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In Borneo, building a nest box — and a future for conservation (commentary)

Christina Imrich 10 Feb 2020

Mika Ganobal, the civil servant who risked his job to save his homeland

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 7 Feb 2020

Lucky ducks: Once thought extinct, rare pochards take steps toward recovery

Edward Carver 6 Feb 2020

Sandpipers on an arduous migration now have a rest stop all their own

Nanditha Chandraprakash 6 Feb 2020

Endangered migratory birds on collision course with Philippine airport project

Mongabay.com 3 Feb 2020

Sri Lanka’s divine pests: Peafowl problem calls for human action (Commentary)

A.A. Thasun Amarasinghe 27 Jan 2020

Window tech could save billions of birds, and it’s already here

Rachael Meyer 24 Jan 2020

Cost-effective conservation: Study identifies key ‘umbrella’ species

John Cannon 14 Jan 2020

One six-week expedition discovered ten new songbird species and subspecies in Indonesia

Mongabay.com 13 Jan 2020

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

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

Megan Stannard 2 Jan 2020
Burning a poisoned white-backed vulture carcass. Image courtesy Wildlife ACT.

Alarm over mass vulture poisoning in South Africa

Fred Kockott 29 Dec 2019

Photos: Top 15 new species of 2019

Shreya Dasgupta 26 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

The best animal calls featured on the Mongabay Newscast in 2019

Mike Gaworecki 23 Dec 2019

A Philippine conservation park juggles funding needs with animal welfare

Arnel Murga 16 Dec 2019

Vanishing sea ice in the Arctic could shake up seabird migrations

John Cannon 11 Dec 2019

A celebratory kind of revolution: Peruvian villagers hold a bird festival (commentary)

Brian Landever, Fufkin Vollmayer 9 Dec 2019

Do birds try to shout down airplanes? The evidence suggests they do

Malavika Vyawahare 9 Dec 2019

Extinct in the wild, a Brazilian bird makes a tentative return to the jungle

Pedro Biondi 2 Dec 2019
Small insect-eating birds, such as the violet-green swallow, have not declined as severely as larger meat-eating birds. However, future warming may further increase water demands and put more species at risk of collapse. Photo by Sean Peterson

Heat stress is causing desert bird populations to collapse

Jesse Kathan 29 Nov 2019
Hooded vulture. Image courtesy John Davies/EWT

Lift-off for first African vulture safe zones

Fred Kockott, Tony Carnie 28 Nov 2019

It takes a school, and a community, to save this rare Philippine hornbill

Leilani Chavez 28 Nov 2019

New honeyeater species described from Indonesia’s Alor Island

Basten Gokkon 12 Nov 2019

Emperor penguins could disappear by 2100 if nations don’t cap emissions

Mongabay.com 8 Nov 2019
Hill Myna, Gracula religiosa, for sale in a bird market, Java, Indonesia. photo credit: Gabby Salazar

Mischaracterizing the conservation benefits of trade (commentary)

Brett R. Scheffers, Brunno F. Oliveira, Ieuan Lamb, David P. Edwards 8 Nov 2019

Grassroots campaign saves major wetland in Montenegro

Mark Hillsdon 1 Nov 2019

10 takeaways from Indonesia’s grassroots #SaveAru success

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 28 Oct 2019

As birds winter in Sri Lanka, one enthusiast makes sure their memory stays

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 25 Oct 2019

Amazon’s male white bellbird has the loudest recorded call

Mongabay.com 23 Oct 2019

New flowerpecker species discovered in imperiled lowland forests of Borneo

Mongabay.com 18 Oct 2019

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