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Mangroves in Raja Ampat.

How are mangrove restoration projects doing? Interview with Tom Worthington

Abhishyant Kidangoor 3 Dec 2024
World Forest ID collects samples from around the world and uses chemical and genetic profiling techniques to create a database that classifies timber and other plants based on their location of origin.

Using science to fight deforestation: Interview with World Forest ID’s Jade Saunders & Andrew Lowe

Abhishyant Kidangoor 29 Nov 2024

Camera traps, drones meant for wildlife can ‘spy’ on women: Study

Shreya Dasgupta 27 Nov 2024
Citizen scientist photographing a Northern Queen of Sheba Orchid in Lesueur National Park, Western Australia. Photo credit: Thomas Mesaglio

Citizen scientists can boost IUCN species assessments, but need better guidance from ecologists

Mahima Samraik 26 Nov 2024

Five-year rainforest tech competition culminates with four winners

Abhishyant Kidangoor 20 Nov 2024
Sumatran tiger

Camera traps reveal little-known Sumatran tiger forests need better protection

Carolyn Cowan 20 Nov 2024
A rhino.

Tracking footprints to monitor wildlife: Interview with WildTrack’s Zoe Jewell

Abhishyant Kidangoor 7 Nov 2024
Banner image of dholes recorded via camera trap in CCML in 2024, courtesy of Conservation International.

Camera trap survey in Cambodia’s Cardamom Mountains finds 108 species

Kristine Sabillo 7 Nov 2024
A snow leopard photographed in Nepal. Imagine by Sanjog Rai/WWF Nepal

As Nepal counts its snow leopards, even the best estimate is still a guess

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 Oct 2024
Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica

Satellite firm Planet’s ‘biodiversity subscription’ aims to make tech accessible

Abhishyant Kidangoor 29 Oct 2024
Nets, ropes, buoys and other bits of fishing equipment bursting out of decaying bags.

Startups replace plastics with mushrooms in the seafood industry

Claire Turrell 29 Oct 2024
Banner image of a drone. Image by Potushaft via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Bird-watching with drones? Might want to watch your distance, study says

Kristine Sabillo 28 Oct 2024
A European blackbird.

New study upends common belief that birds escape winter to save energy

Abhishyant Kidangoor 21 Oct 2024

Two new initiatives provide cutting-edge satellite images for conservation

Kristine Sabillo 8 Oct 2024
An inventory for acoustic monitoring: Interview with Kevin Darras

An inventory for acoustic monitoring: Interview with Kevin Darras

Abhishyant Kidangoor 5 Oct 2024

Third edition of Satellites for Biodiversity Award opens for applications

Abhishyant Kidangoor 2 Oct 2024
Scientists have produced possibly the largest database of GPS-collared elephants containing 4 million data points.

Jumbo collaring effort reveals key elephant movement corridors

Abhishyant Kidangoor 25 Sep 2024

Clearest picture yet of Amazon carbon density could help guide conservation

Maxwell Radwin 12 Sep 2024
Egyptian fruit bat

Scientists find unexpected biodiversity in an African river, thanks to eDNA

Abhishyant Kidangoor 6 Sep 2024

At the ‘Biodiversity Olympics,’ scientists work to democratize rainforest tech

Abhishyant Kidangoor 29 Aug 2024
A tree in the Serengeti grasslands in Tanzania.

Blockchain as a carbon market fix: Interview with William ten Zijthoff, Flávia De Souza Mendes & Maximilian Rösgen

Abhishyant Kidangoor 19 Aug 2024
Luís Adriano Nascimento, chemist and vice-coordinator of the Laboratório de Óleos da Amazônia (Amazon Oils Laboratory, LOA), stands at a lab bench with a wide collection of Amazonian fruits and seeds used to make oils, biofuels and bioplastics.

Raw materials become high-value bioeconomy goods at an Amazon science park

Sarah Brown 6 Aug 2024
Common zebra (Equus quagga) in Kriger National Park, South Africa.

The Inventory, a Wiki for wild tech: Interview with Jake Burton & Alex Rood

Abhishyant Kidangoor 30 Jul 2024
Adriane Esquivel Muelbert and Evan Gora examine a fallen giant tree in the Amazon, hoping to identify hints of its cause of death.

Are the Amazon’s biggest trees dying? Forest coroners investigate

Daniel Grossman 29 Jul 2024
The two-stage Falcon 9 launch vehicle lifts off Space Launch Complex 40 carrying the SpaceX’s Dragon resupply spacecraft to the ISS.

Space mission that maps forests in 3D makes an early comeback

Abhishyant Kidangoor 17 Jul 2024
Male tiger camera trap image

Thai tiger numbers swell as prey populations stabilize in western forests

Carolyn Cowan 17 Jul 2024
Camera trap training in the DRC.

Regions with highest risks to wildlife have fewest camera traps, study finds

Spoorthy Raman 15 Jul 2024
A bee with a sunflower in Tokyo.

Study finds best plants for bee health and conservation in North America

Liz Kimbrough 5 Jul 2024

For the first time ever, we’re farming more seafood than we’re catching: FAO

Elizabeth Fitt 3 Jul 2024

Nepal launches new plan to boost critically endangered Bengal florican

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 Jun 2024
Red diamond rattlesnakes, native to southwest California in the U.S. and Baja California in Mexico, are important predators in their ecosystems.

Studying snakes without rattling them? There’s now tech for that

Abhishyant Kidangoor 28 Jun 2024

Camera-trap study brings the lesula, Congo’s cryptic monkey, into focus

Ruth Kamnitzer 27 Jun 2024

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