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Retired optometrist, birder, grandpa, conservationist
Sapariah “Arie” Saturi grew up in West Kalimantan amid recurring forest and peatland fires, experiences that shaped her understanding of Indonesia’s environmental crises.
She joined Mongabay Indonesia at its inception and helped build it into a national environmental newsroom.
That sound you heard was every GOP elected official with a lick of sense absolutely SHITTING themselves thinking about the visual of Mark Kelly back in uniform before a military court as Whiskey Pete's handpicked chucklefucks try to railroad him on bogus charges.
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Pangolins, the scaly anteaters that are the most trafficked wild mammals in the world, face a host of challenges throughout their range, including South Asia.
The IUCN Pangolin Specialist Group is working on a global action plan to conserve the species, with subgroups working on regional plans.
"EPA's own scientists closed the case on this 16 years ago. But this administration is obsessed with reversing the progress we have made and taking the country backwards."
@schiff.senate.gov defended the restoration of EPA's smart methane standards that protect our air and health.
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"Voters across the country just sent a clear message: their bills are too damn high." @climatepower.bsky.social
Turns out clean energy and low costs aren’t just a talking point — they’re what the American people actually want.
The trial of the two suspects charged in the killing of Indigenous forest guardian Paulo Paulino Guajajara and attempted killing of fellow guardian Laércio Guajajara in the Brazilian Amazon in 2019 was pushed to 2026, triggering outrage among the Guajajara people and Indigenous rights advocates.
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🌲 High up in the boreal forest lives the Canada Jay (Perisoreus canadensis), also known as the “Whiskyjack,” from the Algonquin Wisakedjak — a benevolent trickster spirit in several First Nations stories.
❄️ Learn how this #BirdoftheWeek outsmarts winter in our bird library:
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At COP30 in Belém, host country Brazil formally introduced the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF). It’s an endowment-style mechanism designed to pay countries and forest stewards to keep tropical forests standing. TFFF has drawn goodwill and cautious optimism from leaders and NGOs.
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[COMMENTARY]
A recent proposal by the Swedish government encourages fertilization with nitrogen to speed up tree growth, which may work in the short term but eventually fails and is leached into waterways, altering ecosystems.
** The views expressed are the author's.
Australia’s unprecedented toxic algal bloom has a surprise culprit | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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The Trump administration recently announced plans to terminate over $23.88 billion in clean energy grants that would have supported 338,150 new jobs.
As costs continue to soar and quality of life worsens, this administration is raising your bills and taking away jobs.
One year ago, a cholera outbreak was declared in #South Sudan. Today, it is still not under control. Over 93,000 cases and 1,500 deaths have been reported.
Ilse De Boer, MSF Deputy Medical Coordinator, shares reasons why this preventable disease has not yet been contained.
In a new short video, Mongabay visits the Dimonika Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO site in southwestern Republic of Congo.
The government shut down a Chinese company’s gold mining operation in November 2024, but mining pollution and its impacts on local communities persist.
Career prosecutors were put on leave, allegedly for stating the truth about J6. The Administration is working overtime to erase history. It’s incumbent upon all of us to document truth, preserve historical record, and stand firm against efforts to replace facts.
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The last known photo of the slender-billed curlew, a grayish-brown migratory waterbird, was taken in February 1995 at Merja Zerga, on Morocco’s Atlantic coast.
There will likely never be another one.
Demolishing part of the White House to build a lavish ballroom funded by billionaire donors while ordinary Americans are suffering from skyrocketing energy and healthcare bills is a little too on the nose for this administration
21.10.2025 17:18 — 👍 17 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Protecting wolves is about more than one species — it’s about protecting ecosystems. This #WolfAwarenessWeek, we’re celebrating the progress and partnerships that drive our wolf conservation efforts forward.
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Ya, not worth defending democracy right, let the billionaires take it all
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A new study indicates that deep-sea mining could threaten at least 30 species of sharks, rays and chimaeras, many of which are already at risk of extinction.
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A district court in Jakarta has dismissed a lawsuit brought by palm oil company PT Kalimantan Lestari Mandiri against two scientists who provided expert testimony in a 2018 court case that found the palm oil firm liable for wildfires on hundreds of hectares of land in Central Kalimantan province.
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Some agricultural producers in the Brazilian Cerrado who indirectly supply soy to the European market still haven’t complied with the forthcoming European Union’s antideforestation regulation, or EUDR, an investigation has found.
20.10.2025 13:40 — 👍 19 🔁 16 💬 0 📌 1It's the guns 💯%
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A new analysis from the Monitoring of the Andes Amazon Program shows differences in mining patterns in the central and northern departments of Peru, compared with southern departments like Madre de Dios.
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The green turtle, found across the world’s oceans, is recovering after decades of decline, according to the latest IUCN Red List assessment. The species has been reclassified from endangered to least concern.
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Nepal’s government has granted a mining concession for what it calls the country’s biggest iron deposit which could supply Nepal’s steel demand for years.
Local residents say they were never properly consulted and fear displacement, water pollution, and destruction of forests and farmlands.
A coalition formed to align the international banking sector’s investments with global climate goals has disbanded nearly four years after it was launched.
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There are only about 350 mature leopards left in West Africa.
Once widespread across the area, the leopard population there has declined by 50% over the past two decades, leading to their moving to a higher threat category of endangered on the IUCN Red List.
The Trump administration is set to allow oil and gas leasing across the entire Arctic National Wildlife Refuge coastal plain, a wilderness landscape that has been protected for over 40 years.
Nothing is sacred to this administration.
They are destroying our planet to enrich their Big Oil friends.
The shipping sector was widely expected to become the first industry to adopt a binding set of global greenhouse gas emissions rules during an Oct. meeting in London.
Instead, member countries of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) committee voted to delay the decision until October 2026.
