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Brave New Arctic: Sea ice has yet to form off of Siberia, worrying scientists

Sharon Guynup 26 Oct 2020
A coral reef in Indonesia. Photo by Grant Thomas / Coral Reef Image Bank.

Ambitious and holistic goals key to saving Earth’s biodiversity, study says

Liz Kimbrough 26 Oct 2020
Frigatebird displaying in the Galapagos. The Wyss Campaign for Nature partnered with the Charles Darwin Foundation to strengthen the management of the 138,872 square kilometer Galapagos Marine Reserve. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Despite COVID, political divides, conservation can advance: Hansjörg Wyss

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Oct 2020

Marmosets trafficked as pets now threaten native species in Atlantic forest

Sibélia Zanon 26 Oct 2020

Planned road projects threaten Sumatran rhino habitat, experts say

Junaidi Hanafiah 26 Oct 2020

Tradable by default: Reptile trafficking flourishes amid lack of protection

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 23 Oct 2020

Mongabay explores Sumatra, a land like no other

Mongabay.com 22 Oct 2020
Newly hatched olive ridley sea turtle in Costa Rica. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

The turtle egg that pinged back: Tracing a poaching pathway in Costa Rica

Claudia Geib 22 Oct 2020

Brazil’s Amazon dam plans: Ominous warnings of future destruction (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 22 Oct 2020
Jacob Hamblin Arch, Escalante, Utah. Photo by Tina Butler.

Public lands and parks are our common heritage: Bruce Babbitt

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Oct 2020

Paper giant APRIL linked to Borneo forest clearing despite zero-deforestation vow

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 Oct 2020

The rhino in the room: 3D scan brings near-extinct Sumatran species to virtual life

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Oct 2020
Rainbow over the Colombian Amazon. Photo © Wade Davis

Colombia, ethnobotany, and America’s decline: An interview with Wade Davis

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Oct 2020

At-risk Cerrado mammals need fully-protected parks to survive: Researchers

Sharon Guynup 20 Oct 2020

In Uganda, safeguarding chimpanzees against the scourge of snaring

Alex Dudley 20 Oct 2020

Why do wombats poop cubes? Candid Animal Cam is in Australia

Romina Castagnino 20 Oct 2020

‘No other choice’: Groups push to protect vast swaths of Antarctic seas

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 19 Oct 2020

Fire burns Pantanal’s upland heart and threatens nature’s fragile balance

Fernanda Wenzel 19 Oct 2020
An adult male Loris showing its teeth. Photo by by Andrew Walmsley courtesy of the Little Fireface Project.

Armed and dangerous, ‘murder lorises’ use their venom against each other

Liz Kimbrough 19 Oct 2020

Deforestation threatens to wipe out a primate melting pot in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Oct 2020

Madagascar experiments with drones for its massive reforestation effort

Rivonala Razafison 19 Oct 2020

The Sumatran rhino is sliding into extinction. It doesn’t have to

Mongabay.com 19 Oct 2020
Tapir at the Ambue Ari Sanctuary of Comunidad Inti Wara Yassi. Courtesy of CIWY

Wildlife emergency in Bolivia as fires threaten animal sanctuaries

Milan Sime Martinic 16 Oct 2020

Does trophy hunting hurt giraffe populations? A planned lawsuit says it does

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 16 Oct 2020
A scarlet macaw reared by the WCS Guatemala Program is ready to fly into the forest. Photo courtesy of WCS.

Captive-reared scarlet macaws get a second chance at life in the wild

Liz Kimbrough 16 Oct 2020
La Danta, as photographed from a helicopter. Photo by Dennis Jarvis/Flickr.

In Guatemala, refugees find new calling as park rangers

Antonio José Paz Cardona, Ashoka Mukpo 16 Oct 2020

Gorongosa National Park is being reforested via coffee and agroforestry

Erik Hoffner 15 Oct 2020

A radio program is helping save critically endangered gorillas in Nigeria

Mike Gaworecki 14 Oct 2020

Lots of suspects but few leads in mystery sea turtle deaths in Sri Lanka

Malaka Rodrigo 14 Oct 2020

‘Luckiest people’: Encountering a newborn Sumatran rhino in the wild

Basten Gokkon 14 Oct 2020

For Amazon’s harpy eagle, nesting trees are also coveted for timber

Richard Kemeny 13 Oct 2020

China still making pangolin-based treatments despite banning use of scales, report says

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 13 Oct 2020

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