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Interest in protecting environment up since Pope’s 2015 encyclical

John Cannon 21 May 2019

Bolivia: Nature rights tribunal condemns TIPNIS project

Mongabay.com 20 May 2019

‘Resisting to exist’: Indigenous women unite against Brazil’s far-right president

Karla Mendes 20 May 2019

Volunteers find bones of new species of extinct heron at Florida fossil site

Mongabay.com 20 May 2019
A bucket of fish at a market in Labuan Bajo, Indonesia. Image by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay

Monitoring hack shines a light on fishing boats operating under cover of dark

Basten Gokkon 17 May 2019

Extreme weather puts traditional livelihoods in peril in Sri Lanka, studies warn

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 17 May 2019

Solomon Islanders imprisoned for trying to stop the logging of their forests

Louise Hunt 17 May 2019

A new election brings little hope for Solomon Islands’ vanishing forests

Louise Hunt 17 May 2019

In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, May 17, 2019

Mongabay.com 17 May 2019
Zanzibar red colobus (Piliocolobus kirkii) eating a leaf in Jozani Forest, Zanzibar. Photo: Hasin Shakur, Wikicommons GFDL 1.2

Red colobus conservation in Zanzibar: A cautiously optimistic tale

Bart Crezee 17 May 2019

In Indonesia, a flawed certification scheme lets illegal loggers raze away

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 May 2019

’Green’ bonds finance industrial tree plantations in Brazil

Mongabay.com 16 May 2019

At 2,624 years, a bald cypress is oldest known living tree in eastern North America

Mongabay.com 16 May 2019

Climate change may make hurricanes and cyclones deadlier, study finds

Gianluca Cerullo 16 May 2019

As Indonesia mulls moving the capital, indigenous groups fear another land grab

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 16 May 2019

Canopy-dwelling rainforest mammals most sensitive to human disturbance

Mongabay.com 15 May 2019

An urban ‘butterfly experience’ in Sri Lanka

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 15 May 2019

Public education could curb bushmeat demand in Laos, study finds

Mongabay.com 15 May 2019

On the island of Java, a social forestry scheme creates jobs at home

Nuswantoro 15 May 2019

Models, maps, and citizen scientists working to save the Great Barrier Reef

Marianne Messina 14 May 2019

Penguin and seal poop powers life in Antarctica, study finds

Mongabay.com 14 May 2019

The heat is on: Amazon tree loss could bring 1.45 degree C local rise

James Fair 14 May 2019

Coops, community, and agroforestry: Q&A with coffee entrepreneur Dean Cycon

Erik Hoffner 13 May 2019

Climate change spurs deadly virus in frogs in the U.K.

Mongabay.com 13 May 2019

UK supermarkets implicated in Amazon deforestation supply chain: report

Sarah Sax 13 May 2019

Hunting for rare plants in inaccessible spots: Q&A with drone pilot Ben Nyberg

Shreya Dasgupta 13 May 2019

Reptile haven of Sri Lanka yields up new species of rough-sided snake

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 11 May 2019

Global warming is exacerbating global economic inequality: Study

Mongabay.com 10 May 2019

Lions vs. porcupines: A thorny tale with a moral about man-eaters

Malavika Vyawahare 10 May 2019

In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, May 10, 2019

Mongabay.com 10 May 2019

Wariness over Indonesian president’s vow to get tough on land disputes

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 May 2019

A Malagasy community races the timber mafia to save its forest

Malavika Vyawahare 10 May 2019

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