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A shark catch in Pucusana, Perú. Image courtesy of Oceana.

Weak governance undermines South America’s ocean ecosystems

Michelle Carrere 26 Apr 2019

Large emperor penguin colony suffers ‘catastrophic’ breeding failure

Mongabay.com 26 Apr 2019

In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, April 26, 2019

Mongabay.com 26 Apr 2019

That Malagasy forest featured in Netflix’s ‘Our Planet’? It’s vanishing fast

Malavika Vyawahare 26 Apr 2019

Stinging ants: Amazon indigenous group girds itself to hold ancestral lands

Thais Borges, Sue Branford 25 Apr 2019

Creating a high-tech island to save one of the world’s rarest birds

Hannah Thomasy 25 Apr 2019

Killer whale vs. great white? No contest — the shark always flees

Mongabay.com 25 Apr 2019

The world lost a Belgium-size area of old growth rainforest in 2018

Morgan Erickson-Davis 25 Apr 2019

‘Judas’ snakes lead scientists on a high-tech Easter egg hunt for pythons

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 24 Apr 2019

Bolsonaro draws battle lines in fight over Amazon indigenous lands

Thais Borges, Sue Branford 24 Apr 2019
Indonesian rainforest. Photo for Mongabay by Rhett A. Butler.

Not in my backyard: Indonesian official fights corrupt palm concession

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Apr 2019

Indonesia trains its citizens to deal with sea-mammal strandings

Basten Gokkon 24 Apr 2019

Bird flu in Namibia’s penguins wanes, after killing nearly 500

John Cannon 24 Apr 2019

Virus may have caused mysterious foot disease in Chile’s rare huemul deer

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Apr 2019
A worker at Myo Myat Mon Co. rice factory sorts rice husk bricks. Photo by Victoria Milko.

Can rice husk briquettes stem the tide of mangrove deforestation in Myanmar?

Wudan Yan 23 Apr 2019

Camera trap study finds a threatened high-elevation mammal community in Peru

Mike Gaworecki 23 Apr 2019
Sri Lanka Green Pit Viper

Study documents how Sri Lanka’s protected reptiles are traded as pets

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 22 Apr 2019

Community buy-in stamps out elephant poaching in Zambian park

John Cannon 22 Apr 2019

The extinction clock ticks for the little-known Philippine pangolin

Imelda Abano 22 Apr 2019

Sage spending to save species (commentary)

Fred Launay 22 Apr 2019
The youngest Cat Ba langur, which was recorded last week, sits with its mother atop a limestone tower, while a juvenile langur climbs nearby. Photo by Neahga Leonard for the Cat Ba Langur Conservation Project.

On one island, a microcosm of Vietnam’s environmental challenges

Michael Tatarski 22 Apr 2019
Fire set for peatland clearing in Riau Province, Indonesia in July 2015. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Peat protection rule may be a double-edged sword for Indonesia’s forests

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 Apr 2019
Jane Goodall. Photo credit: Jane Goodall Institute.

Jane Goodall on Leonardo DiCaprio, her 85th birthday, and the need for hope

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Apr 2019

New paper proposes a science-based ‘Global Deal for Nature’

Mongabay.com 19 Apr 2019

Cities may save some species from extinction, but they don’t save species’ ecological functions

Mike Gaworecki 19 Apr 2019

In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, April 19, 2019

Mongabay.com 19 Apr 2019
Ankarana sportive lemur (Lepilemur ankaranensis), an endangered species whose habitat is threatened by rosewood logging. Image by Rhett A. Butler.

Singapore acquits trader in world’s biggest rosewood bust, worth $50m

Edward Carver 19 Apr 2019

Peru’s first autonomous indigenous gov’t strikes back against deforestation

Marcio Pimenta 18 Apr 2019

Lift-off for thermal-imaging system to estimate wildlife populations

James Fair 18 Apr 2019

Sri Lanka calls for increased protection for endemic lizards

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 18 Apr 2019

Rise in crocodile sightings linked to habitat degradation in Indonesia

Nurdin Tubaka 18 Apr 2019

Swelling amount of plastic in the ocean confirmed by new study

John Cannon 17 Apr 2019

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