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Mongabay Globalby Alexandre de Santi3 Sept 2026
- A study in Global Change Biology shows that just 15 to 25 tree species make up nearly half of the trees and carbon stocks in regrowing Amazon forests.
Mongabay Globalby Latoya Abulu3 Sept 2026
- On Jan. 8, 2026, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Tribal Council unanimously passed a resolution recognizing the inherent legal rights of the Longperson (Ganvhidv Asgaya), an interconnected...
Mongabay Globalby Isabel Esterman3 Sept 2026
- Philippine conservation nonprofit CCIPH and Indigenous Iraya Mangyan forest patrollers documented a Mindoro bleeding-heart pigeon, providing the first confirmed image of the critically endangered...
Mongabay Globalby Bobbybascomb3 Sept 2026
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Some survivors sheltering in relief camps after deadly floods in Nepal struggled Thursday to obtain essential medicines and cash, even as authorities provided food and other...
Mongabay Globalby John Cannon3 Sept 2026
- The drought-adapted succulent spekboom (Portulacaria afra) has long been trumpeted as the crown prince of South Africa’s nature-based carbon sink solutions.
Mongabay Globalby Erik Hoffner3 Sept 2026
- The world needs to move from fossil fuels to renewable ones, but the narrative pushed by powerful financial, political, and environmental institutions — that it’s necessary to massively scale up...
Mongabay Globalby Alexandre de Santi3 Sept 2026
- Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz signed an agreement to begin technical studies for a highway connecting the municipality of San Ignacio de Velasco in the Chiquitania region with the Brazilian...
Mongabay Globalby Liz Kimbrough3 Sept 2026
- On Aug. 18, the Trump administration proposed fully rescinding the 2001 Roadless Rule, which bars new road construction and commercial logging on about 45 million acres of national forest...
Mongabay Globalby Sharon Guynup3 Sept 2026
- Prosecution of tiger crime — trafficking and sales of tiger skins, bones, and other body parts — is poor in Southeast Asia, according to a recent report.
Mongabay Globalby Alexandra Popescu3 Sept 2026
- This June, Pemex and Petrobras, the state fossil fuel companies of Mexico and Brazil respectively, announced a two-year partnership to jointly explore mature and deepwater oilfields in the Gulf...
Mongabay Globalby Shreya Dasgupta3 Sept 2026
Authorities in Vietnam have intercepted more than a ton of elephant ivory along with big-cat bones in a shipment from the Republic of Congo.
Mongabay Globalby Terna Gyuse3 Sept 2026
- Launched two years ago, the West African Vulture Conservation Action Plan (WAVCAP) aimed to protect the region’s dwindling vulture populations.
Mongabay Globalby Naina Rao3 Sept 2026
On the island of Sumatra, Indonesia, in the buffer zone of a national park, a women-led farming group has come up with a solution to reduce encounters with elephants.
Mongabay Globalby Shreya Dasgupta3 Sept 2026
European Black oil beetle larva lures unsuspecting bees by manufacturing smells that mimic floral scents, new research suggests.
Mongabay Globalby Rhett Butler2 Sept 2026
- Michael Painter, an ecological anthropologist who joined the Wildlife Conservation Society in 1997, spent much of his career working at the intersection of conservation, Indigenous land rights...
Mongabay Globalby Bobbybascomb2 Sept 2026
On the banks of the Aguarico River in the Ecuadorian Amazon, a group of Indigenous Siekopai women are combining traditional knowledge and modern technology to help a threatened native turtle...
Mongabay Globalby Latoya Abulu2 Sept 2026
- About 200 people have invaded the Ituna/Itatá Indigenous Land in Brazil’s Pará state since August 13, breaking through Brazil’s Indigenous Affairs Agency (Funai) gates, removing signs and...
Mongabay Globalby Abhaya Raj Joshi2 Sept 2026
- ● The Aug. 26 flash floods on the Nepal-China border wiped out or badly damaged 281 megawatts of installed capacity and damaged 388 MW under construction in Nepal, with losses estimated to be...
Mongabay Globalby Isabel Esterman2 Sept 2026
- The Philippines’ new critical-minerals policy targets at least 9 million hectares (22 million acres) of prospective mineral areas, more than 11 times the land currently covered by approved mining...
Mongabay Globalby Latoya Abulu2 Sept 2026
- Since initiating contact with the outside world in 1969, the Matsés Indigenous people of the northeastern Peruvian Amazon have faced a barrage of epidemics.
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