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Trump Admin unveils plan to weaken the US Endangered Species Act

Mongabay.com 24 Jul 2018

A warmer climate tinkers with Arctic spider’s choice of prey

Mongabay.com 24 Jul 2018

Colombia pledges to produce deforestation-free chocolate

Mongabay.com 23 Jul 2018
Sumatran elephants are critically endangered and could go extinct in the wild before mid-century. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Study finds elephants plant trees, play big role in forest structure

Morgan Erickson-Davis 23 Jul 2018

As planned excise flops, Indonesia ponders how to give up plastic bags

Basten Gokkon 23 Jul 2018

One-third of global fisheries operating at biologically unsustainable levels

Mongabay.com 20 Jul 2018

Peru: Marañón dry forests protected as a regional conservation area

Vanessa Romo 20 Jul 2018

New species of shark named after pioneering ‘Shark Lady’ Eugenie Clark

Mongabay.com 20 Jul 2018

Latam Eco Review: Ecuadoran court demands Chevron pay $9.5 billion in damages

Mongabay.com 20 Jul 2018
A fishing cat near Colombo, Sri Lanka, surrounded by trash.

Conservation Effectiveness

Mongabay.com 19 Jul 2018

DRC set to reclassify national parks for oil, open rainforest to logging

John Vidal 19 Jul 2018

Securing a future for Grevy’s zebras and the cultures of northern Kenya (commentary)

Alex Dudley 19 Jul 2018

Plant communities roar back after rat removal from Pacific islands

Mongabay.com 19 Jul 2018

India’s pre-election changes to green laws draw criticism

Mayank Aggarwal 19 Jul 2018

Cross-border camera trap research puts wild Amur leopard number at 84

Mongabay.com 19 Jul 2018

First fern genomes sequenced — and they hold a lot of promise

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Jul 2018

How a better understanding of psychopathology in captive primates can aid in conservation efforts

Mike Gaworecki 18 Jul 2018

Red flags abound as a warming Arctic opens up to shipping

Basten Gokkon 18 Jul 2018
Duong Le feeds shrimp on his intensive shrimp farm in Long An Province, Vietnam. Image by Zoe Osborne for Mongabay.

Pushing Vietnam’s shrimp industry toward sustainability

Zoe Osborne 17 Jul 2018

New species of venomous snake discovered by accident in Australia

Mongabay.com 17 Jul 2018

Peru: A decade-long quest to protect the world’s largest tropical glacier

Vanessa Romo 17 Jul 2018

EU demand siphons illicit timber from Ukraine, investigation finds

John Cannon 17 Jul 2018
Wood that was cut for charcoal production near Katha, northern Myanmar. Villages in this area used to cut teak and other valuable trees for export, but have since started producing charcoal. The charcoal being exported to China can be made from any tree, regardless of size or kind. This amount of trees could produce about 150 bags of charcoal. Photo by Nathan Siegel for Mongabay.

‘Single-minded determination’: China’s global infrastructure spree rings alarm bells

Basten Gokkon 17 Jul 2018
Coral reef in the Dominican Republic. Photo by Greg Asner.

Bold initiative aims to protect coral reefs in the Dominican Republic

Greg Asner, Clare LeDuff 16 Jul 2018

Pay more attention to forests to avert global water crisis, researchers urge

Mongabay.com 16 Jul 2018
John Aini at a Malagan ceremony. Image by JC Salyer.

Protecting PNG’s oceans: Q&A with marine activist John Aini

Basten Gokkon 16 Jul 2018
Cyprien Miandrimanana, a botanist now leading efforts to protect Bongolava, quit his job with the Missouri Botanical Garden and moved back home to the area in hopes of stopping the destruction he saw on trips to visit his parents. Photo by Rowan Moore Gerety for Mongabay.

Angry farmers set fire to offices of Madagascar eco group, gov’t agency

Rowan Moore Gerety 13 Jul 2018

Scientists urge Indonesian president to nix dam in orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Jul 2018

After devastating floods in 2013, an Indian state ignores the lessons

Mayank Aggarwal, Video by Kartik Chandramouli 13 Jul 2018

Another Cecil? Secrecy surrounds June trophy lion hunt

Jeremy Hance 13 Jul 2018

Latam Eco Review: Spectacled bears in the spotlight

Mongabay.com 13 Jul 2018

Madagascar’s native fauna defenseless against toxic invasive toads

Joshua Parfitt 13 Jul 2018

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