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New study analyzes biggest threats to Southeast Asian biodiversity

Mike Gaworecki 12 Jan 2017

Great apes and greater challenges: Trafficking in Cameroon

Sean Mowbray 12 Jan 2017

Poaching gang of wealthy software engineers, coffee planters arrested in India

Shreya Dasgupta 11 Jan 2017

Thousands hold ‘Global Protest Day’ to support world’s largest mangrove forest

Morgan Erickson-Davis 11 Jan 2017

‘Day of Terror’: Munduruku village attacked by Brazil’s Federal Police

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 11 Jan 2017

World’s most endangered fruit bat could soon be extinct due to rapid forest loss

Shreya Dasgupta 10 Jan 2017

Trouble in India’s rhino paradise

Moushumi Basu 10 Jan 2017

Newscast #9: Joel Berger on overlooked ‘edge species’ that deserve conservation

Mike Gaworecki 10 Jan 2017

Fragmentation boosts carbon storage along temperate forest edges

John Cannon 9 Jan 2017

‘Too rare to wear’: new campaign targets tourists to end Hawksbill turtle trade

Shreya Dasgupta 9 Jan 2017

Free online analysis of forest change

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 6 Jan 2017

An ‘infrastructure tsunami’ for Asia: Q&A with researcher William Laurance

Isabel Esterman 6 Jan 2017

New maps show how our consumption impacts wildlife thousands of miles away

Shreya Dasgupta 6 Jan 2017

‘Racing against time’ to save the taguá and its vanishing Chaco home

John Cannon 5 Jan 2017

The end of a People: Amazon dam destroys sacred Munduruku “Heaven”

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 5 Jan 2017

Smuggled to death: how loopholes and lax enforcement have sealed the fate of Siamese rosewood

Demelza Stokes 5 Jan 2017

‘Grandpa’ Pan Pan, world’s oldest male giant panda, dies in China

Shreya Dasgupta 5 Jan 2017

What to expect for rainforests in 2017

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Jan 2017

Local NGOs: Ecosystem services, not orangutans, key to saving Leuser

Colleen Kimmett 4 Jan 2017

No let-up in Thailand’s relentless, violent Siamese rosewood poaching

Demelza Stokes 4 Jan 2017

Exotic populations hold hope for internationally traded endangered species

Shreya Dasgupta 4 Jan 2017

Jokowi grants first-ever indigenous land rights to 9 communities

Mongabay.com 4 Jan 2017

Tropical birds may not fare so well in a warming world

Mike Gaworecki 3 Jan 2017

Battle for the Amazon: Tapajós Basin threatened by massive development

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 3 Jan 2017
A woodcarver makes a carving of a rhinoceros on the outskirts of Lunga Lunga, a town on the border between Kenya and Tanzania. Photo by Nathan Siegel for Mongabay

As forests in East Africa disappear, so does an industry of artisans

Nathan Siegel 3 Jan 2017

Elephants in Borneo slaughtered for ivory (WARNING: graphic photos)

Shreya Dasgupta 3 Jan 2017
Renowned chef Alex Atala’s golden Amazonian ant over coconut meringue. Courtesy Netflix Chef’s Table and Chef Table Season 2. Photo by Zhana Leeson

Food from Brazil’s Amazon finds its way to metropolitan tables

Carolina Torres 2 Jan 2017

Restoring seagrass under siege

Elizabeth Devitt 2 Jan 2017

Sudden sale may doom carbon-rich rainforest in Borneo

John Cannon 2 Jan 2017

The year in tropical rainforests: 2016

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Dec 2016

Illegal logging shows little sign of slowing

Morgan Erickson-Davis 30 Dec 2016
A Kenyan ranger guards poached elephant tusks in preparation for the destruction of 105 tons of ivory and a ton of rhino horn in April. Photo by Mwangi Kirubi via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)

China to ban its elephant ivory trade within a year

Mongabay.com 30 Dec 2016

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