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Murky future for freshwater fish in the Amazon floodplains

Caitlin Looby 7 Apr 2017

South Africa makes it legal to sell rhino horns

Shreya Dasgupta 6 Apr 2017

Illegal bushmeat trade threatens human health and great apes

Claire Asher 6 Apr 2017
Rhinella granulosa toad in Chocó-Darien, Colombia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Successful Colombian rainforest project exposes problems with carbon emissions trading

Bart Crezee 6 Apr 2017

Indigenous groups, Amazon’s best land stewards, under federal attack

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 5 Apr 2017
A yellow-fronted woodpecker (Melanerpes flavifrons) in Brazil's Atlantic Forest. Photo by Germano Woehl Junior for the Instituto Rã-bugio para Conservação da Biodiversidade.

In Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, conservation efforts drown in a sea of eucalyptus

Ignacio Amigo 5 Apr 2017

WildTech covers the high- and low-tech solutions making conservation more effective

Mike Gaworecki 4 Apr 2017

Kaziranga: the frontline of India’s rhino wars

Sharon Guynup 4 Apr 2017
Two Chaco Chachalacas in Bonito, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. Photo by Dario Sanches via Wikimedia Commons.

Jurisdictional certification approach aims to strengthen protections against deforestation

Tara MacIsaac 4 Apr 2017

Ebo forest great apes threatened by stalled Cameroon national park

Sean Mowbray 3 Apr 2017

Reptiles being sold openly and illegally in Moroccan markets

Shreya Dasgupta 3 Apr 2017

Officials, Greenpeace nab four boats for illegally fishing near Guinea-Bissau

John Cannon 3 Apr 2017

Forest fragmentation may be releasing much more carbon than we think

Morgan Erickson-Davis 31 Mar 2017

New research shows role ancient peoples might have played in shaping Amazon rainforest

Mike Gaworecki 31 Mar 2017

From CEO to Conservation Legend: An Interview with Kristine Tompkins

Matthew P. Reed 31 Mar 2017

Do the Locomotion: Bio-inspired technology creates amphibious robots that mimic salamander movement

Lalini Pedris 30 Mar 2017

Three new frog species found in disappearing Atlantic Forest

Benji Jones 30 Mar 2017

UN launches campaign to take out ocean trash

Mike Gaworecki 30 Mar 2017

Al Gore and Bangladesh PM spar over coal plants in the Sundarbans

Jeremy Hance 30 Mar 2017

New species of wild ginger discovered in DR Congo

Shreya Dasgupta 30 Mar 2017

Almost 1M hectares ‘missing’ from land holdings of major palm oil companies

Benji Jones 29 Mar 2017

Watch a leatherback sea turtle return to the ocean after nesting on a Costa Rica beach

Mike Gaworecki 29 Mar 2017

New study provides a blueprint for engaging indigenous peoples in REDD+ forest monitoring

Mike Gaworecki 28 Mar 2017

Communities conserving local forest in El Salvador vote to ban mining

Sandra Cuffe 28 Mar 2017

Paying for healthcare with trees: win-win for orangutans and communities

Claire Salisbury 28 Mar 2017

Survey of previously inaccessible region of Myanmar reveals many endangered species

Shreya Dasgupta 28 Mar 2017

Extinct mammoths and rhinos portend a grim future in a warming climate

John Cannon 28 Mar 2017

World’s second breeding population of Indochinese tigers discovered in Thailand’s forests

Demelza Stokes 28 Mar 2017

A Sumatran king’s 1,400-year-old vision for sustainable landscape planning

Taufik Wijaya 27 Mar 2017

Two new clown tree frogs discovered in the Amazon

Mike Gaworecki 27 Mar 2017

Cattle ranching threatens core of Biosphere Reserve of Southeast Nicaragua

Wilder Pérez R. 27 Mar 2017

Amazon land speculators poised to gain control of vast public lands

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 27 Mar 2017

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