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Fishery managers seek to open Pacific monuments to fishing
WASHINGTON, US, 29 May 2020 (NatGeog) - Managers of the American fisheries operating in the Pacific Ocean have asked President Donald Trump to open four national marine monuments to commercial fishing - a request that could inhibit protections in areas set aside, in part, for dwindling fish populations to renew themselves. |
Marijuana cultivation whittling away Madagascar forest
SAN FRANCISCO, US, 29 May 2020 (Mongabay) - Northern Madagascar contains the largest block of connected forest left in the country. Tsaratanana Reserve is supposed to protect a large portion of this forest but it is being cleared at a rapid rate. Local officials say slash-and-burn agriculture for marijuana cultivation is to blame. |
Indonesia to receive $56m payment from Norway
JAKARTA, Indonesia, 29 May 2020 (Mongabay) - Indonesia is set to receive $56.15 million from Norway, the first payment based on the results of the Southeast Asian country’s efforts to preserve its vast tropical rainforests to curb carbon dioxide emissions. |
Japan takes the high ground over its outlying islands
TOKYO, Japan, 29 May 2020 (DW) - As an archipelago of 6,852 islands, Japan is extremely protective of the most far-flung outposts of its territory, in part because some of its neighbors are casting increasingly covetous looks at some islands. |
When the world's rarest primate couples up
SAN FRANCISCO, US, 28 May 2020 (Mongabay) - The Hainan gibbon, the rarest primate in the world, nearly went extinct in the 1970s, but the species is slowly rebounding, with a population of about 30 individuals in Hainan, an island off southern China. |
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