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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Challenging the ‘tragedy of the commons’: new documentary explores how humans and nature can coexist (VIDEO)

Logging of Russian Far East damaging tiger habitat, few intact forests protected (Part I)

When forests aren’t really forests: the high cost of Chile’s tree plantations

Nothing else left to log: are eco-certified timber companies stripping Russia of its last old growth forests?

Elephant poaching soars as Sumatran forests turn into plantations

Indonesia cracks down on illegal burning, investigates more suspect companies

‘Natural Reserves’ no more: illegal colonists deforest huge portions of Nicaraguan protected areas

Titanium vs. Millipedes: new species discovered in Madagascar threatened by mining

A paradise being lost: Peru’s most important forests felled for timber, crops, roads, mining

An untapped resource: new study finds local people may trump scientists at biodiversity surveys

Planting meadows in the ocean: technique may help restore disappearing seagrass beds

The threat of traditional medicine: China’s boom may mean doom for turtles

The 90 Percent Diet: reducing our environmental impact by eating less meat

Blue-footed boobies on the decline, plummeting sardine stocks may be to blame

Yellow spots, orange stripes: vivid new frog species discovered in Malaysia

Tin mining, palm oil plantations wreaking havoc on small Indonesian island

Where have all the big animals gone? Indian park devoid of many species, further threatened by forest loss

The Philippines: where ‘megadiversity’ meets mega deforestation

Conservation controversy: are bonobos protected in the right ways and in the right places?

Deforestation ramping up in Yasuni as Ecuador sets to open up national park to drilling

Invasion of the oil palm: western Africa’s native son returns, threatening great apes

No longer ‘deaf as a stump’: researchers find turtles chirp, click, meow, cluck

True stewards: new report says local communities key to saving forests, curbing global warming

Desperate measures: researchers say radical approaches needed to beat extinctions

Rebuilding Kissama: war-torn Angola’s only national park affected by deforestation, but refaunation gives hope

‘A high price to pay’: new Indonesian peatland regulation may do more harm than good

Setting the stage: theater troupe revives tradition to promote conservation in DRC

Roads through the rainforest: an overview of South America’s ‘arc of deforestation’

Surprising habitat: camera traps reveal high mammal diversity in forest patches within oil palm plantations

Is there hope for bonobos? Researchers, NGOs, gov’t officials, local communities band together to save iconic ape (Part III)

Poaching, fires, farming pervade: protecting bonobos ‘an enormous challenge’ (Part II)

Surrounded by deforestation, critically endangered gorillas hang on by a thread

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