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A Royal Flycatcher (Onychorhynchus coronatus) spends time in the moist Amazon understory foraging. Photo by Philip Stouffer.

As the Amazon burns, what happens to its biodiversity?

Liz Kimbrough 24 Sep 2020

What is a pampas cat? Candid Animal Cam is back in the Americas

Romina Castagnino 22 Sep 2020

On World Rhino Day, ‘real work’ is still needed to save Sumatran rhinos

Basten Gokkon 22 Sep 2020

Two new Javan rhino calves are spotted in the species’ last holdout

Basten Gokkon 21 Sep 2020
Tanzanian women carry new beehives into the forest. Photo by Felipe Rodriguez/APW

Beyond tourism: A call for business ideas that protect African wildlife, ecosystems

Heather Richardson 16 Sep 2020

We are failing to save the planet’s species, finds UN report

Liz Kimbrough 16 Sep 2020

Bolivia’s jaguar seizures down as suspicions rise over new mafia

Vanessa Romo 15 Sep 2020

Are red pandas related to panda bears? Candid Animal Cam meets the furry red creature

Romina Castagnino 15 Sep 2020

Biologists warn ‘extinction denial’ is the latest anti-science conspiracy theory

Mike Shanahan 14 Sep 2020
Lightning over the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Manument. Photo by Adam Haggerty / BLM

Can public lands unify divided Americans? An interview with John Leshy

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Sep 2020

Poaching pressure mounts on jaguars, the Americas’ iconic big cat

Vanessa Romo 14 Sep 2020
Image by ilustrativa/John Lambeth/Pexels

For European chemical giants, Brazil is an open market for toxic pesticides banned at home

Pedro Grigori - Agência Pública / Repórter Brasil 10 Sep 2020
Fires burning in the Amazon on August 17 next to the borders of the Kaxarari Indigenous territory, in Labrea, Amazonas state. Felled forests are intentionally lit in the Amazon to clear land for cattle ranching. Photo by: Christian Braga / Greenpeace

The best news of 2020? Humanity may never hit the 10 billion mark

Jeremy Hance 10 Sep 2020
Liz Campbell plays wolf howls into the night. Image by John Wendle for Mongabay.

Howling in the dark: Shining a light on a newly remembered wolf

John Wendle 10 Sep 2020
Cacao pod in Peru. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Latin America has twice the plant life of Africa, SE Asia

Mongabay.com 9 Sep 2020

Global wildlife being decimated by human actions, WWF report warns

Malavika Vyawahare 9 Sep 2020
Boy with a 'dorado' catfish. Photo by Michael Goulding.

Why the health of the Amazon River matters to us all: An interview with Michael Goulding

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Sep 2020

No, ‘regenerative ranching’ is not good for grassland birds (commentary)

Jennifer Molidor 8 Sep 2020
Giant Armadillo. Image courtesy of the Giant Armadillo Project.

In search of the ‘forest ghost,’ South America’s cryptic giant armadillo

Suzana Camargo 8 Sep 2020

How do Southern sea otters use tools? Candid Animal Cam heads to the ocean

Romina Castagnino 8 Sep 2020

How do we avert global warming, extinctions and pandemics? New app has answers

Morgan Erickson-Davis 4 Sep 2020
A mother koala and her joey who survived the forest fires in Mallacoota. Australia, 2020. Photo by Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals

Around the world, a fire crisis flares up, fueled by human actions

Liz Kimbrough 4 Sep 2020

‘Tamper with nature, and everyone suffers’: Q&A with ecologist Enric Sala

John Cannon 4 Sep 2020

Infrastructure plans imperil Latin America’s forests: Analysis

Mongabay.com 2 Sep 2020

Coronavirus caused by ‘unbalancing’ of nature: Q&A with Indigenous leader Levi Sucre Romero

Francesca Edralin 2 Sep 2020

What is a kinkajou? Candid Animal Cam meets the animal that is neither a bear nor an ape

Romina Castagnino 1 Sep 2020
Rangers in neighboring Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda. Photo for Mongabay.com by Rhett A. Butler.

Communities, conservation, and development in the age of COVID: Time for rethinking approaches (commentary)

M.I. Brown; B. Allgood; J. Waugh; R. Martino; S. Cheng; C.C. Kelman; & A.L. Porzecanski 31 Aug 2020
Burmese roofed turtle moments after emerging from an egg collected from a sandbank along the Chindwin River and incubated at a head-starting facility in Limpha village, Sagaing region, Myanmar. Photo by Myo Min Win/WCS Myanmar (Platt et al 2020).

Back from the brink, baby Burmese roofed turtles make their debut

Liz Kimbrough 28 Aug 2020

A mysterious heart bone in chimps points to cardiac disease

Julia John 28 Aug 2020

The other Corona: Rescued pangolin is a rehabilitation success story

Mongabay.com 28 Aug 2020

In Cambodia, a sweeping new environment code languishes in legal limbo

Andrew Nachemson 26 Aug 2020
a tree fern savanna in the Cromwell Mountains of Papua New Guinea courtesy of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Study revealing New Guinea’s plant life ‘first step’ toward protection

John Cannon 25 Aug 2020

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