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10 takeaways from Indonesia’s grassroots #SaveAru success

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 28 Oct 2019

How Laos lost its tigers

Jeremy Hance 28 Oct 2019

As Bolsonaro meets with Xi, China silent on Brazil environmental crisis

Shanna Hanbury 28 Oct 2019

The Ocean Cleanup successfully collects ocean plastic, aims to scale design

Rachael Meyer 28 Oct 2019

Coal power plants flourish in the Philippines despite ‘climate emergency’

Leilani Chavez 28 Oct 2019
Peat fire in Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Indonesian court fines palm oil firm $18.5m over forest fires in 2015

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Oct 2019

Beach clean-ups, community visits, and compensation to fishers build environmental awareness in Nigeria

Linus Unah 25 Oct 2019

Holding social media companies accountable for facilitating illegal wildlife trade (commentary)

Daniel Stiles 25 Oct 2019

New species of orange-red praying mantis mimics a wasp

Mongabay.com 25 Oct 2019

In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, October 25, 2019

Mongabay.com 25 Oct 2019
WCS veterinarian Steve Harvey fitting a collar on one of the elephants. Image courtesy of Nacha Geoffrey/WCS

Satellite collars to help boost protection for Nigeria’s largest remaining elephant herd

Linus Unah 25 Oct 2019

What makes community ecotourism succeed? In Madagascar, location, location, location

Rowan Moore Gerety 25 Oct 2019

As birds winter in Sri Lanka, one enthusiast makes sure their memory stays

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 25 Oct 2019

Bonobo conservation stymied by deforestation, human rights abuses

Taran Volckhausen 24 Oct 2019
Field inspection for fall armyworm in Kakamega County, Kenya.

A scramble for solutions as fall armyworm infestation sweeps Africa

Gilbert Nakweya 24 Oct 2019

This toad from central Africa impersonates a deadly viper to avoid predators

Mongabay.com 24 Oct 2019

Indonesia’s ex-fisheries minister Susi Pudjiastuti leaves big shoes to fill

Basten Gokkon 24 Oct 2019

Research outlines ‘roadmap’ for land use to slow climate change

Mongabay.com 24 Oct 2019

$85 million initiative to scale up agroforestry in Africa announced

Erik Hoffner 24 Oct 2019

New grouper species discovered in Australian fish market

Mongabay.com 23 Oct 2019

As 2019 Amazon fires die down, Brazilian deforestation roars ahead

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 23 Oct 2019
Green sea turtle. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

For one Indonesian fisher, saving caught turtles is a moral challenge

Ian Morse 23 Oct 2019

Malaria surges in deforested parts of the Amazon, study finds

John Cannon 23 Oct 2019

Amazon’s male white bellbird has the loudest recorded call

Mongabay.com 23 Oct 2019
Intact rainforest in Indonesian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Indonesia’s new cabinet a ‘marriage of oligarchs,’ environmentalists say

Basten Gokkon 23 Oct 2019

Companies ‘disregard responsibility’ over conflict minerals: Report

Mongabay.com 23 Oct 2019
Beatrice Rukanyana looks out over a sugar plantation near Bugoma Forest. Photo: Thomas Lewton

Uganda’s eco-feminists are taking on mining and plantation industries

Thomas Lewton 23 Oct 2019

Area the size of Puerto Rico burned in Indonesia’s fire crisis

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Oct 2019

A ‘sly’ species of leaf-tailed gecko uncovered from Madagascar

Malavika Vyawahare 23 Oct 2019

Combining negotiation, legal backing and orchids to create ecotourism reserve

Sarah Foster 22 Oct 2019

Once close to extinction, western South Atlantic humpback population close to full recovery

Mongabay.com 22 Oct 2019

Indonesian villagers fighting planned mine garner national support

Ian Morse 22 Oct 2019

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