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‘Militarized occupation’: local communities pay the price for palm oil

John Cannon 11 Nov 2014

Poor rains then floods lead to food crisis in Somalia

Jeremy Hance 11 Nov 2014

Flying under the radar in Central Africa, Chinese companies may be wreaking environmental havoc

Analysis Daniel Stiles - Mongabay Special Reporting Assignment Fellow 7 Nov 2014

Corruption in Tanzania facilitates ivory trade

Mongabay.com 6 Nov 2014

91% of Kenya’s protected areas shrank in 100 years

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 4 Nov 2014

Pet trade likely responsible for killer salamander fungus

Jeremy Hance 30 Oct 2014

Dissolving pulp: a growing threat to global forests

Mike Gaworecki 30 Oct 2014

Tigers vs. diamonds: India’s protected areas rampantly downgraded to make room for people, industry

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 29 Oct 2014

The inconvenient solution to the rhino poaching crisis

Derek Schuurman 28 Oct 2014

World’s rarest gorilla gets a new protected home

Shreya Dasgupta 28 Oct 2014

How protected are they? Report finds world’s Protected Areas may relax, shrink, even completely disappear

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 28 Oct 2014

Photos: slumbering lions win top photo prize

Jeremy Hance 27 Oct 2014

Google’s new Gombe Street View lets users ‘walk’ along chimp trails and into Jane Goodall’s house

Morgan Erickson-Davis 24 Oct 2014

Beef, palm oil, soy, and wood products from 8 countries responsible for 1/3 of forest destruction

Jeremy Hance 23 Oct 2014

Demand for rhino horn drops 38 percent in Vietnam after advertising campaigns

Jeremy Hance 22 Oct 2014

With death of rhino, only six northern white rhinos left on the planet

Jeremy Hance 20 Oct 2014

Forest restoration commitments: driven by science or politics?

John Cannon 10 Oct 2014

INTERPOL launches African environmental crime unit

Mongabay.com 8 Oct 2014

Elephants worth much, much more alive than dead, says new report

Morgan Erickson-Davis 6 Oct 2014

The Zanaga iron ore mine – a test of best laid plans for preserving wildlife

Daniel Stiles 6 Oct 2014

Small chocolate company takes big steps toward conservation and human development

Andrew Mann 1 Oct 2014

Joint force uses Google Earth to find elephant poaching camps in Mozambique, captures poachers in raid

Morgan Erickson-Davis 30 Sep 2014

Climate change to boost farmland, diminish harvests, says new study

John Cannon 29 Sep 2014

Four countries pledge to restore 30 million hectares of degraded lands at UN Summit

Jeremy Hance 25 Sep 2014

Scientists use genes, feces to study disappearing monkeys

Morgan Erickson-Davis 24 Sep 2014

Norway to pay Liberia to stop deforestation

Morgan Erickson-Davis 23 Sep 2014

Camera traps capture ‘fantastically bizarre’ animal behavior in South African park

Morgan Erickson-Davis 17 Sep 2014

WCS-led raids lead to six arrests near Mozambique’s largest reserve

John Cannon 12 Sep 2014

Illegal tropical deforestation driven globally by “agro-conversion”

John Cannon 11 Sep 2014

Thought wiped out by climate change, ‘extinct’ snail rediscovered in Seychelles

Morgan Erickson-Davis 9 Sep 2014

Zambia ends trophy hunting ban, elephants fair game

Jeremy Hance 9 Sep 2014

A path to becoming a conservation scientist

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Sep 2014

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