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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

Managing the data deluge: Twitter as a tool for ecological research

Marianne Messina 1 Oct 2018

Latam Eco Review: Harlequin frogs, sustainable ranching, and miracle coral

Mongabay.com 3 Aug 2018

Innovative ideas sought for new conservation tech prize

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 8 Jun 2018

Scientists tackling conservation problems turn to artificial intelligence

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 25 May 2018

Cities worldwide use photo app technology to compete in nature observation challenge

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 25 Apr 2018

‘Adaptation Bangladesh: Sea Level Rise’ film shows how farmers are fighting climate change

Mongabay.com 22 Feb 2018

Why we can’t lose hope: Dr. David Suzuki speaks out

Glenn Scherer 11 Sep 2017

Animated animals: can games engage an audience with a conservation message?

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 19 Jul 2017

On poaching in South Africa, education “has saved more wildlife than any guard with a gun”

Justin Catanoso 13 Jul 2017

DJ remixes the sounds of birds, lemurs, and more to inspire conservation

Mike Gaworecki 12 Jul 2017

Conservation comics to the rescue

Erik Hoffner 28 Jun 2017

Loving apes celebrated this Valentine’s Day

Mongabay.com 14 Feb 2017

Conservation’s best kept secret (database)

Jeremy Hance 18 Jan 2017
A small village nestled in the Ha Giang province in Vietnam near the border with China. Photo by Michael Tatarski for Mongabay.

Enforcement, development and education define efforts to save Vietnam’s rare primates

Michael Tatarski 15 Jan 2017

How one conservationist is sparking a ‘young revolution’ in Indonesia

Joshua Parfitt 13 Jan 2017

Hectare by hectare, an indigenous man reforested a jungle in Indonesia’s burned-out heartland

Indra Nugraha 26 Oct 2016

Solving Global Grand Challenges, One MOOC at a Time

Taylor Robb-McCord 29 Aug 2016

Solving Global Grand Challenges, One MOOC at a Time

Taylor Robb-McCord 12 Aug 2016
Photo credit: David Olson.

A World of Tings

Taylor Robb-McCord 28 Jun 2016

The key to tropical conservation: scrap big projects, invest in people

Liz Kimbrough 27 May 2016

Empowering smartphone users to bear witness to illegal wildlife trade

Julia John 26 May 2016

Want to identify that bug or beetle in your photo? Ask the crowd.

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 6 May 2016

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