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Sub-Saharan African countries most vulnerable to invasive crop pests

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Jun 2016
Yu Jiahua poses in front of a small portion of the wire loops collected by the anti-poaching patrol team during the past two decades. Photo by Wang Yan.

PHOTOS: On a Chinese mountain, an aging anti-poaching hero ponders the future

Wang Yan 16 Jun 2016
Zou Huagang, head of Lianhe village, poses in front of a local kiwi farm. Zou's family owns about three acres of kiwi farmland. Photo by Wang Yan.

Making a living inside a reserve: an interview with village head Zou Huagang

Wang Yan 14 Jun 2016
A golden snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus roxellana), caught on camera trap inside the reserve. Photo courtesy of Laohegou Nature Reserve Center.

Can China’s first private nature reserve become truly sustainable?

Wang Yan 10 Jun 2016

Chinese villagers turn from logging to forest patrols, bees, and fish

Wang Yan 8 Jun 2016

China’s Wanglang panda reserve, once an ecotourism model, faces new threats

Wang Yan 6 Jun 2016

The dark side of China’s foreign fishing boom

Cory Rogers 2 Jun 2016
Red-eyed tree frog. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

The top 10 most biodiverse countries

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 May 2016

Only 60 vaquita porpoises remain in the world

Shreya Dasgupta 16 May 2016

6 new species of dragon millipedes discovered in Chinese caves

Shreya Dasgupta 8 Apr 2016

China’s forests are growing back – but at a cost

Morgan Erickson-Davis 6 Apr 2016

Global carbon dioxide emissions stay flat for second year in a row

Shreya Dasgupta 17 Mar 2016

Drop in timber smuggling gives ‘breathing space’ to Myanmar’s forests

Morgan Erickson-Davis 10 Mar 2016

China’s log imports fall sharply

Mongabay.com 3 Mar 2016

‘Status symbols’: Japan emerging as major hub for illegal trade in slow lorises due to their popularity as pets

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Feb 2016

The dangers of China’s ‘thumb monkey’ trend

Morgan Erickson-Davis 25 Feb 2016

It’s World Pangolin Day again. What can you do to help?

Shreya Dasgupta 19 Feb 2016

Threatened West African rosewood species gets CITES protection

Mike Gaworecki 16 Feb 2016

Two-thirds of the world’s population doesn’t have reliable access to fresh water

Mike Gaworecki 15 Feb 2016

Researchers say you get what you pay for when it comes to payments for ecosystem services

Mike Gaworecki 9 Feb 2016

Primate-Watching: In the Year of the Monkey, let’s build a Conservation Movement

Russell A. Mittermeier 3 Feb 2016

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

Wang Yan 25 Jan 2016

China to shut down 4,300 old coal mines, ban new coal mines

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Jan 2016

Indonesia’s ore-smelting ambitions augur rain of poison in Sulawesi

Melati Kaye 19 Jan 2016

India, China, Indonesia score lowest when it comes to tropical forest protection

Shreya Dasgupta 19 Jan 2016

Countries call for new CITES protections for rosewood species

Mike Gaworecki 14 Jan 2016

‘Aquatic cocaine’: Illegal trade in swim bladders of rare fish puts world’s rarest porpoise at risk of extinction

Shreya Dasgupta 12 Jan 2016

China’s demand for rosewood is destroying forests in Southeast Asia and, increasingly, In Africa

Mike Gaworecki 23 Dec 2015

The state of the market for ecosystem services

John Cannon 17 Dec 2015

Hong Kong’s pink dolphins could disappear due to airport expansion and bridge construction

Shreya Dasgupta 30 Nov 2015
Air pollution from outdoor cooking fires like this contribute to millions of global deaths, according to the study. Photo by Engineering for Change / Flickr.

Air pollution causes millions of preventable deaths in East Asia, say scientists

Ramin Skibba 17 Nov 2015
A giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) climbs a tree at the Bifengxia Giant Panda Breeding and Conservation Center in Sichuan, China. Photo by Binbin Li, Duke University

Protecting pandas shields other species in China

Laurel Hamers 17 Nov 2015

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