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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

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, 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

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