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UN passes first ever declaration for peasant rights

Kimberley Brown 20 Feb 2019
Jaguar in Madre de Dios, Peru. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Madre de Dios: Seven Brazil nut concessions investigated for illegal timber extraction

Yvette Sierra Praeli 20 Feb 2019

New Species of orangutan threatened from moment of its discovery

Laurel Neme 20 Feb 2019

What does it take to discover a new great ape species?

Laurel Neme 19 Feb 2019

In the Solomon Islands, making amends in the name of conservation

John Cannon 19 Feb 2019

Giant pines a tourist draw, cash cow for Yogyakarta farmers

Nuswantoro 19 Feb 2019
Student government president Gaymon Edwards leads a meeting of his fellow students. Their current requests from the school administration include sprinklers for the kitchen garden, new locks for the classrooms, and full electricity in the dorms. Image by Carinya Sharples for Mongabay.

Guyana: The school where indigenous youth learn about their land

Carinya Sharples 15 Feb 2019

Sri Lanka gets its first data-based elephant distribution map

Shreya Dasgupta 15 Feb 2019

Peru: Report reveals high rates of illegality in timber extraction

Yvette Sierra Praeli 14 Feb 2019

DRC’s Virunga to welcome visitors again after 8-month closure

Mongabay.com 14 Feb 2019
Anti-wildlife-trafficking statues at Minh Dang Quang Buddhist Institute in Ho Chi Minh City, one of the pagodas included in the campaign. Photo by Michael Tatarski for Mongabay.

Graphic anti-wildlife-trafficking campaign tackles Vietnam’s pangolin problem

Michael Tatarski 14 Feb 2019

Amazon at risk: Brazil plans rapid road and rail infrastructure expansion

Sue Branford 12 Feb 2019
Toribio Cabrera, a potato farmer in Concepción Chiquirichapa, Guatemala. Like most of his coleagues, Cabrera attributes the success of the local potato harvest to the use of leaf litter from the forest as a fertilizer. Image by Jorge Rodríguez for Mongabay.

The secret to a town’s perfect potatoes? Its well-preserved forest.

Jorge Rodríguez 11 Feb 2019
Fresh oil palm fruit bunches. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

US senators warn fund managers over palm oil

James Fair 11 Feb 2019

Short film celebrates community forest titles in DRC

Mongabay.com 11 Feb 2019

Sumatran tiger killed at London Zoo by potential mate

Mongabay.com 10 Feb 2019
A blue pansy (Junonia orithya), a species occasionally available through Kipepeo Butterfly Project. Image by yakovlev.alexey via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Butterfly business: Insect farmers help conserve East African forests

Janet Njung’e 8 Feb 2019
Indigenous women march in Puyo, Ecuador on March 8, 2018. Photo by Kimberley Brown/Mongabay.

To fight deforestation first tackle inequality, study says

Kimberley Brown 8 Feb 2019

EU action plan on tropical deforestation must be beefed up, or it will fail (commentary)

Sam Lawson 8 Feb 2019
Cauca River. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

Colombia’s disaster-ridden hydropower project runs second largest river dry

Taran Volckhausen 7 Feb 2019

What’s in a name? The role of defining ‘wilderness’ in conservation

John Cannon 7 Feb 2019
Marcelino Aguilar and Rumualdo López pray during a Maya fire ceremony celebrating the spiritual connection with the forest and other natural elements and asking the Creator for protection and wisdom. Image by Jorge Rodríguez for Mongabay.

Ancient spirituality guides a Maya town’s conservation efforts

Jorge Rodríguez 6 Feb 2019

Urbanization in Asia provides a window of hope for tigers, study finds

Mongabay.com 6 Feb 2019

Police charge Indonesian politician’s brother in deforestation case

Ayat S. Karokaro 5 Feb 2019

Asian banks give billions to firms linked to deforestation, study finds

James Fair 5 Feb 2019

Conservation groups press world leaders to protect 30% of the planet

Mongabay.com 5 Feb 2019

China’s Belt and Road Initiative could increase alien species invasion

Shreya Dasgupta 5 Feb 2019
Wood that was cut for charcoal production near Katha, northern Myanmar. Villages in this area used to cut teak and other valuable trees for export, but have since started producing charcoal. The charcoal being exported to China can be made from any tree, regardless of size or kind. This amount of trees could produce about 150 bags of charcoal. Photo by Nathan Siegel for Mongabay.

France pledges to stop ‘deforestation imports’ by 2030

Carinya Sharples 1 Feb 2019
Francisco Escalante (foreground) and Óscar López have been community park rangers in Concepción Chiquirichapa since the mid 1970’s. Image by Jorge Rodríguez for Mongabay.

How a Mayan town restored its sacred cloud forest and water supply

Jorge Rodríguez 1 Feb 2019

Haiti’s first private nature reserve seeks to protect rare plants and animals

Shreya Dasgupta 1 Feb 2019
Fresh oil palm fruit bunches. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Study finds palm oil industry mimics Big Tobacco on health issues

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Feb 2019

Wildlife rangers in DRC park report waning motivation, job satisfaction

Mongabay.com 31 Jan 2019

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