Thousands Tune in Virtually to Hear Bill Gates on Innovating for...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, 21 November, 2022 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/- The hybrid event was streamed live from University of Nairobi and hosted online by Africa.com.
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Unique Devil Ray Conservation Dive launched on the KZN South Coast!
While researching the Endangered shortfin devil rays at Aliwal Shoal off the KZN South Coast in 2020, Michelle Carpenter discovered that this Marine Protected...
The Business Case to drive investment, reduce deforestation and protect biodiversity
The Business Case for Collective Landscape Action (Business Case) initiative, supported by USAID, in partnership with Rainforest Alliance, CDP, Clarmondial and Conservation International, was...
Violated regulations and penalty proceedings
The journalistic partnership behind a 2021 database gathering information on the penalties for environmental violations given to palm oil producers in Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala,...
Perennial rice – Targeting large-scale localization to adapt across different climates
China, 21 November 2022,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- The global population is projected to reach 8 billion on 15 November 2022, according to the UN’s recently-released World...
Sulawesi nickel plant coats nearby homes in toxic dust
The Bantaeng Industrial Estate is a 3,000-hectare ore processing zone in Indonesia’s South Sulawesi province.President Joko Widodo has banned exports of raw mineral ores...
Myanmar communities decry disempowerment as forest guardians since 2021 coup
Within the shrinking civic space and violent aftermath of Myanmar’s February 2021 military coup, community-level efforts to safeguard Myanmar’s vast tracts of forest from...
Whether humans can survive climate change is the wrong question (commentary)
As delegates debate at the annual UN conference on climate change, we should be looking ahead with more interest to next month’s COP15 of...
In Kenya, a Maasai community burned by ecotourism gives it another...
Shompole Lodge in southern Kenya opened at the start of the millennium as a radical model of what community-based ecotourism could be, promising jobs,...
After 14 years of advocacy, the DRC president finally signs new...
On Wednesday, the president of the DRC, Felix Antoine Tshisekedi, signed and promulgated the new law on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights...
Podcast: Escape into nature’s soundscapes
Mongabay’s podcast explores the growing field of bioacoustics often, and an important subset of this discipline is soundscape recording.Healthy ecosystems are often noisy places:...
Can a luxury chocolate company save a Congolese forest?
The widespread popularity of chocolate has led to a cocoa boom in the DRC, escalating deforestation in the country’s primary forests by impoverished locals...
