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

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

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

Rhett A. 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 A. Butler 31 Jul 2019

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

Rhett A. 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

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 A. Butler 7 Oct 2015

Can technology help clean up the palm oil industry?

Rhett A. 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

Using model airplanes to help save the planet

Rhett A. Butler 12 Sep 2013

Using drones to monitor wildlife in India

Akhila Vijayaraghavan 9 Apr 2013

Google puts $5M toward anti-poaching drone technology

Rhett A. Butler 18 Dec 2012

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