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A Whitley Award winner’s 20-year battle to save the world’s largest eagle in Venezuela

Bruno Moraes 18 May 2017

A stubborn dreamer who fought to save Amazon’s Waimiri-Atroari passes

Sue Branford 18 May 2017

A new secret runway found in Laguna del Tigre National Park in Guatemala

Sebastián Escalón 18 May 2017
Banner photo courtesy of EIA

Peru lost more than 1 million hectares of Amazon forest over a period of 15 years

Alexa Eunoé Vélez Zuazo 18 May 2017
Adult harpy eagle image courtesy of Tom Ambrose.

Goddesses of the wind: How researchers saved Venezuela’s harpy eagles

Bruno Moraes 17 May 2017

With poaching curtailed, a new menace to Nepal’s wildlife

Alex Dudley 17 May 2017

An evolving IUCN Red List needs to be both innovative and rigorous (commentary)

Craig Hilton-Taylor 17 May 2017

Field Notes: Reinvigorating wild parrot populations with captive birds

Elizabeth Devitt 17 May 2017

Microalgae genes help them adapt to harsh oceans, other species less lucky

Maxine Chen 17 May 2017

More than 300 smuggled tortoises seized in Malaysia

Shreya Dasgupta 17 May 2017
Alvarado picking a flower called Chiriwayusa in Quichua, which he will use for a medicinal steam bath. Photo by Kimberley Brown for Mongabay.

What would you do if you had “nature’s pharmacy” in your backyard?

Kimberley Brown 17 May 2017

Wilmar appeals RSPO ruling that it grabbed indigenous lands in Sumatra

Rachel Diaz-Bastin 17 May 2017
Mt. Kenya Bush Viper, aka Ashe’s Viper (Atheris desaixi). Photo courtesy of CITES.

Kenya cracks down on illegal trade in rare and venomous vipers

Gitonga Njeru 16 May 2017

Papua New Guinea moves to launch new coal mining industry

Catherine Wilson 16 May 2017

Manmade noise pollution even more prevalent in US protected areas than researchers expected

Mike Gaworecki 16 May 2017

Burning wood: Can the EU see the forest for the trees?

Rachel Fritts 16 May 2017
Trekkers don headlamps and helmets at one of Hang En's entrances. Photo by Michael Tatarski for Mongabay.

Son Doong Cave: Tourism and conservation coexist in one of Vietnam’s largest national parks

Michael Tatarski 16 May 2017

Should we be optimistic about the future of the earth? (commentary)

Ed Warner 15 May 2017
A cable car in the Atlantic. Photo by Max Pixel.

Environment secretary of São Paulo faces controversies over management plans of protected areas

Ignacio Amigo 15 May 2017

Methane mystery: fossil fuels spewing less methane, but gas continues to accumulate

Jacqueline Hernandez 15 May 2017

Location, location, location: Facts and FAQs about radio telemetry

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 12 May 2017

Drylands greener with forests than previously thought

John Cannon 12 May 2017

Crabbing gone commercial: Brazilian mangroves threatened by shift in local traditions

Kayla Walsh 12 May 2017

50 new spiders discovered in Australia

Mongabay.com 12 May 2017

It’s time for the insurance industry to unfriend coal (commentary)

Peter Bosshard 11 May 2017

Facing oversupply, Indonesia scales back its coal-based electricity plan

Lucy EJ Woods 11 May 2017

Palm oil firm pledges to stop deforesting after RSPO freezes its operations in Papua

Mongabay.com 11 May 2017

Hong Kong Ivory traders encouraging buyers to smuggle ivory: TRAFFIC

Shreya Dasgupta 11 May 2017

Industry-NGO coalition releases toolkit for making ‘No Deforestation’ commitments a reality on the ground

Mike Gaworecki 10 May 2017
Processed palm oil in Liberia. Photo by Antoshananarivo via Wikimedia Commons.

In Liberia, a battered palm oil industry adjusts to new rules

Ashoka Mukpo 10 May 2017

Howler monkeys booming in Belize sanctuary 25 years after translocation

John Cannon 10 May 2017

‘Killed, forced, afraid’: Philippine palm oil legacy incites new fears

Brad Miller 9 May 2017

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