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Sri Lankans find a digital helping hand for baby birds fallen from nests

Malaka Rodrigo 20 Jun 2021

The birds of Zoom (commentary)

Enrique Ortiz 22 Apr 2021

Two new species of endangered screech owls identified from Brazil

Liz Kimbrough 1 Apr 2021

Sri Lanka’s budding biologists get their science on with iNaturalist

Malaka Rodrigo 11 Mar 2021

Mystery bird not seen in 172 years makes surprise reappearance in Borneo forest

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 25 Feb 2021

What does a great argus pheasant sound like? Candid Animal Cam listens to birds

Romi Castagnino 26 Jan 2021

The promise of ‘bird-friendly’ cities: Q&A with author Timothy Beatley

John Cannon 30 Nov 2020

A new conservation project is created in Costa Rica thanks to COVID-19

Milan Sime Martinic 9 Nov 2020
Peregrines falcon in Peru. Photo by Miguel Moran.

‘Godfather of Peruvian falcons’ uncovers peregrine’s epic journey from the Arctic

Liz Kimbrough 27 Oct 2020

Ornithologists discover more rare hornbills than thought on Philippine island

Leilani Chavez 31 Jul 2020
Philippine coral reefs in the Verde Island Passage, the centre of the center of the world's marine biodiversity, located in the Philippines. Image by Jett Britnell/Coral Reef Image Bank

App harnesses citizen power to keep tabs on Philippines’ coral reefs

Jen Chan 27 Jul 2020
A plastic beverage bottle floats in the shallow waters of Sand Island in Hawaii. Image by David Slater / NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Program Marine Debris Team, 2015.

‘Our life is plasticized’: New research shows microplastics in our food, water, air

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 15 Jul 2020

Conservationists find opportunity and community amidst current crises

Mike Gaworecki 10 Jun 2020

Think you’ve seen a mermaid? This Sri Lankan scientist sets the record straight

Malaka Rodrigo 4 Jun 2020

Yehimi Fajardo: A voice for the birds of Putumayo

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 11 May 2020

Overworked, underpaid and lonely: Conservationists find a new community online

Jeremy Hance 23 Mar 2020

A celebratory kind of revolution: Peruvian villagers hold a bird festival (commentary)

Brian Landever, Fufkin Vollmayer 9 Dec 2019

Facebook and Instagram posts help locate pygmy seahorses in Taiwan

Shreya Dasgupta 6 Nov 2019

‘Fantastic grandmothers’ snorkel, help uncover large sea snake population

Mongabay.com 4 Nov 2019

‘Holy grail’: Nest of extremely rare bird captured on video in Russia

Shreya Dasgupta 4 Sep 2019

“Part of something bigger”: the social movement around New Zealand’s Predator-Free 2050 goal

Monica Evans 20 Jun 2019

Volunteers find bones of new species of extinct heron at Florida fossil site

Mongabay.com 20 May 2019

Models, maps, and citizen scientists working to save the Great Barrier Reef

Marianne Messina 14 May 2019

Trekking the boreal forest for biodiversity

Erik Hoffner 12 Apr 2019
A Wounaan bird-watching group from the community of Puerto Lara during a hike in the local forest. Image by Alexander Arosemena for Mongabay.

Panamanian indigenous people act to protect the forest from invading loggers

Guido Bilbao 2 Apr 2019

Combining artificial intelligence and citizen science to improve wildlife surveys

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 22 Mar 2019

Latam Eco Review: Scandal rocks famed Easter Island park and a freshwater crab discovery

Mongabay.com 9 Mar 2019

Bans on the bird trade in South America yield mixed results

Mongabay.com 24 Jan 2019

Top camera trapping stories of 2018

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 31 Dec 2018

10 ways conservation tech shifted into auto in 2018

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 28 Dec 2018

Drone 3D models help assess risk of turtle nesting beaches to sea level rise

David Klinges 27 Dec 2018
Chickadee perches. Photo by Doug Tallamy of the University of Delaware.

Gardens with too many nonnative plants threaten populations of insect-eating birds, study finds

Hannah Hagemann 26 Dec 2018

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