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Restoration of shattered coral reef at Raja Ampat on hold

Basten Gokkon 22 Jun 2017

Mangrove loss threatens migratory shorebird route in North Sumatra

Ayat S. Karokaro 15 Jun 2017

Field Notes: Pond turtle studies could help sea turtles survive toxic algal blooms

Elizabeth Devitt 8 Jun 2017

Communities band together to protect El Salvador’s last mangroves

Martha Pskowski 23 May 2017

Crabbing gone commercial: Brazilian mangroves threatened by shift in local traditions

Kayla Walsh 12 May 2017

Howler monkeys booming in Belize sanctuary 25 years after translocation

John Cannon 10 May 2017

Over the bridge: The battle for the future of the Kinabatangan

John Cannon 3 May 2017

Saving Congo’s sea turtles: progress made but dangers ahead

William Clowes 1 May 2017

Corruption drives dealings with logging companies in the Solomon Islands

Elliot Dawea, John Cannon 1 May 2017
The coast of DRC. Photo by William Clowes for Mongabay.

Conserving Congo’s wild places on a shoestring

William Clowes 25 Apr 2017
Not for republication. Image by Rod Harbinson/Rodharbinson.com

Is a property boom in Malaysia causing a fisheries bust in Penang?

Rod Harbinson 19 Apr 2017

Al Gore and Bangladesh PM spar over coal plants in the Sundarbans

Jeremy Hance 30 Mar 2017

Damage to Raja Ampat 12 times higher than previously thought

Basten Gokkon 25 Mar 2017

As Thailand ramps up its palm oil sector, peat forests feel the pressure

Demelza Stokes 24 Mar 2017

Cruise ship wrecks one of Indonesia’s best coral reefs at Raja Ampat

Basten Gokkon 9 Mar 2017

How ‘jobless men managing the sea’ restored a mangrove forest in Java

Donny Iqbal 3 Feb 2017

Police clash with protesters marching against power plant in Bangladesh

Morgan Erickson-Davis 26 Jan 2017

Thousands hold ‘Global Protest Day’ to support world’s largest mangrove forest

Morgan Erickson-Davis 11 Jan 2017

Restoring seagrass under siege

Elizabeth Devitt 2 Jan 2017

New drone analysis highlights conservation challenges in Myanmar

Ann Wang 30 Nov 2016

Protests against Bangladesh power plant begin in Dhaka and Cambridge

Shreya Dasgupta 25 Nov 2016
The deep-set roots of the mangrove with their strong, crisscossed roots in Sanquianga National Park. Photo courtesy of National Natural Parks of Colombia

Fate of Colombian shellfish pickers closely tied to mangrove

Juanita Rico 21 Nov 2016

Controversial Jakarta land reclamation project gets legal go-ahead

Mongabay Indonesia 9 Nov 2016

Nations come together to save Kenya’s disappearing coastal forests

Sophie Mbugua 3 Nov 2016

UNESCO urges Bangladesh to cancel or relocate Sundarbans coal plant

Shreya Dasgupta 26 Oct 2016
Piles of confiscated wood can be seen surrounding the Forestry department’s office at Bogale in Ayeyarwady Division. Photo by Ann Wang

In Myanmar’s Irrawaddy Delta, a rapidly disintegrating mangrove forest

Ann Wang 22 Oct 2016

A plan to save the Mekong Delta

David E. Brown 18 Oct 2016

Struggle against mining on Bangka Island continues despite wins in court

M Ambari 11 Oct 2016
A female North Atlantic right whale and her calf, off Cumberland Island, Georgia, in January 2013. Photo by Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, collected under NOAA Research Permit #15488

A week of grim tidings for critically endangered right whales

Rebecca Kessler 6 Oct 2016

World’s watersheds lost 6 percent of their forests in 14 years

Morgan Erickson-Davis 31 Aug 2016

Climate change pledges not nearly enough to save tropical ecosystems

Jeremy Hance 16 Aug 2016
An atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), at the Atlanterhavsparken aquarium in Ålesund, Norway. Photo by Hans-Petter Fjeld via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA).

Fish-farm escapees are weakening Norwegian wild salmon genetics

Melati Kaye 10 Aug 2016

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