cam

Erik Hoffner 8 Apr 2020

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