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Lioness in Tanzania. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Keeping animals wild vs ‘safe’ should be prioritized, lion biologists argue (commentary)

Pride Lion Conservation Alliance 14 May 2021
Mounted L. chalumnae specimen on display at the Museo civico di Storia naturale in Comiso. Image by

Ghost fish: after 420 million years in the deeps, modern gillnets from shark fin trade drag coelacanths into the light

Tony Carnie 12 May 2021

‘Bad science’: Planting frenzy misses the grasslands for the trees

Shreya Dasgupta 12 May 2021
In sub-Saharan Africa 70% of the population lives from agriculture — and specifically rainfall agriculture.

Humanity’s challenge of the century: Conserving Earth’s freshwater systems

Saul Elbein 10 May 2021

Kenyan environmental tribunal protects open rangeland

Kang-Chun Cheng 6 May 2021

NRA Video: Conquering nature will never be the silver bullet (commentary)

Kate Dylewsky 6 May 2021
Road in Indonesian Borneo. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

‘I never give up’: Q&A with Chinese environmental lawyer Jingjing Zhang

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 May 2021

South Africa pulls the plug on controversial captive lion industry

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 3 May 2021

South African dehorning initiative aims for ‘zero poached’ white rhinos

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 30 Apr 2021

A fatal stabbing sends a Gambian fishing village into turmoil over fishmeal

Louise Hunt 29 Apr 2021

Female putty-nosed monkeys get their males to run defense against predators

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 29 Apr 2021
Azura Quilalea

Gas fields and jihad: Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado becomes a resource-rich war zone

Ashoka Mukpo 26 Apr 2021

No monkey business: For Zanzibar’s red colobus, speed bumps are lifesavers

Malavika Vyawahare 22 Apr 2021

Caring for those ‘just like us’: Q&A with vet and great ape advocate Rick Quinn

Mongabay.com 20 Apr 2021

Did you know that a group of warthogs is called a sounder? Candid Animal Cam

Romina Castagnino 20 Apr 2021
Pair of zebra in Rwanda. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Momentum is building for a ‘robust’ biodiversity framework: Q&A with Elizabeth Mrema

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Apr 2021
Image of a female lion with wildebeest kill in Tanzania. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Total’s East African oil pipeline to go ahead despite stiff opposition

Malavika Vyawahare 19 Apr 2021

European tuna boats dump fishing debris in Seychelles waters ‘with impunity’

Malavika Vyawahare 9 Apr 2021

Red flag: Predatory European ships help push Indian Ocean tuna to the brink

Malavika Vyawahare 8 Apr 2021

Captive lions kept in ‘stressful conditions’ create perfect recipe for disease, experts say

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 8 Apr 2021
The new chameleon species, Trioceros wolfgangboehmei

Spiny new chameleon species described from Bale Mountains of Ethiopia

Liz Kimbrough 6 Apr 2021
Coffee drying outside the house of Abdul Kadeem in Manyate Village on the outskirts of Harenna Forest. Photo by Nathan Siegel for Mongabay.

Coffee sustainability check: Q&A with Sjoerd Panhuysen of Coffee Barometer report

Mongabay.com 1 Apr 2021
Locust swarm at Samburu, Kenya. Image by Sven Torfinn/FAO.

East Africa deploys huge volumes of ‘highly hazardous’ pesticides against locust plague

Leopold Salzenstein 1 Apr 2021
Men sitting under roofed shelter in the Gabonese village of Massaha. Image courtesy Graden Froese.

Logging company moves into intact Gabon forest as village fights to save it

Benjamin Evine-Binet 31 Mar 2021

Madagascar: Businesses drive disappearance of a wetland ‘reed forest’

Rivonala Razafison 31 Mar 2021

New map shows where the 80% of species we don’t know about may be hiding

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 31 Mar 2021
Deforestation in Kapuas Hulu regency, West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Global forest loss increased in 2020

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Mar 2021

Unrelated adoptions by bonobos may point to altruistic traits, study says

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 23 Mar 2021
Lone figure in dugout canoe emerging from reeds on river. Image by Patrik M. Loeff via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Growing concern over Okavango oil exploration as community alleges shutout

Jim Tan 22 Mar 2021
Banner image of an artisanal palm oil production in Yalifombo village. Image © Oskar Epelde courtesy of Oakland Institute.

Pension and endowment funds linked to conflict-plagued oil palm in DRC

John Cannon 22 Mar 2021
Aedes aegypti

As climate change brings more floods, mosquito numbers could swell: Study

Malavika Vyawahare 18 Mar 2021

The Hungry Mills: How palm oil mills drive deforestation (commentary)

Rob McWilliam 12 Mar 2021

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