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Solomon Islands province bans logging in bid to protect environment

Mongabay.com 21 Jan 2019

Why are more female than male Magellanic penguins stranded in South America every year?

Mongabay.com 17 Jan 2019
Capybaras, Colombia. Image by Rhett Butler for Mongabay

Latam Eco Review: Resistance, hope and camera traps

Mongabay.com 11 Jan 2019

In Malta, legal loopholes give poachers cover to hunt migratory birds

Jason J. Gregg 11 Jan 2019

Drones with thermal cameras help detect camouflaged species

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 10 Jan 2019

Community-based conservation offers hope for Amazon’s giant South American turtle

Jenny Gonzales 9 Jan 2019

Indonesia confiscated some 200 pet cockatoos. What happened to them?

Nadine Freischlad 4 Jan 2019
Chickadee perches. Photo by Doug Tallamy of the University of Delaware.

Gardens with too many nonnative plants threaten populations of insect-eating birds, study finds

Hannah Hagemann 26 Dec 2018

Chile renews contract with lithium company criticized for damaging wetland

Michelle Carrere 26 Dec 2018

Is captive breeding the answer to Indonesia’s songbird crisis?

Nadine Freischlad 25 Dec 2018

Photos: Top 10 new species of 2018

Shreya Dasgupta 25 Dec 2018

Conservation officers forced online in fight against bird trafficking

Ian Morse 20 Dec 2018

Scarlet macaws stalked by wildlife traffickers in Guatemala

Rodrigo Soberanes 20 Dec 2018

Bird business: The man who taught his tribe to profit from conservation

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Dec 2018

Shorebirds can no longer count on the Arctic as a safe haven for rearing their young

Mongabay.com 17 Dec 2018

Satellite trackers help fight vultures’ extinction in southern Africa

Munyaradzi Makoni 13 Dec 2018

Dam drove ‘collapse’ of rainforest bird populations in Thailand

Mongabay.com 13 Dec 2018

Birds on Broadway: A Q&A with the Audubon Mural Project’s Avi Gitler

Nandini Velho 12 Dec 2018

Feed a fishery, starve a seabird

Mongabay.com 12 Dec 2018

In eastern Indonesia, a bird-trafficking hotspot flies under the radar

Ian Morse 11 Dec 2018
Sumatran partridge (Arborophila sumatrana), endemic to the island of Sumatra, no longer survives outside protected areas, according to researchers. Photo by Roland Wirth

Ground-feeding birds in Southeast Asia may be going extinct outside protected areas

Priyanka Runwal 10 Dec 2018

Culls push endangered fruit bat closer to extinction in Mauritius

Mongabay.com 5 Dec 2018
Rose-ringed parakeets seized from the parrot trade in Senegal. Photo courtesy of Davide de Guz/World Parrot Trust

Deadly parrot virus found in native birds from Asia and Africa

Erin I. Garcia de Jesus 5 Dec 2018

‘Drifters of opportunity’: Seabirds track energy in tidal currents

Mongabay.com 3 Dec 2018

Photos: Here are the winners of the 2018 British Ecological Society photo contest

Mongabay.com 3 Dec 2018

For the birds: Innovations enable tracking of even small flying animals

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 3 Dec 2018
One of the major goals of protected areas is to conserve biodiversity. Photo of knobbed hornbill by Rhett A. Butler.

Group helps illegal bird traders transition into different lines of business

Nadine Freischlad 3 Dec 2018

In pursuit of the rare bird that vanishes for half the year

Abhaya Raj Joshi 27 Nov 2018

A living planet begins with thriving forests (commentary)

Alistair Monument 27 Nov 2018

This blue-throated hummingbird is new to science — but already endangered

Emily Clark 27 Nov 2018

Map pinpoints ‘last chance’ locations of endangered species

John Cannon, Shreya Dasgupta 23 Nov 2018

Two iconic birds make a striking comeback, but much work remains

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Nov 2018

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