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Mongabay’s most popular conservation news posts in December 2020

Camera trap of Bornean banteng. The landscape in question is home to the largest surviving population of Bornean banteng. Photo by: P.Kretzschmar.

  • Mongabay’s site-wide traffic in December 2020 amounted to 12.3 million pageviews, a 55% increase over December 2019.
  • Aggregate time on the site in December set a new all-time high, surpassing the previous peak from the initial pandemic lockdown period form April-June 2020.
  • For the year Mongabay attracted 142 million pageviews, a 40% increase over 2019.
  • Below is a list of the 25 most popular articles for December 2020. Traffic totals are for the month of December only.

Mongabay’s site-wide traffic in December 2020 amounted to 12.3 million pageviews, a 55% increase over December 2019. Aggregate time on the site in December set a new all-time high, surpassing the previous peak from the initial pandemic lockdown period form April-June 2020.

For the year Mongabay attracted 142 million pageviews, a 40% increase over 2019.

Below is a list of the 25 most popular articles for December 2020. Traffic totals are for the month of December only.


 

Coronavirus risk grows as animals move through wildlife trade

(12/3/20) Written by Stephanie Melchor – 107,052 pageviews

 

What is a white-lipped peccary? Candid Animal Cam is in South America

(12/1/20) Written by Mongabay.com – 81,007 pageviews

 

A trail camera captures a rare shot of a New Guinea singing dog in 2016. These pictures were the first solid evidence that the dogs were present around Grasberg mine. Photo credit: James McIntyre.
A trail camera captures a rare shot of a New Guinea singing dog in 2016. These pictures were the first solid evidence that the dogs were present around Grasberg mine. Photo credit: James McIntyre.

The New Guinea singing dog, once thought extinct, is alive in the wild

(12/1/20) Written by Freda Kreier – 78,911 pageviews

 

Conservationists replant legal palm oil plantation with forest in Borneo

(11/9/20) Written by Jeremy Hance – 57,950 pageviews

 

Where to patrol next: ‘Netflix’ of ranger AI serves up poaching predictions

(11/5/20) Written by Claudia Geib – 55,524 pageviews

 

Deadly anniversary: Rio Doce, Brazil’s worst environmental disaster, 5 years on

(11/17/20) Written by Ana Ionova – 49,606 pageviews

 

Bug bites: Edible insect production ramps up quickly in Madagascar

(11/19/20) Written by Emilie Filou – 46,388 pageviews

 

Brazil’s Bem Querer dam: An impending Amazon disaster (commentary)

(11/16/20) Written by Philip M. Fearnside – 43,042 pageviews

 

 

Our most popular conservation news stories in November 2020

(12/9/20) Written by Mongabay.com – 42,556 pageviews

 

Colombian environmental official assassinated in southern Meta department

(12/7/20) Written by Antonio José Paz Cardona – 42,392 pageviews

 

New rule puts Indonesia’s protected forests up for grabs for agribusiness

(11/20/20) Written by Hans Nicholas Jong – 41,291 pageviews

 

Sri Lanka activists decry downgrade of non-protected ‘other’ forests by government

(12/11/20) Written by Malaka Rodrigo – 40,939 pageviews

 

The greater fairy armadillo (Calyptophractus retusus), also known as Burmeister’s armadillo or the Chacoan fairy armadillo. Photo courtesy of Ivan Gutierrez Lemaitre.

Sighting of super rare Chacoan fairy armadillo in Bolivia ‘a dream come true’

(12/21/20) Written by Milan Sime Martinic – 40,646 pageviews

 

Herd opportunity: Hundreds of elephants return to DRC’s Virunga

(12/10/20) Written by Elizabeth Claire Alberts – 40,456 pageviews

 

Why did the woolly rhino go extinct?

(11/30/20) Written by Carolina Cuellar Colmenares – 38,625 pageviews

 

Norway bumps rate to protect rainforests amid anticipated U.S. climate return

(12/4/20) Written by Vincent Ricci – 37,104 pageviews

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