Articles by jeremy-hance

Mangroves at Baie D'Ambodi-Vahibe, Madagascar. © CI/ photo by Sterling Zumbrunn. According to the first global assessment of mangroves by the Global Marine Species Assessment (GMSA)—a joint initiative of the…

An infant Chacma Baboon (Papio ursinus) in Chobe National Park in the south African nation of Botswana. The baby baboon and his family played on the edge of the Chobe…

A man stands deep in a rice paddy in southwestern China. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler, 2006. China has undergone unprecedented shifts over the past few decades. Economic growth along…

The southern rockhopper penguin (Eudyptes chrysocome) are so-named because they hop from place to place rather than slide on their belly or waddle. Photo by: Brodie Ferguson, 2006. The species,…

This fearsome looking fish is a freshwater species from Brazil. The predatory species—Chafalote (Rhaphiodon vulpinus)—was caught in Mato Grosso, the frontline of deforestation in Brazil. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler,…

This woolly monkey is just one of some 30 species of Colombian primates. Photo by: Brodie Ferguson, 2006. A new study in the open access journal Tropical Conservation Science looks…

Madagascar is home to some strange and wonderful animals, but few stranger and more wonderful than the tenrecs. Belonging to the family of Afrotheria, the small shrew-like tenrecs are most…

Cattle roam where once the Amazon rainforest stood in Brazil. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler, 2008. The world's livestock industry has tripled in thirty years according to a new report…

Bwindi children, many of whom are AIDS orphans, performing traditional songs and dances in eastern Uganda. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler, 2006. To see more photos of the people of…

A baby bat in Brazil clinging to a napkin. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler, 2009. Mongabay.com has been unable to identify the species of this bat. If you know the…

The world's largest sea turtle, the Leatherback, camouflages its nest on a beach in northern Suriname. After laying their eggs, mother leatherbacks spend considerable time and energy camouflaging the nest…

Photographed in the jungles of Colombia, this neon green caterpillar will one day turn into an Automeris moth. While beautiful, its spines are actually venomous. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler,…

Dole Food Company has replaced rainforests in the Philippines with vast pineapple plantations. Widespread deforestation for plantations, such as this, has put innumerable Asian species on the edge of extinction.…

The beautiful spectacled eider is not in decline, but several of its neighboring species are. A new study finds that while species populations in the overall Arctic biome are on…

The Critically Endangered pygmy three-toed sloth is endemic to a small island off the coast of Panama. Photo courtesy of Bryson Voirin. The world's smallest sloth is threatened by human…

A white-headed vulture (Trigonoceps occipitalis) in Tanzania. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler, 2007. Vultures are rarely people's favorite animals, yet they play a big role by devouring the bodies of…

The practice of traditional medicine in China incorporates a wide variety of body parts taken from wild animals, making it one of the largest threats to animals in Asia. For…

Flying over the Okavango Delta in Botswana is a great opportunity to get an aerial view of big mammals, such as this good-sized herd of African buffalo (Syncerus caffer). Photo…

The stuff of myths, legends, and nightmare: the anaconda, according to Paul Rosolie, is even misunderstood by Amazonian tribes. Rosolie, who refers to the world's largest snakes as 'sweethearts' in…

Mouth of a red Nepenthes pitcher plant from southeast Asia. Open jaws of the Venus Fly Trap (Dionaea muscipula) from the southeastern United States. Red pitcher plant (Nepenthes rafflesiana) in…

Agoutis, such as this Central American agouti (Dasyprocta punctata) mother with babies, deserve a lot of respect. These large rainforest rodents are seed specialists and play a major role in…

The Boophis goudoti is one of hundreds of frogs endemic to the island of Madagascar. Every single frog species in Madagascar can be found now where else in the world,…

The fearsome teeth of a piranha. The fish was caught by a local fisherman on the Essequibo River in Guyana: it is considered good-eating by locals. Photo by Tiffany Roufs,…

People like to say 'blood is thicker than water'. But plants may actually treat siblings better than many people: although lacking in blood, scientists have found that plants not only…