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John Cannon

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Features Writer at Mongabay

Staff features writer for @mongabayorg, covering conservation and the environment. Views my own.

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  • PNG’s Torricelli Mountains teem with life - and the risk of extinction

    3 weeks ago | news.mongabay.com | John Cannon

    The Torricelli Mountain range in northern Papua New Guinea holds a staggering amount of biodiversity in a tiny area. A recent analysis suggests that the threat of extinction to species living in the Torricellis if the land were cleared of its forests would be among the highest on Earth.

  • EUDR compliance costs to be minimal, report finds - but industry disagrees

    1 month ago | news.mongabay.com | John Cannon

    A recent report from the Dutch NGO Profundo suggests that complying with the EUDR, the regulation designed to root out deforestation in the supply chains of products entering the European Union, will add little cost to companies’ bottom lines. Researchers from Profundo used available customs data for 12 small, medium and large companies that import one or more of the seven commodities regulated by the EUDR.

  • Les principaux facteurs alimentant le conflit dans l’Est de la RDC

    1 month ago | fr.mongabay.com | John Cannon

    L’Est de la République démocratique du Congo est le lieu de conflits armés depuis des décennies, et récemment une attaque du M23, un groupe de rebelles soutenus par le Rwanda, a déplacé des milliers de personnes. Les conflits dans l’Est de la RDC découlent des tensions ethniques liées au génocide rwandais de 1994, de la corruption politique et dans les entreprises, et des effets persistants du colonialisme occidental, exacerbés par l’extraction des ressources naturelles.

  • Only 17% of peatlands, vital to curbing climate change, are protected, study finds

    2 months ago | news.mongabay.com | John Cannon

    Just 17% of peatlands worldwide are protected, according to a new study, despite the fact that they hold more carbon than all the world’s forests. Peatlands are waterlogged accumulations of dead, partly decomposed vegetation, and are scattered widely from the northern latitudes through temperate zones to the equatorial tropics.

  • In eastern DRC, the history of conflicts is fueled by new factors

    2 months ago | news.mongabay.com | John Cannon

    The eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has witnessed armed conflicts running for decades, with a recent onslaught by M23, a Rwanda-backed rebel force, displacing hundreds of thousands of people. Conflicts in eastern DRC stem from ethnic tensions linked to the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, political and corporate corruption, and the lingering effects of Western colonialism, exacerbated by natural resource extraction.

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John C. Cannon
John C. Cannon @johnccannon
20 Mar 25

My latest for @mongabayorg: #EUDR compliance costs to be minimal, report finds — but industry disagrees https://t.co/8xBfxxJj3f https://t.co/13NwRxiOHx

John C. Cannon
John C. Cannon @johnccannon
21 Feb 25

RT @WorldResources: 🌿🌊We can’t fight #climatechange without safeguarding nature. Trees, healthy soils and the ocean remove vast amounts o…

John C. Cannon
John C. Cannon @johnccannon
20 Feb 25

RT @TheWCS: STUDY: Only 17% of Peatlands Are Protected | By @JohnCCannon for @MongabayOrg Global peatlands store more carbon than all the…