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Tukupu: The women of the Kariña community, guardians of Venezuela’s forests

Astrid Arellano 2 Feb 2022

Safe havens for coral reefs will disappear as oceans warm, study says

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 2 Feb 2022

Tech revolution holds world of promise for conservation, but challenges persist

Caitlin Looby 2 Feb 2022
Baka people

Indigenous hunter-gatherers in Cameroon diversify food sources in the face of change

Laurel Sutherland 1 Feb 2022

Links between terrorism and the ivory trade overblown, study says

Ashoka Mukpo 1 Feb 2022

A royal release: Cambodia returns 51 rare turtles to the wild

Grace Hansen 1 Feb 2022

‘A bigger deal than it sounds’: Coconut crabs are vanishing, island by island

Cassie Freund 1 Feb 2022

Indonesia, Malaysia to hold joint patrols against illegal fishing

M Ambari 1 Feb 2022

In prioritizing conservation, animal culture should be a factor, study says

John Cannon 1 Feb 2022
Mark Plotkin with an Embera shaman in the Darien on the Colombia-Panama. Photo credit: Amazon Conservation Team

Ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin: Indigenous knowledge serves as a ‘connective tissue’ between nature and human well-being

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Jan 2022

Malaysian officials deny deforestation drives deadly human-wildlife conflict

Rachel Donald 31 Jan 2022

Sixty of one, half a dozen of the other: Rare magnolias get a new start in Ecuador’s Chocó

Liz Kimbrough, Maxwell Radwin 31 Jan 2022

For the Year of the Tiger, a shared vision for the future of the iconic cat (commentary)

Coalition for Securing a Viable Future for the Tiger 31 Jan 2022
Redwood forest in Muir Woods, Marin County, California. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

California redwood forest returned to Indigenous guardianship, conservation

Laurel Sutherland 28 Jan 2022

Full steam ahead for Tren Maya project as lawsuits hit judicial hurdles

Maxwell Radwin 28 Jan 2022

The Years of the Tiger: The demand for tigers and the price they pay (commentary)

Chris Slappendel 28 Jan 2022

Western monarchs make a spectacular comeback in California

Liz Kimbrough 27 Jan 2022

It’s not a cat, it’s the African civet | Candid Animal Cam

Romi Castagnino 27 Jan 2022
Indigenous salmon fishers

Alaskan Indigenous leaders fear impacts on salmon streams by mining project

Laurel Sutherland 26 Jan 2022

Online trade and pet clubs fuel desire for little-known Javan ferret badgers

Carly Nairn 26 Jan 2022

South Africa authorizes dumping at sea of cargo that turned volatile

Malavika Vyawahare 26 Jan 2022

Colombo’s seagoing crocodiles under pressure after diver’s killing

Malaka Rodrigo 26 Jan 2022

Elephant protector and fossil hunter Richard Leakey leaves outsized legacy in Kenya

Jeremy Hance 25 Jan 2022

Typhoon exposes biodiversity haven Palawan’s vulnerability — and resilience

Keith Anthony Fabro 24 Jan 2022

As climate change melts Antarctic ice, gentoo penguins venture further south

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Jan 2022

Bleached reefs still support nutritious fish, study finds

John Cannon 21 Jan 2022
A Bohemian waxwing takes off with a fruit in its bill. (Photo by Christine Johnson)

As animals vanish, the plants they spread can’t keep pace with climate change

Liz Kimbrough 19 Jan 2022

For pharmaceuticals fouling wastewater and wildlife, solutions exist (commentary)

Cate Twining-Ward, Colin Chapman 18 Jan 2022

‘Central African Forests Forever’: Meindert Brouwer’s book looks to solutions

Désiré Nimubona 18 Jan 2022
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‘Huge blow’ for tiger conservation as two of the big cats killed in Thailand

Carolyn Cowan 18 Jan 2022

Here’s how science is trying to conserve the monarch butterfly’s forests

Thelma Gómez Durán 17 Jan 2022

In Sri Lanka, a wild cat thrives in the unlikely urban jungle of Colombo

Malaka Rodrigo 17 Jan 2022

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