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Gundi tool gets conservation hardware and software talking the same language

Abhishyant Kidangoor 12 Mar 2024
Flying a drone in New Guinea. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Mongabay Data Studio: Revealing nature’s hidden stories through data (commentary)

Rhett A. Butler 8 Mar 2024

A new tool to peer into fishing networks: Q&A with Austin Brush of C4ADS

Melati Kaye 21 Nov 2022
Toco toucan (Ramphastos toco). Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Betting big on bioacoustics: Q&A with philanthropist Lisa Yang

Rhett A. Butler 22 Jul 2021

Climate change isn’t fueling algal blooms the way we think, study shows

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 15 Jun 2021
Pine forest in the Sierra Nevada. Photo by Rhett A. Butler / mongabay

Bold sustainability commitments: An interview with Microsoft’s Lucas Joppa

Rhett A. Butler 18 Dec 2020
Banner image of a caribou calf in the archive study area by Karsten Heuer.

A warming Arctic is changing animal migrations, decades of tracking shows

Liz Kimbrough 9 Nov 2020

A new dawn: The story of deforestation in the next decade must be different to the last (commentary)

Bastien Sachet 16 Jan 2020

Rare plant species are especially vulnerable to climate change, and rarity is more common than previously understood

Mongabay.com 9 Jan 2020

New assessment method finds close to one-third of tropical Africa’s plants are potentially facing extinction

Mongabay.com 20 Nov 2019

Sea Around Us: Global fisheries data and the goose that laid the golden egg (commentary)

Daniel Pauly 13 Aug 2019

July 2019 was the hottest month ever recorded on Earth

Mongabay.com 2 Aug 2019

On public interest in conservation and internet data (commentary)

Ricardo Correia 15 Jul 2019

The world lost a Belgium-size area of old growth rainforest in 2018

Morgan Erickson-Davis 25 Apr 2019

Wikipedia searches reveal how people’s interests in wildlife change

Shreya Dasgupta 13 Mar 2019

AI and public data identify fishing behavior to protect hungry seabirds

Marianne Messina 22 Feb 2019

For conservationists, crowdfunding sites raise both funds and awareness

Emily Clark 28 Jan 2019

Machine learning tool helps prioritize plants for conservation

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 3 Jan 2019

It’s time to strengthen the macroecology–conservation practice interface (commentary)

Giovanni Rapacciuolo 29 Nov 2018

The iNaturalist species data sharing platform reaches one million users

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 19 Oct 2018

Managing the data deluge: Twitter as a tool for ecological research

Marianne Messina 1 Oct 2018

Online citizen science data platforms help scientists predict species ranges

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 22 Aug 2018
Planet satellite image of coral off Belize's Lighthouse Reef. Taken March 28, 2018.

A global coral reef monitoring system is coming soon

Rhett A. Butler 4 Jun 2018

Scientists tackling conservation problems turn to artificial intelligence

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 25 May 2018

From galaxies far, far away to endangered species just over the hill

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 11 Apr 2018

Making mountains out of molehills: system builds public-access big data from many sources

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 23 Feb 2018

Where one predator meets another: tracking sharks and fishing effort

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 25 Nov 2017
Grevy's zebras in Samburu Reserve, Kenya

Wildbook: a social network for wildlife

Colleen O'Brien 18 Apr 2017

GDELT: Mining and mapping global wildlife crime news

Julia John 7 Jul 2016
Mark Hebblewhite and Kelly Proffitt use an ultrasound to measure an adult female elk's body condition in Montana's Bitterroot Valley. The elk was captured via a helicopter net gun and sports a GPS collar around her neck. Photo courtesy of Mark Hebblewhite.

Wildlife biology in the 21st century

Caleb O'Brien 20 Oct 2015

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