Liz Kimbrough

Liz Kimbrough

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Liz Kimbrough is a staff writer for Mongabay based in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. She has written about science and environmental issues since 2012 and holds a Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Tulane University where she studied the microbiomes of trees.

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Most of ‘top ten’ hotspots for jaguar conservation are in Brazil’s Indigenous territories

Liz Kimbrough 10 Mar 2023
A dusky tetraka.

Lost bird found: Dusky tetraka seen in Madagascar after 24-year absence

Liz Kimbrough 7 Mar 2023
Sections of the Amazon Rainforest are set on fire by farmers to be cleared for agriculture.

Do elections spur deforestation? It’s complicated, new study finds

Liz Kimbrough 3 Mar 2023

Newly described DiCaprio’s snake and others threatened by mining in Ecuador and Panama

Liz Kimbrough 23 Feb 2023

New gecko species from Timor-Leste hints at island’s unknown diversity

Liz Kimbrough 21 Feb 2023

New species of ‘Tolkien frog’ emerges from Middle Earth of Ecuadoran Andes

Liz Kimbrough 17 Feb 2023

No croak: New silent frog species described from Tanzania’s ‘sky island’ forests

Liz Kimbrough 9 Feb 2023
A monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus).

Western monarch populations reach highest number in decades

Liz Kimbrough 31 Jan 2023

Canopy bridges connect forests, wildlife, and international researchers

Liz Kimbrough 30 Jan 2023
A Bengal tiger.

To restore large carnivore populations, make people wealthier, study finds

Liz Kimbrough 25 Jan 2023

Study identifies priority forests in Oregon for max conservation benefit

Liz Kimbrough 24 Jan 2023

Across the tropics, mammal activity doesn’t vary much, study shows

Liz Kimbrough 13 Jan 2023

In Ecuador, communities protecting a ‘terrestrial coral reef’ face a mining giant

Liz Kimbrough 9 Jan 2023

Top 15 species discoveries from 2022 (Photos)

Liz Kimbrough 29 Dec 2022

Mongabay’s Conservation Potential series investigates: Where do we need to protect biodiversity?

Liz Kimbrough 19 Dec 2022
Black-naped Pheasant-Pigeon caught on camera, likely a second individual. Photo: Doka Nason/American Bird Conservancy

In PNG, researchers find a large pigeon lost to science for 140 years

Liz Kimbrough 21 Nov 2022

Mycorrhizal fungi, nature’s ‘wood wide web,’ get a $3m conservation boost

Liz Kimbrough 11 Nov 2022
A palm tree stands tall in a forest in Costa Rica.

More than half of palm species may be threatened with extinction, study finds

Liz Kimbrough 9 Nov 2022

Amid Mexico’s Day of the Dead, a fish declared extinct comes back to life

Liz Kimbrough 8 Nov 2022
A black river turtle on a log

For water quality, even a sliver of riverbank forest is better than none

Liz Kimbrough 27 Oct 2022

Beef is still coming from protected areas in the Amazon, study shows

Liz Kimbrough 18 Oct 2022

Heat-sensing drone cameras spy threats to sea turtle nests

Liz Kimbrough 17 Oct 2022

Toxic new frog species from Ecuador named after Family Guy’s Seth MacFarlane

Liz Kimbrough 10 Oct 2022

A new method assesses health of Chile’s headwaters, and it’s not good news

Liz Kimbrough 30 Sep 2022
Narwhal image by Газпром нефть via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

The mystery of narwhal behavior, solved by chaos theory

Liz Kimbrough 23 Sep 2022
Fire near the Manicoré River in Amazonas state in August 2022. Photo © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

How close is the Amazon tipping point? Forest loss in the east changes the equation

Liz Kimbrough 20 Sep 2022

More droughts are coming, and the Amazon can’t keep up: Study

Liz Kimbrough 16 Sep 2022

Eight new-to-science geckos described from biodiversity haven Madagascar

Liz Kimbrough 15 Sep 2022

Tiny new tree frog species found in rewilded Costa Rican nature reserve

Liz Kimbrough 9 Sep 2022
Lowland tropical rainforest

Protecting global forests with a limited budget? New study shows where and when to start

Liz Kimbrough 31 Aug 2022

Seeing through the swarm: How hawks hunt bat prey

Liz Kimbrough 23 Aug 2022
Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, is just one region where fires are burning throughout Russia in 2020. Image by Greenpeace International.

Forest fires are getting worse, 20 years of data confirm

Liz Kimbrough 17 Aug 2022

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