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Camera trap image showing a jaguar on a road at San Miguelito. Courtesy of Duston Larsen.

Can jaguar tourism save Bolivia’s fast dwindling forests?

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Mar 2019

Proximity to towns stretches giraffe home ranges

Mongabay.com 6 Mar 2019
The spider Pamphobeteus sp. (Theraphosidae) and Chiasmocleis royi. Photo by Emanuele Biggi.

Video: scientists capture giant spider eating an opossum

Mongabay.com 2 Mar 2019

Indigenous hunters vital to robust food webs in Australia

Mongabay.com 1 Mar 2019

We know why zebras got their stripes, but how do they work?

Mongabay.com 27 Feb 2019

Blue whales remember best times and places to find prey

Mongabay.com 26 Feb 2019

The odor side of otters: Tech reveals species’ adaptations to human activity

Visvak P. 25 Feb 2019

In a predator-infested forest, survival for baby birds comes by the road

John Cannon 21 Feb 2019

In the Solomon Islands, making amends in the name of conservation

John Cannon 19 Feb 2019

Grasshoppers: They come, they eat, they … pollinate?

Ashley Stumvoll 13 Feb 2019
Three Xunan-Kab workers consume honey from a broken cerumen pod. At harvest time, beekeepers use syringes to extract the honey. Whereas European honeybees store their honey and pollen and rear their larvae in honeycomb, Xunan-Kab store honey and pollen in cerumen pods, and use honeycomb only for larvae. Image by Richard Arghiris for Mongabay.

House of the Royal Lady Bee: Maya revive native bees and ancient beekeeping

Jennifer Kennedy, Richard Arghiris 31 Jan 2019

Cities could help conserve pollinator communities

Mike Gaworecki 30 Jan 2019

Why are more female than male Magellanic penguins stranded in South America every year?

Mongabay.com 17 Jan 2019

Camera traps find rich community of carnivores on Apostle Islands

Shreya Dasgupta 16 Jan 2019

Why are fewer monarch butterflies overwintering in Mexico?

Mongabay.com 9 Jan 2019

Flashing lights ward off livestock-hunting pumas in northern Chile

John Cannon 7 Jan 2019

Indonesia confiscated some 200 pet cockatoos. What happened to them?

Nadine Freischlad 4 Jan 2019

The best wildlife calls featured on the Mongabay Newscast in 2018

Mike Gaworecki 26 Dec 2018

Peccary’s disappearance foreboding for other Mesoamerican wildlife

Mongabay 20 Dec 2018

The true story of how 96 endangered sea turtle hatchlings survived a New York City beach

Mike Gaworecki 19 Dec 2018

Shorebirds can no longer count on the Arctic as a safe haven for rearing their young

Mongabay.com 17 Dec 2018

Pumas engineer their environment, providing habitat for other species

John Cannon 17 Dec 2018

Latam Eco Review: Whale attacks, palm oil woes, and hope for vaquitas

Mongabay.com 7 Dec 2018

In the belly of the beast: journalist delves into wildlife trafficking

Gloria Dickie 4 Dec 2018

‘Drifters of opportunity’: Seabirds track energy in tidal currents

Mongabay.com 3 Dec 2018

Filling in the gaps: Managing endangered species on the high seas

Marianne Messina 23 Nov 2018
Pair of jaguar in the Peruvian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Progress on jaguar conservation in Suriname

Mark J. Plotkin 20 Nov 2018
A grey wolf in Montana. Photo by Dan Zukowski.

Restore wolves or slaughter deer to save Japanese forests?

Dan Zukowski 20 Nov 2018

These 4,000-year-old termite mounds are visible from space and still in use

Mongabay.com 20 Nov 2018

Speed trap: Cameras help defuse human-cheetah conflict in Botswana

Calistus Bosaletswe 13 Nov 2018

Bear-human conflict risks pinpointed amid resurgent bear population

Mongabay.com 5 Nov 2018
Puma in Belize. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler.

Why top predators matter (insider)

Jeremy Hance 3 Nov 2018

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