Sinkholes emerge in rural Kenya after series of floods, droughts

Rising water levels KenyaBARINGO COUNTY, Kenya — Across the arid landscape of Baringo county in western Kenya, in the geologically active Great Rift Valley, the December heat is scorching. Although the Indigenous pastoralist communities of the region are no strangers to harsh conditions, the current desiccating lack of rain has been particularly taxing. “In a few weeks, cattle […]

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Agricultural frontier advances in Nicaraguan biosphere reserve

The Río San Juan Biosphere Reserve in Nicaragua is one of the most biodiverse ecosystems in Central America. It is also part of the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor, which extends from Mexico to the Colombian Amazon. The reserve is located in the southeastern Nicaragua, specifically between the municipalities of El Castillo, San Juan de Nicaragua and […]

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Mongabay’s Top 10 Indigenous News Stories of 2021

Indigenous protestTo date, 2021 has proved to be one of the most consequential years for Indigenous rights and participation in global climate and conservation efforts. As biodiversity loss mounted and urgency was added to mitigating climate change, Indigenous environmental stewardship was put centre-stage, conservation efforts continued to displace communities, and extractive industries resumed operations on ancestral […]

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Mongabay’s 10 most popular posts of 2021

Mongabay will end up publishing about 5,000 posts in 2021, with original content in English, French, Hindi, Indonesian, Portuguese and Spanish, as well as translations across Chinese, German, Italian and Japanese. Mongabay’s on-site traffic amounted to 96 million pageviews, down from 142 million in 2020, but readers spent more time with Mongabay stories than ever […]

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How can illegal timber trade in the Greater Mekong be stopped?

Over the past decade, the European Union entered into collaborative agreements with tropical timber-producing countries to fight forest crime and verify the legality of wood imported into the EU. Within the Greater Mekong, Vietnam was the first (and to date, only) country to sign such a voluntary partnership agreement (VPA) with the EU, back in […]

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New shrews just dropped: Sulawesi yields up 14 freshly described species

JAKARTA — Scientists have described 14 species of shrews new to science from the Indonesian biodiversity haven of Sulawesi Island. The species-level description of the shrews from the genus Crocidura is the largest number of new mammals described in a scientific paper since 1931, according to the researchers from Indonesia, the U.S. and Australia, in […]

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