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Investigators eye organized crime links in 3-ton pangolin scale haul at Jakarta port https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/investigators-eye-organized-crime-links-in-3-ton-pangolin-scale-haul-at-jakarta-port/

Investigators eye organized crime links in 3-ton pangolin scale haul at Jakarta port
JAKARTA, Indonesia – Customs and excise investigators in Jakarta continue to trace the origin of more than 3 metric tons of pangolin scales found in late February inside a shipping container at Indonesia’s largest port. “This is still under investigation,” Suhartoyo, a lead customs investigator at Tanjung Priok Port told Mongabay Indonesia, adding that evidence […]

In #Dänemark wird eine Mehrwertsteuersenkung für Lebensmittel diskutiert. Die #Klimabewegung schlägt eine Abschaffung für Obst und Gemüse vor statt einer generellen Senkung.

Momsfri frugt og grønt: En unik chance
Klimabevægelsen anbefaler at momsfritage frugt og grønt - det samme gør et væld af sundhedsorganisationer og supermarkeder. Vi har nemlig en unik chance for at gøre det godt for både: sundhed, klima, dansk erhvervsliv, danske landmænd og danskeres pengepung

You'd better start paying attention to the manosphere. You're living in it
https://phys.org/news/2026-04-youd-paying-attention-manosphere-youre.html

The great biologist, collaborator, and educator Peter Raven has gone.
https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/peter-raven-botanist-and-advocate-for-biodiversity-has-died-aged-89/

Linking habitats strengthens wildlife microbiomes, helps fight disease: Study https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/linking-habitats-strengthens-wildlife-microbiomes-helps-fight-disease-study/

Linking habitats strengthens wildlife microbiomes, helps fight disease: Study
A new study has found that when deforestation and land use change break up key habitats vital to amphibian life cycles, those disconnects can play havoc with the animals’ microbiome, leaving them more susceptible to disease. This troubling finding could also apply to a host of other species, the study researchers say, but may also […]

Canada offers mines and more in $730b investment bid slammed as unsustainable https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/04/canada-offers-mines-and-more-in-730b-investment-bid-slammed-as-unsustainable/

Canada offers mines and more in $730b investment bid slammed as unsustainable
Canada has announced plans to attract more than $700 billion in new gas and mining investments, a plan blasted as “robber baron capitalism.”

Open dumping & failed reforms bury Sri Lankan cities in waste problem https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/open-dumping-failed-reforms-bury-sri-lankan-cities-in-waste-problem/

Open dumping & failed reforms bury Sri Lankan cities in waste problem
COLOMBO — As Sri Lankans celebrate the traditional New Year on April 14 each year, a period marked by family gatherings and renewal, there are no celebrations at Keerthirathna Perera’s home anymore. In 2017, the Perera family was in celebration mode in their two-level home in Meethotamulla, in western Sri Lanka. But their festive lunch […]

Wetland destruction for mining, oil palm tied to crocodile attacks in Indonesia https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/wetland-destruction-for-mining-oil-palm-tied-to-crocodile-attacks-in-indonesia/

Wetland destruction for mining, oil palm tied to crocodile attacks in Indonesia
BANGKA, Indonesia — Residents of a centuries-old coastal settlement in the world’s largest tin-mining outpost — Bangka Island — fear that the environmental damage over just a few decades is behind a frightening rise in reports of violent deaths. In February, local fisher Jauhari became the latest person here on Bangka’s west coast to be […]

As Walk for Peace begins in Sri Lanka, activists call for animal rights https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/as-walk-for-peace-begins-in-sri-lanka-activists-call-for-animal-rights/

As Walk for Peace begins in Sri Lanka, activists call for animal rights
COLOMBO — A group of barefoot Buddhist monks promoting peace, compassion, mindfulness and nonviolence has arrived in Sri Lanka, accompanied by an unlikely figure: a once stray dog named Aloka. The Walk for Peace, organized by 24 Buddhist monks of the Theravada tradition affiliated with a Vipassana meditation center in Texas in the United States […]

Coast-to-coast coral assessment reveals Thailand’s reefs losing complexity https://news.mongabay.com/2026/01/coast-to-coast-coral-assessment-reveals-thailands-reefs-losing-complexity/

Coast-to-coast coral assessment reveals Thailand’s reefs losing complexity
Marine scientists compiling the most holistic “snapshot” of Thailand’s coral reefs to date have uncovered evidence of a long-suspected reality: Thailand’s coral reefs are losing structural complexity. Home to more than 300 species of reef-building corals, Thailand’s reefs have been hit repeatedly by mass coral bleaching triggered by extreme marine heat waves. The stress of […]