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Camera traps in trees reveal a richness of species in Rwandan park

Liz Kimbrough 27 Mar 2020

Candid Animal Cam YouTube show Episode 4: Coatis

Romina Castagnino 24 Mar 2020

Songs and sounds of Bering Sea whales and seals reveal a story of change

Mike Gaworecki 17 Mar 2020
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

Answers in excrement: Fecal analysis yields insight about wild primates

Chia-Yi Hou 29 Jan 2020

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

Rachael Meyer 24 Jan 2020

Rare plant species are especially vulnerable to climate change, and rarity is more common than previously understood

Mongabay.com 9 Jan 2020

From trash to cash: How a Thai entrepreneur turned used flip-flops into a sustainable business model

Ryan Anderson 2 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

The Ocean Cleanup successfully collects ocean plastic, aims to scale design

Rachael Meyer 28 Oct 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

New detection devices could record microplastic pollution levels in real time

Erik Hoffner 11 Sep 2019

Protected areas best conserve mammalian diversity when connected with corridors, biologged weasels show

Emi Kusayanagi 4 Sep 2019

‘No place to hide’ for illegal fishing fleets as surveillance satellites prepare for lift-off

Gavin Haines 30 Aug 2019

Snow leopard population overestimated in Nepal? DNA study suggests it may be

Abhaya Raj Joshi 23 Aug 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
Margay (Leopardus wiedii)

Precision conservation: High tech to the rescue in the Peruvian Amazon

Lisa Palmer 15 Aug 2019

Tests show multi-rotor UAVs can improve cetacean behavioral studies

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 9 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

New toolkit identifies multiple species from environmental DNA

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 3 Aug 2019

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