Mongabay Series:by on 14 September 2020It might be hard to believe in the current political climate, but public lands were a unifying issue for Americans until quite recently. Most Americans have supported the idea of the government owning and managing large areas of land for public use, and that bipartisan consensus has culminated in the creation of vast network of national parks, forests and monuments which are collectively visited by tens of millions of people annually.Does that mean public lands could serve as an opportunity to bridge gaps in a polarized America? John Leshy, an emeritus...…Mongabay Series:by on 14 September 2020It might be hard to believe in the current political climate, but public lands were a unifying issue for Americans until quite recently. Most Americans have supported the idea of the government owning and managing large areas of land for public use, and that bipartisan consensus has culminated in the creation of vast network of national parks, forests and monuments which are collectively visited by tens of millions of people annually.Does that mean public lands could serve as an opportunity to bridge gaps in a polarized America? John Leshy, an emeritus...WW…

Mongabay Series: ,by on 12 February 2021Bahamas Petroleum Company’s  to drill for offshore oil near the Florida coast hit a wall after its exploratory well did not find commercially viable reserves.Environmentalists in the Bahamas and the U.S. staunchly opposed the offshore drilling they say threatens the fragile marine ecosystem. The Perseverance #1 well is located 240 kilometers (150 miles) from the coast of Florida and 146 km (91 mi) from the nearest Bahamian island of Andros.The Stena IceMAX drillship started drilling on Dec. 20. By Feb. 7 it had plumbed depths of 3,900 meters...…Mongabay Series: ,by on 12 February 2021Bahamas Petroleum Company’s  to drill for offshore oil near the Florida coast hit a wall after its exploratory well did not find commercially viable reserves.Environmentalists in the Bahamas and the U.S. staunchly opposed the offshore drilling they say threatens the fragile marine ecosystem. The Perseverance #1 well is located 240 kilometers (150 miles) from the coast of Florida and 146 km (91 mi) from the nearest Bahamian island of Andros.The Stena IceMAX drillship started drilling on Dec. 20. By Feb. 7 it had plumbed depths of 3,900 meters...WW…

Mongabay Series:by on 6 October 2020 | Translated byWadson Trujillo is an environmental monitor in Cuninico, an Indigenous community in northern Peru. In 2014, he was a witness to an oil spill in which thousands of barrels of oil spilled out of the NorPeruano Pipeline and flowed into his community, including into the Cuninico River.Oil from the spill also reached the nearby communities of San Francisco, Nueva Esperanza and Santa Rosa, which are all in the district of Urarinas in the Loreto region. Although the event is considered emblematic in Peru as a result of the amount of oil that...…Mongabay Series:by on 6 October 2020 | Translated byWadson Trujillo is an environmental monitor in Cuninico, an Indigenous community in northern Peru. In 2014, he was a witness to an oil spill in which thousands of barrels of oil spilled out of the NorPeruano Pipeline and flowed into his community, including into the Cuninico River.Oil from the spill also reached the nearby communities of San Francisco, Nueva Esperanza and Santa Rosa, which are all in the district of Urarinas in the Loreto region. Although the event is considered emblematic in Peru as a result of the amount of oil that...WW…

by on 28 September 2020DURBAN, South Africa — South Africa is home to around 1,300 of the world’s roughly 7,100 remaining . It’s also the only country in the world with significant cheetah population growth, thanks largely to a nongovernmental conservation project that depends on careful and intensive human management of small, fenced-in cheetah populations. Because most of the reserves are privately funded and properly fenced, the animals benefit from higher levels of security than in the increasingly thinly funded state reserves.Initiated by the Endangered Wildlife Trust nearly a decade...…by on 28 September 2020DURBAN, South Africa — South Africa is home to around 1,300 of the world’s roughly 7,100 remaining . It’s also the only country in the world with significant cheetah population growth, thanks largely to a nongovernmental conservation project that depends on careful and intensive human management of small, fenced-in cheetah populations. Because most of the reserves are privately funded and properly fenced, the animals benefit from higher levels of security than in the increasingly thinly funded state reserves.Initiated by the Endangered Wildlife Trust nearly a decade...WW…

Mongabay Series:by on 21 January 2021As a catastrophic second wave of the coronavirus deeply threatens Brazil’s Amazonas state, creating an , the state government has now sent an urgent SOS on behalf of governor Wilson Miranda Lima to a broad range of recipients, including international NGOs. Mongabay is supporting this extraordinary appeal by publishing the letter (see ). The plea reads, in part:[W]e ask for your support in the midst of this emergency fight against COVID-19 in our State. The situation is dire, and our fear is that the same situation we are seeing in the capital Manaus will...…Mongabay Series:by on 21 January 2021As a catastrophic second wave of the coronavirus deeply threatens Brazil’s Amazonas state, creating an , the state government has now sent an urgent SOS on behalf of governor Wilson Miranda Lima to a broad range of recipients, including international NGOs. Mongabay is supporting this extraordinary appeal by publishing the letter (see ). The plea reads, in part:[W]e ask for your support in the midst of this emergency fight against COVID-19 in our State. The situation is dire, and our fear is that the same situation we are seeing in the capital Manaus will...WW…

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Mongabay Series:by on 4 December 2020Coincidence or not, one day after the of data by Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE) — showing that deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has topped 11,000 square kilometers, — the French government officially launched its plant protein development plan, which had been in preparation since at least last January.Julien Denormandie, French Minister of Agriculture and Food, that the goal of the plan is “to recover part of [France’s] agri-food sovereignty, reducing dependence on vegetable protein, and to stop importing...…Mongabay Series:by on 4 December 2020Coincidence or not, one day after the of data by Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE) — showing that deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has topped 11,000 square kilometers, — the French government officially launched its plant protein development plan, which had been in preparation since at least last January.Julien Denormandie, French Minister of Agriculture and Food, that the goal of the plan is “to recover part of [France’s] agri-food sovereignty, reducing dependence on vegetable protein, and to stop importing...WW…