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Soil and its promise as a climate solution: A primer

Mareli Sanchez-Julia 10 Aug 2021

Planned dam in Philippine national park catches flak from activists, officials

Jun N. Aguirre 10 Aug 2021

Seed dispersal is just as important as pollination (commentary)

Ariek Norford 10 Aug 2021
A buffy-headed marmoset

Meet the kitten-sized, clown-faced monkey that’s leaping toward extinction

Jeremy Hance 10 Aug 2021

Black Death aside, we know surprisingly little about rodents and disease

Liz Kimbrough 9 Aug 2021
Hammerheads. Photo credit: Yves Lefèvre

Protecting Colombia’s shark paradise: Q&A with Sandra Bessudo

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Aug 2021
Maleo

Maleos bounce back in Sulawesi after villagers resolve to protect their eggs

Carolyn Cowan 9 Aug 2021
Pangolins in a market in West Africa. This image was provided anonymously to Mongabay.

Nigeria seizes scales from 15,000 dead pangolins

Mongabay.com 7 Aug 2021

Drive toward green cars shouldn’t rely on mining seabed, conservationists say

Mongabay.com 6 Aug 2021

New study finds that minority of animals host majority of zoonotic viruses

Michael Tatarski 5 Aug 2021

For sea snakes, underwater sex is a washout more often than not

Jansen Baier 5 Aug 2021
An indri lemur (Indri indri). Image by Rhett A. Butler.

For Malagasy trapped in poverty, threatened lemurs and fossas are fair game

Malavika Vyawahare 4 Aug 2021
Bornean gibbon

In the Borneo canopy, life thrives in surprising ways, camera-trap study shows

Carolyn Cowan 4 Aug 2021

Rare pygmy chameleon, lost to science, found in dwindling Malawi forest

Liz Kimbrough 3 Aug 2021

Address risky human activities now or face new pandemics, scientists warn

Sharon Guynup 3 Aug 2021

2 Sumatran tigers recovering from COVID-19 at Jakarta zoo

Mongabay.com 2 Aug 2021

Mongabay’s What-To-Watch list for August 2021

Mongabay.com 2 Aug 2021

African wild dogs return to southern Malawi for the first time in 20 years

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 30 Jul 2021

In Sierra Leone, two colorful land crabs rediscovered, two new species found

Liz Kimbrough 30 Jul 2021
Grey-cheeked mangabey

Arboreal camera traps add ‘tons of value’ to forest canopy research

Carolyn Cowan 30 Jul 2021

One of South America’s most abundant felids: Geoffroy’s cat | Candid Animal Cam

Romi Castagnino 30 Jul 2021
Malayan tiger

Southeast Asia losing tigers as deadline looms to double population by 2022

Carolyn Cowan 29 Jul 2021

‘Stubborn optimism’ for elephants fuels Indigenous conservation effort

Mike Gaworecki 28 Jul 2021

Cerrado desertification: Savanna could collapse within 30 years, says study

Fernanda Wenzel 28 Jul 2021

For species in the red, IUCN’s new Green Status signals conservation wins

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 28 Jul 2021

Trafficking for traditional medicine threatens the Philippine porcupine

Keith Anthony Fabro 28 Jul 2021
Amazon rainforest canopy. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler / mongabay

New index measuring rainforest vulnerability to sound alarm on tipping points

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 28 Jul 2021

There’s still room to save Asia’s hoolock gibbons, study says, but only just

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 27 Jul 2021

Camera trap cameo for Buru Island babirusa last seen 26 years ago

Christopel Paino 27 Jul 2021

Huge wildlife corridor in Belize sees progress, boosting hope for jaguars and more (commentary)

James Krupa 26 Jul 2021

Global restoration now has an online meeting point

Liz Kimbrough 23 Jul 2021
Tree measuring

Better logging regulations ‘last best hope’ for Solomon Islands, study says

Carolyn Cowan 23 Jul 2021

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