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A view of the Soarano wetland, cleared of forest by illegal gold miners. Image by Daniel Burgas.

Illegal gold mining destroys wetland forest in Madagascar park

Rowan Moore Gerety 19 Feb 2019

Report: Turkish carrier is ‘poacher’s airline of choice’ for parrot trade

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Feb 2019

The view from the bottleneck: Is nature poised for a big comeback?

Jeremy Hance 18 Feb 2019

DRC’s Virunga to welcome visitors again after 8-month closure

Mongabay.com 14 Feb 2019

The good luck black cat, revealed by camera traps

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 13 Feb 2019

Tool innovation shows cultural evolution at work among chimpanzees

Nina Finley 12 Feb 2019

Short film celebrates community forest titles in DRC

Mongabay.com 11 Feb 2019
A blue pansy (Junonia orithya), a species occasionally available through Kipepeo Butterfly Project. Image by yakovlev.alexey via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Butterfly business: Insect farmers help conserve East African forests

Janet Njung’e 8 Feb 2019

Dodging charging elephants in a Kenyan forest (insider)

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Feb 2019

Gorilla radio: Sending a conservation message in Nigeria

Linus Unah 6 Feb 2019

Wildlife rangers in DRC park report waning motivation, job satisfaction

Mongabay.com 31 Jan 2019

To tackle great ape trafficking, follow the money, report says

Nora Ward 29 Jan 2019

Viral video of endangered lemur made people want one as a pet: Study

Mongabay.com 29 Jan 2019
The forest of Liberia. Photo by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

Liberia’s community forestry becoming a front for deforestation: Report

Ashoka Mukpo 23 Jan 2019

New species of leaf-mimicking lizard could already be victim of pet trade

Shreya Dasgupta 23 Jan 2019

Saving the forests of the Congo Basin: Q&A with author Meindert Brouwer

Mongabay.com 23 Jan 2019

Tanzania creates new reserve to protect rare colobus monkeys and trees

Shreya Dasgupta 21 Jan 2019
Rainforest at Tampolo on the Masoala Peninsula. The peninsula has been heavily logged for rosewood in the wake of the 2009 coup d’etat that brought Andry Rajaolina to power in Madagascar for the first time. He was elected to the presidency in December and will take office Jan 19. Image by Rhett A. Butler.

Madagascar’s next president to take office, bears suspect eco record

Edward Carver 18 Jan 2019

Can satellite data help monitor sustainable rural development?

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 17 Jan 2019

Coffee in trouble: 60% of wild coffee species threatened with extinction

Shreya Dasgupta 17 Jan 2019

Cellphones are still endangering gorillas, but recycling old ones can help

Tina Deines 17 Jan 2019

Agroforestry empowers Morocco’s mountain women

Monica Pelliccia 16 Jan 2019

Rapid population drop weakened the Grauer’s gorilla gene pool

John Cannon 10 Jan 2019

Start them young: Uganda targets children for conservation awareness

Nangayi Guyson 9 Jan 2019
Topher White of Rainforest Connection installing a bioacoustic device in the forest canopy. Image by Ben Von Wong.

Eavesdrop on forest sounds to effectively monitor biodiversity, researchers say

Shreya Dasgupta 3 Jan 2019
Rainforest in Sarawak, Malaysia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

The biggest rainforest news stories in 2018

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Dec 2018

10 ways conservation tech shifted into auto in 2018

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 28 Dec 2018

An expanding frontier: Top 10 global palm oil stories of 2018

Morgan Erickson-Davis 28 Dec 2018

‘Conservation never ends’: 40 years in the kingdom of gorillas

Giannella M. Garrett 28 Dec 2018

Photos: Top 10 new species of 2018

Shreya Dasgupta 25 Dec 2018
1. Adbul Kadeem inspecting drying coffee outside of his house in Manyate Village on the outskirts of Harenna Forest. Photo by Nathan Siegel for Mongabay.

Pressure mounting for the home of wild coffee and Ethiopian wolves

Nathan Siegel 18 Dec 2018
Baobab trees in Western Madagascar.

Wildlife, ecotourism industry at stake in Madagascar’s election, says scientist

Mongabay.com 18 Dec 2018

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