Malavika Vyawahare

Malavika Vyawahare

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Africa staff reporter, international news. Formerly science and environment reporter at Hindustan Times, India. Columbia Journalism School Alum. Words in The New York Times, The Guardian, Al Jazeera and Scientific American.

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Patrols work, but community-based conservation needs a rethink, study shows

Malavika Vyawahare 11 Mar 2022

‘Small-scale fishers have a Ph.D. in the ocean’: Q&A with Vatosoa Rakotondrazafy

Malavika Vyawahare 8 Mar 2022

Where trafficked pangolins originate is a puzzle, hobbling efforts to save them

Malavika Vyawahare 18 Feb 2022

DRC’s cacao boom leaves a bitter aftertaste for Congo Basin forest

Malavika Vyawahare 18 Feb 2022

South Africa authorizes dumping at sea of cargo that turned volatile

Malavika Vyawahare 26 Jan 2022

‘Great Blue Wall’ aims to ward off looming threats to western Indian Ocean

Malavika Vyawahare 6 Jan 2022

Mali’s centuries-old pastoralist traditions wilt as the climate changes

Malavika Vyawahare 31 Dec 2021
Illegally logged rosewood from Masoala and Marojejy in Antalaha, Madagascar, circa 2005.

Kenya court orders return of $13m in seized rosewood to suspected traffickers

Malavika Vyawahare 28 Dec 2021

Myanmar teak is tainted. Time to jettison it, some yacht-making insiders say

Malavika Vyawahare 27 Dec 2021

Uganda’s ‘Dr. Gladys’ honored by U.N. for work linking conservation and health

Malavika Vyawahare 13 Dec 2021

Conflict and climate change are big barriers for Africa’s Great Green Wall

Malavika Vyawahare 26 Nov 2021

Climate change means hunger in our communities, African women leaders at COP26

Malavika Vyawahare 12 Nov 2021

In Mozambique, mystery of tuskless elephant points to poaching as the culprit

Malavika Vyawahare 11 Nov 2021

‘A leap of faith’: Q&A with Robin Radcliffe on airlifting rhinos upside down

Malavika Vyawahare 10 Nov 2021

Banking on deforestation: Top lenders make $1.7b from agribusiness deals

Malavika Vyawahare 28 Oct 2021

NGOs say FSC label offers little protection for forests, Indigenous people

Malavika Vyawahare 26 Oct 2021

Tanzanian gold miners ten times more likely to die from road injuries, study finds

Malavika Vyawahare 15 Oct 2021

Extreme heat exposure in cities tripled in less than 35 years, study finds

Malavika Vyawahare 6 Oct 2021

When North America locked down, birds filled the gap left by people

Malavika Vyawahare 28 Sep 2021

Congo’s bongos are in danger, and curbs on trophy hunting could save them

Malavika Vyawahare 24 Sep 2021

With coral cover halved, curbing climate change is only way to slow the loss

Malavika Vyawahare 17 Sep 2021

One in three tree species is in the red, new global assessment says

Malavika Vyawahare 3 Sep 2021

L.A.-sized tract of primary forest went up in flames in DRC province in 2020

Malavika Vyawahare 27 Aug 2021

Even as the government bets big on carbon, REDD+ flounders in Madagascar

Malavika Vyawahare 18 Aug 2021

Color-changing robo-chameleon showcases promising camouflage tech

Malavika Vyawahare 12 Aug 2021
An indri lemur (Indri indri). Image by Rhett A. Butler.

For Malagasy trapped in poverty, threatened lemurs and fossas are fair game

Malavika Vyawahare 4 Aug 2021

Nearly 1 million km2 of intact forests menaced by extractives, study finds

Malavika Vyawahare 26 Jul 2021

‘Watered-down’ plan to save Indian Ocean yellowfin tuna disappoints conservationists

Malavika Vyawahare 17 Jun 2021

NGOs back Maldives’ ambitious plan to save Indian Ocean yellowfin tuna

Malavika Vyawahare 8 Jun 2021

Madagascar’s vanishing trees

Malavika Vyawahare 21 May 2021

Wealth inequality fuels flow of wildlife from poor countries to rich: Study

Malavika Vyawahare 18 May 2021

Industrial diets are imprinting on human bodies, new study finds

Malavika Vyawahare 11 May 2021

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