Trump’s elephant, lion trophy hunting policy hit with double lawsuits
Conservationists have slapped the Interior Department and USFWS with suits challenging their “case-by-case” trophy hunting policy and a new advisory council.
Articles by Jeremy Hance
Jeremy Hance is a senior correspondent for Mongabay as well as being a blogger for the Guardian and a freelance journalist. He started his journalism career with Mongabay in 2009 and served as an editor on the site for six years. In 2010, Mongabay published a book of his articles entitled Life is Good: Conservation in an Age of Mass Extinction. He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota with his wife, his daughter, his miniature schnauzer and lots and lots of books.
Trump to allow elephant and lion trophies on case-by-case basis
In a decision conservationists say could potentially invite corruption, the Trump administration will allow trophy hunting imports from Africa on a case-by-case basis.
After exporting baby elephants, Zimbabwe pledges to turn over new leaf on conservation
Less than a month after exporting thirty-five wild elephants to China, the new government of Zimbabwe has signaled it is moving in a new direction on conservation issues. On December…
U.S. court ruling complicates Trump’s elephant and lion policy
A new federal ruling against an Obama-era ban on Zimbabwe elephant trophy hunting imports could throw Trump’s trophy hunting policy into even further confusion.
Trump’s indecision on trophy hunting reignites heated debate
A U.S. decision to allow import of trophy hunted elephants led to public outrage, Trump’s halt to the order, and the revival of a trophy hunting ethics discussion.
In search of the fireface: The precarious, scandalous lives of the slow lorises of Java
On patrol with the researchers working to understand Indonesia's bizarre, little-studied and critically endangered slow loris.
The fate of the Sumatran rhino is in the Indonesian government’s hands
A fragile consensus to capture more rhinos has finally been reached, but one major roadblock remains: Indonesian officials.
Is anyone going to save the Sumatran rhino?
Time is running out for this Critically Endangered species. So why aren’t we doing more?
Where, oh where, are the rhinos of Bukit Barisan Selatan?
Are the park's Sumatran rhinos getting better at hiding from humans, or have they simply disappeared?
Worst-case scenario: There could be only 30 wild Sumatran rhinos left
Nobody knows exactly how many Sumatran rhinos survive in the wild. But the numbers aren't looking good.
A rich person’s profession? Young conservationists struggle to make it
Nika Levikov swore she would never work as a waitress again. But, today — with a master’s degree in conservation science from Imperial College London — she’s taking orders, delivering…
Thylacine survey: Are we going to rediscover the ‘moonlight tiger’?
The 1980s rock band Cinderella had its biggest hit with the song, “Don’t Know What You Got (Till it’s Gone),” riffing off the age-old proverb. Of course, Cinderella’s song is…
Big animals can survive reduced-impact logging — if done right
Reduced-impact logging doesn’t need to be a death knell for a region’s big animals, according to a new study in Biotropica — but only if hunting is well-regulated. Employing camera…
Al Gore and Bangladesh PM spar over coal plants in the Sundarbans
Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, star of the upcoming An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, has come out against the hugely controversial coal plants under construction in Bangladesh’s Sundarbans,…
Conservation’s best kept secret (database)
A small NGO, Species360, manages a database that stores records on thousands of species around the world, with countless potential applications.
E.O. Wilson on Half-Earth, Donald Trump, and hope
At 87, E.O. Wilson has lost none of his intellectual rigor. His sentences are long, rolling, full of enough parentheticals to make Proust smile, and delivered in a wonderfully soothing,…
Vanishing point: Bumblebee bat is world’s smallest; it’s also at risk
It’s a hummingbird… it’s a bumblebee… it’s Kitti’s hog-nosed bat. Yes, seriously, look at it: it’s a bat. A teensy, tiny, teeny, weeny bat. Kitti’s hog-nosed bat (Craseonycteris thonglongyai) is…
Cash-strapped rhino groups turn to crowdfunding, with little success
There’s probably only one thing left that can save the Bornean rhino (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis harrissoni): cutting-edge, high cost in vitro fertilization (IVF) technology. This subspecies of the Critically Endangered Sumatran…
Exclusive: New satellite images show Ecuador drilling in Yasuni’s ITT
ongabay has obtained a new, high-resolution satellite image of Petroamazona’s suspected pipeline and drilling platforms in the famed Ishpingo-Tambococha-Tiputini (ITT) block. Obtained from Planet, the image was analyzed by the…
New film documents real-life Avatar story
Deep in a forest brimming with life, an indigenous tribe struggles to survive against the onslaught of a greedy corporation bent on stealing the natural resources beneath their home. Sound…
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