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Sea turtle swimming under sunset.

Half-Earth, conservation, and hope: An interview with E.O. Wilson, Paula Ehrlich and Sir Tim Smit    

Liz Kimbrough 20 Oct 2021

For Costa Rica’s Indigenous Bribri women, agroforestry is an act of resistance and resilience

Monica Pelliccia 29 Sep 2021

Sea turtles: Can these great marine migrators navigate rising human threats?

Elizabeth Devitt 20 Sep 2021

Hold the scuba: These lizards can breathe underwater

Mongabay.com 28 May 2021

Life and new limbs: Creative thinking, 3D printers save injured wildlife

Laurel Neme 5 Apr 2021

Battle at the bat box: Camera trap captures ocelot standoff in restored forest

Liz Kimbrough 29 Mar 2021

Reforestation projects should include tree diversity targets, too (commentary)

Andrew Whitworth 2 Dec 2020
Coral garden. Photo credit: Raising Coral Costa Rica

Scientists in Costa Rica are growing new corals to save reefs

Ashleigh Papp 12 Nov 2020

One year on: Insects still in peril as world struggles with global pandemic

Jeremy Hance 11 Nov 2020

A new conservation project is created in Costa Rica thanks to COVID-19

Milan Sime Martinic 9 Nov 2020
Newly hatched olive ridley sea turtle in Costa Rica. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

The turtle egg that pinged back: Tracing a poaching pathway in Costa Rica

Claudia Geib 22 Oct 2020

The post-COVID opportunity for the environment: An interview with the GEF’s Carlos Manuel Rodriguez

Rhett A. Butler 12 Oct 2020

Coronavirus caused by ‘unbalancing’ of nature: Q&A with Indigenous leader Levi Sucre Romero

Francesca Edralin 2 Sep 2020

Mangrove forest restoration boosts Costa Rica communities (commentary)

Andrew Whitworth 24 Jul 2020

Bold project hopes to DNA barcode every species in Costa Rica

Jeremy Hance 27 Apr 2020

Costa Rica caterpillar decline spells trouble for ecosystems

Aimee Gabay 16 Mar 2020

Deforestation clips howler monkey calls, study finds

Mongabay.com 20 Jan 2020

Central American countries pledge to protect Mesoamerica’s ‘5 Great Forests’

Mongabay.com 18 Dec 2019

The Great Insect Dying: How to save insects and ourselves

Jeremy Hance 13 Jun 2019

New nets make shrimp trawling more sustainable in Latin America and Caribbean

Michelle Carrere 3 Jun 2019

Sergio Rojas Ortiz, leader of Costa Rica’s indigenous Bribri, slain by gunmen

Mongabay.com 26 Mar 2019

Top camera trapping stories of 2018

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 31 Dec 2018

Pesticides could be painting black howler monkeys yellow in Costa Rica

Mongabay.com 10 Dec 2018
Rainforest on Costa Rica's Osa Peninsula. Photo by Rhett Butler.

Secondary forests in Costa Rica are re-cleared within decades

Rodrigo Pérez Ortega 7 Dec 2018

Latam Eco Review: Whale attacks, palm oil woes, and hope for vaquitas

Mongabay.com 7 Dec 2018

The Osa Camera Trap Network: Uniting people to monitor biodiversity

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 30 Oct 2018

New sloth book features amazing photographs and busts myths [PHOTOS]

Erik Hoffner 5 Apr 2018

How to build a Guardian: students learn about making technology work in the field

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 23 Mar 2018

A global view from a mountain town: how conservation became ingrained in Monteverde

Caitlin Looby 6 Sep 2017

Re-peeling the effects of degradation: low-tech application of orange crop waste shows potential to restore tropical forests

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 25 Aug 2017

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

Mike Gaworecki 29 Mar 2017

Newly discovered beetle catches a ride on the backs of army ants to get around

Mike Gaworecki 10 Feb 2017

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