A thriving online market for wild birds emerges in Bangladesh

A thriving online market for wild birds emerges in Bangladesh

Maksuda Aziz Article by: Maksuda Aziz This story first appeared on Mongabay South Africa Today - Environment This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0...
Skepticism as Cambodia expands protected areas by more than a million hectares

Skepticism as Cambodia expands protected areas by more than a million...

Cambodia expanded the coverage of its protected areas by 1.06 million hectares (2.62 million acres) in July and August, a flurry of subdecrees shows.However,...
Will Brazil’s Supreme Court rule against Indigenous land rights this week? (commentary)

Will Brazil’s Supreme Court rule against Indigenous land rights this week?...

Dinamam Tuxá and Suzanne Pelletier Article by: Dinamam Tuxá and Suzanne Pelletier This story first appeared on Mongabay South Africa Today - Environment This article is licensed...
South Africa community members decry traditional leaders’ power amid mine plans

South Africa community members decry traditional leaders’ power amid mine plans

Dimitri Selibas Article by: Dimitri Selibas This story first appeared on Mongabay South Africa Today - Environment This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0...
Agroecology alliance calls for more food at less cost to nature in Congo Basin

Agroecology alliance calls for more food at less cost to nature...

The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) will make the case for reorienting food production systems and agricultural policy at a meeting in...
The gentle giants of the oceans need our help

The gentle giants of the oceans need our help

The oceans are home to remarkable and mysterious creatures, but none are quite like the whale shark The oceans are home to some of the...
Bangladesh to produce lithium batteries, electric vehicles to cut emissions

Bangladesh to produce lithium batteries, electric vehicles to cut emissions

According to Bangladesh’s nationally determined contribution (NDC) toward reduced emissions under the Paris Agreement, the transport sector accounts for 9% of total greenhouse gas...
New global biodiversity fund to restore nature worldwide by 2030 officially launches

New global biodiversity fund to restore nature worldwide by 2030 officially...

Representatives of 185 countries officially agreed to launch a new fund to ramp up investment to nations in meeting goals outlined in the Global...
‘Catastrophic breeding failure’ for penguins as Antarctic sea ice vanishes

‘Catastrophic breeding failure’ for penguins as Antarctic sea ice vanishes

Researchers found that a lack of sea ice around Antarctica’s Bellingshausen Sea led to “unprecedented” breeding failure in four of five emperor penguin colonies.Sea...
Conservationists work to restore last remnant of a once-great Ugandan forest

Conservationists work to restore last remnant of a once-great Ugandan forest

Earlier this year, conservation group Nature Uganda launched a forest restoration project aimed at restoring degraded areas and reducing illegal harvesting of forest products...
Solar can shift Africa away from risky hydropower reliance

Solar can shift Africa away from risky hydropower reliance

Africans have invested in hydropower but drought makes it risky, and a new study from Italy finds solar and wind are a better bet. Africa’s...
Communities not the true threat to Mabira Forest: Q&A with Ugandan conservationist Achilles Byaruhanga

Communities not the true threat to Mabira Forest: Q&A with Ugandan...

Mabira is a surviving fragment of lowland forest that’s now an important refuge for a diverse range of animals and plants in central Uganda.The...