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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

Philippine study finds microplastics inside a commonly consumed fish

Mongabay.com 23 Jan 2020

The sounds of tropical katydids and how they can benefit conservation

Mike Gaworecki 22 Jan 2020

Mexico: Community forestry boosts conservation, jobs, and social benefits

Thelma Gómez Durán 22 Jan 2020

Mass tree planting along India’s Cauvery River has scientists worried

Nanditha Chandraprakash 22 Jan 2020

Black-market anchovies: Report details Peru’s illegal fish meal industry

Michelle Carrere 21 Jan 2020

Madagascar launches massive planting drive, eyes 60 million trees

Malavika Vyawahare, Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy 21 Jan 2020

Deforestation clips howler monkey calls, study finds

Mongabay.com 20 Jan 2020

A national park takes shape in Argentina as the forest disappears

Rodolfo Chisleanschi 17 Jan 2020

One of four North Atlantic right whale calves spotted so far this breeding season struck by ship

Mongabay.com 17 Jan 2020

India’s yak herders face the end of ancient tradition in warming Himalayas

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 17 Jan 2020

What is needed to keep Sri Lanka’s leopards roaming free? (Commentary)

Jagath Gunawardana 17 Jan 2020

Rangers in Indonesia’s Aceh to get guns as officials flex on violators

Basten Gokkon 16 Jan 2020

Indigenous lands hold 36% or more of remaining intact forest landscapes

John Cannon 16 Jan 2020

Colombia’s ‘Heart of the World’: Mining, megaprojects overrun indigenous land

Taran Volckhausen 15 Jan 2020

As 2019 ends, reptile-rich Sri Lanka delivers three more new gecko species

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 15 Jan 2020

As we act on climate, we mustn’t neglect nature (commentary)

Charlie Gardner, Matthew Struebig, Zoe Davies 14 Jan 2020

Cost-effective conservation: Study identifies key ‘umbrella’ species

John Cannon 14 Jan 2020

One six-week expedition discovered ten new songbird species and subspecies in Indonesia

Mongabay.com 13 Jan 2020

Update to biodiversity treaty proposes protecting at least 30% of Earth

Mongabay.com 13 Jan 2020

Indonesian officials wield sharia law in defense of Sumatran rhinos

Junaidi Hanafiah, Rahmadi Rahmad 10 Jan 2020

Philippine fern efficiently absorbs arsenic, copper from toxic mining soil

Mongabay.com 9 Jan 2020

Rare plant species are especially vulnerable to climate change, and rarity is more common than previously understood

Mongabay.com 9 Jan 2020

Polly share a cracker: Study finds grey parrots are good Samaritans

Malavika Vyawahare 9 Jan 2020

Tool use in puffins may point to ‘underestimated’ intelligence in seabirds

Mongabay.com 8 Jan 2020
Proboscis monkeys in Borneo have lost habitat to oil palm plantations and shrimp farms. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Palm oil processors top plantations in destroying proboscis monkey habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Jan 2020
Detail of the Igarapé Água Branca stream, the last clean waterway in the city of Manaus, the capital of Amazonas state, in the Amazon region. Image by César Nogueira.

The fight is on to save the last clean waterway in Brazil’s Manaus

Sam Cowie 8 Jan 2020

Ami Vitale on how meeting Sudan, the last male northern white rhino, changed her life

Mike Gaworecki 7 Jan 2020

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