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Rainforest conservation may be aimed at the wrong places, study finds

Dyna Rochmyaningsih 13 Apr 2017

Connectivity and coexistence key to orangutan survival on croplands

Linda Lombardi 13 Apr 2017

From black gold to wind and solar: How China is turning its back on coal

Denise Hruby 13 Apr 2017

New genus created for arboreal toads in Indonesia

Basten Gokkon 13 Apr 2017
Sandhill cranes from the Rocky Mountain population have been monitored annually for over thirty years. Photo Credit: T. Cacek

Researchers say advanced statistical models can make traditional wildlife surveys more reliable

Mike Gaworecki 12 Apr 2017

Guatemala issues red alert as national parks burn

Sandra Cuffe 12 Apr 2017

Great apes in Asian circus-style shows on rise — so is trafficking

Millie Kerr 12 Apr 2017

Bordering extinction: Can technology offer ecologically-sound alternatives to the proposed U.S.-Mexico wall?

Lalini Pedris 12 Apr 2017

Is sustainability sustainable in the Age of Trump?

Michael Greenhouse, Tensie Whelan 12 Apr 2017
A passerby looks at a picture that is part of a campaign to save the rhino in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Photo by Michael Tatarski for Mongabay.

Graffiti campaign brings rhino conservation message to urban Vietnam

Michael Tatarski 12 Apr 2017

Rare barking deer photographed in Vietnam

Shreya Dasgupta 11 Apr 2017

Governments must do more to help companies end deforestation in commodities supply chains, companies say

Mike Gaworecki 11 Apr 2017
rhino in Nepal

One-horned rhino killed by poachers in Nepal

Mongabay.com 11 Apr 2017

Land titling for indigenous communities leads to forest protection, peer-reviewed study finds

Mike Gaworecki 10 Apr 2017

Ex-mine security head cleared of murder, assault against indigenous Guatemalans

Sandra Cuffe 10 Apr 2017

Rare Malaysian rhino still sick, but showing signs of improvement

Isabel Esterman 10 Apr 2017

Soft-yet-tough robots may one day explore the seas

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 7 Apr 2017

Brazil slashes environment budget by 43%

Shreya Dasgupta 7 Apr 2017

One of the last three rhinos in Malaysia is critically ill

Isabel Esterman 7 Apr 2017

Latest death highlights plight of spectacled bear in Colombia

Andrew J. Wight 7 Apr 2017

Murky future for freshwater fish in the Amazon floodplains

Caitlin Looby 7 Apr 2017

New leaf-nosed bat uncovered amidst burning habitat in Venezuela

Morgan Erickson-Davis 6 Apr 2017

South Africa makes it legal to sell rhino horns

Shreya Dasgupta 6 Apr 2017

Illegal bushmeat trade threatens human health and great apes

Claire Asher 6 Apr 2017

Rio Tinto walks away from environmental responsibility for Bougainville’s Panguna mine

Catherine Wilson 6 Apr 2017
Rhinella granulosa toad in Chocó-Darien, Colombia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Successful Colombian rainforest project exposes problems with carbon emissions trading

Bart Crezee 6 Apr 2017

In post-revolution Egypt, a fierce fight over coal imports

Louise Sarant 5 Apr 2017

Indigenous groups, Amazon’s best land stewards, under federal attack

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 5 Apr 2017
A yellow-fronted woodpecker (Melanerpes flavifrons) in Brazil's Atlantic Forest. Photo by Germano Woehl Junior for the Instituto Rã-bugio para Conservação da Biodiversidade.

In Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, conservation efforts drown in a sea of eucalyptus

Ignacio Amigo 5 Apr 2017

Rotten beef and illegal deforestation: Brazil’s largest meatpacker rocked by scandals

Mike Gaworecki 5 Apr 2017

Kaziranga: the frontline of India’s rhino wars

Sharon Guynup 4 Apr 2017
Two Chaco Chachalacas in Bonito, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. Photo by Dario Sanches via Wikimedia Commons.

Jurisdictional certification approach aims to strengthen protections against deforestation

Tara MacIsaac 4 Apr 2017

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