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Saving the Amazon has come at the cost of Cerrado deforestation: study

Claire Asher 15 Nov 2018

For the two Congos, lessons in a peatland partnership with Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Nov 2018

High sea levels thousands of years ago aided island formation

Mongabay.com 15 Nov 2018

A lucky child: Mongabay’s origin story (insider)

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Nov 2018

‘Not all hope is lost’ as outlook for mountain gorillas brightens

John Cannon 14 Nov 2018

Oreo maker linked to destruction of orangutan habitat in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Nov 2018

Republic of Congo names new national park, home to gorillas, elephants

Shreya Dasgupta 14 Nov 2018

‘No one is helping us’: Venezuelan conservation crippled by crisis

Nora Ward 14 Nov 2018

Speed trap: Cameras help defuse human-cheetah conflict in Botswana

Calistus Bosaletswe 13 Nov 2018

Agroforestry saves soil and boosts livelihoods in Tajikistan

Daniyar Serikov 13 Nov 2018

A Half-Earth progress report from E.O. Wilson

Mike Gaworecki 13 Nov 2018

PNG to create 7,500 square kilometers of new marine protected areas in Bismarck Sea

Mongabay.com 13 Nov 2018

Chile: Mining waste continues to be expelled into the sea

Michelle Carrere 13 Nov 2018

China restores ban on rhino and tiger parts, for now

Mongabay.com 13 Nov 2018

Honduras aims to save vital wildlife corridor from deforestation

Mongabay.com 13 Nov 2018

Merger of Brazil’s agriculture and environment ministries in limbo

Jenny Gonzales 12 Nov 2018

Indonesia leans on businesses to do more about plastic waste

Basten Gokkon 12 Nov 2018

Satellite technology unites Kenyans against bush fires

David Njagi 9 Nov 2018

Haiti may lose all primary forest by 2035, mass extinction underway

Carinya Sharples, Morgan Erickson-Davis 9 Nov 2018

In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, November 9, 2018

Mongabay.com 9 Nov 2018

Novel research method reveals small-scale gold mining’s impact on Peruvian Amazon

Mike Gaworecki 9 Nov 2018

End of funding dims hopes for a Sumatran forest targeted by palm oil growers

Elviza Diana, Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Nov 2018

Latam Eco Review: Hungry manatees and grand theft tortoise

Mongabay.com 9 Nov 2018

In West Papua’s Arfak Mountains, local leaders plot ecotourism boom

Christopel Paino 9 Nov 2018

China increasingly involved in Brazil’s ambitious Amazon rail network

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 8 Nov 2018
A map of Biacou (also spelled Beacou) made by residents of the village shows the location of various protected sites. Click here to enlarge. Image courtesy of RFLP/Sergio Pedroco.

Timor-Leste: With sacrifice and ceremony, tribe sets eco rules

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 8 Nov 2018

Four of six black rhinos translocated to Chad are now dead

Mongabay.com 8 Nov 2018

Hackathon enlightens coders and conservationists alike

David Klinges 8 Nov 2018

Roads divide opinions along with forests, study finds

John Cannon 8 Nov 2018

Troika of trouble for Bolivia’s Cordillera de Sama Reserve

Mongabay Latam 8 Nov 2018

For Javan rhinos, the last holdout may also be a deadly disease hotspot

Katy Waters 8 Nov 2018

Congo Basin rainforest may be gone by 2100, study finds

Morgan Erickson-Davis 7 Nov 2018

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