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An Amazonian arapaima washed up in a Florida river. It didn’t swim there

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 9 Apr 2021

European tuna boats dump fishing debris in Seychelles waters ‘with impunity’

Malavika Vyawahare 9 Apr 2021

Red flag: Predatory European ships help push Indian Ocean tuna to the brink

Malavika Vyawahare 8 Apr 2021

Though humanity exceeds key ‘planetary boundaries’ there are many solutions

Mike Gaworecki 8 Apr 2021

Captive lions kept in ‘stressful conditions’ create perfect recipe for disease, experts say

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 8 Apr 2021
Sophie, head of the pangolin working group of the CBCGDF, sampling a Chinese pangolin's oral and nasal secretions and skin surface tissues at the Jinhua Wildlife Rescue Center. After being cleared, the pangolin was released into the wild. CBCGDF was been working to protect pangolins since 2015. Photo credit: CBCGDF

Civil society’s push to advance conservation in China: Q&A with Jinfeng Zhou

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Apr 2021

Government inaction prompts voluntary REDD+ carbon credit boom in Brazil

Fernanda Wenzel 6 Apr 2021
The new chameleon species, Trioceros wolfgangboehmei

Spiny new chameleon species described from Bale Mountains of Ethiopia

Liz Kimbrough 6 Apr 2021

Australia’s pivot to plantations may be too late for nearly extinct parrots

Nick Rodway 5 Apr 2021

Life and new limbs: Creative thinking, 3D printers save injured wildlife

Laurel Neme 5 Apr 2021

Java’s mangroves pay a high price for stopping plastic flowing out to sea

Julia John 5 Apr 2021

In Malaysia, the fate of a peat forest hinges on a powerful state official

Fatima Qureshi 5 Apr 2021

Rare captive-bred crocodiles develop new, ‘odd’ habits in Philippine wild

Erwin M. Mascariñas 2 Apr 2021

Two new species of endangered screech owls identified from Brazil

Liz Kimbrough 1 Apr 2021

Cerrado’s maned wolves, squeezed by humans, may be picking up mange from dogs

Dimas Marques 1 Apr 2021
Locust swarm at Samburu, Kenya. Image by Sven Torfinn/FAO.

East Africa deploys huge volumes of ‘highly hazardous’ pesticides against locust plague

Leopold Salzenstein 1 Apr 2021

Mixed fates for captive elephants sent back to villages amid Thai tourism collapse

Carolyn Cowan 1 Apr 2021

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

Mongabay.com 1 Apr 2021
Men sitting under roofed shelter in the Gabonese village of Massaha. Image courtesy Graden Froese.

Logging company moves into intact Gabon forest as village fights to save it

Benjamin Evine-Binet 31 Mar 2021

Madagascar: Businesses drive disappearance of a wetland ‘reed forest’

Rivonala Razafison 31 Mar 2021

New map shows where the 80% of species we don’t know about may be hiding

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 31 Mar 2021

Only 6.5% of global forests are adequately protected, study finds

Liz Kimbrough 31 Mar 2021

Study sounds latest warning of rainforest turning into savanna as climate warms

Malavika Vyawahare 31 Mar 2021

In Sumatra, a vulnerable, ‘mythical’ wild goat lives an unknown life

Ian Morse 31 Mar 2021

Deforestation surge threatens endangered species in Tanintharyi, Myanmar

Morgan Erickson-Davis 30 Mar 2021

The nine boundaries humanity must respect to keep the planet habitable

Claire Asher 30 Mar 2021

African swine fever rips through parts of southern Indonesia

Ebed de Rosary 29 Mar 2021

Battle at the bat box: Camera trap captures ocelot standoff in restored forest

Liz Kimbrough 29 Mar 2021

Surge in seizures of giant clam shells has Philippine conservationists wary

Keith Anthony Fabro 29 Mar 2021
Fireflies synchronize their flashing to find a mate. Image by Fred Huang via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

New assessment shines a light on the state of North America’s fireflies

Liz Kimbrough 26 Mar 2021
Wildlife off the coast of the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, in 2015. Image by Enric Sala.

Ocean protection scheme can yield ‘triple benefits’ study says

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 26 Mar 2021

Patagonia’s blue whales besieged by hundreds of boats, study finds

Michelle Carrere 26 Mar 2021

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