Stories about biodiversity, ecosystems and the people working to protect them.
Rhett A. Butler 2020 was a rough year for tropical rainforest conservation efforts, as explained in Mongabay’s year-end wrap-up on rainforests. So what’s in store […]
RANJAN PANDA & PRAGATI PRAVA While trees are important to enrich all forms of ecosystems, there have been criticisms from various sections of society and […]
WWF published ‘Embedding Human Rights into Nature Conservation: from Intent to Action’, a report from an Independent Panel it commissioned last year to review […]
Priti David/PARI India is seeing huge declines in native insect species – several of them tied closely to our food security. But it’s hard […]
Deepanwita Gita Niyogi Private forest owners have been restoring degraded lands, improving green cover and livelihood opportunities. The initiative helps in biodiversity conservation and […]
Soumya Sarkar Although top global banks are bankrolling biodiversity loss and ecosystem destruction at an unprecedented scale, the finance sector has largely evaded scrutiny […]
John C. Cannon Rather than solely reacting to future outbreaks with containment, new treatments, and the development of vaccines, the authors of the report […]
Charlotte King Bamboo is a surprisingly effective carbon sink and is being promoted by the government as a uniquely Chinese solution to climate change […]
A new IUCN report finds that an estimated 229,000 tonnes of plastic is leaking into the Mediterranean Sea every year, equivalent to over 500 shipping […]
Mudassir Kuloo The Kashmir Himalayas contain plants with properties found nowhere else on Earth, but illegal trade and climate change are pushing species to […]
This news comes days after the UN Summit on Biodiversity, where numerous heads of government supported WWF and WCS’s call to declare 30% of the Earth […]
There is a growing voice that governments take into note the importance of wetlands in achieving both the mitigation and adaptation targets to meet […]