Beyond tourism: A call for business ideas that protect African wildlife, ecosystems by Heather Richardson 16 September 2020 CAPE TOWN — An innovation challenge launched this month hopes to inspire new ideas for businesses that will provide people in Africa with sustainable incomes while protecting ecosystems. The African…

BlackRock, other asset managers enabling deforestation, says Friends of the Earth by Ashoka Mukpo 16 September 2020 The environmental advocacy group Friends of the Earth has blasted BlackRock and other asset management titans in a new report that says they aren’t doing enough to curb global deforestation.…

Podcast: Great ape ‘forest gardeners of Africa’ benefit from conservation victory by Mike Gaworecki 16 September 2020 On today's episode of the Mongabay Newscast we’re discussing great ape conservation in Africa and how that goes hand-in-hand with efforts to protect the second-largest rainforest in the world. Listen…

Indonesian lobster exporters, advised by a smuggler, flout domestic requirements by Fathul Rakhman 16 September 2020 LOMBOK, Indonesia — Jafarudin, a fisherman from Indonesia’s Lombok Island, had been looking forward to the resumption of baby lobster exports. Months before the Indonesian fisheries ministry made an official…

Birthday party on ship may have led to oil spill in Mauritius, Panama regulator says by Mongabay.com 16 September 2020 A Japanese ship that wrecked off the coast of Mauritius in July and sparked one of the worst environmental disasters in the country’s history may have run aground because of…

In Brazil’s Bahia, peasant farmers and cowboys keep the Cerrado alive by Caio de Freitas Paes 15 September 2020 For more than a century, the natural cycles of the Cerrado grasslands have guided the lives of the farmers and cowboys in the deep west of Brazil’s Bahia state. Residents…

Game changer: NASA data tool could revolutionize Amazon fire analysis by Shanna Hanbury 15 September 2020 A new automated near real time fire monitoring system could inform smarter strategies and solutions for curbing Amazon fires and reducing impacts; researchers call it a valuable tool for Amazon conservation.

500 years of species loss: Humans drive defaunation across Neotropics by Elizabeth Claire Alberts 15 September 2020 A new study provides an in-depth look at the detrimental impacts of human activities on wildlife in the Neotropical region of the Americas over the past 500 years. The study,…

Bolivia’s jaguar seizures down as suspicions rise over new mafia by Vanessa Romo 15 September 2020 In 2016, in the midst of the first investigations into jaguar trafficking in Bolivia, biologist Ángela Núñez received a short audio clip via Whatsapp: "Teeth, tiger". That was all she…

Biologists warn ‘extinction denial’ is the latest anti-science conspiracy theory by Mike Shanahan 14 September 2020 Biodiversity scientists are being urged to “fight the creeping rise of extinction denial” that has spread from fringe blogs to influential media outlets and even into a U.S. Congressional hearing.…

Can public lands unify divided Americans? An interview with John Leshy by Rhett A. Butler 14 September 2020 It might be hard to believe in the current political climate, but public lands were a unifying issue for Americans until quite recently. Most Americans have supported the idea of…

Poaching pressure mounts on jaguars, the Americas’ iconic big cat by Vanessa Romo 14 September 2020 In late November 2019, authorities in Peru found two jaguar cubs in a house in Chanchamayo, in the country’s central Amazonian region. The cubs were so young that they still…

Rise in Amazon deforestation slows in August, but fires surge by Mongabay.com 11 September 2020 Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon was more than 20 percent lower for the second straight month relative to the prior year according to data released today by Brazil's national space…

Oil palm plantations in Sumatran watershed worsen flooding in communities by Basten Gokkon 11 September 2020 JAKARTA — Newly published research has linked the spread of oil palm and rubber plantations across a watershed area of Indonesia’s Sumatra Island to worsening floods in the region. The…

Threatened species caught in crossfire of ongoing land conflict in Myanmar by Aimee Gabay 10 September 2020 Reaching down into the Malay Peninsula, Myanmar’s southern Tanintharyi region is home to rainforests that support a unique assemblage of endemic and endangered species, including the endangered Malay tapir (Tapirus…

Crisis in Venezuela: Non-governmental organizations adapt to survive by Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres 10 September 2020 In a failed state, environmental NGOs endure restrictive government policies; shortages of cash, personnel, water and other resources — surviving via creative monetary policies, volunteerism, and sheer grit.

The best news of 2020? Humanity may never hit the 10 billion mark by Jeremy Hance 10 September 2020 While watching 2020 unfold has been like watching someone set themself on fire with a bucket of bacon grease and a firecracker, one morning I stumbled on something that made…

Howling in the dark: Shining a light on a newly remembered wolf by John Wendle 10 September 2020 IFRANE NATIONAL PARK, Morocco — As he guides his flock of sheep home through stands of oak and endangered Atlas cedar, Umimun Hammou feels something is wrong. Rounding a bend…

Latin America has twice the plant life of Africa, SE Asia by Mongabay.com 9 September 2020 Latin America has more than twice as many plant species as tropical Africa and Southeast Asia, accounting for about a third of global biological diversity, concludes a new study published…

Global wildlife being decimated by human actions, WWF report warns by Malavika Vyawahare 9 September 2020 Wildlife populations around the world have shrunk by 68% on average in the past nearly 50 years, according to a new report from WWF and the Zoological Society of London. In that…