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A Gonatus squid eating another squid. Photo © MBARI

Videos unlock secrets of jellyfish as deep-sea killers

Mongabay.com 24 Dec 2017

Agroforestry boosts rice and biodiversity in India

Moushumi Basu 19 Dec 2017

Do protected areas work in the tropics?

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Dec 2017
Coquerel's sifaka (Propithecus coquereli), a species that lives in Bongolava. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Abandoned by their sponsors, Madagascar’s orphaned parks struggle on

Rowan Moore Gerety 8 Dec 2017

Kenyan farmers reap economic, environmental gains from ABCDs of agroforestry

Sophie Mbugua 4 Dec 2017
An indri (Indri indri), another critically endangered lemur that lives in Makira Natural Park. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Carbon dreams: Can REDD+ save a Yosemite-size forest in Madagascar?

Rowan Moore Gerety 29 Nov 2017

Margaret Atwood on her conservation-themed graphic novel, dystopian futures, and how not to despair

Mike Gaworecki 28 Nov 2017

In search of the fireface: The precarious, scandalous lives of the slow lorises of Java

Jeremy Hance 26 Nov 2017

Experience or evidence: How do big conservation NGOs make decisions?

Shreya Dasgupta 21 Nov 2017

Jane Goodall interview: ‘The most important thing is sharing good news’

Mongabay.com 17 Nov 2017
Jane Goodall. Photo credit: Jane Goodall Institute.

Dr. Jane Goodall on being proven right about animals having personalities, plus updates direct from COP23

Mike Gaworecki 15 Nov 2017
A fossa (Cryptoprocta ferox), a species that lives in Marojejy National Park, which was ground zero for Madagascar’s rosewood logging crisis in 2009. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Logjam: Inside Madagascar’s illegal-rosewood stockpiles

Rowan Moore Gerety 8 Nov 2017

Indonesia races against time to save new orangutan species

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Nov 2017
Dani man in Indonesian papua. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Does community-based forest management work in the tropics?

Shreya Dasgupta 2 Nov 2017

The Eighth Great Ape: New orangutan species discovered in Sumatra

Morgan Erickson-Davis 2 Nov 2017
Sanazy, from Beheloke Haut, says “hunger” pushed her to start farming seaweed three years ago: she earns about $20 from the crop during her best months. Photo by Rowan Moore Gerety for Mongabay.

Fish vs. forests? Madagascar’s marine conservation boom

Rowan Moore Gerety 1 Nov 2017
Shade grown coffee in Nicaragua. Image courtesy ICRAF/World Agroforestry

Agroforestry: An increasingly popular solution for a hot, hungry world

Giovanni Ortolani 26 Oct 2017
With a greater hedgehog tenrec (Setifer setosus) stretched out on her lap, Voahangy Soarimalala of Association Vahatra demonstrates measurement techniques for small mammals to a group of masters students from the University of Antananarivo in the Andranomena Special Reserve. Photo courtesy of Association Vahatra.

Building conservation’s brain trust in Madagascar

Rowan Moore Gerety 25 Oct 2017

New study: Risky roads cause more than just environmental harm

John Cannon 24 Oct 2017
Each dry season, members of the community group VOI Sohisika try to keep brush fires at bay with controlled burns that run along firebreaks on the perimeter of the preserve. Photo courtesy of Missouri Botanical Garden.

How small is too small? The uncertain fate of Madagascar’s forest fragments

Rowan Moore Gerety 18 Oct 2017

One man’s quest to save the world’s wildest places: Hansjörg Wyss

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Oct 2017

When a rhino calls in the forest, this guy hears it: Q&A with a Javan rhino researcher

Mongabay.com 16 Oct 2017

Photos: night owls

David Oehler, Julie Larsen Maher 13 Oct 2017

The Palm Oil Fiefdom

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 10 Oct 2017
chameleon, a species that lives in Ranomafana National Park. Photo by

Conservation in a weak state: Madagascar struggles with enforcement

Rowan Moore Gerety 10 Oct 2017

Can community forestry deliver for Madagascar’s forests and people?

Rowan Moore Gerety 2 Oct 2017

Does forest certification really work?

Shreya Dasgupta 21 Sep 2017
Snow leopards (Panthera uncial) in the Sanjiangyuan region of China, a still from “Ghost of the Mountains.” Photo courtesy of Disneynature.

Stalking snow leopards: Q&A with the director of “Ghost of the Mountains”

Rebecca Kessler 20 Sep 2017
Lucero Vaca with a jaguar (Panthera onca). Photo courtesy of Lucero Vaca.

A rich person’s profession? Young conservationists struggle to make it

Jeremy Hance 16 Aug 2017

A spotty revival amid decline for China’s endemic leopards

Wang Yan 7 Jul 2017

The women who live alongside rhinos in India

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 30 Jun 2017

Photos: India’s rarest crocodile, the gharial

Julie Larsen Maher 19 Jun 2017

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