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Anti-wildlife-trafficking statues at Minh Dang Quang Buddhist Institute in Ho Chi Minh City, one of the pagodas included in the campaign. Photo by Michael Tatarski for Mongabay.

Graphic anti-wildlife-trafficking campaign tackles Vietnam’s pangolin problem

Michael Tatarski 14 Feb 2019

Massive pangolin seizure in Borneo smuggling operation bust

Mongabay.com 13 Feb 2019

Nicaragua crisis takes an environmental toll with plunder of turtle eggs

Michelle Carrere 13 Feb 2019

Amazon at risk: Brazil plans rapid road and rail infrastructure expansion

Sue Branford 12 Feb 2019
Toribio Cabrera, a potato farmer in Concepción Chiquirichapa, Guatemala. Like most of his coleagues, Cabrera attributes the success of the local potato harvest to the use of leaf litter from the forest as a fertilizer. Image by Jorge Rodríguez for Mongabay.

The secret to a town’s perfect potatoes? Its well-preserved forest.

Jorge Rodríguez 11 Feb 2019
Fresh oil palm fruit bunches. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

US senators warn fund managers over palm oil

James Fair 11 Feb 2019

Short film celebrates community forest titles in DRC

Mongabay.com 11 Feb 2019

Dam déjà vu: 2 Brazil mining waste disasters in 3 years raise alarms

Zoe Sullivan, Caio de Freitas Paes 11 Feb 2019
A blue pansy (Junonia orithya), a species occasionally available through Kipepeo Butterfly Project. Image by yakovlev.alexey via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Butterfly business: Insect farmers help conserve East African forests

Janet Njung’e 8 Feb 2019

EU action plan on tropical deforestation must be beefed up, or it will fail (commentary)

Sam Lawson 8 Feb 2019

What’s in a name? The role of defining ‘wilderness’ in conservation

John Cannon 7 Feb 2019
Marcelino Aguilar and Rumualdo López pray during a Maya fire ceremony celebrating the spiritual connection with the forest and other natural elements and asking the Creator for protection and wisdom. Image by Jorge Rodríguez for Mongabay.

Ancient spirituality guides a Maya town’s conservation efforts

Jorge Rodríguez 6 Feb 2019

RSPO should suspend membership of groups undermining Guatemala’s anti-impunity commission (commentary)

Doug Hertzler, Jeff Conant 6 Feb 2019

Police charge Indonesian politician’s brother in deforestation case

Ayat S. Karokaro 5 Feb 2019

Asian banks give billions to firms linked to deforestation, study finds

James Fair 5 Feb 2019

China’s Belt and Road Initiative could increase alien species invasion

Shreya Dasgupta 5 Feb 2019

Exit the dragons: Mexico tackles trafficking of endangered lizards

Pablo Hernández Mares 4 Feb 2019

Indonesia’s anti-graft agency arrests Borneo politician over mining permits

Indra Nugraha 4 Feb 2019
Wood that was cut for charcoal production near Katha, northern Myanmar. Villages in this area used to cut teak and other valuable trees for export, but have since started producing charcoal. The charcoal being exported to China can be made from any tree, regardless of size or kind. This amount of trees could produce about 150 bags of charcoal. Photo by Nathan Siegel for Mongabay.

France pledges to stop ‘deforestation imports’ by 2030

Carinya Sharples 1 Feb 2019
Francisco Escalante (foreground) and Óscar López have been community park rangers in Concepción Chiquirichapa since the mid 1970’s. Image by Jorge Rodríguez for Mongabay.

How a Mayan town restored its sacred cloud forest and water supply

Jorge Rodríguez 1 Feb 2019

Latam Eco Review: Seeing red over pink dolphins and flamingos

Mongabay.com 1 Feb 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

Borneo study explores links between farm expansion and deforestation

Hans Nicholas Jong 30 Jan 2019

To tackle great ape trafficking, follow the money, report says

Nora Ward 29 Jan 2019

Viral video of endangered lemur made people want one as a pet: Study

Mongabay.com 29 Jan 2019

The science of combating climate science misinformation

Mike Gaworecki 28 Jan 2019
The mudslide near Brumadinho via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

Dam holding mining waste collapses in Brazil

Mongabay.com 28 Jan 2019

For conservationists, crowdfunding sites raise both funds and awareness

Emily Clark 28 Jan 2019
Indonesian rainforest in Bukit Tigapuluh, Sumatra. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Funds tripled and target slashed, but Indonesia still off pace for reforestation

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Jan 2019

Bans on the bird trade in South America yield mixed results

Mongabay.com 24 Jan 2019

In PNG, a fallen bridge is testament to the chasm in rural development

Camilo Mejia Giraldo 24 Jan 2019

In West Papua, a development plan that doesn’t require clearing forest

Een Irawan Putra 23 Jan 2019

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