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Critically endangered Sunda pangolin caught on camera trap | Candid Animal Cam

Romi Castagnino 22 Oct 2021

Deforestation from cattle ranching also hurts rivers in Nicaragua, study says

Maxwell Radwin 22 Oct 2021
Planting mangroves at Junda village, near Mombasa, Kenya. Image by Kang Chun Cheng.

Mangrove conservation takes root with local communities on Kenya’s coast

Kang-Chun Cheng 22 Oct 2021

COVID could wreak havoc on gorillas, but they social distance better than we do

Ryan Truscott 22 Oct 2021
A long-tongued nectar bat (Macroglossus minimus), a subspecies of which is found on New Britain Island. Image via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).

Deforestation notches up along logging roads on PNG’s New Britain Island

John Cannon 21 Oct 2021
Sea turtle swimming under sunset.

Half-Earth, conservation, and hope: An interview with E.O. Wilson, Paula Ehrlich and Sir Tim Smit    

Liz Kimbrough 20 Oct 2021

‘The images are confronting’: Q&A with animal photojournalist Jo-Anne McArthur

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 20 Oct 2021

With Bachman’s warbler and others added to the ‘extinct’ list, we must support biodiversity agreements (commentary)

Christoph Irmscher 20 Oct 2021

Green groups call for scrapping of $300m loan offer for Borneo road project

Basten Gokkon 20 Oct 2021

In harm’s way: Our actions put people and wildlife at risk of disease

Sharon Guynup 20 Oct 2021
Chimpanzee

In Guinea, an illegal $6b gold ‘bonanza’ threatens endangered chimpanzees

Ashoka Mukpo 19 Oct 2021

Project maps soundscape of human noise in northern Adriatic and impact on marine life

Francesco Martinelli 19 Oct 2021

Beyond tree planting: When to let forests restore themselves

Mike Gaworecki 18 Oct 2021

Drones are a knife in the gunfight against poaching. But they’re leveling up

Caitlin Looby 18 Oct 2021

Changes to global fisheries subsidies could level the playing field for traditional coastline communities

Gladstone Taylor 18 Oct 2021

As seizures of poached giant clams rise, links to ivory trade surface

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 15 Oct 2021

Guatemala tightens cattle ranching rules, but can they stop deforestation?

Maxwell Radwin 15 Oct 2021
Daroyen in Raja Ampat, Indonesia. Photo credit: NASA Landsat

30×30 is not a one-size-fits-all biodiversity target (commentary)

Karl Burkart 15 Oct 2021
The forests of the Torricelli Mountain Range. Image courtesy of the Tenkile Conservation Alliance.

Deforestation threatens tree kangaroo habitat in Papua New Guinea

John Cannon 14 Oct 2021
The aquatic life of the San Pedro Mártir River in Tabasco, Mexico, finds refuge in the submerged roots of the red mangrove forests. Image by Octavio Aburto.

Inland mangroves reveal a tumultuous climatic past — and hint at our future

John Cannon 14 Oct 2021

Biosurveillance of markets and legal wildlife trade needed to curb pandemic risk: Experts

Gloria Dickie 14 Oct 2021
Malayan tiger

Fate of Malaysian forests stripped of protection points to conservation stakes

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 13 Oct 2021

Forests falling for cashew monocultures: A ‘repeated mistake’ in Côte d’Ivoire (commentary)

Cathy Watson 13 Oct 2021

Human influence on tropics predates Anthropocene, holds clues to current crisis

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 13 Oct 2021

Wildlife releases have a mixed record, and climate change complicates things

Natasha Gilbert 13 Oct 2021

To spot wild-caught birds in pet trade, researchers zoom into isotopic detail

Jansen Baier 13 Oct 2021

‘Kew Declaration’ unites experts on reforestation, aims at policymakers ahead of COP26

Liz Kimbrough 13 Oct 2021

To predict forest loss in protected areas, look at nearby unprotected forest

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 13 Oct 2021

Advocates call for a new human rights-based approach to conservation

Ashoka Mukpo 12 Oct 2021

‘Pristine wilderness’ without human presence is a flawed construct, study says

Latoya Abulu 12 Oct 2021
Jaguar

Fire and forest loss ignite concern for Brazilian Amazon’s jaguars

Carolyn Cowan 12 Oct 2021

Indonesian park officials douse wildfire in Javan leopard habitat

Asad Asnawi 12 Oct 2021

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