Sean Mowbray

Sean Mowbray

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Sean Mowbray is a freelance writer from Scotland. He often covers lesser-known species that fly under the conservation radar. His reporting also appears in New Scientist, Hakai, Earth Island Journal, Discover magazine, and others.

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The 2024 paper proposes Leopardus pardinoides, or the clouded tiger cat, as a new species. This small wildcat is found in the cloud forests of Costa Rica, south to Panama, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and Argentina. Image courtesy of Johanes Pfleiderer. Article title - A tiger cat gains new species designation, but conservation challenges remain

A tiger cat gains new species designation, but conservation challenges remain

Sean Mowbray 5 Apr 2024
Tea pickers in Kenya.

Climate change brews trouble for tea industry, but circular solutions await

Sean Mowbray 14 Mar 2024
Fakir Altaf Hussain, a fisher in Bangladesh, fishing in his pond.

Pollution poses big risks to global clean water supplies, study shows

Sean Mowbray 6 Mar 2024
A woman is laying leather out to dry in Bangladesh.

Fashioning a circular future for traditional and alternative leather

Sean Mowbray 6 Feb 2024
A white-backed vulture. showing brown wings and lighter breast, dark grey face and beak against green foliage in Mole National Park, Ghana. Image courtesy of Nico Arcilla.

Endangered vulture species nesting in Ghana is rare good news about raptors

Sean Mowbray 2 Feb 2024
Tracegrow, a Finnish company, uses recycled batteries and industrial waste to create agricultural fertilizers.

Lessons from Finland’s attempt to transition to a circular economy

Sean Mowbray 23 Jan 2024
A captive-bred Karoo dwarf tortoise hatchling. Image courtesy Victor Loehr.

Study: Tiny tortoise may play large role in South Africa’s Karoo landscape

Sean Mowbray 3 Jan 2024
Man in the forest near village of Ngon, Ebolowa District, Cameroon. Ollivier Girard via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Incentivizing conservation shows success against wildlife hunting in Cameroon

Sean Mowbray 19 Dec 2023
Fossils fuels are emblematic of a “take-make-waste” economic model that is pushing humanity beyond safe limits, experts say.

Circular economy poised to go beyond outdated oil, gas and coal, experts say

Sean Mowbray 16 Nov 2023
A young boy tries to help a fallen donkey stand during a severe drought that struck the Horn of Africa.

Beyond Climate: Fossil fuels rapidly eroding Earth’s ‘safe operating space’

Sean Mowbray 15 Nov 2023

Crime analysis sheds light on tiger poaching in Malaysia

Sean Mowbray 14 Nov 2023
Workers clean an oil spill that has polluted a beach on Salamina Island, Greece.

Beyond climate: Oil, gas and coal are destabilizing all 9 planetary boundaries

Sean Mowbray 14 Nov 2023
A cruise ship.

Cleaning up cruise ships’ environmental wake

Sean Mowbray 4 Oct 2023
A deer catptured for bushmeat in the DRC.

Study: Wild meat trade from Africa into Belgium a health and conservation risk

Sean Mowbray 12 Sep 2023

Off Mexico’s coast, world’s largest limpet is slipping into extinction

Sean Mowbray 30 Aug 2023
Tires by the road.

Rolling car tires into the global circular economy

Sean Mowbray 21 Aug 2023
An orange-furred bat (Hipposideros fuliginosus) with dark grey wings being held up in the light against a dark background. Image courtesy of Diogo Ferreira.

Study: Tall trees and shade boost bat diversity on Africa’s cocoa farms

Sean Mowbray 17 Aug 2023
Traffic on road.

EVs offer climate hope, but total auto supply chain revamp is vital

Sean Mowbray 10 Aug 2023
Aerial view of traffic.

Internal combustion vs. EVs: Learning from the past to boost sustainability

Sean Mowbray 9 Aug 2023
Close up of a green turtle (Chelonia mydas) in clear, aquamarine-tinged water with corals, its shell just meeting its own rippling reflection on the surface . Image by Jim Frodel via Flickr (CC BY-2.0)

Study reveals turtles’ millennia-old food affair with North African seagrass

Sean Mowbray 2 Aug 2023
A farmer in Colombia checks her coffee bushes.

The circular economy: Sustainable solutions to solve planetary overshoot?

Sean Mowbray 27 Jul 2023
A fishing cat.

Small wildcats pose big challenges, but coexistence is very much possible

Sean Mowbray 21 Jul 2023
An airplane in flight.

Aviation’s climate conundrum: More than sustainable fuels needed

Sean Mowbray 19 Jul 2023
An airplane.

Sustainable aviation fuels: Potential lagging behind reality

Sean Mowbray 18 Jul 2023
A Cao-vit gibbon in a tree.

Drones improve counts of rare Cao-vit gibbon, identify conservation priorities

Sean Mowbray 12 Jul 2023
A green crested lizard in Borneo.

‘Tree islands’ boost diversity in oil palm plantations, study finds

Sean Mowbray 19 Jun 2023
A view over Brazil’s Florestal Reserve Adolpho Ducke.

Protected areas store a year’s worth of CO₂ emissions, study reveals

Sean Mowbray 2 Jun 2023
Camera-trap image of a leopard.

Study: Snares claim another local extinction as Cambodia loses its leopards

Sean Mowbray 30 May 2023
During their five-year project, To-Syn-Fuel converted more than 500 metric tons of dried sewage sludge into 50,000 liters (13,200 gallons) of oil.

Crud-to-crude: The global potential of biofuels made from human waste

Sean Mowbray 11 May 2023
A clouded leopard.

Snares don’t discriminate: A problem for wild cats, both big and small

Sean Mowbray 5 May 2023
A juvenile Javan leopard on the road in Baluran National Park.

Study shows Javan leopard habitat shrinking, but real picture may be worse

Sean Mowbray 4 May 2023
A small cat.

Small cats face big threats: Reasons to save these elusive endangered species

Sean Mowbray 19 Apr 2023

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