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Satellite trackers help fight vultures’ extinction in southern Africa

Munyaradzi Makoni 13 Dec 2018

Dam drove ‘collapse’ of rainforest bird populations in Thailand

Mongabay.com 13 Dec 2018

COP24: Nations complicit in ignoring bioenergy climate bomb, experts say

Justin Catanoso 13 Dec 2018

Global agreement on ‘conserved areas’ marks new era of conservation (commentary)

Harry D. Jonas, Holly C. Jonas 13 Dec 2018

From a new bird to a new community reserve: India’s tribe sets example

Shreya Dasgupta 13 Dec 2018

A Zambian sanctuary finds caring for chimps is a lifetime commitment

Humphrey Nkonde 13 Dec 2018

COP24: Tropical deforestation risks undermining 1.5-degree warming limit

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Dec 2018

Ethiopia: Khat farming threatens food security, biodiversity, women, and agroforestry

Tesfa-Alem Tekle 12 Dec 2018

Birds on Broadway: A Q&A with the Audubon Mural Project’s Avi Gitler

Nandini Velho 12 Dec 2018
Valentin Suchite patrols the forest searching for signs of deforestation. Image by Anna-Catherine Brigida for Mongabay.

Guatemala: An indigenous community rejects, then accepts, a protected area

Anna-Catherine Brigida 12 Dec 2018

Feed a fishery, starve a seabird

Mongabay.com 12 Dec 2018

‘We see its value’: Ugandan communities benefiting from agroforestry

Deusdedit Ruhangariyo 11 Dec 2018
An indigenous Colombian takes in deforestation close to the Amacayacu National Park in the Colombian Amazon.

Scientists team up with indigenous, faithful to fight for forests

Andrew J. Wight 11 Dec 2018

The true story of how 96 critically endangered sea turtle hatchlings survived New York City

Mike Gaworecki 11 Dec 2018

A monitoring network in the Amazon captures a flood of data

Elizabeth Oliveira 11 Dec 2018

COP24: Trumpers tout clean coal; protesters call it ‘climate suicide’

Justin Catanoso 11 Dec 2018

New species of giant salamander described after decades of mystery

Mongabay.com 11 Dec 2018

In eastern Indonesia, a bird-trafficking hotspot flies under the radar

Ian Morse 11 Dec 2018
Mantis in Suriname's rainforest.

Seeing Suriname: A visit to the rainforest goes awry (insider)

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Dec 2018

Belo Monte dam Xingu River Management Plan violates human rights: finding

Max Nathanson 10 Dec 2018
Members of the Tosepan cooperative’s youth solar panel installation team and the ONergia solar cooperative put the finishing touches on a domestic panel installation while community members chip in. Image by Ethan Bien for Mongabay.

‘Light for everyone’: Indigenous youth mount a solar-powered resistance

Ethan Bien 10 Dec 2018
Sumatran partridge (Arborophila sumatrana), endemic to the island of Sumatra, no longer survives outside protected areas, according to researchers. Photo by Roland Wirth

Ground-feeding birds in Southeast Asia may be going extinct outside protected areas

Priyanka Runwal 10 Dec 2018

COP24: US, Russia, Saudis downplay IPCC report in display of disunity

Justin Catanoso 10 Dec 2018

Pesticides could be painting black howler monkeys yellow in Costa Rica

Mongabay.com 10 Dec 2018

Graphic video reveals brutality of pangolin poaching in northeast India

Mongabay.com 7 Dec 2018
Rainforest on Costa Rica's Osa Peninsula. Photo by Rhett Butler.

Secondary forests in Costa Rica are re-cleared within decades

Rodrigo Pérez Ortega 7 Dec 2018

Latam Eco Review: Whale attacks, palm oil woes, and hope for vaquitas

Mongabay.com 7 Dec 2018
Black lemur on Nosy Komba, Madagascar. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

The second time couldn’t be worse than the first (insider)

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Dec 2018

In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, December 7, 2018

Mongabay.com 7 Dec 2018

Tropical forest conservation in the Bolsonaro era (commentary)

Dan Nepstad, João Shimada, Oswaldo Carvalho Jr. 6 Dec 2018

‘There are no laws’: Cattle, drugs, corruption destroying Honduras UNESCO site

Taran Volckhausen 6 Dec 2018

Amazon indigenous groups and truckers ally to oppose Brazil’s Grainrail

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 6 Dec 2018

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