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This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Learn more Got it! * English * Español (Spanish) * Français (French) * Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian) * Brasil (Portuguese) * India * हिंदी (Hindi) * Rainforests * Oceans * Animals * Environment * Business * Solutions * For Kids * DONATE * Impact * More * Are biodiversity credits just another business-as-usual finance scheme? Oman’s mountain oases offer ancient farming lessons for a warming future Fenced in by Sulawesi national park, Indigenous women make forestry breakout Toilet paper: Environmentally impactful, but alternatives are rolling out ENVIRONMENTAL HEADLINES Reader-supported news and inspiration from nature's frontline. Mongabay is a non-profit. HOW EFFECTIVE ARE GIANT FUNDING PLEDGES BY MAJOR CONSERVATION DONORS? by Mike DiGirolamo 19 March 2024 Big philanthropic projects like the Protecting Our Planet Challenge usually capture the media spotlight, but how effective are these endeavors? Do they take into consideration the inextricable human rights considerations… CULTURE OF HARASSMENT PERSISTS FOR WOMEN IN SOUTHEAST ASIA’S CONSERVATION SPACE by Hướng Thiện 19 March 2024 During a 2020 field trip to a rural area in Vietnam, Hoa (not her real name), then working for a conservation-focused nonprofit, visited local authorities to discuss forest management. Vietnamese… ROAD PAVING IN A PERUVIAN BIRD PARADISE THREATENS WILDLIFE AND ECOTOURISM by Erik Iverson 19 March 2024 KOSÑIPATA, Peru – “It’s the best road I’ve ever gone birding on, in terms of the variety of habitats and birds,” says Victor Emanuel, one of the pioneers of modern… UN PROBES CONTROVERSIAL FOREST CARBON AGREEMENT IN MALAYSIAN BORNEO by John Cannon 18 March 2024 The state government of Sabah in Malaysian Borneo has reaffirmed its plans to proceed with an opaque nature conservation agreement despite concerns raised by the United Nations. Representatives of Sabah’s… RISING TEMPERATURES THREATEN THE TINY ANIMALS RESPONSIBLE FOR GROUNDWATER QUALITY by Bernardo Araujo 18 March 2024 Underground ecosystems are everywhere. From gargantuan lightless mazes to pore-sized bedrock gaps inhabited by microfauna — super tiny animals — these ecosystems are believed to be the most widespread nonmarine… OMAN’S MOUNTAIN OASES OFFER ANCIENT FARMING LESSONS FOR A WARMING FUTURE by Ruth Kamnitzer 18 March 2024 In some ways, village life on Oman’s Jabal Akhdar Mountain is the same as it has always been. Water still runs through the ancient aflaj channels. People still cultivate pomegranates,… FERTILIZER MANAGEMENT COULD REDUCE AMMONIA POLLUTION FROM 3 STAPLE CROPS: STUDY by Claire Asher 18 March 2024 A machine learning model of ammonia emissions from the world’s rice, wheat and corn crops shows that optimal fertilizer management could slash ammonia air pollution from these crops by 38%. SPYING ON WILDLIFE WITH BIOROBOTS: INTERVIEW WITH ENGINEER KAMILO MELO by Abhishyant Kidangoor 18 March 2024 Kamilo Melo was building a robot shaped like a salamander for his Ph.D. in 2015 when an unexpected assignment came knocking on his door. Two producers at the BBC were… TOILET PAPER: ENVIRONMENTALLY IMPACTFUL, BUT ALTERNATIVES ARE ROLLING OUT by Petro Kotzé 15 March 2024 Most used in China, North America, Europe and Australia, TP causes deforestation, needs lots of energy and water to make, and is hard to dispose of. Solutions abound, from the bidet, to recycled paper, bamboo and other alternatives. TO DETECT ILLEGAL ROADS IN REMOTE AREAS, AI COMES INTO PLAY by Abhishyant Kidangoor 15 March 2024 For years, detecting illegal roads in remote areas has remained a challenging and labor-intensive task. More often than not, it requires poring over satellite images to identify thin lines cut… BRAZIL’S AMAZONIAN STATES PUSH FOR COURT REFORMS IN BID FOR JUSTICE by Luiz Antônio Araujo 14 March 2024 Amazonian states have gone largely unrepresented at the top of the Brazilian judicial system for decades, a political distortion that has spurred calls for reform. MINI RADIO TAGS HELP TRACK ‘MURDER HORNETS’ AND OTHER INVASIVE INSECTS by Claudia Geib 14 March 2024 The yellow-legged hornet is a predator: after it sets up a nest in a new neighborhood, its workers head out in search of smaller wasps, flies and bees to feed… NOT JUST POLAR BEARS — CLIMATE CHANGE COULD PUSH AFRICAN RHINOS TO EXTINCTION by Anna Dulisse 14 March 2024 New research is ringing alarm bells about how climate change may impact one of Africa’s most iconic and vulnerable animals: the rhinoceros. “Climate change has the potential of wiping out… HOW A WIND FARM ON BRAZIL’S COAST ERASED A FISHING VILLAGE FROM THE MAP by Lobato Felizola 14 March 2024 In the municipality of Camocim, on Brazil’s northeastern coast, the fishing village of Praia do Xavier was erased from the map. Or at least that’s how it appeared on the… PERU’S ILLEGAL PET MONKEY TRADE IS ALSO AN INFECTION SUPERHIGHWAY by Carla Ruas 14 March 2024 At Belén Market in the northeastern Peruvian city of Iquitos, monkeys illegally captured from the Amazon Rainforest are sold as pets right next to fruits and vegetables. The primates are… ARE BIODIVERSITY CREDITS JUST ANOTHER BUSINESS-AS-USUAL FINANCE SCHEME? by Shreya Dasgupta 19 March 2024 Nature is in crisis. Yet, there’s a massive $700 billion gap between the financing needed to stop biodiversity collapse versus what’s available each year. In December 2022, nearly 200 governments… SORAIDA CHINDOY: THE INDIGENOUS GUARDIAN DEFENDING THE SACRED PUTUMAYO MOUNTAINS by Natalia Pedraza Bravo 19 March 2024 On May 9, 1983, Soraida Chindoy Buesaquillo’s placenta was planted in the mountains of Putumayo, where Colombia’s Amazon rainforest meets the Andes. Her mother, Concepción Buesaquillo, was a midwife by… IRRAWADDY DOLPHIN DEATH IN THAILAND’S SONGKHLA LAKE UNDERSCORES CONSERVATION NEEDS by Carolyn Cowan 19 March 2024 The recent death of a critically endangered freshwater Irrawaddy dolphin in southern Thailand’s Songkhla Lake has brought the plight of the waterbody’s tiny remaining population into stark focus. As few… FANNED BY EL NIÑO, MEGAFIRES IN BRAZIL THREATEN AMAZON’S PRESERVED AREAS by André Schröder 18 March 2024 Researchers and protection agencies expected a dry season with more fires in Brazil’s Roraima state at the start of 2024, but the effects of an intense and prolonged El Niño have aggravated the situation. CHOCÓ LAND DEAL SHOWS FLAWS IN ECUADOR’S FORESTRY INCENTIVE PROGRAM by Maxwell Radwin 18 March 2024 By now, dozens of countries have some version of a forestry incentive program, with the government paying local property owners to keep their trees in the ground. But a lot… FENCED IN BY SULAWESI NATIONAL PARK, INDIGENOUS WOMEN MAKE FORESTRY BREAKOUT by Sarjan Lahay 18 March 2024 SOUTH KULAWI, Indonesia — In a forested valley in the interior of Sulawesi Island, Elisabet Heta gathers up a clutch of farming tools used by the Moa Indigenous people and… IN PERU, CONSERVATIONISTS AND AUTHORITIES STRUGGLE TO GET TURTLE EGGS OFF THE MENU by Ryan Biller 18 March 2024 IQUITOS, Peru — "Oh, they're so delicious," said Soledad Coronil, an elderly local woman, as she enjoyed a boiled tortoise egg earlier this year. "You have to open the shell… FIRES SURGE IN THE AMAZON, BUT DEFORESTATION CONTINUES TO FALL by Mongabay.com 17 March 2024 Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has continued on a downward trajectory despite a sharp increase in fires associated with the severe drought in the region, reveals data released by Brazil's… BRAZILIAN YOUNGSTERS DISCUSS HOW THEY ARE TACKLING THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY by Beatriz Jucá and Leandro Barbosa 15 March 2024 The climate emergency has affected development and violated the rights of children and adolescents around the world, and in Brazil. In addition to fires, prolonged, extreme droughts make access to… HUGE NEW NO-FISHING ZONES GIVE ANTARCTIC MARINE PREDATORS AND THEIR PREY A BREAK by Elizabeth Claire Alberts 14 March 2024 Thousands of miles off the southeast coast of South America lies a set of remote islands, one broad and comma-shaped, the others a series of small dots that trail off… E-SAK KA OU DECLARATION UNDERSCORES INDIGENOUS RIGHTS AS A CONSERVATION SOLUTION (COMMENTARY) by Minh Tran 14 March 2024 It was a sunny day in Koh Lanta, an island known for tourism in Krabi Province, Thailand. Surrounding us were calming shades of blue and green, a white sandy beach… CLIMATE CHANGE BREWS TROUBLE FOR TEA INDUSTRY, BUT CIRCULAR SOLUTIONS AWAIT by Sean Mowbray 14 March 2024 It’s estimated that we drink around 5 billion cups of tea every day. Producing this vast quantity of leaves to quench global thirst for black, green and other varieties is… PALM OIL DEFORESTATION PERSISTS IN INDONESIA’S LEUSER AMID NEW MILLS, PLANTATIONS by Hans Nicholas Jong 14 March 2024 JAKARTA — Deforestation for oil palm plantations continues unabated at the northern tip of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, likely driven by new processing mills that in turn may ultimately… BIG PROBLEMS FOR LITTLE ANIMALS WHEN FLOODWATERS RISE, STUDY FINDS by Charles Mpaka 14 March 2024 Blantyre, MALAWI — When Cyclone Idai stormed Mozambique in 2019, researchers at Gorongosa National Park rode the current to test a long-held theory that the vulnerability of wildlife species to… REFORESTATION AND RESTORATION: TWO WAYS TO MAKE THE PAN AMAZON GREENER by Timothy J. Killeen 14 March 2024 One of the benefits of agroforestry and plantation forestry is the ability of tree crops to capture and store carbon in their above-ground biomass. 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