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An economic case for competing in the XPRIZE Rainforest contest (commentary)

Jonah Wittkamper 1 Mar 2021

Canadian First Nation deploys ROV in push for stronger marine protection

Claudia Geib 25 Jan 2021
Sea turtle in the Pacific.

Nature drone photos: 2020 highlights (Insider)

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Dec 2020

Madagascar experiments with drones for its massive reforestation effort

Rivonala Razafison 19 Oct 2020

‘Hummingbird’ spy creature films millions of monarchs taking flight

Liz Kimbrough 1 May 2020
Blackwater lake, rainforest, and the whitewater Zacambu River in the Peruvian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Bird’s eye view: Drone photos of the Amazon rainforest (insider)

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Apr 2020

Using satellites to alert an Amazonian indigenous community of coca encroachment (insider)

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Apr 2020
Snorkeler with three juvenile whale sharks in the Sea of Cortez off Baja California, Mexico. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Our top nature drone photos of 2019 (Insider)

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Dec 2019
Baobab Alley outside Morondava. Photo by Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay.

Photo essay: Madagascar’s disappearing dry forests (insider)

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Aug 2019
Traditional Iban tattoos on a Dayak leader's back. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Travelogue: Visiting an indigenous rainforest tribe in Borneo (Insider)

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Jul 2019

Travelogue: Ground-truthing satellite data in Borneo (Insider)

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Jul 2019

Hunting for rare plants in inaccessible spots: Q&A with drone pilot Ben Nyberg

Shreya Dasgupta 13 May 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
Extract of an aerial 360° of an informal gold mine in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. Click the image to see the full panorama.

Information-based solutions for forest conservation projects

Mongabay.com 29 Nov 2018

Drone used to confirm existence of uncontacted Amazon tribe (video)

Mongabay.com 24 Aug 2018

How to use drones without stressing wildlife

Mike Gaworecki 10 Jul 2018

Mongabay discusses technology’s role in conservation at Seattle event [VIDEO]

Erik Hoffner 13 Jun 2018
Earlier reports based on satellite data suggested that the Danger Islands could be home to several penguin "supercolonies." However, heavy pack ice is common around the Danger Islands, even in austral summer, making difficult to access this area to conduct a comprehensive survey. Credit: Rachael Herman, Louisiana State University, © Stony Brook University

Penguin mega-colony discovered using satellites and drones, raising scientists’ hopes

Mongabay.com 3 Mar 2018
The scale-crested pygmy tyrant lives in Central America and northern South America. This individual was capturing during a bird survey, banded, and released. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Author Steven Kotler on tackling the biodiversity crisis with technology

Mongabay 25 Oct 2017

Drones and artificial intelligence image processing improving the ‘koality’ of wildlife monitoring

Lalini Pedris 16 Mar 2017

New drone analysis highlights conservation challenges in Myanmar

Ann Wang 30 Nov 2016

Off-the-shelf hobby drones are helping save elephants in Tanzania

Mike Gaworecki 18 Nov 2016

$1m for devising best way to map Indonesia’s peatlands

Sapariah Saturi 5 Mar 2016

Some Indigenous groups wary of REDD+ following Paris Climate Agreement

Mitch Paquette 12 Feb 2016

A big house on the prairie: assessing prairie dog colonies for black-footed ferret habitat

Katie Taylor 7 Oct 2015

Greenpeace releases dramatic drone video of Indonesia’s fires

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Oct 2015

Can technology help clean up the palm oil industry?

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Oct 2015
Quadcopter drone. Photo courtesy of ConservationDrones.org

Conservation Drones Summit streaming live

17 Sep 2015
Elephants at water hole, Chobe, Botswana

In defense of wildlife: the realities of using drones for anti-poaching

Max Ciaglo 11 Sep 2015

Tapping into evolutionary responses to guard crops against elephants

Nathan Hahn 30 Apr 2015

Drones to scan the Amazon rainforest for hidden civilizations

Mongabay.com 18 Feb 2015

Brazil to test drones in monitoring the Amazon rainforest

Mongabay.com, Mongabay.com 24 Apr 2014

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