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Judges up the ante for tiger traffickers in Indonesia

Chik Rini, Dedek Hendry 24 Jun 2016

Combining high-tech and low-tech to turn satellite images into action

Nathan Hahn 24 Jun 2016

Saving Borneo’s wild cats and small carnivores

Mike Gaworecki 24 Jun 2016

Rare moth vanishing from its last site in England

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Jun 2016

Sub-Saharan African countries most vulnerable to invasive crop pests

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Jun 2016

Amazonian catfish’s 5,000-mile migration endangered by dams

Claire Salisbury 21 Jun 2016

Policy makers meet to discuss forest conservation and ‘the future of humanity’

Morgan Erickson-Davis 21 Jun 2016

Widespread coral bleaching event to hit US hard for third straight year

Shreya Dasgupta 21 Jun 2016

New boa species “on its way to extinction” discovered in the Bahamas

Mike Gaworecki 20 Jun 2016
Fire set for peatland clearing in Riau Province, Indonesia in July 2015. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

No more fires in Indonesia?

Erik Meijaard 20 Jun 2016
Sumatran orangutan. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Hype and secrecy in wildlife conservation

Erik Meijaard 18 Jun 2016

In search of Madagascar’s “marine primates”

Mike Gaworecki 17 Jun 2016
Blue color form of Dendrobates auratus dart frog. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

10 conservation “fads”: how have they worked in Latin America?

Aldo Orellana López, Alan Forsberg 17 Jun 2016

After mass die-off, saiga antelope numbers go up in Kazakhstan

Shreya Dasgupta 17 Jun 2016
La Danta pyramid in the Mayan city of Mirador, as seen from a distance. Photo by Ronyrocael/Wikimedia Commons.

Controversial park plans in Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve

Sandra Cuffe 17 Jun 2016
Yu Jiahua poses in front of a small portion of the wire loops collected by the anti-poaching patrol team during the past two decades. Photo by Wang Yan.

PHOTOS: On a Chinese mountain, an aging anti-poaching hero ponders the future

Wang Yan 16 Jun 2016

Norway, U.S. pledge to coordinate forest protection efforts

Mongabay.com 16 Jun 2016

New ‘froggy-style’ mating position discovered in Bombay night frogs

Shreya Dasgupta 16 Jun 2016

On The Road: Rhino Translocation in Nepal

Kashish Das Shrestha 15 Jun 2016
A still of juvenile blacktip reef sharks (Carcharhinus melanopterus) from the baited Go-Pro rig that researchers set in the waters of the Daram no-take zone in West Papua, Indonesia. Photo by Vanessa Jaiteh.

Protected areas grow populations of shark — and disenfranchised fishers

Melati Kaye 15 Jun 2016
Rainforest tree in Malaysia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Norway pledges $14M to strengthen forest monitoring platform

Mongabay.com 15 Jun 2016

7 new brilliantly-colored peacock spiders discovered

Shreya Dasgupta 15 Jun 2016

Drink beer, help the ocean?

Julia John 14 Jun 2016

Private conservation area in northern Peru will protect 30 percent of region’s montane forests

Mike Gaworecki 14 Jun 2016
Zou Huagang, head of Lianhe village, poses in front of a local kiwi farm. Zou's family owns about three acres of kiwi farmland. Photo by Wang Yan.

Making a living inside a reserve: an interview with village head Zou Huagang

Wang Yan 14 Jun 2016

Singapore crushes illegal ivory worth $10 million

Shreya Dasgupta 14 Jun 2016

Ecological corridor to provide connectivity for endangered, range-restricted Andean species

Anton Sorokin, Emma Steigerwald 13 Jun 2016

Indonesia to rezone 3.8m of protected peat that was damaged or converted

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 13 Jun 2016

In unprecedented move, Michelin adopts zero deforestation for rubber sourcing

Mongabay.com 13 Jun 2016

Malaysia gets its largest marine park

Shreya Dasgupta 13 Jun 2016
Rainforest emergent tree in Borneo.

Tropics’ tallest tree found in Malaysia

Mongabay.com 12 Jun 2016
Illegal forest clearingfor oil palm in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

How is Indonesian president Jokowi doing on environmental issues?

Philip Jacobson 12 Jun 2016

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