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Tigers face ‘unprecedented’ threat from transport projects: WWF

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Nov 2016
Dominica sperm whales near the surface. Photo Courtesy of The Dominica Sperm Whale Project.

Distinctive sperm whale cultures reveal dramatic population shifts in the Galápagos

Yasemin Saplakoglu 23 Nov 2016

The Javan rhino: protected and threatened by a volcano

Tom Peeters 23 Nov 2016

Palm oil culprits apprehended in the Leuser Ecosystem. Who sent them?

Junaidi Hanafiah 23 Nov 2016

Female chimpanzees wait for their turn at the top of the social pecking order

Aylin Woodward 23 Nov 2016

Scientists discover the real vocalists behind the ‘singing snake’: tree frogs

Shreya Dasgupta 23 Nov 2016

KEDR: Watching over the cedar forests of the Russian Far East

Julia John 23 Nov 2016

Silent soldiers of the extreme, or why I’m glad I’m not a wild yak

Joel Berger 22 Nov 2016

Small-scale farming threatens rainforests in Sumatra

Devika Garg Bansal 22 Nov 2016

Humpback whales learn habitat loyalty from their mothers, Alaskan study shows

Teresa L. Carey 22 Nov 2016

Military training areas can be important wildlife refuges: new study

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Nov 2016

Peru’s Manu National Park declared world’s top biodiversity hotspot

Milton López Tarabochia 21 Nov 2016

Over-fertilization diminishes the biodiversity of global grasslands

Emma Hiolski 21 Nov 2016

Amazon oil spill impacts indigenous villages on Teles Pires River

Zoe Sullivan 21 Nov 2016

Yosemite’s yellow-legged frogs bounce back from near extinction

Ula Chrobak 21 Nov 2016

Don’t feed the orangutans — a warning unheeded at popular ecotourism stop

Aria Danaparamita 21 Nov 2016

Major Congo Basin forest conference convenes in Rwanda

John Cannon, Ric Francis 21 Nov 2016

Tracking down logging roads in the Congo Basin

John Cannon 20 Nov 2016
Kahuzi-Biega National Park rangers stand in formation at the park in October, 2016. Photo by Thomas Nicolon for Mongabay.

Protecting gorillas at all costs: park rangers of the Congo

Thomas Nicolon 20 Nov 2016

Off-the-shelf hobby drones are helping save elephants in Tanzania

Mike Gaworecki 18 Nov 2016

Deep sea mining plans for Papua New Guinea raise alarm

David Hutt 18 Nov 2016

Where have all the lutungs gone? Mystery monkeys fast disappearing

William H. Funk 18 Nov 2016

Large branches fall from the western Amazon rainforest canopy at a surprising rate

Sarah McQuate 18 Nov 2016

A data trove to support a hoped-for shark sanctuary in Indonesia

Marge Segre 18 Nov 2016

The beloved Hawaiian honeycreeper birds are at risk of extinction from avian malaria

Sarah Derouin 18 Nov 2016

Illegal trade in bear bile persists in Vietnam despite ban

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Nov 2016

The Philippines’ Mindanao is a treasure trove of reptile and amphibian diversity

Rachel Diaz-Bastin 17 Nov 2016

Elusive elephants: Determining where 19th century ivory trade victims roamed

Sukee Bennett 17 Nov 2016

Rhinos to get new homes in India

Shreya Dasgupta 17 Nov 2016

Public hearing concludes Vietnam fails to crack down on wildlife trafficking

Azarja Harmanny 16 Nov 2016
Indawgyi Lake in Kachin State, Myanmar. Photo by Brent Crane

Illegal logging ‘ravaging’ Myanmar’s Indawgyi Lake Wildlife Reserve

Brent Crane 16 Nov 2016

These 3 new miniature salamanders are already headed for extinction

Shreya Dasgupta 16 Nov 2016

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