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What is the Mexican hairy dwarf porcupine? Candid Animal Cam heads to Mesoamerica

Romina Castagnino 13 Oct 2020

The post-COVID opportunity for the environment: An interview with the GEF’s Carlos Manuel Rodriguez

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Oct 2020

Hotter tropics may worsen climate change, reforestation could lessen it: Studies

Taran Volckhausen 2 Oct 2020

How loud are howler monkeys? Candid Animal Cam is in the trees this week

Romina Castagnino 29 Sep 2020

Birthday party on ship may have led to oil spill in Mauritius, Panama regulator says

Mongabay.com 16 Sep 2020

Coronavirus caused by ‘unbalancing’ of nature: Q&A with Indigenous leader Levi Sucre Romero

Francesca Edralin 2 Sep 2020

What is a kinkajou? Candid Animal Cam meets the animal that is neither a bear nor an ape

Romina Castagnino 1 Sep 2020

Belize takes ocean action with expanded marine reserve and ban on gill nets

Mongabay.com 25 Aug 2020

Is Chinese investment driving a sharp increase in jaguar poaching?

Rebecca Branford 11 Aug 2020

A jaguar nicknamed “Short-Tail” the first known to cross between Belize and Guatemala

Liz Kimbrough 29 Jul 2020

Mangrove forest restoration boosts Costa Rica communities (commentary)

Andrew Whitworth 24 Jul 2020

Keystone mammal plunges 87% in Mesoamerica

Francesca Edralin 17 Jul 2020

As COVID-19 curbs patrols in Nicaragua, turtle eggs risk being poached

Monica Pelliccia 13 Jul 2020

World Bank’s IFC pumped $1.8b into factory farming operations since 2010

Ashoka Mukpo 7 Jul 2020

Concerned for the future, indigenous Nicaraguans lament lost habitats

Sandra Cuffe 16 Jun 2020

The perfect firestorm: COVID-19 in Mesoamerica’s indigenous territories (commentary)

Jeremy Radachowsky 10 Jun 2020
Cows grazing in Nicaragua's southern indigenous autonomous region in October,

Nicaraguan beef, grazed on deforested and stolen land, feeds global demand

Mario Rautner, Sandra Cuffe 10 Jun 2020

How coffee growers can adapt to a precipitous industry: Q&A with Dean’s Beans founder Dean Cycon

Justin Catanoso 1 Jun 2020
The Fenix ferro-nickel mining project operated for a few years in the late 1970s. The Solway Group, the Russian conglomerate that now owns the project, started up operations again in 2014. Photo by Sandra Cuffe for Mongabay.

Contentious Guatemala nickel mine ‘ignores coronavirus lockdown’

Anna-Catherine Brigida 27 May 2020

What is a jaguarundi? Candid Animal Cam is back with the wild cats of the Amazon

Romina Castagnino 19 May 2020

Nicaragua failing to protect indigenous groups from land grabs: Report

Ashoka Mukpo 4 May 2020
Odielca Solis has built a silvopasture system at her farm in Panama, which provides shade and forage to her cattle and fruit for her family. Image by Erin Banks Rusby for Mongabay.

Silvopasturing improves ranches and the environment in Panama

Erin Banks Rusby 29 Apr 2020

Bold project hopes to DNA barcode every species in Costa Rica

Jeremy Hance 27 Apr 2020

What is a Geoffroy’s spider monkey? Candid Animal Cam takes you to the trees this week

Romina Castagnino 21 Apr 2020

Puma or cougar? Candid Animal Cam Ep 5 takes you to the Americas to meet this wild cat

Romina Castagnino 31 Mar 2020

Costa Rica caterpillar decline spells trouble for ecosystems

Aimee Gabay 16 Mar 2020

Mongabay’s new show: Candid Animal Cam

Romina Castagnino 3 Mar 2020

Map reveals Canadian mining company’s environmental, social conflicts

John Cannon 2 Mar 2020

Mining could topple community-managed forests in Mexico: New film

Mongabay.com 17 Feb 2020

Massacre in Nicaragua: Four indigenous community members killed for their land

Taran Volckhausen 14 Feb 2020

Belize officially declares wildlife corridor in key protected area complex

Mongabay.com 27 Jan 2020

The sounds of tropical katydids and how they can benefit conservation

Mike Gaworecki 22 Jan 2020

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