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Newmont Mining Corporation's open pit copper-gold mine in Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Indonesian mine watchdog sues government for concession maps

Indra Nugraha 13 Sep 2018

Tagging and tracking the Tour de Turtles

Catherine Morris 13 Sep 2018

Tracking elephant movements reveals transboundary wildlife corridors

Calistus Bosaletswe 10 Sep 2018

DNA database helps Nepal’s officials monitor tigers, punish poachers

Abhaya Raj Joshi 7 Sep 2018

An anti-poaching technology for elephants that is always listening

Marianne Messina 5 Sep 2018

Tech goes back to basics to mitigate human-wildlife conflict near Indian parks

Moushumi Basu 31 Aug 2018

Underwater tech unlocks the secrets of The Bahamas’ Exuma Sound

Catherine Morris 30 Aug 2018

A new dimension to marine restoration: 3D printing coral reefs

David Klinges 27 Aug 2018

REDD+ projects database: where forest carbon emissions reduction projects are underway

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 24 Aug 2018

Drone used to confirm existence of uncontacted Amazon tribe (video)

Mongabay.com 24 Aug 2018

Online citizen science data platforms help scientists predict species ranges

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 22 Aug 2018

Researchers weed out a way to identify plants using environmental DNA

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 17 Aug 2018

Tracking tools identify regional hubs of whale shark activity

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 16 Aug 2018
A bucket of fish at a market in Labuan Bajo, Indonesia. Image by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay

Technological breakthroughs are changing how researchers observe the world’s fishing fleet

Nadine Freischlad 14 Aug 2018

Trase.earth tracks commodities, links supply chains to deforestation risk

Claire Asher 13 Aug 2018

Forest elephant DNA diverse, consistent, and distinct, study says

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 10 Aug 2018

Fire, more than logging, drives Amazon forest degradation, study finds

David Klinges 6 Aug 2018

Automating drone-based wildlife surveys saves time and money, study finds

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 2 Aug 2018

In Kenya’s Maasai Mara, detection dogs are a ranger’s best friend

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 31 Jul 2018

Combining aerial imagery and field data estimates timber harvest and carbon emissions

Neha Jain 27 Jul 2018

Videos: spectacled bear’s home in the dry forests of Peru revealed

Yvette Sierra Praeli 26 Jul 2018

Peru park’s biodiversity at risk from illegal mining, drug production

Mongabay Latam 26 Jul 2018

New tagging tech for great white shark tracking in New York waters

Mongabay.com 25 Jul 2018

Deforestation skyrockets in the Amazon rainforest

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Jul 2018
Germinating seeds in the seed bank. Photo by Ignacio Amigo/Mongabay

Brazil’s plant biodiversity still not fully present in its seed banks

Ignacio Amigo 25 Jul 2018
A fishing cat near Colombo, Sri Lanka, surrounded by trash.

Conservation Effectiveness

Mongabay.com 19 Jul 2018

Southeast Asian deforestation more extensive than thought, study finds

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 18 Jul 2018

Indigenous peoples control one-quarter of world’s land surface, two-thirds of that land is ‘essentially natural’

Mongabay.com 17 Jul 2018

Online mapping tool tracks land-use changes down to the farm

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 12 Jul 2018

How blockchain gaming could benefit wildlife conservation

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Jul 2018

How to use drones without stressing wildlife

Mike Gaworecki 10 Jul 2018

‘Better and better’: Thermal cameras turn up the heat on poachers

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 9 Jul 2018

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