Mongabay seeks to raise interest in and appreciation of wild lands and wildlife, while examining the impact of emerging trends in climate, technology, economics,and finance on conservation and development.
It’s easy to convey the debate over the fate of Elizabeth Street Garden as a case of open green space against new affordable housing. Yet these two pressing needs are not mutually exclusive, and acting as if they are obscures the right path forward: achieving more green space and more low-income housing, neither at the expense of one another.
In 2007, scientists at the Conservation Land Trust, now known as the Rewilding Foundation, released a giant anteater couple into the wild as part of a new reintroduction program. While watching the animals, which they called Ivotí Pora and Preto, disappear into the forest of Argentina’s greater Iberá reserve comprising Iberá National Park and […]