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New research teases apart complex effects of naval sonar on whales

Mongabay.com 28 Mar 2019

Malaysian state chief: Highway construction must not destroy forest

Mongabay.com 26 Mar 2019
A juvenile Brazilian tapir (Tapirus terrestris) in the Pantanal. Tapirs have been found to disperse seeds in disturbed Amazon forests. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Tapirs could be key in helping degraded rainforests bounce back

Mongabay.com 20 Mar 2019

New maps show where humans are pushing species closer to extinction

John Cannon 15 Mar 2019
The Flipflopi under sail from Watamu to Kilifi, Kenya. Image by Anthony Langat for Mongabay.

Flip-flop-clad boat brings plastic recycling message to East African coast

Anthony Langat 8 Mar 2019

Proximity to towns stretches giraffe home ranges

Mongabay.com 6 Mar 2019

You’re gonna need a smaller boat: Media obscures shrinking ‘newsworthy’ fish

John Cannon 5 Mar 2019

Indigenous hunters vital to robust food webs in Australia

Mongabay.com 1 Mar 2019

Blue whales remember best times and places to find prey

Mongabay.com 26 Feb 2019

In a predator-infested forest, survival for baby birds comes by the road

John Cannon 21 Feb 2019

In the Solomon Islands, making amends in the name of conservation

John Cannon 19 Feb 2019

Grasshoppers: They come, they eat, they … pollinate?

Ashley Stumvoll 13 Feb 2019

What’s in a name? The role of defining ‘wilderness’ in conservation

John Cannon 7 Feb 2019

Urbanization in Asia provides a window of hope for tigers, study finds

Mongabay.com 6 Feb 2019
Three Xunan-Kab workers consume honey from a broken cerumen pod. At harvest time, beekeepers use syringes to extract the honey. Whereas European honeybees store their honey and pollen and rear their larvae in honeycomb, Xunan-Kab store honey and pollen in cerumen pods, and use honeycomb only for larvae. Image by Richard Arghiris for Mongabay.

House of the Royal Lady Bee: Maya revive native bees and ancient beekeeping

Jennifer Kennedy, Richard Arghiris 31 Jan 2019

Warmer waters shrink krill habitat around Antarctica

Mongabay.com 30 Jan 2019

Solomon Islands province bans logging in bid to protect environment

Mongabay.com 21 Jan 2019

Rapid population drop weakened the Grauer’s gorilla gene pool

John Cannon 10 Jan 2019

Community-based conservation offers hope for Amazon’s giant South American turtle

Jenny Gonzales 9 Jan 2019

Flashing lights ward off livestock-hunting pumas in northern Chile

John Cannon 7 Jan 2019

Cyclone harmed Fijian crab fishery in 2016, research finds

Mongabay.com 3 Jan 2019

As a pandemic looms, researchers rush to test salamander vulnerability

Morgan Erickson-Davis 31 Dec 2018
Puke Tīmoti helps local rangatahi (young people) make connections between cultural knowledge and science through the Te Whare o Rehua forest academy program. Image courtesy of Tūhoe Tuawhenua Trust.

Māori community reconnects youth with their ancestral forests

Monica Evans 26 Dec 2018

Peccary’s disappearance foreboding for other Mesoamerican wildlife

Mongabay 20 Dec 2018

U.S. whale entanglement figures steady in 2017

Mongabay.com 19 Dec 2018

Pumas engineer their environment, providing habitat for other species

John Cannon 17 Dec 2018
The Mozambique Channel off the west coast of Madagascar. Image by Rod Waddington via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Madagascar auctioning a large swath of virgin waters for oil exploration

Edward Carver 14 Dec 2018

Dam drove ‘collapse’ of rainforest bird populations in Thailand

Mongabay.com 13 Dec 2018

Pesticides could be painting black howler monkeys yellow in Costa Rica

Mongabay.com 10 Dec 2018

Culls push endangered fruit bat closer to extinction in Mauritius

Mongabay.com 5 Dec 2018

In the belly of the beast: journalist delves into wildlife trafficking

Gloria Dickie 4 Dec 2018

‘Drifters of opportunity’: Seabirds track energy in tidal currents

Mongabay.com 3 Dec 2018

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