2022 Amazon fires tightly tied to recent deforestation, new data show
Nearly 1,000 major fires burned in the Amazon during its 2022 fire season, according to the Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project (MAAP).The Brazilian...
Report offers a road map to restore the rule of law...
Brazilian president-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will have to supercharge many of the same policies that he employed in his first two terms...
Indigenous community in Peru losing forests to timber, drug, land trafficking
The Indigenous community of Santa Rosillo de Yanayacu, located in northern Peru, has been facing illegal timber, drug and land trafficking for the past...
Investors and development institutions urged to adopt new Land Rights Standard...
As global recognition of the planet’s climate emergency comes to a head at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt,...
Tree diversity serves livelihoods and food security in a changing climate...
New report sheds light on which species and planting circumstances are best to leverage the crucial role of trees to humanity.
Around the globe, tree...
Q&A with activist Pablo Sibar
Costa Rican Indigenous leader Pablo Sibar Sibar talks to Mongabay about the Indigenous land recovery movement and the plethora of death threats he’s received...
Will shipping noise nudge Africa’s only penguin toward extinction?
The African penguin (Spheniscus demersus) is expected to go extinct in the wild in just over a decade, largely due to a lack of...
In PNG, researchers find a large pigeon lost to science for...
After 140 years, a lost-to-science pigeon subspecies has been spotted once again on Fergusson Island, off eastern Papua New Guinea.After following tips from a...
In Nepal, a turtle that rose from the dead makes another...
Researchers have discovered a population of black softshell turtles in a wetland in southern Nepal, raising hopes for its conservation.The critically endangered species was...
Tunnel collapse at dam project in orangutan habitat claims yet another...
A tunnel collapse, the second this year, at the site of a planned hydroelectric dam in Sumatra has killed another Chinese construction worker.The latest...
If there’s an elephant in the room, that’s because it’s not...
A newly published study shows that elephants in Malaysia prefer habitats found outside of protected areas, with most of the elephants observed having more...
Q&A with Austin Brush of C4ADS
Washington, D.C.-based think tank C4ADS is launching Triton, a web tool to visually display the corporate structures behind fishing vessels.The initial cache of data...
