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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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By Hans Nicholas Jong JAKARTA — Protests are mounting in Indonesia against a China-backed zinc and lead mine being developed on the island of Sumatra in defiance of opposition from local communities. On June 11, protesters from communities that would be affected by the mine in Dairi district demonstrated outside the Chinese Embassy in Jakarta. They demanded the Chinese government stop financing the project, following news that a Chinese state-controlled company has agreed to loan $245 million to mine developer PT Dairi Prima Mineral (DPM ). The company, Carren Holdings Corporation Limited, app...
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By Nicola Zolin (photos)Paloma de Dinechin (words) Dinora Moraleda, 33, breastfeeds her 4-month-old daughter, sitting on the floor of a 10-square-meter (107-square-foot) room with eight family members. Her cough is dry, a sign of the pneumonia she caught in the insalubrious run-down building she lives in, located in Cidade de Deus, a poor district in the north of Manaus, in the state of Amazonas. A year earlier, she was breastfeeding her son Jordi in the same building, but he died of pneumonia at the age of 18 months because she could not afford to take him to the hospital. Moraleda is from th...
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By Fernanda Wenzel Labeled as a solution for global warming, renewable energy sources are receiving hefty incentives from both the public and private sectors. In Brazil alone, the installed wind energy capacity expanded nearly tenfold in the decade between 2011 and 2021, from 1.2% to 11.4% of the country’s energy mix. Solar power grew even more rapidly, by 26 times — from 0.1% to 2.6% of the mix. And if the federal government’s plans are carried out, this expansion will only accelerate over the decades to come. But the low impact on the climate contrasts with the gigantic impacts that wind and...
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By Titik Kartitiani PULANG PISAU, Indonesia — Bandi paddled through the black swamp, passing alongside banks of high brush outside Kalawa village here in the south of Borneo Island. The narrow canoe, known here as a ces, arrowed through the water, leaving a low ripple in its wake. “Since there’s been community forestry here, we can now protect the forest,” Bandi said as he traversed the peatland. “We look after the forests surrounding our village — they don’t burn.” A national drive to convert some 1 million hectares (2.5 million acres) of peatland into rice fields by then-president Suharto cl...
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By Rodrigo PedrosoSam Cowie and Avener Prado SÃO JOÃO DA BALIZA, Brazil — Levi da Silva Kaykûwû smiles as he explains the wealth that Brazil nuts have generated for his community. “We’ve been able to buy chainsaws, aluminum-made boats and motors,” the 48-year-old Wai Wai Indigenous leader tells Mongabay as he sits in his village by the banks of the Anauá River. Collecting, cooking, eating and selling the nuts of the Bertholletia excelsa tree is embedded in the culture of the Wai Wai people, who live across the forested interiors of northern Brazil and neighboring Guyana. Today, Brazil nuts acc...
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By Peter Speetjens Events in February felt like a legal double whammy for the environment and its defenders. First, the United Nations Environment Assembly declined a Bolivian proposal to grant rights to nature and Mother Earth. Then, Michel Forst, the U.N. special rapporteur on environmental defenders under the Aarhus Convention, raised the alarm with his new paper: “State Repression of Environmental Protest and Civil Disobedience: A Major Threat to Human Rights and Democracy.” Although the right to protest is safeguarded by universal human rights like freedom of speech and freedom of assembl...
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By Rhett A. Butler In high school, I had the great fortune to visit a spectacular rainforest in Malaysian Borneo. Some of my fondest memories are from this forest: hiking under the tall trees, swimming in crystal-clear creeks, and appreciating the beauty of its creatures. Back home in California, I kept in touch with a biologist I met on that trip, so a few months later, I was devastated to learn that this very forest was to be pulped for paper. [(https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2022/01/28040245/sabah276722_WEB.jpg) Lowland rainforest in Malaysian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A...
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By Basten Gokkon JAKARTA — Indonesia’s Bali island is shrinking at a faster rate than most coastal areas in the world due to human activities and wave circulation, according to a recently published study. Bali’s shoreline decreased to 662.59 kilometers (411.71 miles) from 668.64 km (415.47 mi) between 2016 and 2021 at an average rate of -1.21 meters (3.97 feet) annually, said a group of researchers from Indonesia, Japan and Turkiye (Turkey) in their paper published on May 29 in the journal Regional Studies in Marine Science. Globally, 24% of the world’s sandy beaches have faced erosion at rate...
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