Indigenous farmers’ hard work protects a Philippine hotspot, but goes overlooked
A Pala’wan Indigenous community’s organic farming practices, using a mix of traditional, modern and agroforestry techniques, is successfully conserving old-growth forests and watersheds in...
Dr Pooley Hosts Rewilding Talk at Renishaw Hills
Renowned South African botanist and landscaper, Dr Elsa Pooley, who is instrumental to the design and maintenance of the Renishaw Hills gardens, gave an...
Remediation overdue: South American countries fail to enforce oil cleanup laws
Existing legislation in Peru, Colombia, Ecuador and Bolivia provides for the remediation of environmental damage, though experts point to a “lack of political will”...
Calls for FSC to drop Canada’s Paper Excellence over ties to...
Green groups have gathered mounting evidence that Canada’s biggest pulp and paper company, Paper Excellence, is effectively controlled by notorious Indonesian deforester the Sinar...
Why has deforestation reached record levels in Bolivia? (commentary)
“While food insecurity and a wavering economy require immediate action, the economic over-reliance on the extraction, or cutting down, of natural resources is pushing...
As Colombia’s coca economy crashes, new opportunities — and threats —...
Between 2001 and 2022, the municipality of Tibú in northern Colombia lost 150,000 soccer fields’ worth of tree cover, with coca cultivation one of...
Beyond Climate: Fossil fuels rapidly eroding Earth’s ‘safe operating space’
This exclusive three-part Mongabay mini-series explores how the oil, natural gas and coal industry are destabilizing nine vital Earth systems, which create a “safe...
New study pushes for protection of one of Africa’s ‘least understood...
A new study reveals the extent of a tropical water tower in Angola, which performs the same role as snow-capped mountains in the Northern...
As U.S. insurers stop covering prescribed burns, states and communities step...
Prescribed fires are a positive land management method, but when the flames occasionally escape control, the resulting damage to land and private property also...
The sex ratio of endangered sea turtles is badly skewed by...
The greater the amounts of contaminants were, the greater the female bias became within a nest.
Exposure to heavy metals such as cadmium and antimony...
Bonobos in the wild cooperate with other groups, just like us
The apes preferentially interact with specific members of other groups who are more likely to return the favor.
Bonobos have been dubbed hippies among apes...
Initiative seeks to combat alien species
Government has launched a five-year programme worth R2.67 billion to implement the Working for Water Programme, which aims to eradicate invasive alien plants in...
