Extinction reversed: Scientists have found Partula snails born in the wild on the French Polynesian island of Moorea, showing that a 40-year effort to save these once extirpated creatures is working: news.mongabay.com/2024/09/tiny...
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Jane Goodall is 90 years old and not slowing down, channeling her decades of fighting to defend the planet into her latest efforts to encourage young people to vote. Alongside @mongabay.bsky.social's Rhett Butler, she joins the latest episode of Climate One for a reflection on her legendary career:
The ‘Extinct’ Guam kingfisher has been released back into the wild 40 years after its extinction. news.mongabay.com/2024/09/exti...
Possibly the most quintessentially Cambodian story I've ever written for @mongabay.bsky.social. A journalist who helped us expose the destruction of a community forest at the hands of a powerful mining company has now been placed under court monitoring on charges of illegally clearing forest.
STUNG TRENG, Cambodia — It was late in the afternoon of Sept. 16 when Ouk Mao finally answered his phone. The environmental journalist had spent much of that Monday making preparations in case he was ...
A recent paper says the oft-cited claim that Indigenous peoples protect 80% of the world’s remaining biodiversity is not only baseless, but wrong Though scientists & Indigenous advocates agree the stat is under-researched, not all agree, especially since the paper itself did not provide evidence:
A new commentary piece in the journal Nature has caused an uproar in the conservation world and has prompted scientists to call for rigorous study. According to the authors, the much-cited claim that ...
The Earthshot Prize has announced its 15 finalists 🌎 It's given annually for innovative solutions to the most serious environmental problems facing the planet Amazon Sacred Headwaters Alliance, NatureMetrics, & others are in the running, read more about them all here:
Prince William’s Earthshot Prize has announced its 15 finalists at the Earthshot Innovation Summit held Sept. 24 in New York. Launched in 2020, the prize is given annually to encourage and sustain inn...
A team has captured the first photo of a ‘lost’ bird in a remote, mountainous area in DRC 🇨🇩, reports Ryan Truscott for @mongabay.bsky.socialnews.mongabay.com/2024/09/drea...
Incredible work to save the tiny things in the midst of war. Gives you a bit of hope for humanity. @mongabay.bsky.social
BEIRUT — Baby loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta) and green turtles (Chelonia mydas) made their way from their sandy nests in South Lebanon to the Mediterranean Sea, their flippers seemingly too larg...
Is bird flu spreading among people? We've got a podcast abt this & the disastrous effects on wildlife featuring the NY Times global health reporter: news.mongabay.com/podcast/2024... Now, a case of a person w/ no known contact w/ infected animals raises the specter of human-to-human transmission:
Mysterious US bird flu case in person without any known contact with an infected animal raises spectre of human-to-human transmission. Mysterious US bird flu case in person without any known contact w...