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By Fernanda Wenzel After six months of a partial strike, Brazilian environmental agents doubled down and announced an intensification of their protest for better work conditions and wages. The decision came after months of deadlock in the negotiations with the federal government, which in early June stated it had “reached the maximum limit, from a budgetary point of view, of what it can offer.” “The government unilaterally closed the negotiating channel we had,” Wallace Lopes, a director at the association representing the environmental specialists, ASCEMA, told Mongabay. Since January, federa...
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By Carolyn Cowan In May, authorities in southern Thailand arrested six people for illegally transporting 48 lemurs and more than 1,200 critically endangered tortoises, all of which had reportedly been obtained from the wild in Madagascar. The seizure is the latest in a string of illegal wildlife trade busts in Thailand. Red pandas (Ailurus fulgens), monitor lizards, snakes and parrots have been uncovered in similar incidents in the country in recent months, for instance. However, the recent seizure of so many critically endangered animals from Madagascar has alarmed experts, who say the latest...
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By Fernanda Wenzel In August 2019, the number of fires in the Brazilian Amazon skyrocketed, making international headlines and prompting protests in cities like London, Paris and Toronto. While the global community was shocked by images of burning trees and animals, in Brazil, the arrival of the smoke in the country’s business capital and largest city, São Paulo, made the urban population suddenly wake up to the problem. The crisis also drew the attention of the scientific community, which has since invested more effort into creating tools and data to understand the dynamics of fire in the Ama...
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By Abhaya Raj Joshi KATHMANDU — Until a few years ago, villagers in Siraha in Nepal’s Madhesh province accessed water by digging a few meters into the ground, as this method was easier than laying pipes. Water gushed readily from the ground. However, residents like Sunil Yadav from Siraha district now must dig at least 30 meters (100 feet) to find water. Even deep wells run dry during peak summer as heat waves increase demand. Ironically, during the monsoon season from July to September, the region appears water-abundant due to heavy rainfall, which at times washes away entire settlements and ...
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By Victoria Schneider In 2023, Socfin hired a consultancy to investigate longstanding allegations of human rights violations and environmental damage raised by communities living around the Belgian transnational company’s oil palm and rubber plantations in Africa and Southeast Asia. Findings from a second round of investigations have now been published. Supply chain consultancy Earthworm Foundation’s investigators visited a subsidiary in Sierra Leone, the Socfin Agricultural Company (SAC), and one of the holding group’s four Cameroonian operations, SAFACAM. They found evidence of sexual harass...
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By Luiz Felipe Silva Seen from the air, the BR-163 highway cutting through the city that proudly calls itself the National Agribusiness Capital reflects an abrupt socioeconomic divide — as if it were a border dividing two opposing realities like the wall that separates Israel from Palestine. The robust economy on the west side of the highway is evidenced by block after block of luxury-brand retail shops, streets filled with pickup trucks costing hundreds of thousands of reais and ever-increasing numbers of luxury homes and gated communities. Meanwhile, on the east side, cars made decades ago c...
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By Kamran Reza Chowdhury A disagreement between the Bangladesh government and the contractor China Machinery and Engineering Corp. (CMEC) has apparently stalled the implementation of the first-ever waste-to-power project in Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka. This has exposed a debate about whether the government should proceed with the controversial incineration project. The contracting authority, Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC), wants to execute the 42-megawatt electricity project at the Aminbazar landfill site, where the corporation dumps 3,500 metric tons of waste per day. Data show that Bang...
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By Sarah Brown BELÉM, Brazil — The golden parakeet is as noisy as it is brightly colored. Hanging from the branches above, three of these medium-sized parrots screech and squawk as they peer down to get a better look at biologist Marcelo Vilarta as he observes them. Also known as golden conures, they’re striking birds with their vibrant yellow plumage and green wingtips distinct against the Amazonian vegetation. Yet it’s these colors that have put their population at risk of extinction. The illegal pet trade, coupled with acute habitat loss, have reduced the population of golden parakeets (Gua...
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By Mike DiGirolamo No matter where you are, the air you breathe is almost certainly affected by the health and well-being of the world’s second-largest tropical rainforest, the Congo Basin, says David Akana, program manager for the newly launched Mongabay Africa bureau. He joins the Mongabay Newscast to discuss why news of the African continent should be on the minds of readers and listeners worldwide. In this conversation, he details Mongabay Africa’s priorities, why publishing in French and English is vital for impact, and how he plans to expand the bureau’s coverage. Listen here: Akana stre...
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By Sarah Sax In April, Brazil’s president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva recognized an additional two Indigenous territories, including one 32,000-hectare (more than 79,000-acre) territory belonging to the Karajá peoples in Mato Grosso. According to a new study published in the journal Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation, this act alone could quite possibly be the best investment not just for Indigenous rights, but for securing the future climate stability of the state. The state of Mato Grosso straddles two of Brazil’s largest biomes: The Amazon covers around two-thirds of the state, and the ...
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