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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Rubber plantation in Cameroon edges closer to UNESCO World Heritage Site

Ire and ore: Demands grow for clarity around Cambodian gold mine

Frogs may be ‘fighting back’ against deadly pandemic

Colombia scraps Amazon highway plans due to deforestation concerns

‘A real surprise’: Study reveals low phosphorus doesn’t hinder rainforest growth

Better agricultural planning could prevent 88% of biodiversity loss, study finds

Conservationists rush to save Bolivian turtles threatened by egg trafficking

Sarawak makes 80% forest preservation commitment, but some have doubts

Carbon credit prices too low to protect forests from rubber, study finds

Europe’s beetle species plummet as trees disappear

Mangrove deforestation may be releasing more CO2 than Poland, study finds

Why intact forests are important

Tropical forest fragmentation nearing ‘critical point,’ study finds

Land plants may have evolved much earlier than we thought

Deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon dropped 13 percent in 2017

Ecuador votes to reduce oil exploitation in Yasuní National Park

Scientists discover 18 new spider-hunting spiders from Madagascar

Cattle invade Colombian national park

Ecuador announces a new national park in the Andes

Scientists find ‘surprising’ connections between tropical forests

Amazon rainforest hit by surge in small-scale deforestation, study finds

More murders: Conservationists allegedly killed by soldiers in Cambodia

Fang trafficking to China is putting Bolivia’s jaguars in jeopardy

Smallest wild cat in the Americas faces big problems — but hope exists

680000 acres of Amazon rainforest may be lost to Peru’s new roads

A saiga time bomb? Bad news for Central Asia’s beleaguered antelope

Study reveals forests have yet another climate-protection superpower

Peru declares a huge new national park in the Amazon

Critically endangered monkeys found in Ghana forest slated for mining

Scientists surprised by orchid bee biodiversity near oil palm plantations

Top 20 forest stories of 2017

How a hunger for teeth is driving a bat toward extinction

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