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DNA analysis shows Sumatran rhinos peaked during last Ice Age, never recovered

Basten Gokkon 14 Dec 2017
Members of the Kep provincial government and Fisheries Administration set fire to a mound of banned fishing gear in July 2015. The gear had been confiscated over a period of months from Cambodian and Vietnamese vessels operating illegally in Kep Bay, and was burned in front of a village notorious for abusing the law and the sea. Photo courtesy of MCC.

Building a refuge where trawlers now ravage Cambodia’s marine life

Matt Blomberg 14 Dec 2017

Land reclamation threatens extremely rare spoon-billed sandpipers in China

Shreya Dasgupta 14 Dec 2017

African Parks backs marine reserve brimming with wildlife in Mozambique

Mongabay.com 14 Dec 2017

For Papuan villagers practicing conservation, a bid to formalize the familiar

Christopel Paino 14 Dec 2017

Amazon tribe’s traditional medicine encyclopedia gets an update, and conservation effectiveness in Madagascar examined

Mike Gaworecki 12 Dec 2017

Study: RSPO certification prunes deforestation in Indonesia — but not by much

John Cannon 12 Dec 2017
Red ruffed lemur (Varecia rubra), a species that lives in northeastern Madagascar, where rosewood logging has been severe. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

CITES rejects Madagascar’s bid to sell rosewood and ebony stockpiles

Edward Carver 12 Dec 2017

Monkey business: Building a global database of primate conservation studies (commentary)

Claire Wordley 12 Dec 2017

As 2017 hurricane season ends, scientists assess tropical forest harm

Claire Salisbury 11 Dec 2017

Scientists call for cheetahs to be listed as Endangered

Mongabay.com 11 Dec 2017

New study: Gorillas fare better in logged forests than chimps

John Cannon 11 Dec 2017

Tanzania used as case study for quickly and cheaply identifying wildlife corridors in need of conservation

Mike Gaworecki 8 Dec 2017
Coquerel's sifaka (Propithecus coquereli), a species that lives in Bongolava. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Abandoned by their sponsors, Madagascar’s orphaned parks struggle on

Rowan Moore Gerety 8 Dec 2017

The world’s newest great ape, revealed a month ago, is already nearly extinct: IUCN

Basten Gokkon 7 Dec 2017

Forest Code falls short in protecting Amazonian fish

Mongabay.com 7 Dec 2017

In rural Indonesia, a village learns to embrace its forest through sustainability

Dedek Hendry 6 Dec 2017

Activists seek protection for Indonesia’s karst amid building boom pressure

Tommy Apriando 5 Dec 2017

Deforestation in Sumatra carves up tiger habitats into ever smaller patches

Basten Gokkon 5 Dec 2017

Huge new ocean reserves announced in Mexico, Arctic

Mike Gaworecki 5 Dec 2017

Entanglements hamper reproduction as right whale population slides

John Cannon 5 Dec 2017
2. A pink river dolphin (Inia geoffrensis) leaps from the Samiria River in northeastern Peru. These dolphins, along with scores of fish and crocodilians, suffered from an intense drought in 2010, but most recovered during extreme floods between 2011 and 2015. Photo courtesy of Richard Bodmer and FundAmazonia.

Extreme seasonal changes in Amazon river levels threaten forest conservation by indigenous people

Jeremy Rehm 4 Dec 2017
Drainage canal dug through peat swamp in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Pulp and paper giant sues Indonesian government over peat protection obligation

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 Dec 2017
White’s seahorse (Hippocampus whitei). This species is listed as Data Deficient by the IUCN, and was previously listed as Vulnerable, but there have been too few studies to say whether it remains at risk in the wild. Photo by Sylke Rohrlach via Flickr [CC BY-SA 2.0].

Catch-all fisheries are squeezing Asia’s seahorses

Sean Mowbray 1 Dec 2017

Forced out or killed: rare chimps go missing from Cameroon mountain forest

Eugene N. Nforngwa 1 Dec 2017

From rescue to research: training detection dogs for conservation

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 1 Dec 2017

Petition for Indonesian government to save Sumatran rhino garners global support

Mongabay.com 1 Dec 2017

Indonesians race to save their disappearing lakes, before it’s too late

Ian Morse 30 Nov 2017

‘Extreme concern’: Report gives glimpse into scale of Kalimantan bird trade

Basten Gokkon 30 Nov 2017

Malaysia seizes 337 kg of pangolin scales worth nearly $1 million

Shreya Dasgupta 30 Nov 2017
An indri (Indri indri), another critically endangered lemur that lives in Makira Natural Park. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Carbon dreams: Can REDD+ save a Yosemite-size forest in Madagascar?

Rowan Moore Gerety 29 Nov 2017

WATCH: Rare sighting of mother Sunda clouded leopard and cubs caught on film

Mike Gaworecki 29 Nov 2017

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