Morgan Erickson-Davis

About

Morgan has been writing for Mongabay since 2008 and came on full-time in 2014. Trained in biology, Morgan has taken any available opportunity to learn more about the world, from working as a fisheries biologist aboard longliners and freighters in the South Pacific to evaluating river health in western Montana. Morgan spent eight years editing technical papers before jumping into journalism, with more than 50 manuscripts under her belt. Currently, she manages Mongabay's forests and global palm oil reporting programs.

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2700 scientists issue call to action on border wall wildlife threat

Study finds elephants plant trees, play big role in forest structure

Peru: Marañón dry forests protected as a regional conservation area

DRC set to reclassify national parks for oil, open rainforest to logging

Grasslands may trump forests at carbon storage in a warming world

Mangroves and their deforestation may emit more methane than we thought

Salamanders have ‘tricks up their sleeves’ for weathering climate change

Peru: How chocolate saved a community and a protected area from the drug trade

Global frog pandemic may become even deadlier as strains combine

City forests store rainforest-levels of carbon, study finds

After logging, activists hope to extend protections for Bialowieza Forest

As Colombia expands its palm oil sector, scientists worry about wildlife

Scientists find surprising genetic differences between Brazil’s mangroves

Scientists find new snail-eating snakes, auction naming rights to save them

As biomass energy gains traction, southern US forests feel the burn

Study reveals China’s new forests aren’t really forests

Scientists find Europe’s last primary forests

Taller, older trees fare better during Amazon droughts, study finds

How Colombia became Latin America’s palm oil powerhouse

How an island of mice is changing what we know about evolution

Study links malaria to deforestation in the Amazon

Scientists find ‘ground zero’ of deadly frog pandemic

Deforestation leads to big hikes in local temperature, study finds

New study finds mangroves may store way more carbon than we thought

‘We are going to self-destruct’: Development plans threaten Malaysian island

‘Shocking and worrying’: Selective logging has big, lasting impact on fish

US urban areas are losing 36 million trees every year, study finds

Scientists discover carbon ‘fingerprint’ in tree rings

New species of ‘exploding ant’ discovered in Borneo

Colombia grants ‘historic’ protections to rainforest, indigenous groups

Global warming may poison monarch butterflies, study finds

46% of Albertine Rift species may be threatened by 2080, study finds

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