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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Will they hold on? Three new gecko species found in threatened habitat

A sketch of the yeti: saving the Himalayan brown bear

Police apprehend elephant-killers in Sumatra

Stolen information may derail Yasuni drilling referendum

Dangerous work: how one man empowered communities and stopped a coal mine

SPECIAL REPORT: Palm oil, politics, and land use in Sumatra (Part II)

Japan changes its mind about Antarctic whaling ban, plans to continue hunts in 2015

Wild food: scientists link forests to human nutrition

Game of thorns: colorful, spiky tree frog discovered in Vietnam

‘Better late than never’: Myanmar bans timber exports to save remaining forests

Special Report: Palm oil, politics, and land use in Indonesian Borneo (Part I)

Chelonians for dinner: hunting threatens at-risk turtles and tortoises in India

After widespread deforestation, China bans commercial logging in northern forests

Rainforests on fire: climate change is pushing the Amazon over the edge

Is Aru safe? Indonesia suspends plan to clear half the islands’ forests

Weird and mysterious: scientists find new shark species

Long lives, big impacts: human life expectancy linked to extinctions

Ants plant rainforests, one seed at a time

Life finds a way: the surprising biodiversity of cities

Amphibian pandemic may have hit Madagascar, hundreds of species at risk of infection

A new face for palm oil? How a small co-op is changing the industry in Honduras

Collateral damage: new findings shed light on the full impact of commercial fishing

City lights threaten rainforests by deterring bats

The enemy of your enemy is your ant bodyguard: spider uses one predator for protection against another

Extinction crisis: rising sea levels will submerge thousands of islands

From seals to starfish: polar bears radically shift diet as habitat melts

Will yellow fever drive brown howler monkeys to extinction in Argentina?

The incredible shrinking salamander: researchers find another casualty of climate change

U.S. citizens willing to spend billions to protect monarch butterflies

Is 20 millions tons enough? Scientists recommend plastic crackdown as oceans choke

Court partially stops Japan’s ‘scientific’ whaling, but Pacific harvests to continue

Brief lives linked to Amazon biodiversity

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