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Bauxite mining and Chinese dam push Guinea’s chimpanzees to the brink

Jennifer O’Mahony 21 May 2019

Interest in protecting environment up since Pope’s 2015 encyclical

John Cannon 21 May 2019

Volunteers find bones of new species of extinct heron at Florida fossil site

Mongabay.com 20 May 2019

Solomon Islanders imprisoned for trying to stop the logging of their forests

Louise Hunt 17 May 2019

A new election brings little hope for Solomon Islands’ vanishing forests

Louise Hunt 17 May 2019
Zanzibar red colobus (Piliocolobus kirkii) eating a leaf in Jozani Forest, Zanzibar. Photo: Hasin Shakur, Wikicommons GFDL 1.2

Red colobus conservation in Zanzibar: A cautiously optimistic tale

Bart Crezee 17 May 2019

’Green’ bonds finance industrial tree plantations in Brazil

Mongabay.com 16 May 2019

At 2,624 years, a bald cypress is oldest known living tree in eastern North America

Mongabay.com 16 May 2019

Canopy-dwelling rainforest mammals most sensitive to human disturbance

Mongabay.com 15 May 2019

An urban ‘butterfly experience’ in Sri Lanka

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 15 May 2019

Public education could curb bushmeat demand in Laos, study finds

Mongabay.com 15 May 2019

Exploring a hidden rainforest on an isolated mountain in Mozambique

Mike Gaworecki 14 May 2019

Penguin and seal poop powers life in Antarctica, study finds

Mongabay.com 14 May 2019

Climate change spurs deadly virus in frogs in the U.K.

Mongabay.com 13 May 2019

Hunting for rare plants in inaccessible spots: Q&A with drone pilot Ben Nyberg

Shreya Dasgupta 13 May 2019

Reptile haven of Sri Lanka yields up new species of rough-sided snake

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 11 May 2019

Lions vs. porcupines: A thorny tale with a moral about man-eaters

Malavika Vyawahare 10 May 2019

A Malagasy community races the timber mafia to save its forest

Malavika Vyawahare 10 May 2019

Social media enables the illegal wildlife pet trade in Malaysia

John Cannon 9 May 2019

Meet the new species of venomous pit viper described from India

Shreya Dasgupta 9 May 2019
Sanazy, from Beheloke Haut, says “hunger” pushed her to start farming seaweed three years ago: she earns about $20 from the crop during her best months. Photo by Rowan Moore Gerety for Mongabay.

Amid aquaculture boom, report guides investors toward sustainability

Maxwell Radwin 8 May 2019

Two-thirds of Earth’s longest rivers no longer free-flowing

Mike Gaworecki 8 May 2019

New map shows warming waters where coral reefs could be under threat

Shreya Dasgupta 8 May 2019

‘To save a forest you have to destroy a nicer one’: U.S. Marines target forest in Guam

Nina Finley 8 May 2019

Climate change is causing marine species to disappear from their habitat twice as fast as land animals

Mongabay.com 7 May 2019

’Unprecedented’ loss of biodiversity threatens humanity, report finds

Mongabay.com 7 May 2019
A Punta Fuego voice actor reads off the script. Photo by J. Sanchez for WCS.

Radio drama encourages Belizean fishers to follow the rules

Ashley Stumvoll 6 May 2019

‘Landscape of fearlessness’: bushbuck emboldened following top-predator decline in Mozambique

Sophie Manson 6 May 2019

All you need is human feces: The strange world of dung beetle sampling

Gianluca Cerullo 6 May 2019

Malaysia calls on Southeast Asia to back palm oil against ‘unfair’ claims

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 May 2019

Conservationists call for lasting ban on trade in Malagasy precious timber

Malavika Vyawahare 3 May 2019

In Indonesia, bigger catches for a fishing village protecting its mangroves

Aseanty Pahlevi 3 May 2019

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