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Massive protected area around ‘Atlantic Galapagos’ one step closer to becoming reality

Mongabay.com 18 Sep 2019

Pan Borneo Highway development endangers the Heart of Borneo

John Cannon 18 Sep 2019

Gran Chaco: South America’s second-largest forest at risk of collapsing

Rodolfo Chisleanschi 17 Sep 2019

Indigenous communities, wildlife under threat as farms invade Nicaraguan reserve

Taran Volckhausen 17 Sep 2019

Humpback whales across the Pacific Ocean are singing the same song

Mike Gaworecki 17 Sep 2019

Newly described Chinese giant salamander may be world’s largest amphibian

Mongabay.com 17 Sep 2019

Interfaith leaders step up to protect the world’s ‘sacred’ rainforests

Justin Catanoso 17 Sep 2019

Mexican officials battle a tide of fire eating away at a protected reserve

Maxwell Radwin 16 Sep 2019

Popular pesticide linked to weight loss and delayed migration in songbird

Mongabay.com 16 Sep 2019

Video: Pango-Cam offers amazing and unique view of pangolin behavior

Erik Hoffner 16 Sep 2019

‘A green desert’: Mammals take a hit in Colombia’s oil palm plantations

Megan Stannard 16 Sep 2019

Shocking news: There are actually three species of electric eel in the Amazon, not one

Mongabay.com 13 Sep 2019

New gecko species named in honor of Sri Lankan herpetologist Anslem de Silva

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 13 Sep 2019

Worldwide deforestation rising despite bold commitments, report finds

Mongabay.com 13 Sep 2019

Decolonizing trees in a tropical city to nurture multi-cultural identity

Carinya Sharples 13 Sep 2019

A pearl oyster farm in Bali aims to be a sustainable source of the jewel

Basten Gokkon 13 Sep 2019

‘Radically changing’ a rare Mauritian plant’s story: Q&A with ecologist Prishnee Bissessur

Shreya Dasgupta 12 Sep 2019

REDD+ more competitive than critics believe, study finds

John Cannon 12 Sep 2019

Beehive fences can help mitigate human-elephant conflict

Hannah Thomasy 11 Sep 2019

Nepal to conduct, self-fund, rhino census in March 2020

Abhaya Raj Joshi 11 Sep 2019

A lifeline for the last leopards (commentary)

Thomas S. Kaplan 10 Sep 2019

Sri Lanka scientists stand by naming of new geckos amid nationalist criticism

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 10 Sep 2019

Camera trap study reveals Amazon ocelot’s survival strategies

Claire Asher 10 Sep 2019
A ground pangolin (Smutsia temminckii), the species of pangolin that lives in Zimbabwe. Three other pangolin species live in Africa, and four others live in Asia. Image by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

Malawi sentences pangolin smugglers, cracks down on wildlife crime

Mongabay.com 10 Sep 2019

Into the abyss with deep sea biologist Diva Amon

Erik Hoffner 9 Sep 2019

Loss of Madagascar’s biodiversity is a loss for Earth, Pope says

Malavika Vyawahare 9 Sep 2019

Nail paint helps researchers estimate numbers of rare Cuban bat species

Shreya Dasgupta 9 Sep 2019

Disaster strikes in Bolivia as fires lay waste to unique forests

Carolina Méndez, Isabel Mercado 6 Sep 2019

Asian otters gain protection from the pet trade

Erik Hoffner 6 Sep 2019
Google Earth satellite image showing a forest fragment in a deforested landscape in Rondonia, Brazil.

Connected forests key to more sustainable palm oil industry: report

Lauren Crothers 5 Sep 2019

Sri Lanka scales up its domestic campaign to protect sharks with a global push

Malaka Rodrigo 5 Sep 2019

New monkey species found in Amazon forest area that’s fast disappearing

Shreya Dasgupta 5 Sep 2019

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