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Tracking technologies help to identify key marine areas for basking sharks

Bangladesh sticks with coal power plant project despite major backlash

Study gauges use of tea as buffer crop to curb mountain gorilla raids

Guatemala’s La Pasión River is still poisoned, nine months after an ecological disaster

Toxic beetles and poisonous plants: Study reveals how southern Africa’s ‘bushmen’ make deadly poison arrows

Focus on breeding sites and biodiversity to control Zika, says leading entomologist

Scientists see like predators to prove camouflage works

Bolivia’s second largest lake disappears, due to desertification and contamination

The week in environmental news – Feb 12, 2016

Can Cutting-Edge Drone Technology Help Answer the Age-Old Question of Bipedalism?

Focus on great apes, draws attention from other species, finds study

Aceh citizens ask governor to keep bulldozers out of a crucial rainforest

Peruvian Amazon will get wetter and experience more severe floods, threatening wildlife

As the U.S. bans trans fats, palm oil is poised to take over – but at what cost?

Can a virtual fence help protect birds from human structures?

Shocking discovery in Gabon: a new electric fish

Republic of Congo awards two million hectares of timber concessions

Photos: ‘Extremely rare’ baby albino turtle spotted in Australia

Why is Tasmania burning, and why are scientists worried?

Cincinnati-born Harapan the rhino adjusting well to life in Sumatra

Meet the new spider named after Johnny Cash

Researchers say you get what you pay for when it comes to payments for ecosystem services

‘Where Have All the Animals Gone?’ – a journey through Africa and Asia

The week in environmental news – Feb 05, 2016

Study finds logging helps black rats invade tropical rainforests, push native species out

Prospective Congo palm oil plantation wrecking prime great ape habitat

Rare video: young orangutan and gibbon play together in the Borneo jungle

Two new jewel-eyed tree frog species discovered in Taiwan, display strange reproductive behavior

Previously undiscovered lion population found in Ethiopia

Primate-Watching: In the Year of the Monkey, let’s build a Conservation Movement

New deforestation hotspot threatens southern Peru’s tremendous biodiversity

Managing fish stock –and fishermen– along Brazil’s Canaticu River

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