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Mongabay discusses technology’s role in conservation at Seattle event [VIDEO]

Erik Hoffner 13 Jun 2018

Global Forest Watch offers mapping and data visualization fellowships

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 28 May 2018

One-stop shop for digital global maps launched

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 30 Apr 2018
Indonesian rainforest. Photo for Mongabay by Rhett A. Butler.

Unified land-use map for Indonesia nears launch, but concerns over access remain

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Apr 2018

Tech and collaboration are putting indigenous land rights on the map

Lalini Pedris 26 Mar 2018

Sarawak’s Penan now have detailed maps of their ancestral homeland

John Cannon 20 Mar 2018
Intact palm swamp along a rainforest lake in southeastern Peru. Miners seek gold in the sediments, cutting trees and inputting harmful mercury into waters to identify the tiny gold pieces in the soil.

Radar returns to remote sensing through free, near-real-time global imagery

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 19 Mar 2018
Illegal forest clearingfor oil palm in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Public access to Indonesian plantation data still mired in bureaucracy

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Mar 2018

Detecting disasters on community lands in the Amazon: film highlights indigenous struggle

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 27 Feb 2018

Scientists from Indonesia, Germany and the Netherlands win Indonesian Peat Prize

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Feb 2018

‘Eye of Papua’ shines a light on environmental, indigenous issues in Indonesia’s last frontier

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Feb 2018
Coastal peatlands in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Indonesia prepares to adopt standardized peat-mapping technology

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Jan 2018

Data fusion opens new horizons for remote imaging of landscapes

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 25 Jan 2018

New satellite data reveals forest loss far greater than expected in Brazil Amazon

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 18 Jan 2018

10 top conservation tech innovations from 2017

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 4 Jan 2018

Combining computing power and people power to identify key deforestation hotspots

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 26 Dec 2017

Where one predator meets another: tracking sharks and fishing effort

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 25 Nov 2017

As Indonesia pushes flagship land reform program, farmers remain wary

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Nov 2017

An early warning system for locating forest loss

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 16 Nov 2017

Mapping how to feed 9 billion humans, while avoiding environmental calamity

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Nov 2017

Scientists plan to map a ‘safety net’ for Planet Earth

Mike Gaworecki 7 Nov 2017

Study maps out reptiles’ ranges, completing the ‘atlas of life’

Mongabay.com 17 Oct 2017

Birdwatching poised to take flight in Colombia, study reveals

John Cannon 10 Oct 2017

Citizen scientists use mobile apps to help “green” the ocean

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 20 Sep 2017

Indonesia’s decision to share vessel tracking data ‘ill-advised,’ some say

Basten Gokkon 21 Aug 2017
A male indigo bunting pauses in Texas during

Scientists combine crowd-sourced field observations with land-use and climate models to identify steps for migratory bird protection

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 18 Aug 2017

Land-swap rule among Indonesian President Jokowi’s latest peat reforms

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Aug 2017

Why the Suy’uk are fact-checking their Dayak origin myth

Andi Fachrizal 4 Aug 2017

Open-source species location data supports global biodiversity analyses

Colleen O'Brien 31 Jul 2017

Ongoing mass extinction causing ‘biological annihilation,’ new study says

John Cannon 11 Jul 2017

Story-telling app and website help communities improve their ‘backyards’

Danielle Bettermann 23 Jun 2017

Creating corridors: researchers use GPS telemetry data to map elephants’ movements

Danielle Bettermann 21 Jun 2017

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