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Rainforest, reef, and ocean on Maratua Island, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Indonesia zoning plan hurts fishers, favors coal and oil, activists say

Basten Gokkon 4 Dec 2019

Follow the permits: How to identify corruption red flags in Indonesian land deals

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 4 Dec 2019
Dry riverbed. Image by Dellane Masiya Mhlanga for Mongabay.

Water flowing up the mountain: Development devours forest reserve in Zambia

Carien Du Plessis 4 Dec 2019

Indonesian officials charged in $1.6m bribes-for-permits scheme

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Dec 2019

As hurricane season ends, now is the time to take local action to rebuild and recover (commentary)

Katie Arkema 3 Dec 2019
A white-nosed saki (Chiropotes albinasus) in the Amazon rainforest canopy. Climate change will shrink the habitat of these endangered primates and deforestation may limit their ability to find new homes, a new study reports. Photo by João Paulo Krajewski.

Amazon primates face barriers in responding to climate change

Erin Malsbury 3 Dec 2019

Saving a Philippine tree last seen a century ago

Jen Chan 3 Dec 2019

Indonesian man jailed for smuggling 7,000 ‘living fossil’ horseshoe crabs

Ayat S. Karokaro 3 Dec 2019

Warming of Indo-Pacific waters disrupting weather worldwide, report finds

Mongabay.com 3 Dec 2019

Analysis: Floating solar power along the dammed-up Mekong River

David E. Brown 3 Dec 2019

Their land, our future: To arrest the climate crisis, we need a democratic overhaul (commentary)

Musimbi Kanyoro, Beth Roberts 2 Dec 2019

Typhoon-prone Philippines gets climate funding for early warning system

Mongabay.com 2 Dec 2019

Extinct in the wild, a Brazilian bird makes a tentative return to the jungle

Pedro Biondi 2 Dec 2019
Nyeema Harris and her crew deployed motion-detecting cameras throughout their study site in West Africa. Credit: University of Michigan Applied Wildlife Ecology Lab

Camera traps yield surprises in West Africa’s largest protected area

Jerimiah Oetting 2 Dec 2019
Glass eels are a juvenile form of the European eel (Anguilla anguilla), a species that undergoes an incredible 10,000 kilometer (6,200 mile) migration. Photo courtesy of Alessandro Cresci.

Moon and Earth’s magnetic field guide European eels on their epic migration

Amanda Heidt 2 Dec 2019

COP25 may put climate at greater risk by failing to address forests

Justin Catanoso 2 Dec 2019

Shrinking sea ice in the Arctic opens new pathways for animal disease

Mongabay.com 2 Dec 2019

Indonesia ‘must stop building new coal plants by 2020’ to meet climate goals

Indra Nugraha 2 Dec 2019
Bramble Cay melomys. Photo by Queensland Government

Bramble Cay Melomys: requiem for a small brown rat

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Dec 2019
PORTO VELHO, RONDÔNIA, BRAZIL. Aerial view of burned areas in the Amazon rainforest, in the city of Porto Velho, Rondônia state. (Photo: Victor Moriyama / Greenpeace)

Brazilian president claims Leonardo DiCaprio funded Amazon fires

Mongabay.com 30 Nov 2019

In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, November 29, 2019

Mongabay.com 29 Nov 2019
Small insect-eating birds, such as the violet-green swallow, have not declined as severely as larger meat-eating birds. However, future warming may further increase water demands and put more species at risk of collapse. Photo by Sean Peterson

Heat stress is causing desert bird populations to collapse

Jesse Kathan 29 Nov 2019
Hooded vulture. Image courtesy John Davies/EWT

Lift-off for first African vulture safe zones

Fred Kockott, Tony Carnie 28 Nov 2019
A canopy crane in the forest in Gutianshan National Nature Reserve. Photo courtesy of Lei Chen.

Beneficial and harmful fungi are at the root of forest diversity

Jack J. Lee 28 Nov 2019

UK supermarkets criticized over pesticide use, lack of transparency

Mongabay.com 28 Nov 2019

It takes a school, and a community, to save this rare Philippine hornbill

Leilani Chavez 28 Nov 2019

How cities can lead the fight against climate change using urban forestry and trees (commentary)

Chad Papa, Lauren Cooper 27 Nov 2019

‘Everything is dying’: Q&A with Brazilian indigenous leader Alessandra Munduruku

Camila Nobrega 27 Nov 2019

Brazil investigates agribusiness bribes to judges for favorable land rulings

Maurício Angelo 27 Nov 2019
Rainforest in Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

$10M in prize money for mapping rainforest biodiversity

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Nov 2019

Indonesia’s new fisheries minister may go easy on trawl nets, poachers’ boats

M Ambari 27 Nov 2019

Nearly extinct vaquita mothers with calves spotted in recent expeditions

Mongabay.com 27 Nov 2019

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