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A juvenile Brazilian tapir (Tapirus terrestris) in the Pantanal. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

What is a lowland tapir? Candid Animal Cam takes us to the South American forests

Romina Castagnino 17 Mar 2020

What is a spectacled bear? Candid Animal Cam takes us to the Andes

Romina Castagnino 10 Mar 2020

Shah Selbe on how open source technology is creating new opportunities for conservation

Mike Gaworecki 5 Mar 2020

Mongabay’s new show: Candid Animal Cam

Romina Castagnino 3 Mar 2020

Philippine fruit bats may be entirely new species of their own, DNA suggests

Mongabay.com 17 Feb 2020

Window tech could save billions of birds, and it’s already here

Rachael Meyer 24 Jan 2020
PORTO VELHO, RONDÔNIA, BRAZIL. Aerial view of burned areas in the Amazon rainforest, in the city of Porto Velho, Rondônia state. (Photo: Victor Moriyama / Greenpeace)

2019: The year rainforests burned

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Dec 2019
Sue Palminteri with elephants. Courtesy of George Powell.

Conservation biologist and wildtech journalist Sue Palminteri, 1965-2019

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Dec 2019

Saving a Philippine tree last seen a century ago

Jen Chan 3 Dec 2019
Nyeema Harris and her crew deployed motion-detecting cameras throughout their study site in West Africa. Credit: University of Michigan Applied Wildlife Ecology Lab

Camera traps yield surprises in West Africa’s largest protected area

Jerimiah Oetting 2 Dec 2019
Rainforest in Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

$10M in prize money for mapping rainforest biodiversity

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Nov 2019

Tree-planting programs turn to tech solutions to track effectiveness

Malavika Vyawahare 22 Nov 2019

New assessment method finds close to one-third of tropical Africa’s plants are potentially facing extinction

Mongabay.com 20 Nov 2019

LIDAR technology leads Brazilian team to 30 story tall Amazon tree

Jenny Gonzales 11 Nov 2019
A sound file revealing rich data on biodiversity. Image by Rhett Butler for Mongabay.

How bioacoustics can transform conservation – Wildtech event in Palo Alto

Mongabay.com 3 Oct 2019

New app tracks down forest fires in Bolivia

John Cannon 30 Sep 2019
Fire burning in an area of recent forest clearing in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Courtesy of Planet Labs Inc.

Satellite images from Planet reveal devastating Amazon fires in near real-time

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Aug 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

Conservation tech prize with invasive species focus announces finalists

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 19 Jul 2019
Gold and sand mining near Mandor, West Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

A response to “On public interest in conservation and internet data”

Zuzana Burivalova; Rhett A Butler; and David S Wilcove 15 Jul 2019

On public interest in conservation and internet data (commentary)

Ricardo Correia 15 Jul 2019

Sponges supply DNA for new method of monitoring aquatic biodiversity

Lakshmi Supriya 26 Jun 2019

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

Monica Evans 20 Jun 2019

Predator-free by 2050? High-tech hopes for New Zealand’s big conservation dream

Monica Evans 13 Jun 2019

Earth’s hidden tree-microbe network mapped for the first time ever

Shreya Dasgupta 27 May 2019

The health of penguin chicks points scientists to changes in the ocean

Mongabay.com 22 May 2019

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

Shreya Dasgupta 13 May 2019

New map shows warming waters where coral reefs could be under threat

Shreya Dasgupta 8 May 2019
A whale shark in Mexico. Image by MarAlliance2018 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Mobile app encourages Indian fishers to free entangled whale sharks

Vasudevan Sridharan 1 May 2019

Marine protected areas are getting SMART (commentary)

Drew T. Cronin, Katherine Holmes, Dayne Buddo 3 Mar 2019

Study finds people apt to shrug off extreme weather as normal

Mongabay.com 28 Feb 2019

The sounds of a rare New Zealand bird reintroduced to its native habitat

Mike Gaworecki 20 Feb 2019

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