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In eastern Indonesia, a child adventurer discovered an unknown species of giant stick insect: 14-year-old boy discovered the foot-long insect while hiking with his father (news.mongabay.com)
2024-2-1 Indonesia

Mexico has announced 20 new protected areas covering 5.7 million acres across its terrestrial and marine territories (news.mongabay.com)
2024-1-26 Mexico

Bottom trawling stirs up large amounts of carbon from the seabed. This amount of carbon is nearly double the annual emissions from the combustion of fuel by the entire global fishing fleet of about 4 million vessels (news.mongabay.com)
2024-1-21

Brazil proposes $250 billion "Tropical Forests Forever" fund for rainforests (news.mongabay.com)
2023-12-4 Brazil

Investigation reveals ‘shadow companies' linked to Indonesia palm oil giant First Resources: This supplier of brands like Pepsi & Procter/Gamble has likely driven more deforestation in SE Asia during the last 5 years than any other (news.mongabay.com)
2023-11-24 Asia Indonesia

End of impunity for Indigenous killings in sight for Brazil's Indigenous: 2024 case will be the first killing of a forest defender to go before a federal jury (news.mongabay.com)
2023-11-21 Brazil

Circular economy poised to go beyond outdated oil, gas and coal, experts say (news.mongabay.com)
2023-11-20 Oil Gas

Forests hold massive carbon storage potential: New findings show the world's forests could store 226 billion metric tons of carbon if protected and restored (news.mongabay.com)
2023-11-15

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon falls 22% in 2023: Nation's newly released data is seen as a sign that President Lula's efforts to curb deforestation is having an effect after a period of rising forest loss under Jair Bolsonaro (news.mongabay.com)
2023-11-14 Amazon Brazil

Despite severe drought, Amazon deforestation continues to slow, according to data released yesterday by Brazil (news.mongabay.com)
2023-10-15 Amazon Brazil

NGO buys 2,000 rhinos from controversial breeding program in S. Africa: When legalized trade in rhino horn didn't materialize, the company ran out of money, and the NGO will now aim to release the rhinos in African parks (news.mongabay.com)
2023-9-13 Africa

Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest continues to plunge: Brazil's deforestation alert system indicates that forest clearing in its portion of the Amazon in August declined 66% compared to the same month last year (news.mongabay.com)
2023-9-11 Amazon Brazil

Pacific island nations adopt moratorium on deep-sea mining, halting Canadian miner's project: Leaders say more research is needed to establish if mining the seabed below 200 meters is possible without damaging ecosystems and fisheries (news.mongabay.com)
2023-9-8 Canada

A forest gave Cambodia's captive elephants a new life. Now they're paying it back (news.mongabay.com)
2023-9-4 Cambodia

Cattle laundering: How the Amazon's 'greatest devastator' sold cattle to a French retailer (news.mongabay.com)
2023-8-31 France Amazon

Bangladesh to produce lithium batteries, electric vehicles to cut emissions (news.mongabay.com)
2023-8-28 Bangladesh

‘Catastrophic breeding failure' for penguins as Antarctic sea ice vanishes: Lack of sea ice around the Bellingshausen Sea led to “unprecedented” breeding failure in 4 of 5 emperor penguin colonies (news.mongabay.com)
2023-8-26

Brazilian authorities launch probe into ‘Amazon's largest single deforester': Bruno Heller has destroyed 16,100 acres of rainforest for cattle ranching — an area larger than Manhattan (news.mongabay.com)
2023-8-11 Amazon Brazil

Amazon deforestation continues to fall under Lula: Rate plunged sharply in July, continuing a downward trend since Lula took office at the beginning of the year (news.mongabay.com)
2023-8-6 Amazon

Killing of American biologist in Mexico adds to rising violence against scientists there: 3rd fatal incident involving researchers studying the environment in different parts of Mexico in recent years (news.mongabay.com)
2023-8-5 U.S. Mexico

International community calls for release of El Salvador antimining activists (news.mongabay.com)
2023-8-4

JPMorgan, Citi named among top financiers of Amazon oil and gas projects (news.mongabay.com)
2023-8-2 Amazon JPMorgan

Despite lawsuit, a French supermarket chain still sells beef raised on Indigenous territory in the Brazilian Amazon: ‘cattle laundering' by Casino Group hides potential illegal origin of the meat (news.mongabay.com)
2023-7-14 France Amazon Brazil

Poverty-fueled deforestation of Nigerian reserve slashes hope for rare chimps (news.mongabay.com)
2023-7-11 Nigeria

Six months into Lula's presidency, Amazon deforestation is dropping rapidly: 34% decline detected (news.mongabay.com)
2023-7-8 Amazon

Record shark fin bust in Brazil of nearly 29 tons taken from 10,000 sharks: The fins, destined for illegal export to Asia, came from blue sharks and shortfin mako sharks, which recently joined the country's list of endangered species (news.mongabay.com)
2023-6-30 Asia Brazil

‘No future': Iceland cancels whale hunt over animal welfare concerns: decision follows government report that found many whales suffer immensely after being harpooned (news.mongabay.com)
2023-6-22 Welfare

Indigenous groups turn to Brazil's highest court to stop police violence (news.mongabay.com)
2023-6-11 Brazil

Fishermen confirm scientists' warning: Brazil's Belo Monte dam harmed the ecosystem: 7 years later, fish have largely disappeared from this stretch of the Xingu, a major tributary of the Amazon River (news.mongabay.com)
2023-6-9 Amazon Brazil

Hyundai moves to prevent its equipment from being used for illegal mining in Brazil's Amazon (news.mongabay.com)
2023-6-8 Amazon Brazil

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