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Vandals ravage Mother Nature (commentary)

Fred Bercovitch 4 May 2017

Saving the most endangered plants in the world

Shreya Dasgupta 2 May 2017

Conservation lessons from the bonobos

Kim Harrisberg 1 May 2017

Amazon’s fate hangs on outcome of war between opposing worldviews

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 27 Apr 2017

Illegal trade threatens nearly half the world’s natural heritage sites: WWF

Shreya Dasgupta 27 Apr 2017
Park rangers on patrol in Garamba National Park in DRC earlier this month. Photo by Thomas Nicolon for Mongabay.

2 wildlife rangers shot and killed by poachers in Congo park

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Apr 2017

Indonesian tiger smugglers escape with light sentences in Sumatra

Lili Rambe 20 Apr 2017

Brazil moves to cut Amazon conservation units by 1.2 million hectares

Sue Branford 19 Apr 2017

Deforestation has become big business in the Brazilian Amazon

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 18 Apr 2017

North Sumatra mining chief caught taking bribe in Indonesia

Ayat S. Karokaro 17 Apr 2017

Great apes in Asian circus-style shows on rise — so is trafficking

Millie Kerr 12 Apr 2017

Illegal bushmeat trade threatens human health and great apes

Claire Asher 6 Apr 2017

The military family that kept a pet orangutan in Indonesia

Philip Jacobson 29 Mar 2017

Amazon land speculators poised to gain control of vast public lands

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 27 Mar 2017

Damage to Raja Ampat 12 times higher than previously thought

Basten Gokkon 25 Mar 2017

“Endangered species to declare?” Europe’s understudied bushmeat trade

Sean Mowbray 20 Mar 2017

Crime and not enough punishment: Amazon thieves keep stolen public land

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 15 Mar 2017

Cruise ship wrecks one of Indonesia’s best coral reefs at Raja Ampat

Basten Gokkon 9 Mar 2017

Law enforcers recover 38 sea turtles in eastern Indonesia — 6 of them dead

Mongabay 1 Mar 2017

Proposed Trump policy threatens Critically Endangered Grauer’s gorilla

Sharon Guynup 21 Feb 2017

Wilmar grabbed indigenous lands in Sumatra, RSPO finds

Rachel Diaz-Bastin 16 Feb 2017

NGO takes action to save great apes in Cameroon’s Lebialem Highlands

Aminateh Nkemngu 31 Jan 2017

Politician’s son named a suspect over illegal land clearing in Leuser Ecosystem

Junaidi Hanafiah 26 Jan 2017

Trade in skulls, body parts severely threatens Cameroon’s great apes

Eugene N. Nforngwa 19 Jan 2017

Indonesian government challenges another green group over freedom of information request

Mongabay.com 17 Jan 2017

Pileated gibbons poached as bushmeat to feed illegal rosewood loggers

Demelza Stokes 17 Jan 2017

How local elites earn money from burning land in Indonesia

Alice Cuddy 16 Jan 2017

Great apes and greater challenges: Trafficking in Cameroon

Sean Mowbray 12 Jan 2017

Poaching gang of wealthy software engineers, coffee planters arrested in India

Shreya Dasgupta 11 Jan 2017

‘Too rare to wear’: new campaign targets tourists to end Hawksbill turtle trade

Shreya Dasgupta 9 Jan 2017

Local NGOs: Ecosystem services, not orangutans, key to saving Leuser

Colleen Kimmett 4 Jan 2017

China seizes over 3,000 kg of pangolin scales in biggest-ever smuggling case

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Dec 2016

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