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7 conservationists win the ‘Green Oscars’

Shreya Dasgupta 28 Apr 2016

Baby boom for New Zealand’s extremely rare giant parrot

Shreya Dasgupta 26 Apr 2016

Half of Sumatra’s forests within reach of the average bird trapper

Mongabay.com 18 Apr 2016

5 reasons why many conservation efforts fail

Shreya Dasgupta 30 Mar 2016

These little-known, colorful birds are latest victims of Indonesia’s caged-bird trade

Shreya Dasgupta 14 Mar 2016

Facebook emerging as a ‘thriving’ wildlife trade marketplace

Shreya Dasgupta 3 Mar 2016

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

Catharine Watson 15 Feb 2016

Scientists see like predators to prove camouflage works

Karen Johnston 15 Feb 2016

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

Shreya Dasgupta 12 Feb 2016

Can a virtual fence help protect birds from human structures?

Julia John 11 Feb 2016

Tropical forest protected areas might be working better than you think

Mike Gaworecki 27 Jan 2016

‘Sounds like Adele’: Melodious song leads to discovery of new bird species in India

Shreya Dasgupta 27 Jan 2016

Over 40 years, half of China’s land vertebrates disappear

Wang Yan 25 Jan 2016

Why should I care about endangered species?

Shreya Dasgupta 12 Jan 2016

Jokowi’s plan to free captive birds earns unexpected backlash

Mongabay.com 5 Jan 2016

Photos: The top 20 new species of 2015

Shreya Dasgupta 30 Dec 2015

Wildlife catastrophe at Amazon dam a warning for future Tapajós dams

Jennifer Huizen 28 Dec 2015

Bolivia’s domestic parrot trade supplied by birds seen as “crop pests”

Sean Mowbray 21 Dec 2015

New research sheds light on how to help birds in the vanishing Atlantic Forest

Apoorva Joshi 18 Dec 2015

Bellavista no more: Peru’s infamous wildlife market reduced to rubble

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 17 Dec 2015

Court cancels 30-year federal permits letting wind companies kill eagles

Mike DiGirolamo 4 Dec 2015

Organized crime role in Latin American wildlife trade hidden in shadow

Saul Elbein 2 Dec 2015

‘Catastrophic’ decline: nearly 99% of African grey parrots wiped out in Ghana

Shreya Dasgupta 1 Dec 2015

U.S. a major destination for trafficked Latin American wildlife

Sharon Guynup 25 Nov 2015

Villagers thwart an eagle trafficker on a volcano in Java

Hariyawan A. Wahyudi 24 Nov 2015

Eden Besieged: Amazonia’s Matchless Wildlife Pillaged by Traffickers

William H. Funk 23 Nov 2015

Latin American wildlife trafficking takes to the air

Lindsay Fendt 19 Nov 2015
The study authors counted carcasses from hundreds of markets like this one, where visitors can purchase whole birds and their body parts. Photo by Gerhard Nikolaus.

Vanishing vultures: Africa’s fetish and bushmeat trade is driving its scavengers to extinction

Brendan Bane 19 Nov 2015

The impacts of haze on Southeast Asia’s wildlife

Jose Hong 19 Nov 2015

Journey to oblivion: unraveling Latin America’s illegal wildlife trade

Laurel Neme 16 Nov 2015

El Salvador serves as bridge for export of trafficked Nicaraguan birds

Carlos Chávez 16 Nov 2015

To kill or not to kill? Scientists debate specimen collection

Shreya Dasgupta 11 Nov 2015

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