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From Flores to Papua: Meet 10 of Indonesia’s mangrove guardians

Loren Bell 1 Jun 2021

The key to averting environmental catastrophe is right beneath our feet

Claire Asher 1 Jun 2021

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

Mongabay.com 1 Jun 2021

Wildlife trafficking, like everything else, has gone online during COVID-19

Imelda Abano, Leilani Chavez 1 Jun 2021

Lean times leave orangutans wasting away. Habitat loss makes things worse

Hans Nicholas Jong 31 May 2021

In the International Year of Caves and Karst, Brazilian caves are at high risk (Commentary)

Enrico Bernard | Rodrigo Lopes Ferreira | Francisco W. Cruz | Luís Piló | Allan Calux 31 May 2021

Declining fish biodiversity in Peruvian Amazon affecting human nutrition

Liz Kimbrough 28 May 2021

Illegal miners fire shots, burn homes in Munduruku Indigenous Reserve

Ana Ionova 28 May 2021

Hold the scuba: These lizards can breathe underwater

Mongabay.com 28 May 2021
Poached elephant in Garamba National Park, DRC. Image by Nuria Ortega/African Parks via Flickr

Tale of two traffickers is a rare spell of Congolese conservation convictions

Soraya Kishtwari 28 May 2021

Brazil’s Xingu River Basin feels the heat from Bolsonaro’s fiery rhetoric

Sam Cowie 27 May 2021

Reptile traffickers trawl scientific literature, target newly described species

Pavel Toropov 26 May 2021

New bill seeks to end Hong Kong’s days as an illegal wildlife trade hub

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 26 May 2021

Giant otter thought to be extinct in Argentina resurfaces. Literally

Mongabay.com 26 May 2021
Neotropical river otter by Sabrina Bettoni

Chirp, chuckle and growl: Neotropical river otters call out to communicate

Liz Kimbrough 26 May 2021

In Madagascar, cultural taboos can protect or harm the environment

Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy 25 May 2021

Genetic diversity of Sri Lanka’s ‘spa fish’ highlights need for informed conservation

Malaka Rodrigo 25 May 2021

Belize’s Maya Forest Corridor a ‘missing link’ to giant rainforest reserve (commentary)

Jut Wynne 24 May 2021
The golden terribilis dart frog, the world's most poisonous frog, is featured in one of the episodes. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Actor Juan Pablo Espinosa on the golden dart frog

Mongabay.com 24 May 2021

Madagascar’s vanishing trees

Malavika Vyawahare 21 May 2021

Illegal clearing for agriculture is driving tropical deforestation: Report

Justin Catanoso 20 May 2021

‘Drastic forest development’: Vietnam to plant 1 billion trees — but how?

Michael Tatarski 20 May 2021

Graham Sibley leads new podcast celebrating endangered species

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 May 2021
A member of the Indigenous Tikuna nation paddling a dugout canoe on a tributary of the Amazon in Colombia by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Protected areas now cover nearly 17% of Earth’s surface: U.N. report

John Cannon 20 May 2021
African elephants in Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda. Photo credit: Gregoire Dubois

An engaged society is key for the future of African conservation, says WWF Africa’s Alice Ruhweza

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 May 2021

In Colombia, a successful jaguar conservation program has a whiff of coffee

Antonio José Paz Cardona 20 May 2021
Rainforest in Malaysian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

The Pope, a prince and a judge walk into a bar…to argue for nature’s rights (commentary)

Mari Margil 19 May 2021

For Atlantic sea turtles, Sargasso Sea is home during the ‘lost years’

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 19 May 2021

Chile’s marine protected areas aren’t safe from its salmon farms

Michelle Carrere, Vanessa Romo 19 May 2021

Did you know that spix’s night monkeys only weigh around 1 kg?

Romi Castagnino 19 May 2021

Click here to plant a tree: Q&A with Ecosia’s Pieter van Midwood

Liz Kimbrough 18 May 2021

In Sri Lanka, here be dragonflies and damselflies like nowhere else (Commentary)

Amila Prasanna Sumanapala 18 May 2021

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