Better agricultural planning could prevent 88% of biodiversity loss, study finds
Results of a new study reveal that nearly 90 percent of the biodiversity that scientists expect will be lost to future agricultural expansion could...
150 years after being discovered, African monkey with handlebar moustache becomes...
An African monkey first described to science more than 150 years ago has now been elevated to full species status. The Blue Nile patas...
Save the Sumatran rhino ‘because we can’ (commentary)
Mongabay sent contributing editor Jeremy Hance to Indonesia in 2017 to visit the last remaining Sumatran rhinos in the forests and protected sanctuaries where...
Report finds projects in DRC ‘REDD+ laboratory’ fall short of development,...
The Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) released a new report that found that 20 REDD+ projects in a province in DRC aren’t set to...
Conservationists rush to save Bolivian turtles threatened by egg trafficking
The large-scale harvesting of the yellow-spotted Amazon river turtle (Podocnemis unifilis) for human consumption has contributed to the species’ decline, according to scientists. It...
can the empire of soy coexist with savannah conservation?
With new deforestation due to soy production markedly reduced in recent years by Brazilian laws and by the 2006 Amazon Soy Moratorium, agribusiness, transnational...
Indonesia races to catch tiger alive as villagers threaten to ‘kill...
A conservation agency in Indonesia’s Sumatra Island has deployed two teams to capture alive a wild tiger that has reportedly killed two people at...
Five years after zero-deforestation vow, little sign of progress from Indonesian...
Environmental watchdogs have criticized Indonesian paper behemoth Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) for not making good on the zero-deforestation pledge it made five years...
Bushmeat hunting threatens hornbills and raptors in Cameroon’s forests, study finds
A new study has found that hornbills, vultures and eagles are being hunted for bushmeat in Cameroon in much greater numbers than previously thought.Researchers...
For climate action to take hold, activists need more than just...
A new study finds that people who do not have “biospheric concerns” are unconvinced by climate change arguments that hinge on such avatars as...
Activists eye bigger roles for local officials, businesses in Indonesia’s orangutan...
The Indonesian government is drafting another 10-year guideline for orangutan conservation that aims to staunch the decline in the population of the critically endangered...
Will Madagascar’s industrial shrimp trawlers make way for local fishers?
Shrimp is one of Madagascar’s most lucrative exports.But local fishers and environmental groups say shrimp trawlers are harming the country’s marine environment and leaving...
