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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Two new dog-faced bats discovered in Panama and Ecuador

Mongabay.com 31 Jan 2018

For Australia’s fire-starting falcons, pyromania serves up the prey

Mongabay.com 30 Jan 2018

Elephant tusks and pangolin scales seized, six suspects arrested in Ivory Coast

Mongabay.com 29 Jan 2018

The ups and downs of marine protected areas: Examining the evidence

Shreya Dasgupta 25 Jan 2018

New app hopes to reduce wildlife deaths on India’s roads, railway lines

Shreya Dasgupta 23 Jan 2018

Facebook being used for illegal reptile trade in the Philippines

Mongabay.com 19 Jan 2018

Wars kill wildlife in Africa’s protected areas, study finds

Mongabay.com 11 Jan 2018

New ‘ghost’ scorpion among several species recorded for the first time in Malaysian rainforest

Shreya Dasgupta 4 Jan 2018
A Kenyan ranger guards poached elephant tusks in preparation for the destruction of 105 tons of ivory and a ton of rhino horn in April. Photo by Mwangi Kirubi via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)

Ivory trade in China is now banned

Mongabay.com 2 Jan 2018

Top 10 HAPPY environmental stories of 2017

Shreya Dasgupta 28 Dec 2017

Power lines killing the last remaining Great Indian Bustards in India

Shreya Dasgupta 26 Dec 2017

Do protected areas work in the tropics?

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Dec 2017

Land reclamation threatens extremely rare spoon-billed sandpipers in China

Shreya Dasgupta 14 Dec 2017

Scientists call for cheetahs to be listed as Endangered

Mongabay.com 11 Dec 2017

Malaysia seizes 337 kg of pangolin scales worth nearly $1 million

Shreya Dasgupta 30 Nov 2017

Brilliant blue tarantula among potentially new species discovered in Guyana

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Nov 2017

Experience or evidence: How do big conservation NGOs make decisions?

Shreya Dasgupta 21 Nov 2017

Trump puts controversial decision allowing elephant trophy imports ‘on hold’

Shreya Dasgupta 20 Nov 2017

Video: Thousands of illegally caught African gray parrots being rehabilitated

Shreya Dasgupta 16 Nov 2017

Top 10 most widely traded animals in the Golden Triangle identified in new report

Mongabay.com 8 Nov 2017
Dani man in Indonesian papua. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Does community-based forest management work in the tropics?

Shreya Dasgupta 2 Nov 2017

Brilliantly colored ‘lost’ salamander rediscovered after 42 years

Shreya Dasgupta 1 Nov 2017

Rhino poacher sentenced to 18 years in prison

Mongabay.com 25 Oct 2017

Saving the ‘Star Wars gibbon’: Q&A with primatologist Carolyn Thompson

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Oct 2017

Myanmar caves yield up 19 new gecko species

Shreya Dasgupta 11 Oct 2017

First-ever population estimate of the mysterious marbled cat from continental Asia revealed

Shreya Dasgupta 6 Oct 2017

Trade in silky and thresher sharks now to be strictly regulated

Mongabay.com 5 Oct 2017

Two new ‘birdcatcher’ trees described from Puerto Rico

Mongabay.com 2 Oct 2017

Giant tree-dwelling rat discovered in the Solomon Islands

Shreya Dasgupta 27 Sep 2017

Trade in wild birds going ‘unchecked’ in Vietnam: new report

Shreya Dasgupta 25 Sep 2017

Does forest certification really work?

Shreya Dasgupta 21 Sep 2017

Pangolins reduced to small, isolated populations in Bangladesh: new study

Shreya Dasgupta 20 Sep 2017

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