Home Environment Page 243

Environment

Conservation news and Environmental science

Forest loss may push tree-dependent marbled cats into threatened category

Forest loss may push tree-dependent marbled cats into threatened category

Currently considered near threatened on the IUCN Red List, the little-known marbled cat may at greater risk from habitat disturbance than previously thought, a...
End of the tuna FAD? Indonesia hopes so, but EU isn’t giving up just yet

End of the tuna FAD? Indonesia hopes so, but EU isn’t...

Indonesia has welcomed measures to cut back on the use of fish-aggregating devices, which critics blame for Indian Ocean tuna being caught at unsustainable...
As livelihoods clash with development, Vietnam’s Cần Giờ mangroves are at risk

As livelihoods clash with development, Vietnam’s Cần Giờ mangroves are at...

Cần Giờ, a coastal district of Ho Chi Minh City, is home to a 75,740-hectare (187,158-acre) mangrove forest, planted and maintained as part of...
Struggles loom as Bolivia prepares new plan to clean up its mercury problem

Struggles loom as Bolivia prepares new plan to clean up its...

Bolivia’s failure to combat illegal gold mining led to international outcry last year, as deforestation and mercury pollution continued to run rampant.Earlier this month,...
Restoring the planet, one forest at a time

Restoring the planet, one forest at a time

Photo: GLFx Peruvian Amazon chapter. The endangered native Amazonian tree Palo Rosa being transported to a planting site. On the International Day of Forests, four...
Restoring a transitional cloud forest in Costa Rica

Restoring a transitional cloud forest in Costa Rica

This three-part Mongabay mini-series examines grassroots forest restoration projects carried out within isolated island ecosystems — whether those islands are surrounded by ocean as...

2018’s top 10 ocean news stories (commentary)

Marine scientists from...