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Date: 2023-03
As U.N. members clinch historic high seas biodiversity treaty, what’s in it? by Elizabeth Fitt 8 March 2023 A landmark agreement for a legally binding treaty aimed at protecting biodiversity and ensuring the sustainable use of resources in international waters has at last been reached by U.N. member…
Logged and loaded: Cambodian prison official suspected in massive legalized logging operation by Gerald Flynn 8 March 2023 This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center’s Rainforest Investigations Network where Gerald Flynn is a fellow. SIEM PANG, Cambodia — “Us locals cannot source benefits from the forest…
China-funded bridge threatens Paradise Reef in southern Philippines by Bong S. Sarmiento 7 March 2023 SAMAL ISLAND, Philippines — Its official name, the Island Garden City of Samal, tells you all you need to know about this bucolic township off the coast of the southern…
Lula government scrambles to overcome Yanomami crisis, but hurdles remain by Jenny Gonzales 6 March 2023 SÃO PAULO — Since the new Brazilian government under President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took office on Jan. 1, its ministries have been working together to overcome a humanitarian…
Restoration turns pastures into wildlife haven in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest by Sarah Brown 3 March 2023 CACHOEIRAS DE MACACU, Brazil — Gesturing across the still, green water reflecting the backdrop of forest-clad mountains, Nicholas Locke told of the time when this flourishing wetland was once a…
Indigenous Comcaac serve up an oceanic grain to preserve seagrass meadows by Astrid Arellano 3 March 2023 PUNTA CHUECA, Mexico — Legend has it that, many thousands of years ago, a messenger arrived in the Comcaac land on board a strange boat after sailing on the waters…
Amid war, Ukrainian biologists fight to protect conservation legacy by Marlowe Starling 22 February 2023 Before Ukrainian biologist Mikhail Rusin can grab his shovel and venture afield, he first needs to ask locals if there are land mines nearby in one of the few areas…
Podcast: Goodbye to blue skies? The trouble with engineered solutions by Mike DiGirolamo 21 February 2023 From pumping aerosols into the atmosphere to combat climate change to gene-editing invasive species, human beings continue to conjure up technological or “miracle” fixes to ecological ills, many of which…
Finland’s debate over Indigenous identity and rights turns ugly by John Last 21 February 2023 This story was produced with the funding support of the Pulitzer Center. Janne Hirvasvuopio got his first Valentine’s Day card early this year. But the message that came through his…
‘They’re everywhere out there’: Three new nautilus species described by Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 February 2023 During the 16th century, European traders sailed to the Maluku Islands, in what is today eastern Indonesia, seeking spices like nutmeg, cloves and pepper. The traders also found something else…
US pledges Amazon Fund donation, renewing hope for the rainforest by Sarah Brown 13 February 2023 The revival of the Amazon Fund at the start of this year was considered a major victory for the protection of the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest after former President Jair Bolsonaro…
Amid global mezcal craze, scientists and communities try out sustainable plantations by Magdaléna Rojo 10 February 2023 TEHUACÁN-CUICATLÁN BIOSPHERE RESERVE, Mexico — The palenques, or local mezcal production sites, in the village of Santa María Ixcatlán stand unusually empty before the local Day of the Dead celebrations.…
Podcast: Moths vs. mines in Ecuador’s astounding biodiversity hotspot by Mike DiGirolamo 8 February 2023 Since the 1990s, communities of the Intag Valley of Ecuador have been leading a conservation campaign to protect the remaining cloud forests in this highly biodiverse region of the planet,…
Sustainable fish farming & agroecology buoy Kenyan communities by David Njagi 8 February 2023 GATUNGA, Kenya — The dry spell that troubled Kenya for the past few years has shaken the country’s rural food systems. But Japheth Nthiga, a farmer from Karethani village in…
On Sumatra coast, mangrove clearing sparks scrutiny of loophole by Teguh Suprayitno 30 January 2023 EAST TANJUNG JABUNG, Indonesia — Ambo Angke trudged through the cemetery knowing he had been right to worry. A high tide surge had inundated the resting place here on the…
Liberian courts rubber-stamp export shipment of illegal logs by Ashoka Mukpo 27 January 2023 Last week, a timber company won a controversial lawsuit against Liberia’s Forestry Development Authority when a court ordered the agency to allow a shipment of illegal logs to be exported…
Illegal road found in Yanomami land accelerates destruction by Dimitri Selibas 26 January 2023 On Dec. 5, a flight over the Yanomami Indigenous Territory in Brazil’s northern Amazon showed the Greenpeace and Brazilian NGO Socio-Environmental Institute (ISA) members on board an illegal road, already…
Logging threats loom over tree kangaroo refuge in Papua New Guinea by John Cannon 25 January 2023 The tree kangaroos inhabiting a forested mountain range in Papua New Guinea have made an unlikely comeback in the past 40 years, but old dangers now jeopardize that rebound. Three…
Podcast: Botanists are disappearing at a critical time by Mike DiGirolamo 24 January 2023 An early-career botanist joins the Mongabay Newscast to discuss his group’s recent study of the decrease in plant awareness and educational opportunities to study botany. A Ph.D. candidate in Urban…
Australian niobium mining project instills 16 years of anxiety for Malawi communities by Charles Mpaka 18 January 2023 MZIMBA DISTRICT, Malawi — For 16 years, people in villages around the Kanyika hills in Mzimba district in northern Malawi have lived with uncertainty and anxiety. In 2006, an Australian…
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