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Mesoamerican Reef gets improving bill of health

Mongabay.com 22 Jan 2018

Belize imposes offshore oil moratorium to protect reefs

Mongabay.com 15 Jan 2018

Global warming, pollution supersize the oceans’ oxygen-depleted dead zones

Basten Gokkon 9 Jan 2018

New checklist catalogs every vascular plant in the Americas

Mongabay.com 28 Dec 2017

Top 10 HAPPY environmental stories of 2017

Shreya Dasgupta 28 Dec 2017

Scientists determine there are seven species of silky anteater, not one

Mike Gaworecki 22 Dec 2017

Do protected areas work in the tropics?

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Dec 2017

Water sources under threat from mining in Ecuador’s mountains

Marlon Puertas 22 Nov 2017

Experience or evidence: How do big conservation NGOs make decisions?

Shreya Dasgupta 21 Nov 2017

$2 billion investment in forest restoration announced at COP23

Mike Gaworecki 15 Nov 2017

Recent report: Totoaba trafficking a conservation and security problem

John Cannon 6 Nov 2017
Dani man in Indonesian papua. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Does community-based forest management work in the tropics?

Shreya Dasgupta 2 Nov 2017

Brilliantly colored ‘lost’ salamander rediscovered after 42 years

Shreya Dasgupta 1 Nov 2017

First vaquita ‘rescued’ in bid to save the porpoise from extinction

Mongabay.com 25 Oct 2017

Mexico takes ‘unprecedented’ action to save vaquita

Mongabay.com 15 Oct 2017
Manolo Miranda, an indigenous leader recently acquitted of charges in a suit brought by the Barro Blanco dam's construction company, at a protest over the dam in August, 2016. Photo by Camilo Mejia Geraldo for Mongabay.

Indigenous group scores legal victory as dam floods their lands

Camilo Mejia Giraldo 12 Oct 2017

Nicaraguan beef raised illegally in biological reserve mostly exported

Duyerling Ríos, Cristopher Mendoza 14 Sep 2017

A global view from a mountain town: how conservation became ingrained in Monteverde

Caitlin Looby 6 Sep 2017

Extensive illegal cattle ranching destroys core area of Nicaragua’s Indio Maíz Biological Reserve

Duyerling Ríos, Cristopher Mendoza 28 Aug 2017

Re-peeling the effects of degradation: low-tech application of orange crop waste shows potential to restore tropical forests

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 25 Aug 2017
A male indigo bunting pauses in Texas during

Scientists combine crowd-sourced field observations with land-use and climate models to identify steps for migratory bird protection

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 18 Aug 2017

Is Nicaragua one of the world’s ‘deadliest countries’ to be an environmental defender? (commentary)

John Perry 28 Jul 2017

Business owners in top Belize destination want increased mangrove protections

Erik Hoffner 25 Jul 2017

Suspect Beef: Central America

Mongabay.com 19 Jul 2017

Scientists condemn expansion of industrial monocultures at expense of traditional gardens in Mexico

Mongabay.com 14 Jul 2017

Unveiled: The unraveling of Nicaragua’s Indio Maíz Biological Reserve (commentary)

Karen Masters, Hector Castaneda, Paola Muñoz, Adam Stein 29 Jun 2017

Panama: the ranching industry has moved into Darién National Park

José Arcia 26 Jun 2017

Guatemala provides an example of community forest management for Indonesia

Carolina Gamazo 12 Jun 2017

Communities band together to protect El Salvador’s last mangroves

Martha Pskowski 23 May 2017

Guatemalan authorities destroy secret airstrip in Laguna del Tigre National Park

Sebastián Escalón 19 May 2017

A new secret runway found in Laguna del Tigre National Park in Guatemala

Sebastián Escalón 18 May 2017

Howler monkeys booming in Belize sanctuary 25 years after translocation

John Cannon 10 May 2017

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