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Mexico failed to uphold international treaty protecting vaquita porpoise, U.S. says: Maybe just 10 are left that haven't been caught in nets targeting totoaba for the Chinese black market (news.mongabay.com)
2023-5-31 China U.S. Mexico

Logging network operating out of Cambodian prison: Inmates manufacture luxury furniture with old growth forest timber cut from the site of a new hydropower dam (news.mongabay.com)
2023-5-29

Just one spotted owl left in British Columbia: Scientists say this is the last chance for the species there, with one female still in the wild (news.mongabay.com)
2023-5-20 U.K.

Indigenous chief shot in head in Brazil's ‘palm oil war' region: Latest episode of violence over land conflicts between a major palm oil company and local Indigenous communities (news.mongabay.com)
2023-5-17 Brazil

Ecuador to boost protection of Galápagos in biggest debt-for-nature deal ever: Will wipe out $1 billion in interest payments in exchange for boosting protection of waters around the iconic islands (news.mongabay.com)
2023-5-12 Ecuador

‘Gold library' helps Brazil crack down on Amazon's illegal mining: catalog of ore samples' chemical 'fingerprints' can help authorities identify the origin of seized or suspicious gold (news.mongabay.com)
2023-4-7 Amazon Brazil

Expansion of Mennonite colonies encroaches on Indigenous land in Bolivia, brings large scale deforestation (news.mongabay.com)
2023-4-5

Rewilding animals could be key for climate: Report (news.mongabay.com)
2023-4-3 Climate

Ecuador court upholds ‘rights of nature,' blocks copper mine proposed for biodiversity hotspot in cloud forest (news.mongabay.com)
2023-4-1 Ecuador

Colombia, Ecuador announce alert system to protect Indigenous Awá from armed groups (news.mongabay.com)
2023-3-12 Ecuador

U.S. pledges $50 million to the Amazon Fund, renewing hope for the rainforest: President Biden offered to work with Brazil to strengthen protection of the Amazon during a recent White House meeting with President Lula (news.mongabay.com)
2023-2-15 U.S. Amazon Brazil

Costa Rica announces ban on fishing of hammerhead sharks (news.mongabay.com)
2023-2-12 Ban

Illegal road found in Yanomami land accelerates Amazon destruction: A 150-kilometer-long illegal road and four hydraulic excavators were recently discovered on Indigenous territory in Brazil (news.mongabay.com)
2023-1-27 Amazon Brazil

The EU banned Russian wood pellet imports; South Korea took them all: Since July 2022, it has been the exclusive destination for Russian produced wood pellets (news.mongabay.com)
2023-1-26 Russia Europe Korea

Amazon's tallest tree at risk as deforestation nears (news.mongabay.com)
2022-12-29 Amazon

Australia rejects forest biomass in first blow to wood pellet industry: Science has found that biomass burning releases more carbon dioxide emissions per unit of energy produced than coal (news.mongabay.com)
2022-12-23 Australia Energy

Indonesia to build coal plants despite $20b in G7 subsidies to transition to clean energy. (news.mongabay.com)
2022-12-19 Energy Indonesia

Black Sea dolphin deaths prompt ecocide allegations against Russia (news.mongabay.com)
2022-12-17 Russia

Climate change is hammering insects — in the tropics and everywhere else: Scientists (news.mongabay.com)
2022-12-11 Climate

In the final days before Bolsonaro's defeat, deforestation boomed in Brazil (news.mongabay.com)
2022-11-13 Brazil

New investigation shows how rampant shark finning is across one Chinese tuna firm's fleet: Dalian Ocean Fishing used banned gear to deliberately catch and illegally cut the fins off of huge numbers of sharks in international waters (news.mongabay.com)
2022-11-3 China

Bangladesh e-waste rules hang in limbo as electrical goods companies ask for delay (news.mongabay.com)
2022-10-26 Bangladesh

Indonesian program pays fishers to collect plastic trash at sea (news.mongabay.com)
2022-10-7 Indonesia

Big banks fund the heavy machinery used for Amazon deforestation, report says (news.mongabay.com)
2022-8-4 Amazon

In world first, Chile to ban single-use food and beverage products over three years (news.mongabay.com)
2022-8-3 Chile Ban

Industrial soy drives deforestation spike in southeastern Brazil, satellite images show (news.mongabay.com)
2022-7-25 Brazil

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