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Bolivian indigenous group wins big prize for reducing deforestation

Morgan Erickson-Davis 11 Dec 2015

200,000 of Peru’s primates trafficked for pet trade or bushmeat yearly

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 11 Dec 2015

Ecuador condemned at the new Tribunal for the Rights of Nature in Paris

Karen Hoffmann 10 Dec 2015

Click to like this: Is Instagram a hub for illegal ape deals?

Christopher Haslett 10 Dec 2015

Sharp rise in wildfires in the Brazilian Amazon over the past 16 years

Carolina Torres 9 Dec 2015

Biomass: a burning issue for European and U.S. forests

Greg Norman 8 Dec 2015

Government forestry office in Peru is attacked after largest illegal wood seizure in the country

Ruxandra Guidi 8 Dec 2015

The Maned wolf: Saving South America’s largest canid

Sean Mowbray 7 Dec 2015

The week in environmental news – Dec 4, 2015

Brittany Stewart 5 Dec 2015

Romania struggles to turn the tide of illegal logging

Greg Norman 4 Dec 2015

Illegal gold miners in Madre de Dios, Peru, paralyze the region with protests

Ruxandra Guidi 4 Dec 2015

Court cancels 30-year federal permits letting wind companies kill eagles

Mike DiGirolamo 4 Dec 2015

Climate catastrophe avoidable if tropical deforestation halved, say scientists

Ethan Harfenist 3 Dec 2015

The inadequate global zoo response to the amphibian extinction crisis

John-Rob Pool 3 Dec 2015

Conservationists Want to Track Biodiversity — from Space

Alexandra Ossola 3 Dec 2015
Sunset over the Sumatran rainforest

New short film urges world to ‘stop the burning’

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Dec 2015

New mapping platform sees the forest for the carbon

Morgan Erickson-Davis 2 Dec 2015

Indigenous leaders at COP21: 20 percent of tropical forest carbon is sitting on Indigenous land

Mike Gaworecki 2 Dec 2015

Organized crime role in Latin American wildlife trade hidden in shadow

Saul Elbein 2 Dec 2015

‘Catastrophic’ decline: nearly 99% of African grey parrots wiped out in Ghana

Shreya Dasgupta 1 Dec 2015

Brazilian environmental NGOs depend heavily on corporate money

Jenny Gonzales 1 Dec 2015

Palm oil expansion triggers ecological cascade, boosting pigs but hurting other species

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Dec 2015

Controversial Nicaragua canal on hold

Mongabay.com 30 Nov 2015
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Amazon deforestation jumps in Brazil, but remains historically low

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Nov 2015

Grassroots leader’s murder in Peru is a signal to opponents of mining, son says

Barbara Fraser 27 Nov 2015

Australia launches shark-tracking drones and ‘smart’ drum lines to prevent shark attacks

Becca Cudmore, Shreya Dasgupta 27 Nov 2015

Jokowi to oversee Indonesia peat restoration agency but details thin on the ground

Mongabay Haze Beat 26 Nov 2015

Deforestation in Colombia up nearly 20 percent last year, but down in the Colombian Amazon

Mike Gaworecki 26 Nov 2015

Rainforests could provide half global climate solution by 2050

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Nov 2015

Roads to ruin: Africa’s massive infrastructure expansions could have major consequences

John Cannon 25 Nov 2015

Industry wields too much influence over U.S. pesticide regulation, says study

Sean Mowbray 25 Nov 2015

U.S. a major destination for trafficked Latin American wildlife

Sharon Guynup 25 Nov 2015

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