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Hunted to the brink: Mammals in crisis

John Cannon 24 Oct 2016
The binturong or bearcat (Arctictis binturong). Photographed in Cambodia by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

What is a binturong?

Carly Nairn 13 Oct 2016

The Myanmar snub-nosed monkey: discovered and immediately endangered

Sean Mowbray 4 Oct 2016
Rangers at Kenya’s Samburu National Reserve. Photo by Ninara via Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

Poaching in Africa becomes increasingly militarized

William H. Funk 12 Sep 2016

IUCN motions to ban the pangolin trade

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 6 Sep 2016

World’s largest gorilla now Critically Endangered

Shreya Dasgupta 5 Sep 2016

Unknown, ignored and disappearing: Asia’s Almost Famous Animals

Laurel Neme 6 Jul 2016

The hidden toll of war: world’s largest ape plummets 77% in 20 years

Nika Levikov 5 Apr 2016

‘Exploitation crisis’: Civil war fueling ‘sharp rise’ in poaching and trafficking of South Sudan’s wildlife

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Mar 2016

Even minor forest disturbance can cause great ape population crashes

Rachel Nuwer 7 Mar 2016

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

Shreya Dasgupta 16 Feb 2016

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

Shreya Dasgupta 8 Feb 2016

Alarming proof of underreported bushmeat crisis in heart of Amazonia

Chaney Giordano 19 Jan 2016

200,000 of Peru’s primates trafficked for pet trade or bushmeat yearly

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 11 Dec 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

Oil roads to ecological ruin: Ecuador’s bushmeat and wildlife trade

Sean Mowbray 29 Oct 2015

Feline Unseen: The African Golden Cat

Sean Mowbray 10 Aug 2015

Bushmeat in Tanzania has an unexpected consumer

Michael Buelna 21 Jul 2015

Scientists urge greater enforcement of wildlife laws in Africa

Mongabay.com 12 Jul 2015

Chinese turtle heist sends rare Philippine species to brink of extinction, international rescue underway

Glenn Scherer 29 Jun 2015

Commercial bushmeat hunters put previously undetected pressure on Central Africa’s large birds

William Freedberg 20 Apr 2015

Expedition in the Congo rediscovers lost primate

Jeremy Hance 14 Apr 2015

Bushmeat’s dual role: threatened species face off against nutrition and culture

Victor Montoro 5 Mar 2015

Adorbs: scientists capture first photos of African golden cat kittens

Jeremy Hance 28 Jan 2015

Top 10 Environmental Stories of 2014

Rhett A. Butler 23 Dec 2014

Use of mammals still prevalent in Brazil’s Conservation Units

Annam Raza 6 Oct 2014

Will ‘Asia’s unicorn’ survive? Hunting and deforestation continue in Vietnam biosphere reserve PART II

Shreya Dasgupta 2 Oct 2014

How did Ebola Zaïre Get to Guinea?

Analysis Daniel Stiles 5 Aug 2014

Conservation controversy: are bonobos protected in the right ways and in the right places?

Shreya Dasgupta 30 Jul 2014

Don’t eat or touch bat bushmeat amid worsening Ebola outbreak, UN warns

Jeremy Hance 29 Jul 2014

Over a million pangolins slaughtered in the last decade

Jeremy Hance 28 Jul 2014

Setting the stage: theater troupe revives tradition to promote conservation in DRC

Anna Ikarashi 22 Jul 2014

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