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• Fungi That Feeds On Plastic Discovered In The Amazon Rainforest

  
  THE9BILLION — Authority: 116
  Most of us know by now that the plastic we’re using throughout our lifetime will still be around when our great great and, well, great grandchildren are roaming the Earth. That is, unless some Yale students decide to roam the Amazon and discover a fungus that eats plastic. Oh, wait! They did, and it turns out ...
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• Deforestation, climate change threaten the ecological resilience of the Amazon rainforest

  
  Conservation news — Authority: 121
  The combination of deforestation, forest degradation, and the effects of climate change are weakening the resilience of the Amazon rainforest ecosystem, potentially leading to loss of carbon storage and changes in rainfall patterns and river discharge, finds a comprehensive review published in the journal Nature .
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• New book series hopes to inspire research in worlds hottest biodiversity hotspot

  
  Conservation news — Authority: 121
  Entomologist Dmitry Telnov hopes his new pet project will inspire and disseminate research about one of the worlds last unexplored biogeographical regions: Wallacea and New Guinea. Incredibly rich in biodiversity and still full of unknown species, the region, also known as the Indo-Australian transition, spans many of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Levis drops Asia Pulp & Paper due to its link to deforestation in Indonesia

  
  Conservation news — Authority: 121
  Levi Strauss & Company became the latest firm to drop Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) as a supplier due to concerns over APPs continued clearing of rainforests in Sumatra, reports the Rainforest Action Network, a green group in the midst of a campaign against APP.
  2 weeks ago

• Featured video: plight of orangutans highlighted with new rock song

  
  Conservation news — Authority: 121
  An Indonesian rock band, Navicula, is highlighting the plight of orangutans in their native country through a new song entitled, aptly, "Orangutan." The band has created a music video for the song, including footage of a documentary, Green: The Film that follows a starving female orangutan named Green. The band ...
  2 weeks ago

• Rainforests need massive finance, but REDD must be well-designed to succeed

  
  Conservation news — Authority: 121
  A proposed mechanism to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by protecting tropical forests has evolved considerably since it started to gain momentum during the 2005 climate talks in Montreal. Known then as avoided deforestation, the concept was simple: pay tropical forest countries to keep their forests standing. Since ...
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• New frog trumps miniscule fish for title of worlds smallest vertebrate

  
  Conservation news — Authority: 121
  How small can you be and still have a spine? Scientists are continually surprised by the answer. Researchers have discovered a new species of frog in Papua New Guinea that is smaller than many insects and dwarfed by a dime. The frog trumps the previously known smallest vertebrate—a tiny fish—by nearly 1 millimeter.
  3 weeks ago

• Peruvian smugglers traffic illegal rainforest timber from Brazil to America

  
  Conservation news — Authority: 121
  An investigation by Brazils Federal Police has detailed a significant trade of illegally logged rainforest wood by Peruvian nationals making its way from northern Brazil to the U.S. and Mexico, reports O Globo.
  3 weeks ago

• Borneos most elusive feline photographed at unexpected elevation

  
  Conservation news — Authority: 121
  Although known to science for 138 years, almost nothing is actually known about the bay cat (Pardofelis badia). This reddish-brown wild feline, endemic to the island of Borneo, has entirely eluded researchers and conservationists. The first photo of the cat wasnt taken until 1998 and the first video was shot just two ...
  3 weeks ago

• Camera traps snap first ever photo of Myanmar snub-nosed monkey

  
  Conservation news — Authority: 121
  In 2010 researchers described a new species of primate that reportedly sneezes when it rains. Unfortunately, the new species was only known from a carcass killed by a local hunter. Now, however, remote camera traps have taken the first ever photo of the elusive, and likely very rare, Myanmar snub-nosed monkey ...
  3 weeks ago

• Colonization program remains important driver of deforestation in Brazil

  
  Conservation news — Authority: 121
  Government-subsidized colonization of the Amazon rainforest remains an important driver of forest loss in Brazil, but has mixed economic value, argues a paper published in Biological Conservation .
  3 weeks ago

• Extreme mouth-sewing protest in Indonesia leads to logging inquiry

  
  Conservation news — Authority: 121
  A protest in which 28 Indonesian sewed their mouths shut has led to an inquiry into a logging concession on Padang Island. The Ministry of Forestry has formed a mediation team to look into the controversial concession, reports Kompas. Around a hundred natives of Padang Island rallied for weeks against the logging ...
  3 weeks ago

• Sharp decline in Amazon deforestation associated with increase in food production

  
  Conservation news — Authority: 121
  A sharp drop in deforestation has been accompanied by an increase in food production in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, reports a new study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science . The research argues that policy interventions, combined with pressure from environmental groups, ...
  3 weeks ago

• How lemurs fight climate change

  
  Conservation news — Authority: 121
  Kara Moses may have never become a biologist if not for a coin toss. The coin, which came up heads and decided Moses direction in college, has led her on a sinuous path from studying lemurs in captivity to environmental writing, and back to lemurs, only this time tracking them in their natural habitat. Her recent ...
  3 weeks ago

• Satisfy Your Senses in Costa Rica: Sight

  
  Economy Car Hire — Authority: 108
  Share/Bookmark A visit to Costa Rica is always going to be an assault on the senses; most places with a tropical climate are. Costa Rica is on a whole other scale though. It bursts with colours, flavours, sights and sounds and you’d be hard pressed to be disappointed by this multi-lingual, multi-ethnic and ...
  3 weeks ago

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