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Electronic ears listen to poachers in a key Central American jaguar habitat

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 23 Feb 2021

Podcast: Lemur love and award-winning plant passion in Madagascar

Mike Gaworecki 11 Nov 2020

The rhino in the room: 3D scan brings near-extinct Sumatran species to virtual life

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Oct 2020

Don’t cross this tiger mom: Close encounter in Russia’s Far East

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 29 Sep 2020

Singing and whistling cetaceans of southern Africa revealed by bioacoustics

Mike Gaworecki 19 Aug 2020

From parks to payments, which conservation strategies work best?

Mike Gaworecki 4 Aug 2020

Animals have culture, too, and for some it’s crucial to their survival and conservation

Mike Gaworecki 24 Jun 2020
A calf attempts to sneak its trunk into a mineral pit that mom is drinking from. Protest calls are often heard from calves during these behavioral contexts, as mom sometimes pushes them away and they in turn express their displeasure with a little yell. Photo © Ana Verahrami, Elephant Listening Project.

Listening to elephants to protect Central Africa’s tropical forests

Mike Gaworecki 27 May 2020

Spiny lobsters raise an undersea racket that can be heard miles away

Liz Kimbrough 27 May 2020

Listening to marine mammals is helping scientists understand Arctic impacts of climate change

Mongabay.com 24 Feb 2020

The sounds of tropical katydids and how they can benefit conservation

Mike Gaworecki 22 Jan 2020

The best animal calls featured on the Mongabay Newscast in 2019

Mike Gaworecki 23 Dec 2019

Canaries in the coal mine? North Atlantic right whale use of key habitat changing rapidly

Mongabay.com 6 Dec 2019

How listening to individual gibbons can benefit conservation

Mike Gaworecki 26 Nov 2019

Humpback whales across the Pacific Ocean are singing the same song

Mike Gaworecki 17 Sep 2019

What underwater sounds can tell us about Indian Ocean humpback dolphins

Mike Gaworecki 19 Mar 2019

The sounds of a rare New Zealand bird reintroduced to its native habitat

Mike Gaworecki 20 Feb 2019

Rhett Butler on how sound can save forests and top rainforest storylines to watch in 2019

Mike Gaworecki 8 Jan 2019

The best wildlife calls featured on the Mongabay Newscast in 2018

Mike Gaworecki 26 Dec 2018

Decoding the language of bats key to their conservation

Javier Lyonnet 8 Oct 2018

The superb mimicry skills of an Australian songbird

Mike Gaworecki 21 Aug 2018

How soundscapes are helping us better understand animal behavior and landscape ecology

Mike Gaworecki 12 Jun 2018

Seabird secrets revealed by bioacoustics in New Zealand

Mike Gaworecki 1 May 2018

First record of ultrasound communication in the mysterious Sunda colugo

Shreya Dasgupta 1 May 2018

Exploring humanity’s deep connection to water, plus the sounds of the Sandhill crane migration

Mike Gaworecki 20 Mar 2018

The cutting-edge technologies allowing us to monitor ecosystems like never before

Mike Gaworecki 6 Feb 2018

Lessons from Indigenous peoples about coping with climate change, plus the call of the night parrot

Mike Gaworecki 9 Jan 2018

‘AudioMoth’ device aims to deliver low-cost, power-efficient monitoring of remote landscapes

Mike Gaworecki 8 Jan 2018

Impacts of gas drilling on wildlife in Peru and a Goldman Prize winner on mercury contamination

Mike Gaworecki 1 Nov 2017

Indonesian rainforests for sale and bat calls of the Amazon

Mike Gaworecki 18 Oct 2017

When a rhino calls in the forest, this guy hears it: Q&A with a Javan rhino researcher

Mongabay.com 16 Oct 2017

Mexico takes ‘unprecedented’ action to save vaquita

Mongabay.com 15 Oct 2017

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