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Wildlife trade detective Samuel Wasser receives prestigious Albert Schweitzer Medal

Shreya Dasgupta 11 Apr 2018

Philippines’ Duterte suggests open-pit mining ban will stay in place

Mongabay.com 11 Apr 2018

Animal trainers are teaching wildlife to conserve themselves

Linda Lombardi 10 Apr 2018

Six staff killed in deadliest attack at Congo’s Virunga National Park

Shreya Dasgupta 10 Apr 2018

Critics say proposed changes to Mexico’s Forestry Law threaten sustainable forest management by local communities

Mike Gaworecki 9 Apr 2018

New research examines spread of payments for ecosystem services around the globe

Mike Gaworecki 6 Apr 2018

In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, April 6, 2018

Mongabay.com 6 Apr 2018

Indonesian conservation bill is weak on wildlife crime, critics say

Basten Gokkon 6 Apr 2018

Audio: Bowhead whales in the Arctic sing hundreds of complex songs

Mongabay.com 6 Apr 2018

Vine-like lianas alter the edges of fragmented forests: New study

John Cannon 6 Apr 2018

Kaziranga’s rhino census finds the population is growing, but more slowly than expected

Moushumi Basu 5 Apr 2018

Yellow fever may threaten biophilia in São Paulo city (commentary)

Fabio de Oliveira Roque, Francisco Valente-Neto 4 Apr 2018

‘Lost’ fairy lantern spotted in Malaysian Borneo after 151 years

Mongabay.com 4 Apr 2018

Maroon 5’s James Valentine on why he’s working to stop illegal logging

Mike Gaworecki 3 Apr 2018

U.K. ban relegates legal ivory trade to ‘a thing of the past’

Mongabay.com 3 Apr 2018
Waterfall in Laos. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Calls for change in handling abuse allegations at top conservation group

Genevieve Belmaker 2 Apr 2018

NOAA publishes global list of fisheries and their risks to marine mammals

Mongabay.com 2 Apr 2018

New study discovers 81 lost human settlements in the Amazon rainforest

Mongabay.com 2 Apr 2018

Brazil creates four massive marine protected areas

Shreya Dasgupta 30 Mar 2018

Study: Indonesia’s ambitious peat restoration initiative severely underfunded

Hans Nicholas Jong 30 Mar 2018

In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, March 30, 2018

Mongabay.com 30 Mar 2018

Greenpeace International ends its Forest Stewardship Council membership

John Cannon 30 Mar 2018

Do environmental advocacy campaigns drive successful forest conservation?

Mike Gaworecki 29 Mar 2018

‘Ropeless’ consortium aims to end entanglements of declining North Atlantic right whales

John Cannon 29 Mar 2018
A weedy seadragon (Phyllopteryx taeniolatus), native to southern Australia’s coastal waters. Photo by Katieleeosborne via Wikimedia Commons.

Australia opens vast swaths of famed marine parks to fishing

Mic Smith 29 Mar 2018

In a land untouched by mines, indigenous holdouts fight a coal invasion

Ian Morse 28 Mar 2018

Small section of controversial refinery wall in Indian ‘elephant corridor’ demolished

Shreya Dasgupta 28 Mar 2018
Undifferentiated catch at a landing site in Karaikal, Tamil Nadu, India. Photo by Amanda Vincent/Project Seahorse.

‘Annihilation trawling’: Q&A with marine biologist Amanda Vincent

Rebecca Kessler 27 Mar 2018

Borneo’s elephants prefer degraded forests, a new study finds

John Cannon 27 Mar 2018

Traditional landowners reject mining exploration bid in Bougainville

Catherine Wilson 27 Mar 2018

Range countries to lead new estimate of global snow leopard population as downgraded threat status remains controversial

Mike Gaworecki 26 Mar 2018

Trump’s elephant, lion trophy hunting policy hit with double lawsuits

Jeremy Hance 26 Mar 2018

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