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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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

Will the last ape found be the first to go? Bonobos’ biggest refuge under threat (Part I)

On track to ‘go beyond the critical point’: Sri Lanka still losing forests at rapid clip

Attack of the killer vines: lianas taking over forests in Panama

Too much of a good thing: fertilizer ‘one of the three major drivers of biodiversity loss this century’

Downturn in shade-grown coffee putting forests, wildlife, people at risk

DRC deforestation escalates despite resource shortages, protests, rape, homicide

Good intentions, collateral damage: forest conservation may be hurting grasslands

The last best place no more: massive deforestation destroying prime chimp habitat in Uganda

Cats’ best friend? A new role for guard dogs in South Africa

An end to India’s ‘Wild West’? Meghalaya bans coal mining… for now

They think, therefore they spread: plants can make complex conditional decisions

No restrictions: Japan’s demand for illegal wood driving rampant deforestation in Siberia

A fine line: new program predicts when human impact becomes too much

On a whim: Equatorial Guinea building new capital city in the middle of the rainforest

On the brink of extinction: Javan rhino has new enemy in invasive palm

New report: illegal logging keeps militias and terrorist groups in business

Is REDD+ bad for wildlife? New study says lowland forest protection bias unfair, urges change

‘Exciting implications’ for conservation: new technology brings the lab to the field

Is Cameroon becoming the new Indonesia? Palm oil plantations accelerating deforestation

Size matters: small animals abundant in fragmented forests, large animals not

Logging in Vietnam still affecting rare trees 30 years later

A taste for wildlife: what’s driving bushmeat hunting in Tanzania?

Study finds tiny cloud forests have big biodiversity

‘Hope springs eternal’: the anniversary of the death of Lonesome George

Is the banteng making a comeback? Researchers find new population in Cambodia

Monkeys reset camera trap, capture first-ever images of flat-headed cats in park

The palm oil diet: study finds displaced orangutans have little else to eat

Apeidemiology: researchers model ape disease transmission for the first time

Scientists discover carnivorous water rat in Indonesia, good example of convergent evolution

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