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In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, February 2, 2018

Mongabay.com 2 Feb 2018

Indonesian palm, pulp companies commit to peatland restoration

Hans Nicholas Jong 2 Feb 2018

Maps tease apart complex relationship between agriculture and deforestation in DRC

John Cannon 2 Feb 2018

Indonesian rubber farmers charged in gruesome killing of Bornean orangutan

Basten Gokkon 2 Feb 2018

Venezuela: can a failing state protect its environment and its people?

Glenn Scherer 1 Feb 2018

Powering cameras and empowering people

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 1 Feb 2018

Zero-deforestation pledges need help, support to meet targets, new study finds

Mongabay.com 1 Feb 2018

Hong Kong votes to ban ivory trade by 2021

Mongabay.com 1 Feb 2018

$23.5 million funding pledge aims to protect critical West African national park

Mongabay.com 1 Feb 2018

More murders: Conservationists allegedly killed by soldiers in Cambodia

Morgan Erickson-Davis 31 Jan 2018
Mantaray, northwest Galápagos. Photo by Greg Asner / DivePhoto.org

Corals thrive on remotest islands in the Galápagos

Greg Asner, Clare LeDuff 31 Jan 2018
A local volunteer plants a mangrove sapling at the Trapeang Sangke inlet. The best time for transplanting is July, the peak of the wet season when the estuary is least salty. With a full team of volunteers, 4,000 saplings get transplanted in the most productive months. Photo by Matt Blomberg for Mongabay.

Mega developments set to transform a tranquil Cambodian bay

Matt Blomberg 31 Jan 2018
Buttress roots of a rainforest tree in Sulawesi, Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Is a plantation a forest? Indonesia says yes, as it touts a drop in deforestation

Hans Nicholas Jong 31 Jan 2018

New study suggests Borneo’s had elephants for thousands of years

John Cannon 31 Jan 2018

Two new dog-faced bats discovered in Panama and Ecuador

Mongabay.com 31 Jan 2018
A farmer feeds elephant grass to his horses in Cao Bang Province, planted so farmers don't send their livestock to graze inside a nearby protected forest. Photo by Michael Tatarski/Mongabay.

Environmental reporting in Vietnam often a comedy of errors

Michael Tatarski 30 Jan 2018

Sumatra’s ‘tiger descendants’ cling to their customs as coal mines encroach

Dedek Hendry 30 Jan 2018

For Australia’s fire-starting falcons, pyromania serves up the prey

Mongabay.com 30 Jan 2018

As nesting beaches warm, sea turtle populations are turning female–how scientists found out

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 29 Jan 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

Camera trap captures spotted hyena in Gabon national park, the first in 20 years

Mongabay.com 29 Jan 2018

Elephant tusks and pangolin scales seized, six suspects arrested in Ivory Coast

Mongabay.com 29 Jan 2018

Fang trafficking to China is putting Bolivia’s jaguars in jeopardy

Roberto Navia 26 Jan 2018
Radiated Tortoise Hatchling (Astrochelys radiata). Madagascar’s radiated tortoises have all but disappeared from their island home due to habitat loss, hunting for their meat, and collection for the pet trade. The females lay from three to 12 eggs that resemble ping pong balls. The hatchlings have beautiful, roundish shells, and at 1½ inches, are miniature versions of their 35 pound parents. Photo &copy Julie Larsen Maher / WCS.

Baby photos of 10 of the world’s rarest turtles from the zoo trying to save them

Avishai Shuter, Don Boyer, Julie Larsen Maher 26 Jan 2018

Indonesian ruling rings alarms over criminalization of environmental defenders

Hans Nicholas Jong 26 Jan 2018

In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, January 26, 2018

Mongabay.com 26 Jan 2018

Do catch and release-induced abortions harm shark and ray populations?

Jack Elliot Marley 26 Jan 2018

Rhino poaching in South Africa dipped slightly last year, but ‘crisis continues unabated,’ conservationists say

Mongabay.com 25 Jan 2018

The ups and downs of marine protected areas: Examining the evidence

Shreya Dasgupta 25 Jan 2018

Data fusion opens new horizons for remote imaging of landscapes

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 25 Jan 2018

Maduro seeks sell off of Venezuela’s natural resources to escape debt – analysis

Bram Ebus 25 Jan 2018

Biofuel boost threatens even greater deforestation in Indonesia, Malaysia: Study

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Jan 2018

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