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Are animals adapting to cities faster than we think?

Sean Mowbray 13 Nov 2015

Chinese Giant Salamander: millions farmed, nearly extinct in the wild

Claire Salisbury 13 Nov 2015

First-of-its-kind mapping platform could help protect land held by Indigenous communities

Basten Gokkon, Shreya Dasgupta 13 Nov 2015
Picture courtesy of Greenpeace.

Jokowi turning over a new leaf for Indonesia on haze but details still foggy

Mongabay Haze Beat 13 Nov 2015

Key forest countries’ climate pledges fall short on emissions from land use and deforestation

Mike Gaworecki 13 Nov 2015

Carbon storage for sale: USDA grants promote markets for ‘ecosystem services’

Peter Mellgard 12 Nov 2015

Mystery sharks captured in New Guinea river

Mike Gaworecki 12 Nov 2015

New analysis shows there is momentum to build on in Paris when it comes to protecting forests to stop climate change

Mike Gaworecki 12 Nov 2015

To kill or not to kill? Scientists debate specimen collection

Shreya Dasgupta 11 Nov 2015

Saving the unicorns: using the sun to produce freshwater and restore an endangered species

Katie Taylor 11 Nov 2015

Community plants green shoots of hope in the land of the lost Javan tiger

Petrus Riski 11 Nov 2015
Members of the indigenous community live at the riverbanks in Kapuas river where the air is engulfed with thick haze at Sei Ahass village, Kapuas district, Central Kalimantan province on Borneo island, Indonesia. These fires are a threat to the health of millions. Smoke from landscape fires kills an estimated 110,000 people every year across Southeast Asia, mostly as a result of heart and lung problems, and weakening newborn babies.

Indonesia bans peatlands destruction

Mongabay.com 10 Nov 2015

‘A critical gift’: Peru rejoices as a new national park is born

Apoorva Joshi, Morgan Erickson-Davis 10 Nov 2015

Tiger Awareness Week hits college campuses: building student pride for an endangered apex predator

Katie Taylor 10 Nov 2015

Concern grows for jailed Cambodian activists amid civil rights crackdown

Rod Harbinson 10 Nov 2015

Many Indonesia fires smoulder but danger is far from over

Mongabay Haze Beat 10 Nov 2015

Brazil climate change report warns of failed hydropower and crops

Sue Branford 9 Nov 2015

Indonesian NGO takes aim at government for failure to handle haze

Mongabay Haze Beat 9 Nov 2015

Indonesia losing billions from illegal logging

Jonathan Vit 9 Nov 2015

Land rights and access to credit in Sulawesi community brings prosperity to land

Wahyu Chandra 9 Nov 2015
Oil palm in Sabah

With fires wreaking havoc across Indonesia, Malaysian state targets greener palm oil

Mongabay.com 8 Nov 2015
Sierra del Divisor's famed cone. Photo by Diego Pérez / El Taller.pe

Peru creates ‘Yellowstone of the Amazon’: 3.3M acre reserve home to uncontacted tribes, endangered wildlife

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Nov 2015

It looks like we may be headed for a more ‘pro-animal’ future

Brittany Stewart 6 Nov 2015

Reforestation contributed more than $5 billion to Brazil’s economy

Mike Gaworecki 6 Nov 2015

Leaked report reveals massive illegal logging in Laos

Ethan Harfenist 6 Nov 2015

Mauritius to start culling 18,000 bats from November 7

Shreya Dasgupta 6 Nov 2015

Indian government cancels Greenpeace India’s registration

Shreya Dasgupta 6 Nov 2015

Refinery township golf course and boundary wall puts elephants at risk

Shreya Dasgupta 6 Nov 2015

Jokowi pushes universities to innovate to fight haze as respiratory diseases rise

Mongabay Haze Beat 6 Nov 2015

There have been more than 11,000 fires in just one region of the Brazilian Amazon this year

Mike Gaworecki 5 Nov 2015
Picture courtesy of Greenpeace.

Photos confirm Indonesia being burned for palm oil

Mongabay Haze Beat 5 Nov 2015

Galapagos “gold rush” feeds global hunger for shark fins, sea cucumbers

Sean Mowbray 5 Nov 2015

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