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Indonesia to kick off 10-year plan to save critically endangered helmeted hornbill

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Nov 2017
The Maasai people in Kenya pass down environmental knowledge through storytelling. Photo courtesy of Joan de la Malla.

Storytelling empowers indigenous people to conserve their environments

Nicoletta Lanese 27 Nov 2017

Peru: the man who overcomes fear to defend the forest

Jack Lo Lau 27 Nov 2017

In search of the fireface: The precarious, scandalous lives of the slow lorises of Java

Jeremy Hance 26 Nov 2017

Brilliant blue tarantula among potentially new species discovered in Guyana

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Nov 2017

Culture keeps cattle ranching going in the Brazilian Amazon

John Cannon 23 Nov 2017

The tenacity of tigers: how the biggest cat varies across its range (photos)

Jonathan C. Slaght 22 Nov 2017

Biofuel project near India’s rhino heartland sparks protests

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 22 Nov 2017
An endangered Sambirano mouse lemur (Microcebus sambiranensis), which is found only in two or three small populations in northwest Madagascar, including one on the Ampasindava peninsula. Photo by Leslie Wilmet.

Another blow to troubled Madagascar rare earth mine

Edward Carver 22 Nov 2017

Unquestioning defence of ‘militarized conservation’ is naïve (commentary)

Leejiah Dorward, Paul Barnes 22 Nov 2017

eBay is outselling the darknet in the illegal wildlife trade, fret researchers

Jack Elliot Marley 22 Nov 2017

Experience or evidence: How do big conservation NGOs make decisions?

Shreya Dasgupta 21 Nov 2017

From friends to strangers: The decline of the Irrawaddy dolphin (commentary)

Sabrina Gyorvary with Namthip Khudsavanh 20 Nov 2017

Trump puts controversial decision allowing elephant trophy imports ‘on hold’

Shreya Dasgupta 20 Nov 2017
Men and women spend hours sowing rice seedlings and ploughing the land. Photo by Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor for Mongabay.

To feed a growing population, farms chew away at Madagascar’s forests

Dan Ashby, Lucy Taylor 17 Nov 2017

Jane Goodall interview: ‘The most important thing is sharing good news’

Mongabay.com 17 Nov 2017

A tranquilizer shortage is holding back rhino management plans in India

Moushumi Basu 16 Nov 2017

Video: Thousands of illegally caught African gray parrots being rehabilitated

Shreya Dasgupta 16 Nov 2017
A baby silky sifaka lemur (Propithecus candidus) in Marojejy National Park. Photo by Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor for Mongabay.

Lemur on the menu: most-endangered primates still served in Madagascar

Dan Ashby, Lucy Taylor 15 Nov 2017

Can the Solomon Islands’ Gold Ridge Mine serve as a new model for resource extraction in the South Pacific?

Catherine Wilson 15 Nov 2017
Jane Goodall. Photo credit: Jane Goodall Institute.

Dr. Jane Goodall on being proven right about animals having personalities, plus updates direct from COP23

Mike Gaworecki 15 Nov 2017

More big mammals found in high-carbon forests, says new study

John Cannon 15 Nov 2017

4 sperm whales dead after mass stranding in Sumatra

Mongabay.com 14 Nov 2017
Franco Rajaonarison, a guide, shows a rosewood stump in Marojejy National Park. Photo by Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor for Mongabay.

Madagascar petitions CITES to sell millions in stolen rosewood

Dan Ashby, Lucy Taylor 13 Nov 2017

Indonesian president recognizes land rights of nine more indigenous groups

Basten Gokkon 12 Nov 2017

Citizen scientists around the world are monitoring elephants in Gabon via camera traps — and you can too

Mike Gaworecki 10 Nov 2017

Trump family planning policy may increase population, hurt women and environment

Tina Deines 10 Nov 2017

The fate of the Sumatran rhino is in the Indonesian government’s hands

Jeremy Hance 10 Nov 2017

Is anyone going to save the Sumatran rhino?

Jeremy Hance 9 Nov 2017
A fossa (Cryptoprocta ferox), a species that lives in Marojejy National Park, which was ground zero for Madagascar’s rosewood logging crisis in 2009. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Logjam: Inside Madagascar’s illegal-rosewood stockpiles

Rowan Moore Gerety 8 Nov 2017

Where, oh where, are the rhinos of Bukit Barisan Selatan?

Jeremy Hance 8 Nov 2017

Top 10 most widely traded animals in the Golden Triangle identified in new report

Mongabay.com 8 Nov 2017

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