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Thousands of anti-coal activists march in Jakarta, deliver complaints to anti-graft agency

Zamzami 29 Mar 2017

The military family that kept a pet orangutan in Indonesia

Philip Jacobson 29 Mar 2017
The main road passing through the Lindi region is lined by plots of scorched earth from sesame farming. Photo by Sophie Tremblay for Mongabay.

In Tanzania, a surge in sesame farming poses threat to natural forest

Sophie Tremblay, Willy Lowry 29 Mar 2017

New study provides a blueprint for engaging indigenous peoples in REDD+ forest monitoring

Mike Gaworecki 28 Mar 2017

Communities conserving local forest in El Salvador vote to ban mining

Sandra Cuffe 28 Mar 2017

Paying for healthcare with trees: win-win for orangutans and communities

Claire Salisbury 28 Mar 2017

Survey of previously inaccessible region of Myanmar reveals many endangered species

Shreya Dasgupta 28 Mar 2017

Extinct mammoths and rhinos portend a grim future in a warming climate

John Cannon 28 Mar 2017

World’s second breeding population of Indochinese tigers discovered in Thailand’s forests

Demelza Stokes 28 Mar 2017

A Sumatran king’s 1,400-year-old vision for sustainable landscape planning

Taufik Wijaya 27 Mar 2017

Two new clown tree frogs discovered in the Amazon

Mike Gaworecki 27 Mar 2017
Residents celebrate in town square after the results of the vote were announced in Cajamarca, Colombia on March 26, 2017. Photo by Bram Ebus for Mongabay.

Villagers vote to ban ‘La Colosa’ gold mining project in Colombia

Bram Ebus 27 Mar 2017

Cattle ranching threatens core of Biosphere Reserve of Southeast Nicaragua

Wilder Pérez R. 27 Mar 2017

Amazon land speculators poised to gain control of vast public lands

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 27 Mar 2017
The Pastaza Ecological Area of Sustainable Development has more than 2.5 million hectares. Photo courtesy of the Provincial Council of Pastaza

Ecuadorian province protects 90% of its land area

Joaquín Ortiz 27 Mar 2017
Flooded sugar cane fields near Colombia's third largest city, Cali, in the department of Valle Del Cauca, during an intense rainy season. Photo by Neil Palmer (CIAT)

Colombia’s cane industry efficient but potentially damaging

Kimberley Brown 27 Mar 2017

Sand mining ban lifted on beach in Suriname, causing public backlash

Rachel Fritts 27 Mar 2017

Yellow fever is killing howler monkeys in Brazil

Shreya Dasgupta 27 Mar 2017

Military base-building destroys coral reefs in the South China Sea

Greg Asner 26 Mar 2017

Damage to Raja Ampat 12 times higher than previously thought

Basten Gokkon 25 Mar 2017

As Thailand ramps up its palm oil sector, peat forests feel the pressure

Demelza Stokes 24 Mar 2017

Panama’s Barro Blanco dam to begin operation, indigenous pleas refused

Camilo Mejia Giraldo 24 Mar 2017

Will Madagascar lose its most iconic primate?

Matthew P. Reed 24 Mar 2017

A Czech zoo is dehorning its rhinos

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Mar 2017

New cave catfish threatened by deforestation, mining, pollution

Morgan Erickson-Davis 23 Mar 2017

Downstream from a coal mine, villages in Indonesian Borneo suffer from water pollution

Mongabay.com, Yustinus S. Hardjanto 23 Mar 2017

Jokowi reiterates commitment to indigenous rights

Mongabay.com 23 Mar 2017
Santurban moorlands in Colombia. Photo by Grupo Areas Protegidas CORPONOR via Wikimedia Commons

World Bank exits controversial Angostura goldmine project in Colombian moorland

Bram Ebus 23 Mar 2017

Marine protected areas suffer from lack of funds, staff

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Mar 2017

Plans to mine coal in South African protected area trigger conservation battle

Kim Harrisberg 22 Mar 2017

Probing rural poachers in Africa: Why do they poach?

Neha Jain 22 Mar 2017

Aggressive forest protection needed to meet US climate goals

Mike Gaworecki 21 Mar 2017

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