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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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

From endangered to invasive: Rare ocelot spotted on Mexico’s Cozumel Island

David Brown 18 Mar 2026

Two marsupials thought extinct for 6,000 years found alive in Indonesian Papua

David Brown 17 Mar 2026

Pharmaceutical companies move away from horseshoe crab biomedical testing

David Brown 16 Mar 2026

Climate change is messing with tropical plants’ flowering times, study shows

David Brown 5 Mar 2026

Online ads reveal scale — and gaps — in amphibian pet trade into US

David Brown 27 Feb 2026

How seabird poop helped fuel ancient civilizations in Peru

David Brown 19 Feb 2026

News and Inspiration from Nature's Frontline.

Collage, Jahëna Louisin, Mongabay reporter, and a Vodun ritual

The site of an illegal gold mine in Sijunjung Regency where a landslide occurred, killing nine people.

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