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Advocates welcome halt to shortfin mako shark fishing, call for longer ban

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 25 Nov 2021

‘Our land, our life’: Okinawans hold out against new U.S. base in coastal zone

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 25 Nov 2021

For South Africa’s dwindling renosterveld, there’s now a ‘panic button’ app

Ryan Truscott 25 Nov 2021

Wildlife trade hub Vietnam is also hub of impunity for traffickers, report says

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 25 Nov 2021

In Brazil’s wildlife care centers, struggles and successes go unseen

Dimas Marques 25 Nov 2021

If marine noise pollution is bad, deep-sea mining could add to the cacophony

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 24 Nov 2021

Chile’s burrowing parrot marks 35 years of a slow but successful recovery

Alejandra Olguín 24 Nov 2021
Representative animation of the soil formation process

Fighting climate change is a dirty job, but soils can do it | Problem Solved

Mike DiGirolamo 24 Nov 2021

Community tree nursery and garden bring a ray of hope to Zimbabwean village

Derick Matsengarwodzi 24 Nov 2021
A white-necked jacobin with the brightly colored feather patterns typical of males. Photo by Irene Mendez Cruz.

Some hummingbird females display male coloring to avoid being harassed

Megan Kalomiris 23 Nov 2021

For world’s rarest gorillas, camera traps prove pivotal for protection

Gianluca Cerullo 23 Nov 2021

In search of Taiwan’s lost clouded leopards, anthropology uncovers more than camera traps (commentary)

Yu Shih-Hsuan 23 Nov 2021
Jaguar in a river in Mexico. Photo credit: Gerardo Ceballos

Jaguars in Mexico are growing in number, a promising sign that national conservation strategies are working

Guananí Gómez-Van Cortright 22 Nov 2021

DNA assessment confirms Gabon as last stronghold of forest elephants

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 19 Nov 2021
Medicinal garden

Study confirms anti-inflammatory property of traditional Samoan remedy

Stephanie Melchor 19 Nov 2021
Emanuel Balisa Akangi, hunting in the forest, Yangambi, DRC.near Yangambi, Tshopo Province, DRC. Image by Axel Fassio/CIFOR via Flickr. (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

DRC environment minister panned for allegedly facilitating illegal concessions

Mongabay 19 Nov 2021

EU proposes ambitious ban on products tied to legal and illegal deforestation

Maxwell Radwin 19 Nov 2021

Technology and tradition team up to watch over a sacred island’s sea turtles

Ricci Shryock 19 Nov 2021

Jaw bombs, the deadliest threat to Sri Lanka’s elephants, are scaling up

Malaka Rodrigo 19 Nov 2021

Report: Orangutans and their habitat in Indonesia need full protection now

Basten Gokkon 19 Nov 2021

Young forests can help heal tropical aquatic ecosystems: Study

Aimee Gabay 19 Nov 2021

New Himalayan snake found via Instagram

Liz Kimbrough 18 Nov 2021

How sharing and learning from failures can transform conservation (commentary)

Josephine Chambers, Kate Massarella, Robert Fletcher 18 Nov 2021

Outcry in Sri Lanka as suspected elephant kidnappers get to keep the animals

Malaka Rodrigo 18 Nov 2021

An unlikely safari in Brazil is helping save the Pantanal’s jaguars

Daniel Nunes Gonçalves 18 Nov 2021

The Greater Mekong region: A hotspot of wildlife and crime

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 17 Nov 2021

In Sumatra, a snare trap costs a baby elephant her trunk, then her life

Junaidi Hanafiah 17 Nov 2021
A black bear family cautiously attempting a road crossing. Photo by Bridget Donaldson, Virginia Transportation Research Council.

Carnivores avoid rush hour by taking to roads at night

Elyse DeFranco 17 Nov 2021

Think that GIF of the smoking chimp is funny? The chimp wasn’t laughing

Tina Deines 17 Nov 2021

Study evaluates role of rivers in creating the Amazon’s rich biodiversity

Luís Patriani 17 Nov 2021

‘Superstitious belief kills pangolins’: Q&A with biologist Elisa Panjang

Caitlin Looby 16 Nov 2021

The last spotted ground thrush on Malawi’s lonely mountain

Liz Kimbrough 15 Nov 2021

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