More than 60 percent of Madagascar is suffering from a massive locust infestation that is threatening crops and livestock, potentially increasing risks to native wildlife and forests from hungry farmers, warns the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization...
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April 18, 2013 by Mongabay.com | No comments
Madagascar swamped by locust invasion
More than 60 percent of Madagascar is suffering from a massive locust infestation that is threatening crops and livestock, potentially increasing risks to native wildlife and forests from hungry farmers, warns the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization...
January 01, 2013 by Mongabay.com | No comments
The year in rainforests
2012 was another year of mixed news for the world's tropical forests. This is a look at some of the most significant tropical rainforest-related news stories for 2012. There were many other important stories in 2012 and some were undoubtedly
February 20, 2012 by Jeremy Hance | No comments
Innovative conservation: wild silk, endangered species, and poverty in Madagascar
For anyone who works in conservation in Madagascar, confronting the complex difficulties of widespread poverty is a part of the job. But with the wealth of Madagascar's wildlife rapidly diminishing— such as lemurs, miniature chameleons, and hedge...
February 02, 2011 by Jeremy Hance | No comments
From Cambodia to California: the world’s top 10 most threatened forests
Growing populations, expanding agriculture, commodities such as palm oil and paper, logging, urban sprawl, mining, and other human impacts have pushed many of the world's great forests to the brink. Yet scientists, environmentalists, and even some pol...
February 02, 2011 by Jeremy Hance | No comments
From Cambodia to California: the world’s top 10 most threatened forests
Growing populations, expanding agriculture, commodities such as palm oil and paper, logging, urban sprawl, mining, and other human impacts have pushed many of the world's great forests to the brink. Yet scientists, environmentalists, and even some pol...
January 31, 2011 by Jeremy Hance | No comments
‘Land grab’ fears in Africa legitimate
A new report by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) has found that recent large-scale land deals in Africa are likely to provide scant benefit to some of the world's poorest and most famine-prone nations and will probably...
January 31, 2011 by Jeremy Hance | No comments
‘Land grab’ fears in Africa legitimate
A new report by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) has found that recent large-scale land deals in Africa are likely to provide scant benefit to some of the world's poorest and most famine-prone nations and will probably...
January 31, 2011 by Jeremy Hance | No comments
‘Land grab’ fears in Africa legitimate
A new report by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) has found that recent large-scale land deals in Africa are likely to provide scant benefit to some of the world's poorest and most famine-prone nations and will probably...
April 22, 2010 by Jeremy Hance | No comments
World failing on every environmental issue: an op-ed for Earth Day
The biodiversity crisis, the climate crisis, the deforestation crisis: we are living in an age when environmental issues have moved from regional problems to global ones. A generation or two before ours and one might speak of saving the beauty
