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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Collateral damage: Snow leopards and trophy hunting in Kyrgyzstan

‘Science needs to catch up’: Deep sea mining looms over unstudied ecosystems

Doubts cloud Kenya’s renewed palm oil ambitions

A clouded future: Asia’s enigmatic clouded leopard threatened by palm oil

International investment blamed for violence and oppression in Sarawak

Monkey rediscovered in Brazil after 80 years

NOAA announces largest-ever Gulf of Mexico ‘dead zone’

Five instances in which Peru won the battle against deforestation

Is Norwegian money funding Congo deforestation?

Proposed Colombia dam threatens to wipe out endangered plants, disrupt river

Stopping climate change may be harder than scientists thought

Brazil’s indigenous Munduruku occupy dam site, halt construction

How the World Heritage Convention could save more wilderness: Q&A with World Heritage expert Cyril Kormos

Leaked terms of huge EU-Japan trade deal spark environmental alarm

New highway brings deforestation near two Colombian national parks

Groundwater may play key role in forest fires

Norway bans government purchasing of palm oil biofuel

Philippines’ indigenous Higaonon fight for return of ancestral land

Thylacine survey: Are we going to rediscover the ‘moonlight tiger’?

Communities band together to protect El Salvador’s last mangroves

Rebel road expansion brings deforestation to remote Colombian Amazon

‘Killed, forced, afraid’: Philippine palm oil legacy incites new fears

Indigenous groups, activists risk arrest to blockade logging in Malaysia

Guatemala declares state of emergency as rainforest goes up in flames

‘We can save life on Earth’: study reveals how to stop mass extinction

Rainforest conservation may be aimed at the wrong places, study finds

Guatemala issues red alert as national parks burn

New leaf-nosed bat uncovered amidst burning habitat in Venezuela

Forest fragmentation may be releasing much more carbon than we think

Three new frog species found in disappearing Atlantic Forest

Al Gore and Bangladesh PM spar over coal plants in the Sundarbans

El Salvador becomes first country to ban metals mining

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