Dhaka’s waste-to-energy project faces opposition from pollution-weary residents
Mongabay Globalby Abu Siddique23d ago
- Bangladesh is building a 42.5-megawatt power plant that will burn waste from the main Dhaka landfill as fuel.
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top 85%Wildfires on doorstep of Indonesia’s new capital as environmental and health crisis flares
Mongabay Globalby Mongabay Editor23d ago
- The authority overseeing Indonesia’s new capital city, Nusantara, confirmed on Sept. 9 that fires had broken out within the new capital city administrative area; although, the fires were around...
10 promising ways to ‘green’ offshore wind
Mongabay Globalby Rebecca Kessler23d ago
- Offshore wind is expanding as an important renewable energy source that many experts say is essential to meeting climate goals.
‘They should choose their own destinies’: Manish Chandi on India’s isolated tribes
Mongabay Globalby Latoya Abulu23d ago
- Mongabay interviewed Manish Chandi, a former research scholar who has spent over two decades working on tribal communities, about the latest threats and activities affecting the lives of isolated...
Electric fences that kill and the Maasai trying to save Kenya’s last giant pangolins
Mongabay Globalby Sharon Guynup23d ago
- Electric fences were responsible for 14 of the 15 giant ground pangolins found dead near Kenya’s Nyekweri Forest since 2022.
Roads, infrastructure prevent tigers from settling in Indian tiger reserve
Mongabay Globalby Shreya Dasgupta23d ago
A forested tiger reserve in southern India is home to a thriving population of spotted and sambar deer, nilgai antelopes, and wild pigs — all ideal prey for tigers.
Katmandu Resolution calls for Asia-wide leadership on conservation (commentary)
Mongabay Globalby Erik Hoffner24d ago
- In early June, 500 conservationists largely from Asian countries assembled in Nepal for the 6th Conservation Asia Congress, organized by the regional chapter of the Society for Conservation...
Decline of migratory birds spurs calls for coordinated conservation
Mongabay Globalby Terna Gyuse24d ago
- More than 100 organizations have signed the Nairobi Flyways Declaration, pledging to integrate conservation of migratory birds’ intercontinental routes into development planning and finance.
Can we stop ships from killing the Mediterranean’s last great whales?
Mongabay Globalby Rebecca Kessler24d ago
- Collisions with ships are a leading anthropogenic killer of the Mediterranean’s two endangered large-bodied cetacean species, sperm and fin whales.
Panama looks to science, fishers, and the law to protect its sharks and rays
Mongabay Globalby Alexandra Popescu24d ago
- In Panama, various initiatives are underway to reduce bycatch of sharks and rays, led by biologists, NGOs, politicians, and local restaurants.
Against the odds, endangered dolphins survive in Bangladesh’s polluted river
Mongabay Globalby Abu Siddique24d ago
- The Buriganga River in Bangladesh is one of the five most polluted rivers in the world, with heavy metal pollution from chromium, lead and cadmium.
Pacific bluefin tuna will get some help as countries agree to new harvest strategy
Mongabay Globalby Autumn Spanne24d ago
- The Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC), a multilateral body that manages tuna and other fish stocks in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, held its annual meeting Aug. 31- Sept.
Nearly forgotten languages are finding new words for Colombia’s dragonflies
Mongabay Globalby Shreya Dasgupta24d ago
When researchers began cataloging dragonflies in Guainía, a remote region in eastern Colombia, the scientific record contained only about 10 species.
Longest African mammal movement recorded by Zambian wild dogs
Mongabay Globalby Shreya Dasgupta24d ago
Three male African wild dogs in Zambia have travelled more than 4,000 kilometers, about 2,500 miles, in search of new territory and mates, according to a new study.
Biodiversity corridor payments boost household incomes in Vietnam’s Annamite mountains
Mongabay Globalby Isabel Esterman24d ago
- A recent study in Vietnam’s central Annamite mountains found biodiversity corridors linking protected areas can significantly boost the income of households living inside them.
A clownfish’s last stand
Mongabay Globalby Rhett Butler25d ago
- A clownfish’s defense of her eggs became one of the final recorded moments on a Singapore reef buried by land reclamation.
How burnt coconut helped discover new to science endemic species in Sri Lanka
Mongabay Globalby Dilrukshi Handunnetti26d ago
- Scientists have formally described Mus dumbara, a new species of spiny mouse from Sri Lanka’s Dumbara or Knuckles Mountain Range after years of waiting.
The push for a sustainable artisanal mining in the Peruvian Amazon
Mongabay Globalby Lucia Torres26d ago
MADRE DE DIOS, Peru — In Madre de Dios, in the Peruvian Amazon, thousands of people depend on gold mining, while the spread of mercury and deforestation are transforming the country’s most...
Ituna/Itatá invasion escalates as Indigenous Land faces fires and illegal clearing
Mongabay Globalby Shreya Dasgupta27d ago
More than 500 people have invaded Brazil’s Ituna/Itatá Indigenous Land in recent weeks, opening illegal roads, setting deliberate fires and threatening federal agents.
Angolan communities return to seasonal migration amid severe drought
Mongabay Globalby Bobbybascomb27d ago
Several years of severe drought are forcing people to leave their homes in Angola to search for water and food in neighboring Namibia.