David Brown

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David M. Brown is a biologist and educator. He writes to get people of all ages interested and involved in biodiversity and nature conservation.

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African savanna elephants in Namibia. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

More people, farms, and drought could mean more elephant conflict in Southern Africa

David Brown 14 Aug 2026

forest elephants in Gabon. Image © Lucy Keith-Diagne via iNaturalist (CC BY 4.0).

World Elephant Day: How these giants are adapting to a changing world

David Brown 12 Aug 2026

A female Eupelmus curvator. Image courtesy of Taisuke Kawano.

Social media images lead to first recording of parasitoid wasp species in Japan

David Brown 6 Aug 2026

Andean leaf-eared mouse, Phyllotis vaccarum. Image courtesy of Marcial Quiroga-Carmona.

These mice live on volcano summits at extreme elevations. Study finds how

David Brown 5 Aug 2026

Sea salt in Lombok Island, Indonesia is contaminated with microplastics: study

David Brown 23 Jul 2026

Beavers flourish in tidal habitats in the Pacific Northwest, study finds

David Brown 17 Jul 2026

Gray whales are suffering catastrophic population decline in the Pacific Ocean

David Brown 16 Jul 2026

Celebrating World Chimpanzee Day

David Brown 14 Jul 2026

A fin whale captured off the coast of Lüderitz, Namibia, in 2014. Image courtesy of Sara Golaski for the Namibian Dolphin Project.

Sightings off Southern Africa suggest blue and fin whales may be rebounding

David Brown 6 Jul 2026

Lentinus squarrosulus mushrooms. Image by Vengolis via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Researchers in Nigeria successfully cultivate wild mushroom in agricultural waste

David Brown 3 Jul 2026

Youth biodiversity conservation efforts face serious funding challenges, report finds

David Brown 1 Jul 2026

Fossils reveal a prehistoric crocodile relative that walked on two legs

David Brown 30 Jun 2026

Sharks in French Polynesia. Image courtesy of Hannes Klostermann, Ocean Image Bank.

French Polynesia expands ocean protections to 30% of its waters

David Brown 18 Jun 2026

Bornean ferret badger only lives in Borneo. Could it be a conservation symbol?

David Brown 12 Jun 2026

Removal of African elephants causes coextinction of dung beetles, study finds

David Brown 11 Jun 2026

Microeledone galapagensis octopus. From Voight et al (2026)

New golf-ball sized blue octopus species now identified in the Galapagos

David Brown 5 Jun 2026

Pilot project in San Francisco Bay aims to help ships avoid gray whales

David Brown 4 Jun 2026

Oxysternon festivum, the most common dung beetle found in the study. Image by Tom Murray via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Gold mining damages dung beetle communities in the Amazon, study finds

David Brown 4 Jun 2026

Representative image of a sacred rainforest grove surrounded by paddy fields in Coorg district, Karnataka. Image by Anand Osuri via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Communities say sacred groves are shrinking in India’s eastern ghats

David Brown 20 May 2026

Texas man convicted of buying eagle parts from a wildlife trafficking ring

David Brown 19 May 2026

The golden mantella, an endangered frog species found only in Madagascar. Image by Frank Vassen via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

Africa’s amphibians are overlooked in conservation planning, experts warn

David Brown 12 May 2026

Banner image of African elephants by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

African elephant genomes reveal ancient mixing — and modern pressures

David Brown 8 May 2026

A Venezuela snouted treefrog. Image by Taucce et al., 2022, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).

Study finds microplastics in tadpoles in the Amazon for the first time

David Brown 5 May 2026

Unusual ant interaction hints at mutualistic ‘cleaning’ system

David Brown 2 May 2026

Canada offers mines and more in $730b investment bid slammed as unsustainable

David Brown 23 Apr 2026

The Maud Island frog of New Zealand is expected to face rising wildfire risk due to climate change. Image by Phil Bishop via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.5).

Scientists forecast wildfire risk for species survival under climate change

David Brown 23 Apr 2026

Asian elephant in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. Image by Tim Parkinson via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

Elephants adjust what they eat in altered habitats, signaling growing pressure

David Brown 23 Apr 2026

San Francisco Bay emerges as high-risk area for migrating gray whales

David Brown 15 Apr 2026

Exploring giraffe-human conflict in Kenya

David Brown 14 Apr 2026

Hot pink individual of Arota festae. Image courtesy of Benito Wainwrig

Researchers find ‘remarkable’ hot-pink insect in Panama rainforest

David Brown 13 Apr 2026

Microplastics found in fish in Tuvalu, a remote South Pacific nation

David Brown 7 Apr 2026

Eastern monarch butterfly populations increase in 2025, but challenges remain

David Brown 24 Mar 2026

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