Radar returns to remote sensing through free, near-real-time global imagery
The European Space Agency’s launch of the Sentinel-1 satellite has made 20-meter resolution radar imagery of the whole planet freely available.The “all-weather, day-and-night supply...
FSC-certified timber importer failed to check legality of shipment from Cameroon
Hardwood Dimensions, a timber importer in the U.K., violated the EU Timber Regulation by not properly verifying the legality of a shipment of Cameroonian...
Oil palm plantations’ dearth of biodiversity rubs off on nearby forests,...
Oil palm plantations in Malaysian Borneo host a lower number of frog species than forests in same area.However, the plantations exhibit an edge effect...
Conservation official arrested for killing 11 endangered lemurs
Two weeks ago, the bodies of 11 critically endangered lemurs were discovered in the Zahamena Ankeniheny Corridor protected area in eastern Madagascar.The lemurs were...
Sharp-eyed Mongabay readers spot a jaguarundi (commentary)
Last Monday, in an article about Brazil’s Cerrado, this Mongabay editor mistakenly identified an animal in a photo as a puma (Puma concolor).Within hours...
Environmental stories from around the web, March 16, 2018
There are many important conservation and environmental stories Mongabay isn’t able to cover.Here’s a digest of some of the significant developments from the week.If...
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...
