WARNING: Graphic photos below. Recently cut white rhino horns in Zimbabwe. Photos: © Michel Gunther / WWF-Canon. Few animals face as violent, as well organized, and as determined an enemy…
Hornbill in Thailand's Khao Yai National Park. Photo by Rhett A. Butler 2009 Mongabay.com, a leading forest conservation and environmental science news web site, today announced the availability of its…
This interview is an excerpt from The WildLife with Laurel Neme, a program that explores the mysteries of the animal world through interviews with scientists and other wildlife investigators. "The…
Producer Shane DeRolf conveys the concept of extinction through his Yesterday's Zoo project. During the Wildlife Conservation Network's October 2010 Wildlife Expo, mongabay.com encountered an animation that powerfully illustrates the…
The author being approached by sealions on Playa Mann. Photo by: Rachel Lynch. A semester abroad is an opportunity to live a sort of compacted life. In a few short…
Mongabay.com, a leading forest conservation and environmental science news web site, today announced the availability of its rainforest site for children in Romanian. The site is available at world.mongabay.com/romanian. The…
A highly regarded conservation textbook is now available online for free. Conservation Biology for All, a book edited by Navjot S. Sodhi of the National University of Singapore and Paul…
With the help of Juha Honkala, Mongabay.com's rainforest information site for children is now available in Finnish: world.mongabay.com/finnish/. The rainforest information site for children — which describes rainforests, their importance,…
Lack of school access and higher costs of trade are driving an exodus from remote areas in the Amazon, a new study published in Population & Environment reveals. The research…
This article was originally posted on Ecosystem Marketplace as Brazil's Suruí Establish First Indigenous Carbon Fund. A half-century ago, Brazil's Suruí people knew little of the world beyond their cluster…
As autumn settles across North America, one hallmark of the season is the gentle southward flight of the Monarch Butterflies as they migrate towards the forests that shelter their species…
Although most Americans have likely seen photos and videos of the world's largest rainforest, the Amazon, they will probably never see it face-to-face. For many, the Amazon seems incredibly remote:…
Most Americans don't understand the basics of climate change, according to a new poll by researchers with Yale. The poll found that over half of Americans deserve an 'F' on…
Mongabay.com, a leading forest conservation and environmental science news web site, today announced the availability of its rainforest site for children in Vietnamese. The site is available at world.mongabay.com/vietnamese. The…
Arief Rubianto akan berbicara di Wildlife Conservation Network Expo di San Francisco, 3 Oktober 2010. Arief Rubianto, kepala satuan anti-perburuan di Pulau Sumatera, Indonesia, mendeskripsikan kehidupan sehari-harinya dengan ini: "seperti…
Arief Rubianto will be speaking at the Wildlife Conservation Network Expo in San Francisco on October 3rd, 2010. Arief Rubianto, the head of an anti-poaching squad on the Indonesian island…
Gay Reinartz will be speaking at the Wildlife Conservation Network Expo in San Francisco on October 3rd, 2010. Unlike every other of the world's great apes—the gorilla, chimpanzee, and orangutan—saving…
Aman untuk dikatakan bahwa perangkap kamera yang sederhana telah merevolusi konservasi kehidupan rimba. Alat unik yang sederhana ini - kamera digital otomatis yang mengambil foto dengan flash setiap seekor hewan…
It's safe to say that the humble camera trap has revolutionized wildlife conservation. This simple contraption—an automated digital camera that takes a flash photo whenever an animal triggers an infrared…
From July 23-25, Taiwanese undergraduates held a camp in Bukit Lawang, Sumatra, that taught local high school students to use technology as a conservation tool. The Taiwanese volunteers aimed to…
The San Diego Zoo Offers 10 Reasons for Hope and Steps Out with the Global Action Team Earlier last month the Zoological Society of San Diego launched two far reaching…
Most of the US's large ecosystems are but shadows of their former selves. The old-growth deciduous forests that once covered nearly all of the east and mid-west continental US are…
Rhett Butler, pendiri mongabay.com, berbicara dengan Laurel Neme di siaran radio dan podcast "The WildLife" tentang apa yang membisiki dia untuk membangun situs web lingkungan hidupnya dan juga mengenai beberapa…
Rhett Butler, founder of mongabay.com, spoke with Laurel Neme on her "The WildLife" radio show and podcast about what prompted him to develop his environmental website and also about some…
When asked to rank what was most important to them children across the world chose watching TV and playing video games ahead of saving the environment, according to an Airbus…
Since winning the prestigious 2010 Goldman Environmental Prize in Asia, Tuy Sereivathana has visited the US and Britain, even shaking hands with US President Barack Obama, yet in his home…
Chad's few remaining elephants are "survivors of a 'holocaust'". [warning: graphic images of killed elephants] Stephanie Vergniault, head of SOS Elephants in Chad, says she has seen more beheaded corpses…
Japan, the host nation for the Nagoya Biodiversity Summit in October, has suggested adding a few more years to the UN's awareness-raising efforts on the biodiversity crisis. Instead of having…
Many of the world's most endangered species have never been photographed or caught on film. The not-for-profit website ARKive is hoping to change that. ARKive provides a collection of some…
Meeting Tam in Borneo: our last chance to save Asia's two horned rhino Nothing can really prepare a person for coming face-to-face with what may be the last of a…