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CITES to move wildlife trade summit from Colombo to Geneva this August

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 13 Jun 2019

How to save insects and ourselves

Jeremy Hance 13 Jun 2019

Out on a limb: Unlikely collaboration boosts orangutans in Borneo

Nina Finley 12 Jun 2019
An elephant in South Africa. Photo by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Did efforts to protect DRC’s elephants and bonobos leave a trail of abuses?

Ashoka Mukpo 12 Jun 2019

Bronx Zoo director says zoos are more relevant to conservation than ever

Mike Gaworecki 12 Jun 2019

Homestay programs in Nepal’s rhino hub hold promise and pitfalls for locals

Abhaya Raj Joshi 12 Jun 2019

New rainforest gecko joins growing list of reptiles unique to Sri Lanka

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 11 Jun 2019

For the Philippine eagle, a shot at survival means going abroad

Leilani Chavez 11 Jun 2019

Inside an ambitious project to rewild trafficked bonobos in the Congo Basin

Christopher Clark 11 Jun 2019

Dam in Ethiopia has wiped out indigenous livelihoods, report finds

John Cannon 11 Jun 2019

Canada passes ‘Free Willy’ bill to ban captivity of all whales, dolphins

Mongabay.com 11 Jun 2019

Bumpy ride for conservation in PNG as lack of roads hinders activities

Lucy EJ Woods 10 Jun 2019

The tropics in trouble and some hope

Jeremy Hance 10 Jun 2019

Caribbean nations boost protection for extremely rare largetooth sawfish

Shreya Dasgupta 8 Jun 2019
A short-finned pilot whale in the Canary Islands, Spain. Image by Gustavo Perez via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

New pilot whale subspecies revealed: Q&A with marine biologist Amy Van Cise

Rebecca Kessler 7 Jun 2019

Healthy reefs, healthy people: Community-based marine conservation in Papua New Guinea (commentary)

Jonathan Booth 7 Jun 2019
Rainforest, reef, and ocean on Maratua Island, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Alliance launches plan to save the planet

Mongabay.com 7 Jun 2019

Twice as many fishing vessels now, but it’s harder to catch fish

Shreya Dasgupta 6 Jun 2019

Researchers and customs officials unite to fight wildlife trafficking using eDNA

David Klinges 6 Jun 2019

Vanishing act in Europe and North America

Jeremy Hance 6 Jun 2019

‘You don’t find orchids; they find you’: Q&A with botanist Edicson Parra

Gianluca Cerullo 6 Jun 2019

Why more women should be included in the leadership of Virunga National Park (commentary)

Judith Verweijen, Janvier Murairi, Esther Marijnen 5 Jun 2019
A venomous snake in the DRC. Photo by Hugh Kinsella Cunningham.

Congo’s hidden crisis: Snakebites and envenomation

Hugh Kinsella Cunningham 5 Jun 2019

For artisanal fishers, fish fences are an easy, but problematic, option

Basten Gokkon 5 Jun 2019

Study reveals a fragile web of knowledge linking plants to people

Liz Kimbrough 4 Jun 2019

Lemur yoga: Fueling the capture of wild lemurs? (commentary)

Kim Reuter, Marni Lafleur 3 Jun 2019

A global look at a deepening crisis

Jeremy Hance 3 Jun 2019

Long-term ecological research threatened by short-term thinking

Taran Volckhausen 3 Jun 2019
Students of Bole Gerji Primary and Secondary school in Addis Ababa planting trees that they received from the botanical garden as part of its ‘Model Gardening’ Project. Image courtesy Gullele Botanical Garden.

In Ethiopia’s Addis Ababa, Gullele Botanical Garden captivates city dwellers

Maheder Haileselassie Tadese 3 Jun 2019

New nets make shrimp trawling more sustainable in Latin America and Caribbean

Michelle Carrere 3 Jun 2019

Mass die-offs of puffins in Alaska may be linked to climate change

Mongabay.com 31 May 2019
Red-billed tropicbird (Phaeton aethereus) at Abrolhos Marine National Park. Image by Mia Morete via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Brazil green-lights oil prospecting near important marine park

Thais Borges 31 May 2019

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