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Mexico, including the Yaqui Valley, is experiencing a deadly heat wave, drought and water shortages. Within the Yaqui Territory are the remnants of their sacred Yaqui River, which has been drained of all its water after decades of overexploitation, unequal water distribution and droughts. Read:

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Malaysia recently announced new dam projects w/o the free, prior & informed consent of local Indigenous people

Celine Lim tells podcast co-host @racheldonald.bsky.social it “threw the community into a frenzy because no one knew of this plan”

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Monga Bay and ProPublica are both great!

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Over the past decade, several Māori iwi (tribes) in New Zealand have made history and fetched international recognition by gaining “legal personhood” status for natural features. But questions remain about the extent to which such a legal instrument can enact meaningful change. Read:

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Despite its environmental track record, Suriname is still the only country in South America that hasn’t formally recognized the territorial rights of Indigenous and Maroon peoples. Read more about this:

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With Mexico co-hosting the FIFA World Cup in 2026, major infrastructure works in the country’s three host cities could have negative impacts on local biodiversity, activists say. Read more:

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Scientists have used tiny, noninvasive radio transmitters and accelerometers to study the habitats & behaviors of red diamond rattlesnakes. These rattlesnakes, native to southwest California in the U.S. & Baja California in Mexico, face increasing threats from habitat loss & vehicle strikes. Read:

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In Galicia, shellfish harvesting is traditionally women’s work But the shellfish they depend on are increasingly harder to find Extreme weather events -- made more frequent by climate change & including heat waves and torrential rain -- threaten the shellfish, and with them, the tradition:

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This week on the Mongabay Newscast, I chat with the program manager of Mongabay's newest bureau in Africa, David Akana.

We discuss his favorite spot in nature, what mainstream news often misses when covering Africa, and what he hopes to achieve with the new bureau: news.mongabay.com/2024/06/in-t...

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Giant termite mounds in Namaqualand, South Africa, are at least 34,000 years old, a study finds They are still used by southern harvester termites, making them the oldest known inhabited termite mounds, by a lot The discovery also demonstrates that they store much carbon >1 meter deep:

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The first in a two-punch combo from me & Vutha Srey for @mongabay.bsky.social

One of Cambodia's most infamous tycoons, Ly Yong Phat, is building a new dam in a remote stretch of the Cardamoms. But like many dams before it, the Stung Meteuk dam is giving cover to illegal loggers plundering timber.

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First described by scientists in 2012, the lesula monkey is only found in the DRC & is mostly terrestrial, unlike other species of guenon monkeys in the region A new camera trap study reveals how the lesula has carved out its unique niche on the forest floor:

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From the Paris Agreement to the SBTi carbon reduction guidelines, pretty much every approach to halting climate change and ecosystem destruction through voluntary corporate action is failing news.mongabay.com/2024/04/inte...

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A new study suggests we can save thousands of the most threatened animals & plants from extinction by protecting just a tiny fraction of the Earth. Protecting the majority of species would cost approximately $34 billion per year — or around 16% of Elon Musk’s current net worth. Read more:

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"25 years ago I founded Mongabay out of my love & respect for nature The growth of Mongabay has exceeded my wildest expectations...today, we have more than 100 staff members" As Mongabay looks to the future, its strategy remains rooted in the belief that journalism can drive real-world change:

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Over the last 30 years, the remaining golden-headed lion tamarin groups in southern Bahia have come to live in forests and agroecological crops, so Institutions are now working to ensure proper management of these plantations and to prevent conversion of native forests. Read:

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Commercial cattle ranching is banned on Indigenous territories in Brazil, but a yearlong investigation by our @bykarlamendes.bsky.social reveals large areas of the Arariboia Indigenous Territory have been used for ranching amid a record-high number of killings of the region’s Indigenous inhabitants:

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Forests may control that waterways of the world, according to physicist Anastassia Makarieva's 'Biotic Pump Theory'.

This means further forest loss may have unknown and devastating effects on not just the global climate, but also on water supplies.

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Community-led mangrove restoration is increasingly being recognized as more effective than many state- or market-driven initiatives in terms of both ecological and economic outcomes. Southern Thailand village Ban Nai Nang has developed a mangrove conservation model based on beekeeping. Read more:

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Rights organizations have for years accused UNESCO of either being inattentive or complicit in illegal evictions of communities & human rights abuses in several World Heritage Sites These include biodiversity hotspots in Africa, including the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in Tanzania:

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Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has dropped to its lowest level since March 2018, according to new data from the Brazilian government received by Mongabay 🌎 Down 40% compared to 2023, with expectations for a significant annual decline when the “deforestation year” concludes in July:

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A new study shows large fruit-eating birds in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest contribute a 38% increase in carbon storage This is thanks to their spreading of tree seeds & regenerating tropical forest The larger the bird, the larger the seed & consequently, the greater the biomass of trees that grow:

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Despite having a simple brain, salamanders are capable of complex cognition, can this be used for their conservation? They possess a number system and memory and show evidence of self-recognition, spatial reward learning and associate color with reward Evidence of animal intelligence just grows:

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Burning wood is not ‘renewable energy,’ so why do policymakers pretend it is?

I spoke with journalist Justin Catanoso about what Drax – the UK's biggest CO2 emitter whose emissions are struck off the nation's carbon budget—is up to in California.

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We've been busy @mongabay.bsky.social covering the collapse of #Cambodia's marine fisheries in our 3-part series!

PT.1 - We dig into the impact of IUU fishing on coastal communities in what researchers called "a race to catch the last fish" w. catches dropping on avg. by 50% between 2019 & 2022

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[UPDATE 🌎] Carbon offset registry Verra has suspended the projects targeted by Brazilian Federal Police following our investigation This “extraordinary action” prevents the selling of new credits to companies like Boeing, Spotify, Toshiba, and other top brands:

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Federal Police arrested suspects & seized assets linked to some of Brazil’s largest carbon credit projects last week 🌎 This comes after their alleged crimes were exposed by Mongabay recently Investigators say the group was running land-grabbing and timber laundering schemes in the Amazon:

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The recent screening of a Mongabay video before Chile’s Supreme Court has intensified international scrutiny of the killing of 26-year-old Indigenous leader Paulo Paulino Guajajara in Brazil 2019 — a case for which no one has yet gone on trial in Brazil. Read more about this:

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Thanks for reading and for your thoughtful comment, Charlotte!

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This #WorldEnvironmentDay 🌏 read about the people in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan who are working with their govt to plant a new forest of drought-resistant plants in the dried-out lakebed of the Aral Sea, to prevent sandstorms and mitigate the health impacts of breathing in the toxic dust.

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A recently rediscovered harlequin frog species in Ecuador (tentatively identified as Atelopus guanujo), exemplifies challenges which can include: ❌ intense funding competition ❌ little legal protection ❌ little government support for the imperiled species. Read more:

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Watch our @geraldrflynn.bsky.social on Cambodia's coast investigating the impact of rampant illegal fishing and onshore development

Fish catches have dropped precipitously & so have small-scale fishers’ incomes

Trawlers illegally entering protected waters are harvesting locals' ability to survive:

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[Annals of coprophagy] Researchers deployed collar cameras attached to four baboons in South Africa as part of a documentary film They found that chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) like to feed on antelope poop, especially during drier months when vegetation might be sparse:

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Seems at odds with the purpose of marine protected areas: In 2023, the U.K. allowed commercial fishing vessels to spend 33,000+ hours trawling and dredging them. That these destructive practices are allowed raises big questions about the effectiveness of these protections, our sources say:

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🌎 Rubber manufacturer Michelin claims to have saved millions of tons of carbon & 1000s of ha of primary forest in a sustainable rubber project in Indonesia Our reporting with Voxeurop reveals that deforestation there actually surged just before the company made its no-deforestation pledge:

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World Press Freedom Day '24 was themed “Journalism in the face of the Environmental Crisis"

@thewilsoncenter.bsky.social in partnership with @sejorg.bsky.social hosted a dialogue highlighting the need to protect journalists around the world from surveillance, censorship & oppression, watch here:

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A bill to reduce the amount of primary forest that landowners in the Brazilian Amazon must preserve may lead to the deforestation of an area 2x the size of Rio de Janeiro state 🌎 Approval could undermine Brazil’s goal of reducing carbon emissions & putting an end to deforestation by 2030:

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Let's not lose the plot on climate, folks. And certainly let's not destroy the natural systems that manage heat.

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