‘No future’: Iceland cancels whale hunt over animal welfare concerns: decision follows government report that found many whales suffer immensely after being harpooned (news.mongabay.com)
World Heritage Site listing for Ethiopian park leads to eviction of farming community (news.mongabay.com)
Miyawaki forests are a global sensation, but not everyone’s sold on them (news.mongabay.com)
Another article on Miyawaki, mostly positive despite the clickbait title. Has some pics and more of the history behind the method. Summary below:...
As companies buy ‘plastic credits,’ are they reducing waste or greenwashing? (news.mongabay.com)
Palestinian olive farmers hold tight to their roots amid surge in settler attacks (news.mongabay.com)
Palestinian farmers in the occupied West Bank face economic devastation as a surge in violence by illegal Israeli settlers and the Israeli military prevents them from harvesting their olives. Around 100,000 Palestinian families are estimated to rely on these trees as a source of income....
Is the genetically modified, nutrient-rich Golden Rice as safe as promised? (news.mongabay.com)
Massive carbon offset deal with Dubai-based firm draws fire in Liberia (news.mongabay.com)
Degraded, but not defunct: Modified land still has wildlife value, study says (news.mongabay.com)
A global study has found that degraded and modified landscapes such as croplands and pastures can still retain significant biodiversity value, hosting 18% of threatened terrestrial vertebrates and 10% of endangered plants. Although these human-altered areas are not an adequate substitute for fully intact wild habitat, they can...
Brazilian authorities launch probe into ‘Amazon’s largest single deforester’ (news.mongabay.com)
‘Right to roam’ movement fights to give the commons back to the public (news.mongabay.com)
Norwegian salmon farms gobble up fish that could feed millions in Africa: Report (news.mongabay.com)
Norwegian salmon farms are taking huge amounts of wild fish from West Africa, mining the food security of the region, according to a report from the U.K.-based NGO Feedback. The analysis comes as the industry faces a wave of public opposition after revelations of high mortality rates and the sale of fish deemed unfit for human...
Can impermanent carbon credits really offset forever emissions? (news.mongabay.com)
Bali rice experiment cuts greenhouse gas emissions and increases yields (news.mongabay.com)
Snack giant PepsiCo sourced palm oil from razed Indigenous land – investigation (news.mongabay.com)
In the last few years it is likely that PepsiCo has been using in its production palm oil from deforested land claimed by the Shipibo-Konibo people in eastern Peru, a new investigation has found....
No joking: Great apes can be silly and playfully tease each other, finds study (news.mongabay.com)
Norwegian salmon farms gobble up fish (from coastal West Africa) that could feed millions in Africa: Blue Empire Report (news.mongabay.com)
Norwegian salmon farms are taking huge amounts of wild fish from West Africa, mining the food security of the region, according to a report from the U.K.-based NGO Feedback. The analysis comes as the industry faces a wave of public opposition after revelations of high mortality rates and the sale of fish deemed unfit for human...
Norwegian salmon farms gobble up fish that could feed millions in Africa: Report (news.mongabay.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/10657372...
Company sells Indigenous land in Amazonas as NFTs without community’s knowledge (news.mongabay.com)
Areas of the Apurinã territory in the Lower Seruini area, in southern Amazonas state, were sold by Nemus under an NFT project that promises to preserve the forest and generate carbon credits.
Battling desertification: Bringing soil back to life in semiarid Spain (news.mongabay.com)
Can ‘road ecology’ save millions of animals? (no) (news.mongabay.com)
“If anything, the number is probably quite a bit higher,” says podcast guest Ben Goldfarb, environmental journalist and author of the new book https://www.bengoldfarb.com/crossings.
For International Youth Day, three youth conservation success stories (news.mongabay.com)
On Indonesia’s Seram Island, a massive oil find lies beneath sacred land (news.mongabay.com)
Airport proposal for Malaysian island doesn’t fly with conservationists (news.mongabay.com)
New research shines a light on Sri Lanka fireflies (news.mongabay.com)
In Sri Lanka, the first systematic study of fireflies was carried out by British naturalists in the 18th century, but afterward, there was a loss of interest in studying these fascinating creatures....
‘No future’: Iceland cancels whale hunt over animal welfare concerns: decision follows government report that found many whales suffer immensely after being harpooned (news.mongabay.com)