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Tests show multi-rotor UAVs can improve cetacean behavioral studies

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 9 Aug 2019
A North Pacific right whale. Photo courtesy of NOAA.

Listen to the first-ever recordings of right whales breaking into song

Mike Gaworecki 9 Jul 2019

Mongabay investigative series helps confirm global insect decline

Jeremy Hance 24 Jun 2019

Recreational divers help researchers track movements of rare stingray

Mongabay.com 18 Jun 2019

Primates lose ground to surging commodity production in their habitats

Mongabay.com 17 Jun 2019

Leopards get a $20m boost from Panthera pact with Saudi prince

John Cannon 14 Jun 2019

Predator-free by 2050? High-tech hopes for New Zealand’s big conservation dream

Monica Evans 13 Jun 2019

How to save insects and ourselves

Jeremy Hance 13 Jun 2019

Out on a limb: Unlikely collaboration boosts orangutans in Borneo

Nina Finley 12 Jun 2019

The tropics in trouble and some hope

Jeremy Hance 10 Jun 2019

Vanishing act in Europe and North America

Jeremy Hance 6 Jun 2019

A global look at a deepening crisis

Jeremy Hance 3 Jun 2019

Tiny tracking tags help decode how echolocating bats navigate

Lakshmi Supriya 30 May 2019

In a first, chimps found bashing tortoises against trees to get at the meat

Mongabay.com 29 May 2019

For migrating songbirds, ‘baby shark’ is more than just an annoying tune

Shreya Dasgupta 22 May 2019

The health of penguin chicks points scientists to changes in the ocean

Mongabay.com 22 May 2019

Social media enables the illegal wildlife pet trade in Malaysia

John Cannon 9 May 2019

’Unprecedented’ loss of biodiversity threatens humanity, report finds

Mongabay.com 7 May 2019

‘Landscape of fearlessness’: bushbuck emboldened following top-predator decline in Mozambique

Sophie Manson 6 May 2019

Hippos poop a lot of silica, and that’s critical for Africa’s rivers and lakes

Shreya Dasgupta 2 May 2019

Killer whale vs. great white? No contest — the shark always flees

Mongabay.com 25 Apr 2019

Bird flu in Namibia’s penguins wanes, after killing nearly 500

John Cannon 24 Apr 2019

Community buy-in stamps out elephant poaching in Zambian park

John Cannon 22 Apr 2019

Cities may save some species from extinction, but they don’t save species’ ecological functions

Mike Gaworecki 19 Apr 2019

New ancient, giant carnivore described from bones in museum drawer

Mongabay.com 19 Apr 2019

Rise in crocodile sightings linked to habitat degradation in Indonesia

Nurdin Tubaka 18 Apr 2019

Swelling amount of plastic in the ocean confirmed by new study

John Cannon 17 Apr 2019

Tool-using, ground-nesting chimp culture discovered in DR Congo

Mike Gaworecki 16 Apr 2019

Solving the mystery of the UK’s vanishing hen harriers

Lakshmi Supriya 12 Apr 2019

Scientists urge overhaul of the world’s parks to protect biodiversity

John Cannon 11 Apr 2019

Hunting pumas to save deer could backfire, new research suggests

John Cannon 9 Apr 2019

Unusual lizard lays eggs, then births a live baby — in the same pregnancy

Mongabay.com 5 Apr 2019

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