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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

Saving forests and biodiversity by providing affordable healthcare

Mike Gaworecki 30 Apr 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

Encounters with the Javan rhino (commentary)

Haerudin R. Sadjudin 11 Mar 2019
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

Salt fiends: Search for sodium puts Rwanda’s gorillas in harm’s way

Jim Tan 6 Mar 2019
A black howler monkey (Alouatta pigra), a resident of Cerro Amay photographed in Belize. Image by Rhett A. Butler.

Guatemala: Proposed new park on indigenous land treads fine ethical line

Max Radwin 4 Mar 2019

In Nigeria, hunters turn into guardians of the rarest gorilla on Earth

Linus Unah 4 Mar 2019

As extinction looms, can Javan rhinos survive in Ujung Kulon? (Commentary)

Haerudin R. Sadjudin 4 Mar 2019

In the Congo Basin, a road cuts through once-untouched ape wilderness

Eugene N. Nforngwa 1 Mar 2019

Kenya: Maasai herders work to keep themselves and wildlife roaming free

Michael Parks 28 Feb 2019

For the famed chimps of Gombe, human encroachment takes a toll

Anthony Langat 28 Feb 2019

Nepal, in a bid to create a new rhino population, pauses to take stock

Abhaya Raj Joshi 27 Feb 2019
Elephant in Namibia. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

It pays, but does it stay? Hunting in Namibia’s community conservation system

John Grobler 26 Feb 2019
Just a few baobab trees remain standing in a part of the Menabe Antimena Protected Area near Kirindy village that was forested a few years ago. Image by Pierre Koval.

Illegal corn farming menaces a Madagascar protected area

Emilie Filou 21 Feb 2019

New Species of orangutan threatened from moment of its discovery

Laurel Neme 20 Feb 2019
A view of the Soarano wetland, cleared of forest by illegal gold miners. Image by Daniel Burgas.

Illegal gold mining destroys wetland forest in Madagascar park

Rowan Moore Gerety 19 Feb 2019

What does it take to discover a new great ape species?

Laurel Neme 19 Feb 2019

‘Beautiful legislation’ fails to protect PNG’s environment, landowners

Lucy EJ Woods 14 Feb 2019

Tool innovation shows cultural evolution at work among chimpanzees

Nina Finley 12 Feb 2019
A blue pansy (Junonia orithya), a species occasionally available through Kipepeo Butterfly Project. Image by yakovlev.alexey via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Butterfly business: Insect farmers help conserve East African forests

Janet Njung’e 8 Feb 2019

Gorilla radio: Sending a conservation message in Nigeria

Linus Unah 6 Feb 2019

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