The circular economy: Sustainable solutions to solve planetary overshoot?
The current linear production and consumption economic model — labeled by critics as “take-make-waste” — is taking a heavy global environmental toll. The intensive...
Elders call for Indigenous cultural preservation in new Indonesia capital
The Balik and Paser Indigenous communities worry that traditions risk becoming supplanted by Indonesia’s new capital city on the east coast of Borneo.More than...
Genetically engineered trees stoke climate hope — and environmental fears
U.S. climate technology startup Living Carbon has been developing genetically engineered poplar trees that it says can absorb more carbon and better resist...
Celebrate MPA Day with one of these fun, ocean-focused activities
Since its inception in South Africa two years ago, Marine Protected Areas (MPA) Day has grown to include several global activities as the world...
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...
The Andean republics of the Pan Amazon
Mongabay has begun publishing a new edition of the book, “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon,” in short installments and in three languages: Spanish,...
Translocation hurdles prompt new efforts to save rare swamp deer in...
Swamp deer, a rare and threatened species, have disappeared from Chitwan National Park after a failed translocation attempt.A new study maps the potential habitat...
‘Mud, muck and death’: Cambodia’s plan to obstruct trawlers and revive...
On Cambodia’s coast, a local NGO is building concrete underwater structures in an effort to deter destructive illegal trawlers that kill most everything in...
Making space for Indigenous leadership is crucial for conservation (commentary)
Valérie Courtois and Steve Kallick
Article by: Valérie Courtois and Steve Kallick
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Nursing oil palm plantations back to nature in Malaysian Borneo
The Rhino and Forest Fund (RFF), a conservation NGO, is working to create wildlife corridors in eastern Sabah, in Malaysian Borneo, by reforesting land...
The Human-Modified Landscapes (HML) and the Brazilian highway network
Mongabay has begun publishing a new edition of the book, “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon,” in short installments and in three languages: Spanish,...
Philippines’ largest freshwater wetland and Indigenous livelihoods face multiple threats
The floating community of the Manobo Indigenous tribe depend on the rise and fall of water in the Philippines’ Agusan Marsh; however, the marsh...
