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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

Omura’s whale much more widespread across the globe than previously thought

Mongabay.com 17 Apr 2019

Shade or sun? Forest structure affects tree responses to Amazon drought

Claire Asher 17 Apr 2019

China seizes over 2,700 elephant tusks in massive bust

Mongabay.com 17 Apr 2019

IUCN calls for moratorium on projects impacting rarest great ape species

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Apr 2019

A park in Bolivia bears the brunt of a plan to export electricity

Miriam Telma Jemio 17 Apr 2019

Tool-using, ground-nesting chimp culture discovered in DR Congo

Mike Gaworecki 16 Apr 2019

Amazon could be biggest casualty of US-China Trade war, researchers warn

Sarah Sax 16 Apr 2019

Last known female Yangtze giant softshell turtle dies in China

Mongabay.com 16 Apr 2019

A fishy translocation highlights dangers of ‘taxonomic inflation’

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 16 Apr 2019

Colorful display of newly described stick insects confounds scientists

Malavika Vyawahare 16 Apr 2019

Waters off Galápagos have way more alien species than previously known

Shreya Dasgupta 16 Apr 2019
Afghan man carrying a stuffed leopard down the street in Kabul. The real driver of wildlife trafficking in Afghanistan was however international military forces, humanitarian NGOs, and development contractors. Credit WCS/Lisa Yook.

Conservation may offer common ground in Afghan conflict

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Apr 2019

Deforested habitats leave migratory birds ill-prepared for journey north

Ashley Stumvoll 15 Apr 2019

Palm oil, logging firms the usual suspects as Indonesia fires flare anew

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Apr 2019

To rescue Sumatran rhinos, Indonesia starts by counting them first

Eni Muslihah 15 Apr 2019

Deforestation diminishes access to clean water, study finds

John Cannon 15 Apr 2019

In Bali, a village hews to unwritten rules to manage its forest

Luh De Suriyani 14 Apr 2019
A juvenile bonobo (Pan paniscus) gazes at an uncertain future.

Back into the Wild: Ekola ya Bonobo sanctuary reintroduces bonobos to the Congo Basin forests

Christopher Clark, Shaun Swingler 14 Apr 2019

Trekking the boreal forest for biodiversity

Erik Hoffner 12 Apr 2019

How a sheriff in Brazil is using satellites to stop deforestation

Jenny Gonzales 12 Apr 2019

Solving the mystery of the UK’s vanishing hen harriers

Lakshmi Supriya 12 Apr 2019

In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, April 12, 2019

Mongabay.com 12 Apr 2019
The savannah and grasslands of the Mara conservancies are home to a spectacular abundance of wildlife, lying at the northern end of the greater Serengeti ecosystem. Photo Credit: Maasai Mara Wildlife Conservancies Association

Human pressure on the Serengeti’s fringes threatens the wildlife within

Ignacio Amigo 12 Apr 2019

‘It’s getting worse’: National parks in Honduras hit hard by palm oil

Maxwell Radwin 11 Apr 2019

Scientists urge overhaul of the world’s parks to protect biodiversity

John Cannon 11 Apr 2019

Virtual Reality 360-degree video: An “empathy-generating machine” for conservation outreach?

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 11 Apr 2019

Arctic in trouble: Sea ice melt falls to record lows for early April

Gloria Dickie 11 Apr 2019
A loggerhead turtle swims around a fish aggregation device belonging to the Ecuadorean fishing vessel Ingalapagos. Greenpeace says it documented the vessel in the vicinity of the northern Galapagos Islands. Image by © Alex Hofford / Greenpeace.

30 percent by 2030? Study maps out how to protect the world’s oceans

Taran Volckhausen 11 Apr 2019

No rhino census this year as Nepal runs short of funds for survey

Abhaya Raj Joshi 11 Apr 2019

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