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Scientists rediscover mammalian oddity in remote Vietnam

Jeremy Hance 11 Nov 2019

What makes community ecotourism succeed? In Madagascar, location, location, location

Rowan Moore Gerety 25 Oct 2019

At India’s Assam Zoo, decades of experience lead to rhino-breeding success

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 16 Oct 2019

For India’s flood-hit rhinos, refuge depends increasingly on humans

Manon Verchot 9 Oct 2019

Chilean band Newen Afrobeat sings of a future it hopes to see

Erik Hoffner 10 Sep 2019
Baobab Alley outside Morondava. Photo by Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay.

Photo essay: Madagascar’s disappearing dry forests (insider)

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Aug 2019
Fresh helmeted hornbill head. Photo by Rangkong Indonesia / Yoki Hadiprakarsa

Hornbill heroes: A conversation with a top Indonesian bird conservation NGO

Mongabay.com 5 Aug 2019
Traditional Iban tattoos on a Dayak leader's back. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Travelogue: Visiting an indigenous rainforest tribe in Borneo (Insider)

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Jul 2019

Top Mongabay beach reads for the ‘dog days’ of summer

Erik Hoffner 30 Jul 2019

Secretive and colorful dryas monkey isn’t as rare as once thought

Nina Finley 23 Jul 2019

When it comes to captive breeding, not all Sumatran rhinos are equal

Jeremy Hance 23 Jul 2019

Making room for wild foods in forest conservation

Sarah Sax 22 Jul 2019

Agroforestry: An ancient ‘indigenous technology’ with wide modern appeal (commentary)

Erik Hoffner 15 Jul 2019
Iban dugout canoes on the Utik river in Sungai Utik's customary forest in West Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Indigenous Iban community defends rainforests, but awaits lands rights recognition

Aseanty Pahlevi, Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Jul 2019

Keeping stray rhinos safe is a challenge on fringes of Nepal park

Abhaya Raj Joshi 26 Jun 2019

Homestay programs in Nepal’s rhino hub hold promise and pitfalls for locals

Abhaya Raj Joshi 12 Jun 2019

Inside an ambitious project to rewild trafficked bonobos in the Congo Basin

Christopher Clark 11 Jun 2019

Bumpy ride for conservation in PNG as lack of roads hinders activities

Lucy EJ Woods 10 Jun 2019

The Great Insect Dying: Vanishing act in Europe and North America

Jeremy Hance 6 Jun 2019

The Great Insect Dying: A global look at a deepening crisis

Jeremy Hance 3 Jun 2019

Long-term ecological research threatened by short-term thinking

Taran Volckhausen 3 Jun 2019

What is magic without ape parts? Inside the illicit trade devastating Nigeria’s apes

Orji Sunday 29 May 2019

For India’s imperiled apes, thinking locally matters

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 23 May 2019

Bauxite mining and Chinese dam push Guinea’s chimpanzees to the brink

Jennifer O’Mahony 21 May 2019
A Punta Fuego voice actor reads off the script. Photo by J. Sanchez for WCS.

Radio drama encourages Belizean fishers to follow the rules

Ashley Stumvoll 6 May 2019
Afghan man carrying a stuffed leopard down the street in Kabul. The real driver of wildlife trafficking in Afghanistan was however international military forces, humanitarian NGOs, and development contractors. Credit WCS/Lisa Yook.

Conservation may offer common ground in Afghan conflict

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Apr 2019

Planning without action will see the Javan rhino go extinct (commentary)

Haerudin R. Sadjudin 8 Apr 2019
A life restoration of Hadropithecus stenognathus, an extinct species of lemur, based on fossil evidence. H. stenognathus is thought to have weighed between 27 and 35 kilograms (60 and 77 pounds), more than three times the size of the largest living species of lemur, the indri (Indri indri). Image by Smokeybjb via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Human population boom led to Madagascar’s megafauna extinction: Study

Malavika Vyawahare 4 Apr 2019

Better than sex? For hard-to-breed rhinos, technology strives for a solution

Jim Tan 28 Mar 2019

Nepal reckons with the dark side of its rhino conservation success

Abhaya Raj Joshi 25 Mar 2019

West Bengal’s rhino population hits a record high

Gurvinder Singh 22 Mar 2019

Invasive plants a fast-growing threat to India’s rhinos

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 18 Mar 2019

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