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With Indigenous rights at stake in Brasília, a territory is attacked in Paraty

Ana Ionova 18 Jun 2021

Reforestation is booming, but deforestation rose last year

Mike Gaworecki 20 May 2021

Wealth inequality fuels flow of wildlife from poor countries to rich: Study

Malavika Vyawahare 18 May 2021
Black Lion Tamarin

How settlers, scientists, and a women-led industry saved Brazil’s rarest primate

Liz Kimbrough 14 May 2021

Captive lions kept in ‘stressful conditions’ create perfect recipe for disease, experts say

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 8 Apr 2021

Two new species of endangered screech owls identified from Brazil

Liz Kimbrough 1 Apr 2021

As forests shrink, mammals are stressed out— with possible fallout for humans

Liz Kimbrough 15 Feb 2021
Two babirusa fighting in Indonesia. Image by Meldy Tamenge, edited by Cart, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Southeast Asian wild pigs confront deadly African swine fever epidemic

John Cannon 12 Feb 2021

Fruit-eating, seed-pooping animals can help restore degraded forests

Emily Harwitz 9 Feb 2021

Indigenous agroforestry revives profitable palm trees and the Atlantic Forest

Xavier Bartaburu 13 Jan 2021

First COVID-19 cases in zoo gorillas raise alarm about wild populations

Mongabay.com 12 Jan 2021

Can whales and dolphins catch COVID-19 from wastewater? It’s murky

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 3 Dec 2020
Woman slaughtering rats at a market in Dong Thap, Vietnam (left), and vendor selling live rats in cages (right). Photo credit: WCS/Viet Nam (Huong, et al, 2020)

Coronavirus risk grows as animals move through wildlife trade

Stephanie Melchor 3 Dec 2020

IPBES report details path to exit current ‘pandemic era’

John Cannon 30 Oct 2020

Marmosets trafficked as pets now threaten native species in Atlantic forest

Sibélia Zanon 26 Oct 2020

Brazilian frog believed ‘extinct’ for 50+ years, found with eDNA testing

Peter Yeung 6 Oct 2020

Anticipated new restrictions on wildlife trade in Vietnam fall short of a ban

Michael Tatarski 30 Jul 2020

Hellbenders, super-spreaders, and other salamanders face uncertain futures

Mongabay.com 29 Jul 2020
In July 2020, Greenpeace Russia documented forest fires in the Krasnoyarsk region of Siberia.

What funds are needed to prevent another pandemic? Just 2% of COVID-19’s estimated cost

Mongabay.com 27 Jul 2020

Can policy prevent a North American salamander pandemic?

Mongabay.com 15 Jul 2020

International task force unites North America to protect salamander diversity

Mongabay.com 1 Jul 2020

Indonesia resumes release of captive wildlife amid COVID-19

Basten Gokkon 22 Jun 2020

Will U.S. scientists find a silent salamander killer in time?

Mongabay.com 17 Jun 2020

One-two punch of drought, pandemic hits Madagascar’s poor and its wildlife

Malavika Vyawahare 12 Jun 2020

Mystery ailments, asymptomatic individuals: Spotlight on monkeypox in chimps

Shreya Dasgupta 5 Jun 2020

Vietnam wildlife trade ban appears to flounder amid coronavirus success

Michael Tatarski 25 May 2020

For Indonesia’s captive wildlife, lockdown measures may prove deadly

Basten Gokkon 19 May 2020

A Philippine island locked down, but its mine didn’t — and infections mounted

Jun N. Aguirre 18 May 2020

As COVID-19 pandemic deepens, global wildlife treaty faces an identity crisis

Malavika Vyawahare 15 May 2020

One point for Slytherin: New Indian pit viper named after Harry Potter character

Liz Kimbrough 29 Apr 2020

What’s in a name? ‘Wet markets’ may hide true culprits for COVID-19

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 22 Apr 2020

Madagascar’s president promotes unproven herbal cure for COVID-19

Malavika Vyawahare 20 Apr 2020

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