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Elephant

You can move an elephant to the jungle, but it won’t stay there, study says

Carolyn Cowan 12 Nov 2021

New checklist aims to tackle racism in conservation science in higher ed

Caitlin Looby 22 Sep 2021
Laysan albatross

Not just sea life: Migratory fish, birds and mammals also fall foul of plastic

Carolyn Cowan 3 Sep 2021
Photo credit: Felipe Rodriguez

It’s time to scrutinize who’s in the room when conservation decisions are made, says Laly Lichtenfeld

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Aug 2021
Maleo

Maleos bounce back in Sulawesi after villagers resolve to protect their eggs

Carolyn Cowan 9 Aug 2021

‘I am Indigenous, not pardo’: Push for self-declaration in Brazil’s census

Karla Mendes 30 Jun 2021

In Rio de Janeiro, Indigenous people fight to undo centuries of erasure

Karla Mendes 30 Jun 2021

In Boa Vista, Indigenous Brazilians retake their identity through education

Nayra Wladimila 29 Jun 2021
Wild dog. Photo credit: Niassa Carnivore Project NO RE-USE PERMITTED

Reckoning with elitism and racism in conservation: Q&A with Colleen Begg

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Jun 2021
Philippine tarsier

Researchers look to locals to fill knowledge gap on Philippine tarsier

Carolyn Cowan 21 Jun 2021

A new environmental education site for kids

Mongabay.com 25 Mar 2021

Teachers create lasting change for people and primates via clean cookstoves (commentary)

Corinne Kendall 10 Feb 2021

Honoring children and protecting the planet: An interview with musician Raffi

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Nov 2020

In the Horn of Africa, conflict and illegal trade create a ‘cheetah hell’

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 7 Oct 2020

80 percent of conservation careers negatively affected by COVID pandemic (commentary)

Kristi Foster 9 Apr 2020

Hanging with Romi: Get to know our camera trap expert and host of Candid Animal Cam

Erik Hoffner 8 Apr 2020

For Philippines’ displaced indigenous students, COVID-19 is one of many threats

Leilani Chavez 3 Apr 2020

Overworked, underpaid and lonely: Conservationists find a new community online

Jeremy Hance 23 Mar 2020

Microplastics may be a macro problem for the U.S. Great Plains, too, study finds

Megan Stannard 18 Dec 2019

Can a national management plan halt Madagascar’s shark decline?

Edward Carver 11 Nov 2019

As birds winter in Sri Lanka, one enthusiast makes sure their memory stays

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 25 Oct 2019

Education, compensation, and spiritual outreach protect threatened whale sharks

Tariq Engineer 14 Oct 2019

Transforming African conservation from old social cause into next-gen growth market

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Sep 2019

Virtual Reality 360-degree video: An “empathy-generating machine” for conservation outreach?

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 11 Apr 2019

Virtual reality tool gives viewers the vision of a nocturnal primate

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 29 Mar 2019

Reducing human-elephant encounters with calls, texts, and digital signs

Vasudevan Sridharan 6 Mar 2019
Student government president Gaymon Edwards leads a meeting of his fellow students. Their current requests from the school administration include sprinklers for the kitchen garden, new locks for the classrooms, and full electricity in the dorms. Image by Carinya Sharples for Mongabay.

Guyana: The school where indigenous youth learn about their land

Carinya Sharples 15 Feb 2019

Start them young: Uganda targets children for conservation awareness

Nangayi Guyson 9 Jan 2019
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

Hackathon enlightens coders and conservationists alike

David Klinges 8 Nov 2018

The iNaturalist species data sharing platform reaches one million users

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 19 Oct 2018

For an Amazon tribe, phone cameras shine a light on their wildlife

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 15 Oct 2018

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