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Celebrating those making a difference this World Nature Conservation Day and beyond

Celebrating those making a difference this World Nature Conservation Day and...

In a year where Earth has already seen hottest global temperature ever recorded and a new record high temperature for the global sea surface...
Progress is slow on Africa’s Great Green Wall, but some bright spots bloom

Progress is slow on Africa’s Great Green Wall, but some bright...

Africa’s ambitious Great Green Wall, a mosaic of reforestation efforts to stop desertification, has been plagued by delays and challenges.Some reforestation efforts, however, have...

Rio Tinto mine breaches sensitive wetland

A large mineral...
Brazilian authorities launch probe into ‘Amazon’s largest single deforester’

Brazilian authorities launch probe into ‘Amazon’s largest single deforester’

The suspect, Bruno Heller, destroyed 6,500 hectares (16,100 acres) of Amazon Rainforest for cattle ranching — an area larger than the island of Manhattan...
Where are the giraffes hiding? Predictive tracking tech points the way

Where are the giraffes hiding? Predictive tracking tech points the way

Researchers have combined tagging technology, satellite data and machine learning to create a model that predicts the potential locations of unknown populations of reticulated...

A cautionary tale from Borneo

A recent study...
Hydropower in the Pan Amazon: Belo Monte and the Río Xingu

Hydropower in the Pan Amazon: Belo Monte and the Río Xingu

Mongabay has begun publishing a new edition of the book, “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon,” in short installments and in three languages: Spanish,...
A forest gave Cambodia’s captive elephants a new life. Now they’re paying it back

A forest gave Cambodia’s captive elephants a new life. Now they’re...

Until 2020, the Elephant Valley Project in eastern Cambodia had developed into a self-sustaining sanctuary where aging captive elephants could live out their days...

Counting on eDNA for a faster, easier way to count coral

Environmental DNA, known...