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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

Killing gods: The last hope for the world’s rarest reptile

Jeremy Hance 7 Jan 2020

Science-backed policy boosts critically endangered Nassau grouper

Mongabay.com 6 Jan 2020

2019: The year Sri Lanka’s stunning new species came to light (Commentary)

Amila Prasanna Sumanapala 6 Jan 2020

The long goodbye: Study declares ancient Chinese paddlefish extinct

Shreya Dasgupta 6 Jan 2020

Deadly conditions for Indonesian migrant crews tied to illegal fishing

Basten Gokkon 6 Jan 2020
The spider Pamphobeteus sp. (Theraphosidae) and Chiasmocleis royi. Photo by Emanuele Biggi.

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Mongabay.com 3 Jan 2020

Communities in Ecuador fight back against palm oil

Alejandro Pérez 3 Jan 2020

From scorpion skewers to cricket flour, bug protein is becoming big business

Michael Tatarski 3 Jan 2020

‘Rediscovered’ after 100 years, Gurney’s pitta is in peril once again

Megan Stannard 2 Jan 2020

Bolsonaro’s Brazil: 2020 could see revived Amazon mining assault — part two

Sue Branford, Thais Borges 31 Dec 2019

Balancing short and long term interests vital for Sri Lanka in 2020 (Commentary)

Nalaka Gunawardene 31 Dec 2019

Illegal tin mining leaves trail of ruin in protected Brazilian rainforest

Ana Ionova 30 Dec 2019

Palm oil, fire pushing protected areas in Honduras to the ‘point of no return’

Leonardo Guevara, Lesly Frazier 30 Dec 2019

Habitat loss drives deadly conflict in Indonesia’s tiger country

Taufik Wijaya 30 Dec 2019
Burning a poisoned white-backed vulture carcass. Image courtesy Wildlife ACT.

Alarm over mass vulture poisoning in South Africa

Fred Kockott 29 Dec 2019
Forest canopy in Volcano on the big island of Hawaii. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Rainforests in 2020: 10 things to watch

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Dec 2019
Bamboo lemur in Madagascar. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Global consumer demands fuel the extinction crisis facing the world’s primates

Alejandro Estrada, Paul A. Garber 29 Dec 2019
PORTO VELHO, RONDÔNIA, BRAZIL. Aerial view of burned areas in the Amazon rainforest, in the city of Porto Velho, Rondônia state. (Photo: Victor Moriyama / Greenpeace)

2019: The year rainforests burned

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Dec 2019

Love triangle complicates efforts to breed Sumatran rhinos

Basten Gokkon 27 Dec 2019

Cambodian “bat man” bolsters the fight against dengue fever

Claire Baker-Munton 26 Dec 2019

Photos: Top 15 new species of 2019

Shreya Dasgupta 26 Dec 2019

Action plan for red colobus

Esther Nakkazi 26 Dec 2019

2019’s top 10 ocean news stories (commentary)

Emma Critchley, Douglas McCauley 25 Dec 2019

EU/Chinese soy consumption linked to species impacts in Brazilian Cerrado: study

Sarah Sax 24 Dec 2019
Grey Crowned Cranes. Image by Fredrick Mugira for Mongabay.

Community conservation agreements a lifeline for Uganda’s grey crowned cranes

Fredrick Mugira 24 Dec 2019

New monkey discovered on “island” amid deforestation in Brazil

Mongabay.com 23 Dec 2019

The best animal calls featured on the Mongabay Newscast in 2019

Mike Gaworecki 23 Dec 2019

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