Environmental Headlines
Through credible and accurate coverage of conservation and environmental issues, Mongabay inspires, educates, and informs the public, while enabling leaders to more effectively protect our planet's wildlife and ecosystems.
Crude oil imported to the U.S. from the Amazon, most of which gets refined in California, is driving expansion of oil operations into the rainforest, according to a new report.
Between 2000 and 2015, a total of 801 tiger seizures — equivalent to at least 1,755 tigers — were reported across ...
NGOs recorded 4,097 hectares of forest loss and 187 hotspots in the nationally protected area in the first half of this ...
Jeffrey Chatellier is the Indonesia country director of Forest Carbon, an environmental consultancy. Devan Wardwell is an avid environmentalist and specialist ...
In coral reef ecosystems, fish typically constitute a substantial portion of living biomass and thus represent an important reservoir of nutrients. ...
With its 300,035 square kilometers, Nazca-Desventuradas Marine Park protects 12 percent of Chile’s marine surface territory.
The Barbary macaque — Europe’s only native, non-human primate — has been up-listed to Appendix I of the CITES, making commercial ...
Amid a logging ban, domestic turbulence, and illegal timber harvesting, Myanmar's forests face an uncertain future.
Indonesian authorities have reopened an investigation into Pusaka Benjina Resources, the fisheries minister announced on Friday.
Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa for the seventeenth Conference of ...
Recently spotted forest loss for agriculture and gold mining threatens endangered wildlife and indigenous communities in El Sira Communal Reserve.
Mongabay offers a glimpse into conservation science in progress: Stephanie Courtney Jones suggests that “pesty” traits that help invasive species spread, ...
ith the disbanding of Colombia’s largest military guerrilla group, FARC, Colombia’s forests could come under pressure from developmental goals. Home to ...
Records of confiscated live wild animals reported to the CITES represent only a fraction of the actual animals being illegally traded, ...
Peruvian agricultural shareholders will now have access to an $88 million line of credit.
Increased trade in pangolins is having drastic consequences for their population numbers. In 2008, just two pangolin species were classified as ...
The vast majority of forests restored under China’s Grain-for-Green program are monocultures or compositionally simple “mixed” forests, which scientists say spells ...
Fewer than 100 ploughshare tortoises remain in the wild, conservationists estimate, and continued poaching of these animals for the illegal pet ...
Nicaragua is home to what is perhaps the last wild frontier of Central America — but its wild areas are under ...
The cash-strapped Southeast Asian nation is trying to rehabilitate 2 million hectares of damaged peatlands in the wake of last year's ...
Wildtech Headlines
Wildtech, a joint initiative of Mongabay, RESOLVE’s Biodiversity and Wildlife Solutions program, and the World Resources Institute (WRI), intends to help accelerate the flow of information among scientists, forest and wildlife managers, technology innovators, and interested groups and catalyze the development and application of technologies for forest and wildlife conservation.
How could we harness DNA barcode technology in a handheld modular device that frontline officials in developing countries could use to combat timber and wildlife trafficking?
Tips from a chili fence expert on how to make the most of a low-tech approach to reducing crop raiding and ...
A newly-launched online course aims to address the complex challenges facing conservation and development.
Technological developments in satellite data, camera traps, fecal genetics and spatial analysis are unshrouding the ecological mystery of snow leopards.
Explore some of the more advanced offerings of the Bloomberg Terminal, a software package offering real-time global news, financial data, and ...
The MAAP project integrates a range of satellite imagery and analysis tools to detect and disclose deforestation across the Peruvian Amazon.
Researchers are discovering they can determine the geographic origin of a wood sample based on chemical profiles generated using mass spectrometry.
Plant material that mountain gorillas chew and discard reveals viruses imperiling their endangered population.
Using satellite imagery to increase supply chain transparency, this new tool helps identify and eliminate palm oil-related deforestation.
In an effort to support the fight against poaching, the IUCN and GIZ partnered to produce a comprehensive review of best ...
Malaysia’s limestone hills, or karsts, have been described as “arks of biodiversity,” but they’re facing intense pressures from mining and other ...
This upcoming live open-access website will harness big data to help visualize, interpret and stop wildlife crime reported worldwide.
Handheld, palm-sized, lightweight DNA preparation and sequencing devices designed to analyse DNA using minimally invasive or non-invasive methods, are still limited, ...
The United Nations/Kenya Conference on Space Technology and Applications for Wildlife Management and Protecting Biodiversity aims to expand the use of ...
With seemingly elusive personalities and dwindling populations, scientists turn to innovative technology to learn more about and protect sharks.
The real-time wildlife sighting app, Latest Sightings, is linking a global community of wildlife enthusiasts and promoting conservation one “ting” at ...
Wildtech interviews Dr. Lilian Pintea of the Jane Goodall Institute about advances cloud mapping tools, the importance of community conservation, and ...
A Florida microbrewery’s pioneering packaging aims to feed, not harm, marine life.
Expensive thermal motion-detecting cameras keep a constant eye over Indian tiger reserves.
Learn how to track companies’ assets, such as palm oil and other commodities, with the Bloomberg Terminal. Part 2 of a ...