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Scrapping Nigerian superhighway buffer isn’t enough, say conservation groups

John Cannon 22 Feb 2017

‘Revolutionary’ new biodiversity maps reveal big gaps in conservation

John Cannon 27 Jan 2017

‘Last frontiers of wilderness’: Intact forest plummets globally

John Cannon 13 Jan 2017

New maps show how our consumption impacts wildlife thousands of miles away

Shreya Dasgupta 6 Jan 2017

Why should we care about the endemism hotspot of São Tomé and Príncipe

Ricardo F. de Lima, Sara Saraiva 21 Dec 2016

All I want for Christmas… a wildlife researcher’s holiday wish list

Glenn Scherer 20 Dec 2016

Vanishing point: Bumblebee bat is world’s smallest; it’s also at risk

Jeremy Hance 13 Dec 2016

Field Notes: Boosting biodiversity by studying human values, gender

Elizabeth Devitt 1 Dec 2016

Top scientists: Amazon’s Tapajós Dam Complex “a crisis in the making”

Claire Salisbury 28 Nov 2016

Silent soldiers of the extreme, or why I’m glad I’m not a wild yak

Joel Berger 22 Nov 2016

Where have all the lutungs gone? Mystery monkeys fast disappearing

William H. Funk 18 Nov 2016

Asia races to save the Critically Endangered helmeted hornbill

Roz Evans 7 Nov 2016

Higher incomes driving Indonesian smallholders to oil palm and rubber

John Cannon 3 Nov 2016

Nations come together to save Kenya’s disappearing coastal forests

Sophie Mbugua 3 Nov 2016
The binturong or bearcat (Arctictis binturong). Photographed in Cambodia by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

What is a binturong?

Carly Nairn 13 Oct 2016

Struggle against mining on Bangka Island continues despite wins in court

M Ambari 11 Oct 2016

Amazonian bat identification takes flight with new interactive guide

Claire Salisbury 22 Sep 2016

Philippine Bleeding-heart doves flutter at the brink, but NGOs respond

Claire Salisbury 20 Sep 2016

Black, white and unique: the Malayan tapir struggles for recognition

Kate Mayberry 7 Sep 2016

Field Notes: Expedition to Cuba seeks out new and endemic species

Elizabeth Devitt 30 Aug 2016

Pet trade’s “cute” and “adorable” label endangers the slow loris

Linda Lombardi 25 Aug 2016

Pulling the stunningly unique painted terrapin back from the brink

Diane Toomey 17 Aug 2016

Out of sight, out of mind: Asia’s elusive Fishing Cat in trouble

Sean Mowbray 11 Aug 2016

Malayan Sun bear: bile trade threatens the World’s smallest bear

Claire Asher 1 Aug 2016
Deforestation for a rubber plantation in Laos. While scientists have been pointing for years to the problems caused by natural forest conversion to rubber plantations, activist groups had been slow to target rubber relative to other commodities like soy, palm oil oil, timber, and wood-fiber.

“Ecological recession”: Researchers say biodiversity loss has hit critical threshold across the globe

Mike Gaworecki 25 Jul 2016

Amazon turtles imperilled by dams, mercury pollution and illegal trade

Claire Salisbury 12 Jul 2016

Unknown, ignored and disappearing: Asia’s Almost Famous Animals

Laurel Neme 6 Jul 2016

Amazonian catfish’s 5,000-mile migration endangered by dams

Claire Salisbury 21 Jun 2016
Blue color form of Dendrobates auratus dart frog. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

10 conservation “fads”: how have they worked in Latin America?

Aldo Orellana López, Alan Forsberg 17 Jun 2016
A still of juvenile blacktip reef sharks (Carcharhinus melanopterus) from the baited Go-Pro rig that researchers set in the waters of the Daram no-take zone in West Papua, Indonesia. Photo by Vanessa Jaiteh.

Protected areas grow populations of shark — and disenfranchised fishers

Melati Kaye 15 Jun 2016
Zou Huagang, head of Lianhe village, poses in front of a local kiwi farm. Zou's family owns about three acres of kiwi farmland. Photo by Wang Yan.

Making a living inside a reserve: an interview with village head Zou Huagang

Wang Yan 14 Jun 2016
A golden snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus roxellana), caught on camera trap inside the reserve. Photo courtesy of Laohegou Nature Reserve Center.

Can China’s first private nature reserve become truly sustainable?

Wang Yan 10 Jun 2016

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