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Caught on camera: Rare finless porpoises sighted in Hong Kong waters

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 8 Jun 2020

Lockdown allowed illegal fishing to spike in Philippines, satellite data suggest

Mongabay.com 7 Jun 2020

Our most-read conservation news stories in May 2020

Mongabay.com 7 Jun 2020

In Hawai’i, researchers work to slow the rapid death of a beloved tree

Shannon Brown 5 Jun 2020

Conservation insights from an enormous aspen clone: Q&A with ecologist Paul Rogers

James Dinneen 5 Jun 2020

Triple crisis of pipelines, pesticides and pandemic is an existential threat to Ecuador’s indigenous peoples (commentary)

Mitch Anderson 5 Jun 2020

Baby humpback whales bulk up in Hawaii ahead of migration [VIDEO]

Liz Kimbrough 5 Jun 2020

Mystery ailments, asymptomatic individuals: Spotlight on monkeypox in chimps

Shreya Dasgupta 5 Jun 2020

For Sri Lanka’s dwindling leopards, wire snares are the leading killer

Malaka Rodrigo 5 Jun 2020
Mature desert locust. Image by Obi Anyadike/The New Humanitarian

Changing climate creates ideal conditions for devastating locust swarms

Gilbert Nakweya 4 Jun 2020

MRN bauxite mine leaves legacy of pollution, poverty in Brazilian Amazon

Thais Borges, Sue Branford 4 Jun 2020

After a century of mistaken identity, a Balinese gecko gets its own name

Fransisca N. Tirtaningtyas, Rahmadi Rahmad 4 Jun 2020

Loss, resilience and community amid an outbreak: Q&A with gorilla researcher Magdalena Bermejo

Heather Richardson 4 Jun 2020

Think you’ve seen a mermaid? This Sri Lankan scientist sets the record straight

Malaka Rodrigo 4 Jun 2020

Better wines among the pines: Agroforestry can climate-proof grapes, French researchers show

Erik Hoffner 3 Jun 2020

Amazon deforestation gig economy booms despite COVID-19 (Photo Essay)

Fábio Nascimento (photos), Gustavo Faleiros 3 Jun 2020

Wildlife conservation needs a post-COVID recovery plan (commentary)

Razan Al Mubarak 3 Jun 2020

Does Lucius Fox know? Tiny tech tracks bats (and more)

Liz Kimbrough 3 Jun 2020

New data show world lost a Switzerland-size area of primary rainforest in 2019

Morgan Erickson-Davis 2 Jun 2020

Communities on Brazil’s ‘River of Unity’ tested by dams, climate change

Sarah Sax 2 Jun 2020

Indonesian court jails indigenous farmer in conflict with paper giant APP

Hans Nicholas Jong 2 Jun 2020

Bornean farmers and fishers brace as a new port opens in their midst

Aseanty Pahlevi 2 Jun 2020
Manyara monkey (Cercepithecus mitis manyaraensis), Lake Manyara National Park, Tanzania. Image courtesy Yvonne de Jong and Tom Butynski.

New to science, Tanzania’s Manyara monkey is already threatened by human activity

Ed Holt 1 Jun 2020

Brazil’s native bees are vital for agriculture, but are being killed by it

Sibélia Zanon 1 Jun 2020

Offensive against the Amazon: An incontrollable pandemic (commentary)

Marcos Colón, Luís de Camões Lima Boaventura, Erik Jennings 1 Jun 2020

How coffee growers can adapt to a precipitous industry: Q&A with Dean’s Beans founder Dean Cycon

Justin Catanoso 1 Jun 2020

In Sri Lanka, bushmeat poachers haven’t let up during lockdown

Malaka Rodrigo 30 May 2020

Marijuana cultivation whittling away Madagascar’s largest connected forest

Edward Carver 29 May 2020
Elephant digging at a baobab tree in Mapungubwe National Park, South Africa, to get to the moisture-rich interior. Since at least 2015, there has been a prolonged drought across Southern Africa. Image by Nathalie Bertrams for Mongabay.

They survived centuries of elephant onslaught. Now climate change is killing these iconic baobabs

Tristen Taylor, Nathalie Bertrams 29 May 2020

Prized as pets, are ball pythons being traded out of wild existence?

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 29 May 2020

Indonesia to receive $56m payment from Norway for reducing deforestation

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 May 2020

Poaching in Indonesia’s biodiverse Leuser Ecosystem on the rise amid COVID-19

Junaidi Hanafiah 28 May 2020

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