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What’s new: Researchers have successfully detected the presence of koalas and other threatened wildlife species using new tools that allow easy collection of airborne environmental DNA, according to a recent study. What the study says: It’s often difficult, time-consuming and expensive to collect data and observe threatened wildlife like koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus), small marsupials that […]
“Attention, attention! This is an emergency! Attention, attention! This is a real emergency situation involving a dam collapse. Leave your homes immediately. Use the escape route to get to the meeting point, then remain there and await further instructions.” At 4 a.m. on Feb. 8, 2019, residents of four villages Barão de Cocais municipality, in […]
At the COP26 U.N. climate conference in Glasgow, 141 countries committed to ending and reversing deforestation by 2030. A key signal was the $1.7 billion pledge from the Forest Tenure Funders Group, a group of governments and philanthropies aimed at advancing tenure rights of Indigenous Peoples (IPs), local communities and Afro-descendent Peoples (LCs) by increasing […]
High seas cover over half of our planet’s surface, and represent two-thirds of the entire ocean. They serve as a crucial habitat for countless marine species, many of which remain undiscovered. They also play a vital role in climate regulation. The high seas are also home to secret treasures that could potentially reshape medical science. […]
Far from being just a figure of speech, the existence of microplastics spread throughout the ocean is unequivocal for specialists on the topic. A favorite of industry due to its flexibility, durability and low production costs, plastic’s virtues are crumbling not unlike a 500-milliliter bottle transforming into millions of fragments in the marine environment. Drifting […]
Lack of transparency is a constant in the Chinese fleet dedicated to squid fishing in South American waters. Turning off their satellite-tracking systems, duplicating their identities within satellite-based monitoring systems, and transshiping their catch onto other vessels without informing the authorities: These are some of the strategies Chinese fishing vessels use to circumvent the law, […]
Australia’s Global ‘Nature Positive’ Summit features Indigenous voices, but little government action
SYDNEY – Just prior to the COP 16 biodiversity summit, the Australian Government hosted the world’s first Global’ Nature Positive’ Summit. ‘Nature positive’ means “an improvement in the diversity, abundance, resilience, and integrity of ecosystems from a baseline” according to Australia’s Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (EPBC) and is a key part of the […]
As world leaders and scientific institutions from across the globe gather to discuss the biodiversity crisis at COP16 and climate change at COP29 this fall, it’s critical that they do not neglect the important work that is already being done by one of the world’s key stewards of nature – botanical gardens. Botanical gardens steward […]
There’s a theory about what happens when a big cat sets up shop in a forest, and it’s at the center of one of the biggest fights in ecology today. The idea goes like this: when a predator, like a leopard, moves into a stretch of woodland, it starts preying on the smaller animals — […]
Joan Carling has made it her life’s mission to fight for the rights of her fellow Indigenous peoples. She has led anti-mining campaigns in the Philippines and faced death threats. Her work has since expanded to a global scale, where she now connects with and convenes Indigenous rights organizations while helping raise funds for their […]
A group of 225 global NGOs from more than 40 countries has issued a statement urging the European Parliament and EU governments to reject a proposal that would delay the implementation of the EU’s ambitious anti-deforestation law by a year. The collective statement, titled “Hands off the EU deforestation regulation!,” noted that the law was […]
SANTA MARTA, Panama — Mauricio Martínez was convinced he was going to die. The year was 2021 and Martínez, gravely ill with COVID-19, struggled to breathe, walk and swallow food. As his condition deteriorated, he decided that instead of being intubated in a hospital in the nation’s capital of Panama City, he’d prefer to pass […]
A Cambodian company has been illegally logging in protected areas and exporting the timber to Vietnam and China, according to a report by Mongabay’s Gerald Flynn. The year-long Mongabay investigation, led by Flynn and involving several Cambodian journalists, showed that Angkor Plywood has been illegally logging timber, including rare tree species, from protected forests, particularly […]
LIMÓN, Costa Rica — On board Jurgen Stein’s two-seat gyrocopter, tourists can see the rainforest like never before. From the sky, the Selva Bananito Reserve looks like an endless stretch of broccoli. “We have 11 life zones. Almost 5% of the global biodiversity exists here,” Stein says, pointing at the reserve that’s part of the […]
What’s new: Researchers have successfully detected the presence of koalas and other threatened wildlife species using new tools that allow easy collection of airborne environmental DNA, according to a recent study. What the study says: It’s often difficult, time-consuming and expensive to collect data and observe threatened wildlife like koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus), small marsupials that […]
“Attention, attention! This is an emergency! Attention, attention! This is a real emergency situation involving a dam collapse. Leave your homes immediately. Use the escape route to get to the meeting point, then remain there and await further instructions.” At 4 a.m. on Feb. 8, 2019, residents of four villages Barão de Cocais municipality, in […]
At the COP26 U.N. climate conference in Glasgow, 141 countries committed to ending and reversing deforestation by 2030. A key signal was the $1.7 billion pledge from the Forest Tenure Funders Group, a group of governments and philanthropies aimed at advancing tenure rights of Indigenous Peoples (IPs), local communities and Afro-descendent Peoples (LCs) by increasing […]
High seas cover over half of our planet’s surface, and represent two-thirds of the entire ocean. They serve as a crucial habitat for countless marine species, many of which remain undiscovered. They also play a vital role in climate regulation. The high seas are also home to secret treasures that could potentially reshape medical science. […]
Far from being just a figure of speech, the existence of microplastics spread throughout the ocean is unequivocal for specialists on the topic. A favorite of industry due to its flexibility, durability and low production costs, plastic’s virtues are crumbling not unlike a 500-milliliter bottle transforming into millions of fragments in the marine environment. Drifting […]
Lack of transparency is a constant in the Chinese fleet dedicated to squid fishing in South American waters. Turning off their satellite-tracking systems, duplicating their identities within satellite-based monitoring systems, and transshiping their catch onto other vessels without informing the authorities: These are some of the strategies Chinese fishing vessels use to circumvent the law, […]
Australia’s Global ‘Nature Positive’ Summit features Indigenous voices, but little government action
SYDNEY – Just prior to the COP 16 biodiversity summit, the Australian Government hosted the world’s first Global’ Nature Positive’ Summit. ‘Nature positive’ means “an improvement in the diversity, abundance, resilience, and integrity of ecosystems from a baseline” according to Australia’s Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (EPBC) and is a key part of the […]
As world leaders and scientific institutions from across the globe gather to discuss the biodiversity crisis at COP16 and climate change at COP29 this fall, it’s critical that they do not neglect the important work that is already being done by one of the world’s key stewards of nature – botanical gardens. Botanical gardens steward […]
There’s a theory about what happens when a big cat sets up shop in a forest, and it’s at the center of one of the biggest fights in ecology today. The idea goes like this: when a predator, like a leopard, moves into a stretch of woodland, it starts preying on the smaller animals — […]
Joan Carling has made it her life’s mission to fight for the rights of her fellow Indigenous peoples. She has led anti-mining campaigns in the Philippines and faced death threats. Her work has since expanded to a global scale, where she now connects with and convenes Indigenous rights organizations while helping raise funds for their […]
A group of 225 global NGOs from more than 40 countries has issued a statement urging the European Parliament and EU governments to reject a proposal that would delay the implementation of the EU’s ambitious anti-deforestation law by a year. The collective statement, titled “Hands off the EU deforestation regulation!,” noted that the law was […]
SANTA MARTA, Panama — Mauricio Martínez was convinced he was going to die. The year was 2021 and Martínez, gravely ill with COVID-19, struggled to breathe, walk and swallow food. As his condition deteriorated, he decided that instead of being intubated in a hospital in the nation’s capital of Panama City, he’d prefer to pass […]
A Cambodian company has been illegally logging in protected areas and exporting the timber to Vietnam and China, according to a report by Mongabay’s Gerald Flynn. The year-long Mongabay investigation, led by Flynn and involving several Cambodian journalists, showed that Angkor Plywood has been illegally logging timber, including rare tree species, from protected forests, particularly […]
LIMÓN, Costa Rica — On board Jurgen Stein’s two-seat gyrocopter, tourists can see the rainforest like never before. From the sky, the Selva Bananito Reserve looks like an endless stretch of broccoli. “We have 11 life zones. Almost 5% of the global biodiversity exists here,” Stein says, pointing at the reserve that’s part of the […]