Shreya Dasgupta

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Shreya Dasgupta is a Newswire editor at Mongabay. She's a writer, editor and podcast producer, focusing on science and the environment.

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Rare songbird recovers, moves off endangered species list

Mongabay.com 11 Oct 2019
Jaguar. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Panthera: At least 500 jaguars lost their lives or habitat in Amazon fires

Shreya Dasgupta 25 Sep 2019

Nine new Fijian bees described, some restricted to a single mountaintop

Mongabay.com 24 Sep 2019

‘Full-blown crisis’: North America has lost nearly 3 billion birds since 1970

Mongabay.com 20 Sep 2019

Newly described Chinese giant salamander may be world’s largest amphibian

Mongabay.com 17 Sep 2019

Popular pesticide linked to weight loss and delayed migration in songbird

Mongabay.com 16 Sep 2019

‘Radically changing’ a rare Mauritian plant’s story: Q&A with ecologist Prishnee Bissessur

Shreya Dasgupta 12 Sep 2019
A ground pangolin (Smutsia temminckii), the species of pangolin that lives in Zimbabwe. Three other pangolin species live in Africa, and four others live in Asia. Image by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

Malawi sentences pangolin smugglers, cracks down on wildlife crime

Mongabay.com 10 Sep 2019

Nail paint helps researchers estimate numbers of rare Cuban bat species

Shreya Dasgupta 9 Sep 2019

New monkey species found in Amazon forest area that’s fast disappearing

Shreya Dasgupta 5 Sep 2019

‘Holy grail’: Nest of extremely rare bird captured on video in Russia

Shreya Dasgupta 4 Sep 2019

Humans have been transforming Earth for thousands of years, study says

Shreya Dasgupta 30 Aug 2019

Calls for natural solution over man-made one in flood-ravaged rhino refuge

Azera Parveen Rahman 29 Aug 2019

With record support, rhino rays and world’s fastest sharks get new trade protections

Mongabay.com 28 Aug 2019

Giraffe trade to be monitored, strictly regulated

Mongabay.com 26 Aug 2019

Bid to allow sale of ivory stockpiles rejected at wildlife trade summit

Mongabay.com 23 Aug 2019

Australia to ban domestic trade in elephant ivory and rhino horn

Mongabay.com 22 Aug 2019

Wild orchid trade in China is huge, overlooked and ‘devastating,’ study finds

Shreya Dasgupta 21 Aug 2019

Mysterious plants that thrive in darkness, steal food: Q&A with botanist Kenji Suetsugu

Shreya Dasgupta 19 Aug 2019

Newly described giant extinct penguin and parrot once lived in New Zealand

Mongabay.com 16 Aug 2019

World’s largest frog moves heavy rocks to build nests, study finds

Mongabay.com 13 Aug 2019

Protecting the strange sea pangolin and other animals: Q&A with deep sea biologist Chong Chen

Shreya Dasgupta 7 Aug 2019

New orchid species from Japan lives on dark forest floor, never blooms

Mongabay.com 5 Aug 2019

Some turtle embryos can influence their own sex, study finds

Shreya Dasgupta 2 Aug 2019

‘Extremely rare’ fossil tooth of hamster-sized monkey found in Peru

Shreya Dasgupta 31 Jul 2019

India pushes for its largest ever hydropower project despite concerns

Mayank Aggarwal 29 Jul 2019

Two ferns presumed extinct found on remote Australian mountaintops

Mongabay.com 26 Jul 2019

Where did the birds go?: Q&A with river tern researcher Bosco Chan

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Jul 2019
Intact rainforest in Indonesian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Building a global inventory of plants: Q&A with botanist Patrick Weigelt

Shreya Dasgupta 23 Jul 2019

Newly described pocket shark likely glows in the dark

Mongabay.com 22 Jul 2019

From over 100,000 species assessments in IUCN update, zero improvements

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Jul 2019

Newly described tree species from Tanzania is likely endangered

Mongabay.com 17 Jul 2019

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