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Climate Change · QueenslandCynthia A Jackson, ShutterstockQueensland is widely known as the land clearing capital of Australia. But what’s not so well known is many of the cleared trees can grow back naturally. The latest state government figures show regrowth across more than 7.6 million hectares in Queensland in 2020-21. These trees, though young, still provide valuable habitat for many threatened species – as long as they’re not bulldozed again. Our new research explor…See the Story
Allowing forests to regrow and regenerate is a great way to restore habitat
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Environment · IcelandIceland’s largest commercial whaling company, Hvalur hf., has said it will not hunt any fin whales in the summer of 2025. In December 2024, Iceland’s government granted Hvalur hf., run by billionaire Kristján Loftsson, a five-year license to hunt 209 fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus) each year between 2025 and 2029. Another whaling company, Tjaldtangi ehf., was granted licenses to hunt 217 minke whales (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) annually over…See the Story
Icelandic whaling company calls off fin whale hunt this summer
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Environment · TasmaniaFor years, Jack Auty studied how inflammation in the human body drives diseases, ranging from stroke to sepsis to Alzheimer’s, at the Tasmanian School of Medicine. But a visit to a seabird colony five years ago, where he saw many dead sable shearwater (Ardenna carneipes) chicks washed up ashore with their guts full of plastics, changed his course. When he dissected one of them, his first seabird, his trained eyes couldn’t miss the signs of sever…See the Story
Plastic-eating seabird chicks show signs of organ failure and cognitive decline
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Environment · CaliforniaFounder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. “We already knew that.” I frequently receive complaints from readers about findings in scientific papers being commonsense or obvious. And yes, it’s true: science often confirms what we’ve long suspected or seen in practice. By its nature, science is slow and methodical. It seeks to verify, quantify, and understand …See the Story
Why conservation research findings are rarely surprising
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Environment · BrazilThe hoary fox can often be spotted sprinting through Brazil’s Cerrado, the world’s most biodiverse savanna. Despite this, not much is known about the small canid, says researcher Frederico Lemos in a recent video produced by contributors Augusto Gomes, Julia Lemos Lima and the Mongabay video team. Lemos and fellow researcher Fernanda Cavalcanti have made it their lifelong mission to study and conserve the hoary fox (Lycalopex vetulus), found onl…See the Story
Meet Brazil’s often-seen but little-known hoary fox
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Environment · KazakhstanIn 2006, a group of international NGOs and the government of Kazakhstan came together to save the dwindling population of saiga antelope of the enormous Golden Steppe, a grassland ecosystem three times the size of the United Kingdom. Since that moment, the Altyn Dala Conservation Initiative has successfully rehabilitated the saiga (Saiga tatarica) from a […]See the Story
Saving saiga antelope with cooperation and community in Kazakhstan
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Environment · TelanganaFounder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. In Reddipalli, a village tucked into the dry red soils of Khammam district in India’s Telangana state, there lived a man who measured life not in years or wealth, but in saplings. By his own modest estimate, Daripalli Ramaiah planted more than 10 million trees. For more than six decades he traveled — on foot, later …See the Story
Daripalli Ramaiah, India’s tree man, died April 12, aged 87
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