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Guests awaken on the sky deck of the home Ken and Cynthia within the KampOng Campus for Ecoliteracy & Change. Image credit: Ken Wilson

Journeying in biocultural diversity and conservation philanthropy: Q&A with Ken Wilson

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Feb 2022
A Ministry of Environment ranger on patrol in the Cardamom Mountains. Image by Andyb3947 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Can ecotourism save Cambodia’s ‘ghost parks’?

Gerald Flynn, Andy Ball 8 Feb 2022

Endangered wildlife face perilous future as vital habitat loses protection in Cambodia

Gerald Flynn, Andy Ball 8 Feb 2022
Trekking through the Cardamom Tented Camp concession in Botum Sakor National Park. Image for Mongabay by Gerald Flynn.

How a ‘dirty gambling company’ may have set the standard for habitat destruction in Cambodia

Gerald Flynn, Andy Ball 8 Feb 2022

Photos: Caged orangutan found in Indonesian politician’s home

Ayat S. Karokaro, Sri Wahyuni 7 Feb 2022

Fires threaten vital peatland in Chile’s Tierra del Fuego

Maxwell Radwin 7 Feb 2022
Deforestation for oil palm in Malaysian Borneo.

Even degraded forests are more ecologically valuable than none, study shows

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 7 Feb 2022

Preventing the next pandemic is vastly cheaper than reacting to it: Study

Sharon Guynup 4 Feb 2022

‘There’s not much hope’: Mediterranean corals collapse under relentless heat

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 4 Feb 2022

Gulf of Thailand oil pipeline leak threatens reef-rich marine park

Carolyn Cowan 4 Feb 2022

Paraguay’s drought hits biodiversity, Indigenous communities the hardest

Maxwell Radwin 3 Feb 2022

Mongabay’s What-To-Watch list for February 2022

Mongabay.com 3 Feb 2022

New study highlights hidden scale of U.S. illegal tiger trade

Carolyn Cowan 2 Feb 2022

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

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