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It’s a bird… It’s a plane… It’s a killing field at Brazil’s airports

It’s a bird… It’s a plane… It’s a killing field at...

More than 2,000 wildlife strikes with aircraft are reported in Brazil every year, but the numbers are underreported and don’t specify the species affected.The...
Q&A with Chile dam critic Jose Marihuan Ancanao

Q&A with Chile dam critic Jose Marihuan Ancanao

Jose Marihuan Ancanao, president of the Ayin Mapu La Peña community, spoke to Mongabay’s Maxwell Radwin about the impact of hydropower plants in parts...
Dam construction ignites Indigenous youth movement in southern Chile

Dam construction ignites Indigenous youth movement in southern Chile

Dam construction on the Bío Bío watershed has plagued Indigenous Mapuche-Pehuenche communities in south-central Chile for decades, with many families having to relocate due...
Should we start placing more solar farms in deserts?

Should we start placing more solar farms in deserts?

Could the complex problem of renewable energy be solved by placing far more solar panels in deserts? Increasing the number of solar farms worldwide will...
Breeding success raises hopes for future of endangered African penguin

Breeding success raises hopes for future of endangered African penguin

Two African penguin chicks have hatched at a nature reserve in South Africa where conservationists have been working for years to entice the endangered...
Certification for deforesters, and repression for an evicted community

Certification for deforesters, and repression for an evicted community

A rule change by the Forest Stewardship Council means companies like Hevéa Sudcam, which cleared nearly 60,000 hectares (148,000 acres) of forest in Cameroon...
Indonesia’s grand EV plans hinge on a ‘green’ industrial park that likely isn’t

Indonesia’s grand EV plans hinge on a ‘green’ industrial park that...

Indonesian President Joko Widodo is courting investment for a “green industrial park,” a key component in his ambitions to boost Indonesia’s economy by making...
Nepal’s wild yaks ‘need more conservation than research’: Q&A with Naresh Kusi

Nepal’s wild yaks ‘need more conservation than research’: Q&A with Naresh...

In July, researchers Naresh Kusi and Geraldine Werhahn spotted three wild yaks in Nepal, where sightings are rare and the animal was once thought...
World’s largest soil carbon project in Kenya receives award during COP27

World’s largest soil carbon project in Kenya receives award during COP27

ISIOLO, Kenya, 17 November 2022,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- The Northern Kenya Rangelands Carbon Project (NKRCP) is the world’s largest soil carbon removal project and proof of...
Stem cells may make ‘impossible possible’ for near-extinct Sumatran rhino

Stem cells may make ‘impossible possible’ for near-extinct Sumatran rhino

Wildlife scientists in Germany are developing a method to produce new living cells from a dead Sumatran rhinoceros in an effort to prevent the...
Support rangers to protect wildlife & habitats for the future (commentary)

Support rangers to protect wildlife & habitats for the future (commentary)

The average ranger works almost 90 hours a week: over 60% have no access to clean drinking water on patrol or at outpost stations,...
In final days before Bolsonaro’s defeat, deforestation boomed in Brazil

In final days before Bolsonaro’s defeat, deforestation boomed in Brazil

According to data published today by Brazil’s national space research agency INPE, deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon amounted to 904 square kilometers in October,...