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Electric vehicles are often presented as a key technology for drastically reducing greenhouse gas emissions, thus helping curb climate change.

But manufacturing electric cars requires the mining of critical minerals for batteries, like lithium and cobalt, that are largely sourced in developing countries. Local traditional and Indigenous communities say the mining is already harming their way of life, damaging biodiversity, and polluting.

by Gerry McGovern, Sue Branford
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/green-credentials-of-electric-vehicles-come-under-fire/

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Members of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission, the intergovernmental body that regulates fishing for tuna and tuna-like species in the region, met May 13-17 in Bangkok.

Although a decision on reining in catches of yellowfin tuna, which has been declared overfished for the past nine years, was perhaps the most anticipated move of the meeting, delegates failed to reach any such agreement.

by Francesco De Augustinis
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/no-mercy-for-overfished-yellowfin-tuna-at-indian-ocean-fisheries-meeting/

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Angola’s Afromontane forests are considered to be the country’s most threatened habitat type due to logging, wood harvesting and fire.

Experts say the forests are relics that harbor “fading biological fingerprints” from a previous epoch.

by Ryan Truscott
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/tracing-africas-fading-biological-fingerprints-in-angolas-threatened-forests/

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Ministers overseeing the Chilean government’s sustainability and climate change efforts have proposed a network of protected areas comprising 27 salt flats and lagoons, part of the country’s National Lithium Strategy.

Another 26 salt flats will be exclusively used for exploration and extraction of lithium by national and international companies; two state-owned mining companies will lead operations in the country’s largest lithium reserves.

by Barinia Montoya
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/chile-to-protect-some-salt-flats-but-selection-lacks-data-scientists-say/

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Given that the serious impacts of climate change are rapidly escalating, some scientists, backed up increasingly by governments, are looking into extreme measures such as geoengineering to slow the rate of change.

A new report examines 61 climate mitigation ideas for the Arctic, including geoengineering.

By @Jeremy_Hance
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/report-ranks-60-ideas-including-geoengineering-to-save-the-arctic/

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An analysis of two carbon credit projects in the Brazilian Amazon has found that they may be connected to illegal timber laundering.

Prior to the analysis, forest management plans had already been suspended in the areas over the same issue.

By Fernanda Wenzel
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/top-brands-buy-amazon-carbon-credits-from-suspected-timber-laundering-scam/

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The Caribbean Basin is drowning in waste, especially plastic trash that’s contaminating rivers and the surrounding sea, poisoning fish and turtles.

For years, governments in the region turned a blind eye to waste management. But now the problem is threatening their main industry: tourism.

Eight Caribbean countries have joined together in the Caribe Circular alliance, which aims to implement circular-economy solutions for better waste management.

by Sandra Weiss
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/can-the-circular-economy-help-the-caribbean-win-its-war-against-waste/

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During a flyover on March 15 this year, Indigenous organizations and Ministry of Culture officials observed evidence of drug production and trafficking activity inside the Kakataibo Indigenous Reserve.

They found three clandestine landing strips, one of them located in the center of the reserve, as well as large patches of deforested areas in the middle of the rainforest, some of them planted with illegal coca crops.

by Yvette Sierra Praeli
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/photos-confirm-narcotraffickers-operating-in-perus-kakataibo-indigenous-reserve/

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As El Niño and climate change bring drought to the northern Philippines, farmers say the value of local heirloom seeds shines through.

Farmers say these seeds, cultivated through generations, show greater resilience to drought and heat than commercial hybrid seeds promoted by the government.

A network of seed savers, spearheaded by rural women, is working to revitalize the traditional practices of saving seeds.

By Mavic Conde
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/for-drought-relief-cordilleran-women-in-the-philippines-rely-on-seed-saving/

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The number of individual birds found at the Yasuní Biosphere Reserve has dropped by half, according to a study published earlier this year.

Other studies have shown a similar trend in preserved rainforests, pointing to habitat deterioration and pesticides as the usual causes of widespread bird decline in the Northern Hemisphere, but this does not explain the phenomenon in tropical sites.

by Bernardo Araujo
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/bird-populations-are-mysteriously-declining-at-an-amazon-park-in-ecuador-beyond/

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Andrea Crosta, founder of Earth League International, talks about the group’s new report on shark fin trafficking from Latin America to East Asia and the concept of “crime convergence.”

Since smuggling routes often overlap and criminal groups frequently work together across borders, Crosta calls for field collaboration among countries and law enforcement agencies to fight wildlife crime, the world’s fourth-largest criminal enterprise.

by Philip Jacobson
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/undercover-in-a-shark-fin-trafficking-ring-interview-with-wildlife-crime-fighter-andrea-crosta/

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Farmers in Nigeria — and other regions, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa — are suffering huge losses due to extreme weather shifts in quick succession, a phenomenon that researchers refer to as “weather whiplash.”

Research shows a connection between poverty and weather whiplash, and farmers in poorer regions are five times more exposed to drought-downpour cycles than people in wealthier regions.

by Tarinipre Francis
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/weather-whiplash-cycles-of-floods-droughts-imperil-nigerian-farming/

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Two Indigenous villages in Indonesian Borneo have received initial funding of nearly $15,000 from the New Zealand government to improve their livelihoods while protecting their ancestral forests.

Residents of the Dayak villages of Setawar and Gunam mostly grow oil palms, but also still rely on their ancestral forests for making medicinal herbs, producing handicrafts and carrying out traditional rituals.

by Hans Nicholas Jong
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/nz-funding-helps-indigenous-farmers-in-indonesia-protect-forests-boost-incomes/

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The town of Catacocha, located in the south of Ecuador, is in a province known for being almost a desert: dry forest, barren soil and rains that only appear two months in the year.

A historian discovered the water collection system long ago used by Palta Indigenous people and persuaded locals in Catacocha to apply it.

by Alexis Serrano Carmona
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/an-ancient-indigenous-lagoon-system-brings-water-back-to-a-dry-town-in-ecuador/

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The Aves y Cafe program in Venezuela aids rural communities by encouraging community-centered shade coffee agroforestry, while protecting rare and migrating birds.

The project has so far succeeded in protecting 415 hectares (1,025 acres) of montane forest, ensuring the survival of threatened endemic and migratory bird species.

by James Hall
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/shade-grown-coffee-benefits-birds-forests-people-in-venezuela/

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Researchers observed a wild orangutan in Sumatra treating a facial wound with a plant known for its healing properties, marking the first documented case of such behavior in a wild animal.

The adult male Sumatran orangutan was observed chewing on the plant Fibraurea tinctoria, which has pain-relieving and anti-inflammatory effects, and rubbing the resultant ointment on the wound, which later healed without infection.

by Basten Gokkon
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/wild-orangutan-medicinal-plant-sumatra-endangered-species-indonesia-conservation/

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Climate change has become a pressing public health crisis around the world, as disease patterns worsen and emerge in regions where they did not exist before.

Health experts are particularly concerned about the role of climate change in the rise of vector-borne diseases in Africa’s low- and middle-income countries.

By Juliet Akoth Ojwang
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/african-health-experts-warn-of-climate-change-rising-vector-borne-diseases/

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The Brazilian Amazon experienced a 47% decrease in deforestation in April compared to last year, marking the lowest level in five years, and a 51% decrease over the past 12 months.

Since President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took office in January 2023, his administration has effectively curbed deforestation by reinstating conservation programs, strengthening environmental agencies, and supporting Indigenous rights.

https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/despite-drought-amazon-deforestation-alerts-hit-five-year-low/

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Conservation NGO Save Vietnam’s Wildlife is employing radio tracking to follow rehabilitated pangolins rescued from the illegal wildlife trade, even in difficult terrain and when the animals burrow underground.

Tracking these pangolins on foot and using a novel radio telemetry drone has not only allowed the organization to assess the survival of released pangolins, but also improved the team’s knowledge of the animals’ behaviors and habitat needs.

By Claudia Geib
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/on-foot-and-by-drone-radio-tracking-helps-rehabilitate-pangolins-in-vietnam/

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Brown howler monkeys, endemic to the Atlantic Forest in Brazil and Argentina, became one of the 25 most threatened primate species following a yellow fever outbreak in late 2016.

In response, Brazilian government agencies and other conservation organizations launched a nationwide population management plan focused on coordinating captive facilities with experts who could relocate animals to areas where populations have vanished or declined.

By Bernardo Araujo
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/brazil-takes-pioneering-action-and-a-vaccine-to-rewild-howler-monkeys/

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The seminomadic Suku Anak Dalam Indigenous people have lived in two areas of what is now Jambi province on Indonesia’s Sumatra island for generations, but an influx of plantation interests has shrunk the customary territory available to their society.

More than 2,000 Suku Anak Dalam have lost their land to oil palm and rubber plantations, which have also led to a loss of the native trees from which community members collect forest honey to sell.

by Teguh Suprayitno
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/desperation-sets-in-for-indigenous-sumatrans-who-lost-their-forests-to-plantations/

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Many cats despise mud and water, but not so the fishing cat. This enigmatic medium-sized cat species roams South and Southeast Asia and is uniquely adapted to life in wetlands.

Little known and underresearched, it faces an uphill battle against multiple threats, including loss of its wetland habitat to humanity’s incursions, and escalating climate change, as extreme drought and rising coastal waters disrupt aquatic ecosystems.

By Sean Mowbray
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/saving-asias-fishing-cat-means-protecting-threatened-wetland-habitat/

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Indonesia’s largest deforesting company has continued to clear peatland despite an order by the government for the firm to stop clearing rainforests.

The company in question is pulpwood producer PT Mayawana Persada.

Since 2016, the company has cleared more than 35,000 hectares (86,500 acres) of forests to establish monoculture pulpwood plantations in its concession in West Kalimantan province.

By Hans Nicholas Jong
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/indonesian-company-defies-order-still-clearing-peatlands-in-orangutan-habitat/

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Hopes for a worldwide plastics treaty gained some momentum at the fourth of five scheduled summits to hash out an agreement. But while the week-long session of the UN International Negotiating Committee made some headway, it didn’t leave environmentalists feeling overly optimistic.

by Charles Pekow
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/at-its-fourth-summit-170-nations-strive-toward-a-global-plastics-treaty-by-2025/

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In Nepal’s sacred Tsum Valley, Buddhist community members are conflicted about the ongoing construction of a road that will pass through the region.

The Tsum Valley is one of the few, if not last, remaining beyul, or sacred valleys, governed by customary and Buddhist laws, where humans and wildlife have lived together in harmony for more than a millennium.

by Stuart Butler
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/in-a-himalayan-eden-a-road-project-promises-opportunity-but-also-loss/

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