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Lucky ducks: Once thought extinct, rare pochards take steps toward recovery

Edward Carver 6 Feb 2020

Sandpipers on an arduous migration now have a rest stop all their own

Nanditha Chandraprakash 6 Feb 2020
Foothills of the Atewa forest range. Image by Ahtziri Gonzalez/CIFOR via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Ghana’s government faces pushback in bid to mine biodiversity haven for bauxite

Awudu Salami Sulemana Yoda 5 Feb 2020
Wildlife in a market in Laos. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay

The wildlife trade threatens people and animals alike (commentary)

David S. Wilcove 5 Feb 2020

Chief Raoni, Nobel Peace Prize nominee, presides over historic meeting with over 600 indigenous leaders in Brazil

Rafael Forsetto 5 Feb 2020

Indonesia-WWF split puts rhino breeding project in Borneo in limbo

Basten Gokkon 3 Feb 2020

Endangered migratory birds on collision course with Philippine airport project

Mongabay.com 3 Feb 2020

Dorsal de Nasca: Peru pledges to create a huge new marine reserve

Yvette Sierra Praeli 3 Feb 2020

Illegal industrial fishing hampers small-scale African fisheries

John Cannon 3 Feb 2020

Any illegal fishing going on around here? Ask an albatross

Shreya Dasgupta 31 Jan 2020

Key cetacean site in Philippines sees drop in dolphin, whale sightings

Leilani Chavez 31 Jan 2020
Pack of bush dogs caught on camera trap at San Miguelito, Bolivia.

Rare Amazon bush dogs caught on camera in Bolivia

Mongabay.com 30 Jan 2020

Xavante tribe digs in as Brazil reneges on vow not to build a road in their reserve

Caio de Freitas Paes 30 Jan 2020

Dam that threatens orangutan habitat is ‘wholly unnecessary’: Report

Hans Nicholas Jong 30 Jan 2020
A bucket of fish at a market in Labuan Bajo, Indonesia. Image by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay

‘Just like terrorists’: Indonesia boosts vigilance for blast fishers

Basten Gokkon 30 Jan 2020

Rare trees are disappearing as ‘wood pirates’ log Bolivian national parks

Eduardo Franco Berton 29 Jan 2020

Severe drought and other climate impacts are driving the platypus towards extinction

Mongabay.com 29 Jan 2020

Answers in excrement: Fecal analysis yields insight about wild primates

Chia-Yi Hou 29 Jan 2020

Habitat loss, climate change make for an uncertain cricket harvest in Uganda

Thomas Lewton 29 Jan 2020

Indonesian environment ministry ends WWF partnership amid public spat

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Jan 2020
Chacma baboons in Tokai. Image by Ted Matherly via Flickr (CC BY-NC-2.0)

Urban wildlife: Managing Cape Town’s baboons

Heather Richardson 28 Jan 2020

Our growing footprint, wildlife extinctions, and the importance of contraception (commentary)

Sarah Baillie 28 Jan 2020

Bringing rocks to a dynamite fight: Fishers take on blast fishing in Peru

Michelle Carrere 28 Jan 2020

Belize officially declares wildlife corridor in key protected area complex

Mongabay.com 27 Jan 2020

Impending Amazon tipping point puts biome and world at risk, scientists warn

Shanna Hanbury 27 Jan 2020

Vale has filed hundreds of requests to exploit indigenous lands in Amazon

Maurício Angelo 27 Jan 2020

Sri Lanka’s divine pests: Peafowl problem calls for human action (Commentary)

A.A. Thasun Amarasinghe 27 Jan 2020
Pangolins rescued from wildlife traffickers. These individuals are at a rehabilitation center in Cambodia. Photo by Rhett Butler.

Conservationists welcome China’s wildlife trade ban

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Jan 2020

Iridescence helps these ‘living jewels’ hide in plain sight

Malavika Vyawahare 24 Jan 2020

Window tech could save billions of birds, and it’s already here

Rachael Meyer 24 Jan 2020
Shaman Angohó Ha-ha-hãe, one of the leaders of Naô Xohã indigenous village, poses for a photo close to the Paraopeba River. The Naô Xohã community is requesting to be temporarily relocated by Vale due to the river pollution. Image by Luiz Guilherme Fernandes for Mongabay

After a mine killed their river, a Brazil tribe fights for a new home

Elisângela Mendonça 24 Jan 2020

Indonesia forest fires push orangutans into starvation mode, study finds

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Jan 2020

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