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Study shows most Amazon beef & soy demand comes from Brazil — not exports

Fernanda Wenzel 28 Aug 2024
Battsengel Lkhamdoorov stands next to one of the summer quarters built by Oyu Tolgoi.

Rio Tinto-linked mine still not fulfilling promises to Mongolian herders

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 28 Aug 2024
Bole of a large tree near Ghana's Oda River, showing its rough bark and the canopy high above. Image by aripeskoe2 via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

As Ghana pushes mining in forests, a cautionary tale from a fading forest

Awudu Salami Sulemana Yoda 28 Aug 2024
A man standing amidst mining pits raises a pickaxe; his companion directs dirty water from a hose towards his feet. Image by Élodie Toto for Mongabay.

Ghana hollows out forests and green protections to advance mining interests

Malavika Vyawahare 28 Aug 2024

The challenge of the next oil and gas investments further in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 28 Aug 2024
An Amazonian manatee in a zoo.

As Amazonian rivers recede under drought, manatees are left exposed to poaching

Sarah Brown 27 Aug 2024

Eucalyptus expansion worsens droughts and fires in Brazil’s Cerrado, conservationists say

Sarah Brown 27 Aug 2024
Plastic containers piled up.

Biden-Harris Administration must strengthen position on plastic reduction treaty (commentary)

Tim Grabiel 27 Aug 2024
A blue-throated macaw (Ara glaucogularis) in a cage.

CITES suspends Bangladesh as illegal wild bird trade continues

Abu Siddique 27 Aug 2024

Indonesia’s new ‘green’ capital drives environmental damage far and wide

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Aug 2024

Budget constraints limit wildlife protection in major Nepali road project

Abhaya Raj Joshi 27 Aug 2024
Silhouette of a plane.

Will we be ready? Geoengineering policy lags far behind pace of climate change

Charles Pekow 26 Aug 2024

Indigenous communities sidelined for Suriname’s new carbon credit program, critics say

Maxwell Radwin 26 Aug 2024
Front view of a confiscated forest hingeback tortoise in Côte d’Ivoire with damage to the nuchal area. Image by Pearson McGovern.

Meet the little-known African tortoise with a hatchback for a shell

Jeremy Hance 26 Aug 2024
Farmers on rice terraces in Bali.

In Bali, water temple priests guide a sustainable rice production system

Elizabeth Sinclair 26 Aug 2024
The rhinoceros hornbill (Buceros rhinoceros). Image courtesy of Mark Louis Benedict via Flickr.

Biodiversity’s Tower of Babel: The confusion & disorientation of Convention on Biological Diversity Decision 15/9 (commentary)

Joseph Henry Vogel 24 Aug 2024

Nepal’s buffalo-kills-tiger story reveals deeper pains in compensation system

Abhaya Raj Joshi 24 Aug 2024

China accepts U.N. recommendations to improve environmental conflicts in Latin America

Maxwell Radwin 23 Aug 2024
A white-rumped vulture (Gyps bengalensis) flying over a city.

Time to highlight South Asia’s less-studied vultures: Interview with Krishna Bhusal

Abhaya Raj Joshi 23 Aug 2024
In community fisheries reserves, fish scouts or guards patrol the rivers to remove illegal nets and enforce local rules. Fish monitors record catches that are taken legally to track the state of their local fish stocks. Photo courtesy of Marcus Westberg.

As southern African freshwater fish & fisheries struggle, collaboration is key (commentary)

Gail Thomson 22 Aug 2024
Prince Bissiemou measures a tree in a logged forest in Gabon. Image by Megan Sullivan.

Logging done sustainably doesn’t have to harm ecosystem services, study finds

Leocadia Bongben 22 Aug 2024

How a fun women’s gathering led to small wildcat conservation in Peru’s Andes

James Hall 22 Aug 2024

The indelible traces of oil and gas in the Peruvian, Ecuadorian and Colombian Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 22 Aug 2024
Screenshot from a propaganda video released by JNIM depicting a training camp in Burkina Faso, 2024.

Trained to stop poaching, Benin park rangers instead face jihadists

Ashoka Mukpo 22 Aug 2024

Argentina weighs new MPA to curb international fishing frenzy in ‘Blue Hole’

Maxwell Radwin 22 Aug 2024

Luxury hunting firm linked to decades of poaching in Tanzania, whistleblowers say

Mongabay.com 22 Aug 2024
The translocation team leads a sedated rhino to a crate and its journey to a new home. Image © Michael Dexter/African Parks.

African Parks embarks on critical conservation undertaking for 2,000 rhinos

Simon Espley 22 Aug 2024
Close up of the shiny, bulbous brown compound eyes and dark brown and blue thorax of a Gambles's flatwing's (Neurolestes nigeriensis). Image © Jan van Leeuwen.

Search for rare Nigerian damselflies finds forest habitats under threat

Ryan Truscott 22 Aug 2024

In Mexico, avocado suppliers continue sourcing from illegally deforested land

Maxwell Radwin 21 Aug 2024
Action by Muhammadiyah cadres in Jogja protesting the second largest Islamic religious organization in Indonesia receiving mining permits from the government.

Indonesian Islamic behemoth’s entry into coal mining sparks youth wing revolt

Asad Asnawi 21 Aug 2024

Indonesia expands IPLC land recognition — but the pace is too slow, critics say

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Aug 2024

One year after oil referendum, what’s next for Ecuador’s Yasuní National Park?

Aimee Gabay 20 Aug 2024

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