Sharks deserve our appreciation and protection (commentary)
Shark Awareness Day is celebrated on July 14 every year: though widely feared and sometimes vilified, sharks actually play a key role in ocean...
New Tree Tech: Real-time, long-term, high-tech reforestation monitoring
This four-part Mongabay mini-series examines the latest technological solutions to help tree-planting projects achieve scale and long-term efficiency. Using these innovative approaches could be...
Despite lawsuit, Casino Group still sells beef from Amazonian Indigenous territory
Fábio Bispo / InfoAmazonia
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South Africa Today - Environment
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New study to improve shark and ray protection in South Africa...
Johannesburg, 14 July23: WILDTRUST, a leading conservation organisation in South Africa, together with multiple collaborators has undertaken a ground-breaking study to address the pressing...
Current policy approaches in the Amazon: certainly necessary, but are they...
Mongabay is publishing a new edition of the book, “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon,” in short installments and in three languages: Spanish, English...
Forests in the furnace: Cambodians risking life and liberty to fuel...
Entire villages in parts of Cambodia have turned to illegal logging of natural forests to supply the firewood needed by garment factories churning out...
Calls grow to put the brakes on deep-sea mining as countries...
Deep-sea mining is facing growing opposition from various countries, including Canada, Sweden, Ireland and Switzerland, as well as the U.N. human rights chief and...
Rattlesnakes can calm down their friends, study shows
Research reveals that rattlesnakes, like humans, experience stress reduction when in the presence of a companion snake, a phenomenon known as social buffering.Stress...
Drones improve counts of rare Cao-vit gibbon, identify conservation priorities
A survey using drones has come up with a more accurate, albeit smaller, population estimate for the critically endangered Cao-vit gibbon in the border...
New Tree Tech: Cutting-edge drones give reforestation a helping hand
This four-part Mongabay mini-series examines the latest technological solutions to help tree-planting projects achieve scale and long-term efficiency. Using these innovative approaches could be...
Asian Development Bank’s climate commitments require greater accountability (commentary)
The Asian Development Bank committed to achieving full alignment with the 2016 Paris Agreement by this month, though it still considers fossil fuel projects...
The challenge of the future (and lessons from the recent past)...
Mongabay is publishing a new edition of the book, “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon,” in short installments and in three languages: Spanish, English...



















