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Three Xunan-Kab workers consume honey from a broken cerumen pod. At harvest time, beekeepers use syringes to extract the honey. Whereas European honeybees store their honey and pollen and rear their larvae in honeycomb, Xunan-Kab store honey and pollen in cerumen pods, and use honeycomb only for larvae. Image by Richard Arghiris for Mongabay.

House of the Royal Lady Bee: Maya revive native bees and ancient beekeeping

Jennifer Kennedy, Richard Arghiris 31 Jan 2019
Hiking through the tiny village of Doong in central Vietnam's Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park. Photo by Michael Tatarski for Mongabay.

Current threats and future hopes for the greater Mekong’s mangroves

Michael Tatarski 30 Jan 2019

Borneo study explores links between farm expansion and deforestation

Hans Nicholas Jong 30 Jan 2019
Rainbow over the Amazon rainforest. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Time to shift focus to existing environmental laws, says new UN report

Kimberley Brown 25 Jan 2019
Indonesian rainforest in Bukit Tigapuluh, Sumatra. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Funds tripled and target slashed, but Indonesia still off pace for reforestation

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Jan 2019
Turtles in the conservation project in Guyana. Photo courtesy Ereika DeAndrade.

A community in Guyana relies on indigenous knowledge in conservation

Akola Thompson 24 Jan 2019

Bans on the bird trade in South America yield mixed results

Mongabay.com 24 Jan 2019

In PNG, a fallen bridge is testament to the chasm in rural development

Camilo Mejia Giraldo 24 Jan 2019

In West Papua, a development plan that doesn’t require clearing forest

Een Irawan Putra 23 Jan 2019
The forest of Liberia. Photo by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

Liberia’s community forestry becoming a front for deforestation: Report

Ashoka Mukpo 23 Jan 2019

Saving the forests of the Congo Basin: Q&A with author Meindert Brouwer

Mongabay.com 23 Jan 2019

In Sumatra, a lone elephant leads rescuers on a cat-and-mouse chase

Cory Rogers, Lili Rambe 23 Jan 2019

In Borneo, dwindling forests face further fragmentation as roads spread

Basten Gokkon 22 Jan 2019
Some of Susana Simbana's wooden creations. Photo by Kimberley Brown for Mongabay.

Ecuador’s artisans struggle to save wooden toy culture

Kimberley Brown 21 Jan 2019

Tanzania creates new reserve to protect rare colobus monkeys and trees

Shreya Dasgupta 21 Jan 2019

Solomon Islands province bans logging in bid to protect environment

Mongabay.com 21 Jan 2019

New space lasers offer best 3D look at global forests yet

David Klinges 18 Jan 2019

Coffee in trouble: 60% of wild coffee species threatened with extinction

Shreya Dasgupta 17 Jan 2019
The masks of Julio Toaquiza have been exhibited in various countries such as Colombia and Bolivia, where it has been recognized that their art is unique. Photo by Jonatan Rosas for Mongabay.

The man who made Ecuador’s wooden Tigua masks famous

Kimberley Brown 16 Jan 2019

Guyana signs on to forest management agreement with the EU

Carinya Sharples 16 Jan 2019

The case for forests’ prominent role in holding off climate change

John Cannon 16 Jan 2019

‘Ecosystem guardians’ remain passionate despite dicey conditions

Nora Ward 15 Jan 2019

Palm oil companies continue to criminalize farmers in Sumatra (commentary)

Gaurav Madan 14 Jan 2019

Karen indigenous communities in Myanmar have officially launched the Salween Peace Park

Mongabay.com 11 Jan 2019

Termites help to protect tropical forests during drought, study finds

Shreya Dasgupta 10 Jan 2019

Rapid population drop weakened the Grauer’s gorilla gene pool

John Cannon 10 Jan 2019

Rhett Butler on how sound can save forests and top rainforest storylines to watch in 2019

Mike Gaworecki 8 Jan 2019

Journalists reporting on the environment faced increased dangers in 2018

Kaamil Ahmed 4 Jan 2019
Topher White of Rainforest Connection installing a bioacoustic device in the forest canopy. Image by Ben Von Wong.

Eavesdrop on forest sounds to effectively monitor biodiversity, researchers say

Shreya Dasgupta 3 Jan 2019
Fungi in Yunnan, China. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Rainforests: storylines to watch in 2019

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Jan 2019
Rainforest in Sarawak, Malaysia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

The biggest rainforest news stories in 2018

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Dec 2018

Devastating Laos dam collapse leads to deforestation of protected forests

Kit Humphrey 28 Dec 2018

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