Diseases News

RSS
793 stories

Wildlife conservation needs a post-COVID recovery plan (commentary)

Razan Al Mubarak 3 Jun 2020

Offensive against the Amazon: An incontrollable pandemic (commentary)

Marcos Colón, Luís de Camões Lima Boaventura, Erik Jennings 1 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

Poaching in Indonesia’s biodiverse Leuser Ecosystem on the rise amid COVID-19

Junaidi Hanafiah 28 May 2020
Shade grown coffee in Nicaragua. Image courtesy ICRAF/World Agroforestry

Faced with a health crisis, a plea for trees and agroforestry (commentary)

Emmanuel Torquebiau et al 28 May 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

A new sanctuary for the Sumatran rhino is delayed amid COVID-19 measures

Junaidi Hanafiah 27 May 2020

Brazil judge blocks appointment of missionary to indigenous agency

Sam Cowie 26 May 2020

As lockdown ends, activists brace to resume fight over Manila Bay reclamation

Leilani Chavez, Susan Claire Agbayani 25 May 2020

Vietnam wildlife trade ban appears to flounder amid coronavirus success

Michael Tatarski 25 May 2020
Flooded forest in the Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay

Brazil’s ‘land-grabbers law’ threatens Amazonia (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 25 May 2020

For Amazon indigenous facing COVID-19, distance to ICU beds poses dire threat

Liz Kimbrough 22 May 2020

Deaths, arrests and protests as Philippines re-emerges from lockdown

Mongabay.com 21 May 2020

Aided by weather, Sri Lanka’s lockdown leads to decline in air, sea pollution

Dennis Mombauer 21 May 2020

Coronavirus puts Brazil’s quilombos at risk; will assistance come?

Thais Borges, Sue Branford 21 May 2020

Audio: North America’s looming salamander pandemic: Is the U.S. ready?

Mongabay.com 20 May 2020
Zebra in Rwanda. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

From crisis to solutions for communities and African conservation (commentary)

Dickson Kaelo, Daniel Sopia, Damian Bell, Richard Diggle, Fred Nelson 20 May 2020

For Indonesia’s captive wildlife, lockdown measures may prove deadly

Basten Gokkon 19 May 2020

A Philippine island locked down, but its mine didn’t — and infections mounted

Jun N. Aguirre 18 May 2020

It’s time to implement solutions that make the bushmeat trade unnecessary (commentary)

Cate Twining-Ward, Colin A. Chapman 18 May 2020
Uncontacted indigenous group in the Amazon photographed by authorities with the Brazilian Indian affairs agency FUNAI. Photo by Gleison Miranda-FUNAI.

Indigenous COVID-19 cases top 500, danger mapped in Brazil agricultural hub

Sam Cowie 18 May 2020

A Philippine village on lockdown delivers nearly 300 turtle hatchlings to sea

Erwin M. Mascariñas 15 May 2020

Amid lockdown, Sri Lankans nurture their own oases through home gardening

Malaka Rodrigo 15 May 2020

As COVID-19 pandemic deepens, global wildlife treaty faces an identity crisis

Malavika Vyawahare 15 May 2020

Large indigenous territories are necessary for culture and biodiversity in Brazil, study says

Liz Kimbrough 13 May 2020

Will fish boom amid pandemic-driven fishing bust?

Shreya Dasgupta 13 May 2020

Bats: Resistant to viruses, but not to humans

Thelma Gómez Durán 13 May 2020
Uncontacted indigenous group in the Amazon photographed by authorities with the Brazilian Indian affairs agency FUNAI. Photo by Gleison Miranda-FUNAI.

Amazon indigenous leader: Our survival is at stake. You can help (commentary)

Beto Marubo 12 May 2020

Market-based solutions cannot solely fund community-level conservation (commentary)

Sinan Serhadli 11 May 2020
Artibeus phaeotis. Photo by Adrian Forsyth

In defense of bats in a COVID world (commentary)

Enrique Ortiz 11 May 2020

Canadian company positions for mining ban lift in Argentine province

John Cannon 11 May 2020

New bill could legalize ‘land banking’ by Indonesian plantation firms

Loren Bell 10 May 2020

you're currently offline