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The Pan Borneo Highway on a collision course with elephants

John Cannon 28 Aug 2019

With record support, rhino rays and world’s fastest sharks get new trade protections

Mongabay.com 28 Aug 2019

Jumping the Shark: The Decline of the North Atlantic’s Shortfin Mako

Megan Stannard 28 Aug 2019

Meet the first gene-edited reptile: An albino lizard

Malavika Vyawahare 28 Aug 2019

What’s in a name? For Sri Lanka’s newest geckos, a political firestorm

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 27 Aug 2019

Giraffe trade to be monitored, strictly regulated

Mongabay.com 26 Aug 2019

The Pan Borneo Highway could divide threatened wildlife populations

John Cannon 26 Aug 2019

‘Like spaghetti’: Worm-slurping, hopping rats discovered in the Philippines

Nanditha Chandraprakash 26 Aug 2019

Sumatran elephant sanctuary under threat from bridge, port projects

Taufik Wijaya 26 Aug 2019
Newly established oil palm plantation in Central Kalimantan. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

81% of Indonesia’s oil palm plantations flouting regulations, audit finds

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Aug 2019

Snow leopard population overestimated in Nepal? DNA study suggests it may be

Abhaya Raj Joshi 23 Aug 2019

Hawaii braces for potential mass-coral bleaching event

Liz Kimbrough 23 Aug 2019

Indigenous communities, nat’l parks suffer as Malaysia razes its reserves

Kit Humphrey 23 Aug 2019

Aimed at linking communities, Malaysian highway may damage forests

John Cannon 23 Aug 2019

Bid to allow sale of ivory stockpiles rejected at wildlife trade summit

Mongabay.com 23 Aug 2019

Half a billion bees dead as Brazil approves hundreds more pesticides

Pedro Grigori - Agência Pública / Repórter Brasil 23 Aug 2019

Australia to ban domestic trade in elephant ivory and rhino horn

Mongabay.com 22 Aug 2019

Discovery of a metallic-blue tarantula bolsters case for trade protection

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 22 Aug 2019

The Pan Borneo Highway brings wildlife threats to nat’l park doorstep

John Cannon 21 Aug 2019

Wild orchid trade in China is huge, overlooked and ‘devastating,’ study finds

Shreya Dasgupta 21 Aug 2019

The superb lyrebird’s song, dance and incredible vocal mimicry

Mike Gaworecki 20 Aug 2019

Mysterious plants that thrive in darkness, steal food: Q&A with botanist Kenji Suetsugu

Shreya Dasgupta 19 Aug 2019

Connecting an island: Traveling the Pan Borneo Highway

John Cannon 19 Aug 2019

Travel: A charmed encounter with birds-of-paradise in Papua’s Arfak Mountains

Een Irawan Putra 19 Aug 2019
Wild male saiga antelope (Saiga tatarica) visiting a waterhole at the Stepnoi Sanctuary, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia. Photo credit: Andrey Giljov [CC BY-SA 4.0]

CITES 2019: What’s Conservation Got To Do With It? (commentary)

Susan Lieberman 16 Aug 2019

Bid for greater protection of star tortoise, a trafficking mainstay

Dennis Mombauer 16 Aug 2019

Madagascar: What’s good for the forest is good for the native silk industry

Edward Carver 16 Aug 2019

Asian elephant footprints serve as safe spaces for frog nurseries

Nanticha Ocharoenchai 16 Aug 2019

Newly described giant extinct penguin and parrot once lived in New Zealand

Mongabay.com 16 Aug 2019

Ekuri Initiative: Inside a Nigerian community’s battle to keep its forest

Linus Unah 15 Aug 2019
Margay (Leopardus wiedii)

Precision conservation: High tech to the rescue in the Peruvian Amazon

Lisa Palmer 15 Aug 2019

Nigeria finds itself at the heart of the illegal pangolin trade

Orji Sunday 15 Aug 2019

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