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Documenting emperor penguin populations, a dispatch from Antarctica

Mike Gaworecki 30 Oct 2018

With a feast of grubs, a tribe makes its case for forest stewardship

Hans Nicholas Jong 30 Oct 2018

China legalizes use of tiger bone and rhino horn for traditional medicine

Mongabay.com 30 Oct 2018

The Brazilian government’s land war against rebel slave descendants

Anna Sophie Gross 29 Oct 2018

Tsetse fly numbers dwindle in the warming Zambezi Valley

Mongabay.com 29 Oct 2018

Amid lack of enforcement, fishermen take the fight to blast fishing

Ian Morse 29 Oct 2018
Maubere elders in the village of Suco Fatumea draft tara bandu regulations to protect local forests and water sources. Image by Egrilio Ferreira Vincente.

Timor-Leste: Maubere tribes revive customary law to protect the ocean

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 26 Oct 2018

Machine-learning app to fight invasive crop pest in Africa

Stephanie Parker 26 Oct 2018

Latam Eco Review: Wandering hippos, condor central, and the macaw trade

Mongabay.com 26 Oct 2018

Africa’s slender-snouted crocodile is not one but two species

Mongabay.com 26 Oct 2018

In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, October 26, 2018

Mongabay.com 26 Oct 2018

Whales and dolphins change the way they communicate in a noisy ocean

Mongabay.com 26 Oct 2018

Bird-rich Indonesian island yields up new songbird species

Basten Gokkon 26 Oct 2018

Peru seizes plane with 30kg of cocaine in Bahuaja-Sonene National Park

Vanessa Romo 25 Oct 2018

Genome-wide study confirms there are six tiger subspecies

Mongabay.com 25 Oct 2018
Red-footed Boobies flying over Palmyra Atoll, Northern Line Islands, USA. Photo copyright Erik Oberg / Island Conservation

Trapper, turned conservationist: Bill Wood (obituary)

Bernie Tershy 24 Oct 2018

Violence spikes during Brazil elections, rural minorities fear worse

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 24 Oct 2018

Citizen Ape: The fight for personhood for humans’ closest relatives

Giovanni Ortolani 24 Oct 2018

Camera trap photos confirm discovery of lowland bongo in Uganda for first time

Mongabay.com 24 Oct 2018

Stay or go? Understanding a partial seasonal elephant migration

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 24 Oct 2018
Ankarana sportive lemur (Lepilemur ankaranensis), an endangered species whose habitat is threatened by rosewood logging. Image by Rhett A. Butler.

CITES rejects another Madagascar plan to sell illegal rosewood stockpiles

Edward Carver 24 Oct 2018

Absent for decades, zebras reintroduced to park in southern Tanzania

Mongabay.com 24 Oct 2018

Two black rhinos found dead in Chad after move from South Africa

Mongabay.com 24 Oct 2018
African elephants in Kruger National Park, South Africa. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

New research measures impacts of China’s elephant ivory trade ban

Mongabay.com 23 Oct 2018

Amazon and climate science threatened if Bolsonaro elected Brazil’s president (commentary)

17 Latin American scientists 23 Oct 2018

Study warns of dire ecological, social fallout from Sumatran dam

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Oct 2018

Chinese demand wiping out forests in the Solomon Islands: New report

John Cannon 22 Oct 2018

Grainrail: ‘2nd revolution in Brazilian agribusiness’ and Amazon threat

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 22 Oct 2018

Indonesia’s Aceh sees harshest penalty yet for a wildlife crime

Junaidi Hanafiah 22 Oct 2018

Illegal cheetah trade continues through Instagram, 4sale, YouTube

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Oct 2018

Environmental delegation blocked from entering Bolivian national park

Miriam Telma Jemio 22 Oct 2018

‘The posterchild for entangled marine mammals around the globe:’ Q&A with author of ‘Vaquita’

Mike Gaworecki 19 Oct 2018

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