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Latest delay casts pall over WTO bid to end harmful fishing subsidies

Elizabeth Fitt 2 Dec 2021

The ‘idea’: Uncovering the peatlands of the Congo Basin

John Cannon 2 Dec 2021

Amazonian birds are shrinking in response to climate change, study shows

Sibélia Zanon 2 Dec 2021
The spectral tarsier is a close relative of the western tarsier. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Extinction not only threatens primates—their parasites are in danger, too

McKenzie Prillaman 1 Dec 2021

Amazon mining threatens dozens of uncontacted Indigenous groups, study shows

Shanna Hanbury 1 Dec 2021
Climate change challenges southern right whale survival. Following strong El Niño events a high proportion of females were missing from their breeding sites. After one year of gestation followed by another year of lactation, reproductive females are vulnerable to a reduced availability of krill, and they may potentially fail to fully recover. Photo by Nicolás Lewin

El Niño takes a toll on southern right whales in the Atlantic Ocean

Brian Phan 1 Dec 2021

Underfunded but passionate, Native American conservationists call for more support

Evan Bourtis 30 Nov 2021

Indigenous community saves Colombia’s poison dart frog from coca and logging

Maxwell Radwin 30 Nov 2021

Illegal mining threatens Indigenous land at foot of Philippines’ tallest peak

Bong S. Sarmiento 30 Nov 2021
Large tiger sharks overwinter in the Bahamas and migrate thousands of kilometers into open ocean in the summer, but they remain in the Atlantic. Photo credit: © Christopher Vaughan-Jones

Geneticists have identified new groups of tiger sharks to protect

Graycen Wheeler 30 Nov 2021
A pastoralist’s cattle herd. Image courtesy of the Oakland Institute.

Allegations of displacement, violence beleaguer Kenyan conservancy NGO

John Cannon 30 Nov 2021

New study reveals globe-trotting pedigree of South Asian songbirds

Malaka Rodrigo 29 Nov 2021

Galápagos census looks at impacts on turtles during and after COVID lockdown

Michelle Carrere 29 Nov 2021
Researchers found hermit crabs scuttling across some of the study’s 240 plots. Photo credit: Sebastian Steibl

Insects and other invertebrates on tropical islands face challenges as development and tourism expand

Brittney J. Miller 29 Nov 2021

Meet Magali, the conservation warrior rescuing Peru’s rainforest animals: Video

Liz Kimbrough 26 Nov 2021
Green sea turtle monitors from Canhabaque Island. Image by Ricci Shryock for Mongabay.

For tradition and nature on the Bijagós Islands, loss of one threatens the other

Ricci Shryock 26 Nov 2021

You can’t see them to count them, but Amazonian manatees seem to be recovering

Sibélia Zanon 26 Nov 2021

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

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