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Venezuela’s hungry hunt wildlife, zoo animals, as economic crisis grows

Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres 21 May 2018

Sylvia Earle on why we must act now to save the oceans

Mike Gaworecki 15 May 2018

Humpback whales near Antarctica making a comeback, study finds

Mongabay.com 8 May 2018

More than 800 totoaba swim bladders confiscated by Mexican authorities in smuggling busts

John Cannon 1 May 2018

First increase in Mekong River Irrawaddy dolphins in 20 years

Shreya Dasgupta 30 Apr 2018

Impacts of agriculture on Brazil’s Cerrado region

Mike Gaworecki 17 Apr 2018

Animal trainers are teaching wildlife to conserve themselves

Linda Lombardi 10 Apr 2018

Audio: Bowhead whales in the Arctic sing hundreds of complex songs

Mongabay.com 6 Apr 2018

NOAA publishes global list of fisheries and their risks to marine mammals

Mongabay.com 2 Apr 2018

Brazil creates four massive marine protected areas

Shreya Dasgupta 30 Mar 2018

‘Ropeless’ consortium aims to end entanglements of declining North Atlantic right whales

John Cannon 29 Mar 2018

Microplastic pollution in world’s oceans poses major threat to filter-feeding megafauna

Mike Gaworecki 23 Mar 2018

Only 12 vaquita porpoises remain, watchdog group reports

Mongabay.com 8 Mar 2018

Whale of a tale: Protecting Panama’s humpbacks from ship collisions

Andrew J. Wight 8 Feb 2018

Company to probe for minerals close to Mekong River dolphin habitat

Mongabay.com 17 Jan 2018

African Parks backs marine reserve brimming with wildlife in Mozambique

Mongabay.com 14 Dec 2017

Amazon tribe’s traditional medicine encyclopedia gets an update, and conservation effectiveness in Madagascar examined

Mike Gaworecki 12 Dec 2017

Entanglements hamper reproduction as right whale population slides

John Cannon 5 Dec 2017
2. A pink river dolphin (Inia geoffrensis) leaps from the Samiria River in northeastern Peru. These dolphins, along with scores of fish and crocodilians, suffered from an intense drought in 2010, but most recovered during extreme floods between 2011 and 2015. Photo courtesy of Richard Bodmer and FundAmazonia.

Extreme seasonal changes in Amazon river levels threaten forest conservation by indigenous people

Jeremy Rehm 4 Dec 2017

From friends to strangers: The decline of the Irrawaddy dolphin (commentary)

Sabrina Gyorvary with Namthip Khudsavanh 20 Nov 2017

4 sperm whales dead after mass stranding in Sumatra

Mongabay.com 14 Nov 2017

Breeding-age female vaquita dies after being taken into captivity

Mike Gaworecki 6 Nov 2017

Recent report: Totoaba trafficking a conservation and security problem

John Cannon 6 Nov 2017

‘Record’ number of migratory species protected at October wildlife summit

Mongabay.com 31 Oct 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

Biodiversity of Indian Sunderbans recorded in one compendium for first time

Bhavya Khullar 6 Oct 2017

Second Irrawaddy dolphin death in Borneo linked to fishing nets

Yovanda 3 Oct 2017

‘Ships, sonar and surveys’: Film explores impacts of a noisy ocean

John Cannon 21 Sep 2017

Move to open U.S. Atlantic coast to oil drilling meets increased opposition

Mike Gaworecki 13 Sep 2017

The “dolphin who became man”: will the boto survive the catfish trade?

Maxine Chen 31 Jul 2017
A male southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina) among king penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) on Marion Island. Photo by Nico de Bruyn.

Hard but worth it: researchers fight invasives on Subantarctic islands (commentary)

P.J.N. (Nico) de Bruyn 29 Jun 2017

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