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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

Baby whale wears a camera, reveals its travel and nursing behavior: video

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 25 Jul 2019

Indonesia, facing a waste crisis, plans to burn it for electricity

Basten Gokkon 22 Jul 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

Let there be lights, to help migratory cranes avoid power lines

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 12 Jul 2019

Film that fish: Stereo-video speeds surveys of marine fish communities

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 5 Jul 2019

New eDNA sampling system aims for cleaner, more efficient field research

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 2 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

New tool helps monitor forest change within commodities supply chains

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 18 Jun 2019

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

Monica Evans 13 Jun 2019

Researchers and customs officials unite to fight wildlife trafficking using eDNA

David Klinges 6 Jun 2019

Tiny tracking tags help decode how echolocating bats navigate

Lakshmi Supriya 30 May 2019

Underwater ultrasound scanner to support manta conservation

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 28 May 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

Models, maps, and citizen scientists working to save the Great Barrier Reef

Marianne Messina 14 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

Counting on eDNA for a faster, easier way to count coral

Stephanie Parker 8 May 2019

’Unprecedented’ loss of biodiversity threatens humanity, report finds

Mongabay.com 7 May 2019

‘Landscape of fearlessness’: bushbuck emboldened following top-predator decline in Mozambique

Sophie Manson 6 May 2019

Changing energy use in rural Africa with power from solar, clean stoves…and women

David Klinges 2 May 2019

Drone rediscovers Hawaiian flower thought to be extinct

Mongabay.com 1 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

Creating a high-tech island to save one of the world’s rarest birds

Hannah Thomasy 25 Apr 2019

‘Judas’ snakes lead scientists on a high-tech Easter egg hunt for pythons

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 24 Apr 2019

Lift-off for thermal-imaging system to estimate wildlife populations

James Fair 18 Apr 2019

Solving the mystery of the UK’s vanishing hen harriers

Lakshmi Supriya 12 Apr 2019

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