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New MPA established in Philippines includes community-led monitoring program

Mike Gaworecki 7 Mar 2019

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

John Cannon 5 Mar 2019

Brazil’s Sinop Dam flouts environmental legislation (Commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 1 Mar 2019

The odor side of otters: Tech reveals species’ adaptations to human activity

Visvak P. 25 Feb 2019

Corruption-riddled caviar trade pushes fish closer to extinction

Mongabay.com 18 Feb 2019

Six new catfish species, facial tentacles and all, described in Amazon

Mongabay.com 11 Feb 2019

Ecuador’s indigenous Cofán hail court-ordered end to mining on their land

Antonio José Paz Cardona 11 Feb 2019

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

John Cannon 7 Feb 2019

Fries with that shark? U.K. chippies found selling threatened species

Mongabay.com 6 Feb 2019

Warmer waters shrink krill habitat around Antarctica

Mongabay.com 30 Jan 2019
Capybaras, Colombia. Image by Rhett Butler for Mongabay

Latam Eco Review: Resistance, hope and camera traps

Mongabay.com 11 Jan 2019
Saravanan points to a large salt pan, part of Ennore Creek in the city of Chennai. The nearby port’s plan to convert the area into industrial real estate sparked protests among fishing communities in 2016. Image by Mahima Jain.

Protecting India’s fishing villages: Q&A with ‘maptivist’ Saravanan

Mahima Jain 10 Jan 2019

Cyclone harmed Fijian crab fishery in 2016, research finds

Mongabay.com 3 Jan 2019

China seizes totoaba swim bladders worth $26 million, arrests 16

Mongabay.com 29 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

Feed a fishery, starve a seabird

Mongabay.com 12 Dec 2018

Bits of DNA in ocean water can reveal white sharks swimming nearby

Sofie Bates 4 Dec 2018

Trump Admin moves closer to authorizing oil and gas exploration off the Atlantic coast

Mongabay.com 30 Nov 2018

Women in small-island states exposed to high levels of mercury: study

Basten Gokkon 27 Nov 2018
The Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve is home to wildlife like jaguar. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler.

Latam Eco Review: Jail time for jaguar traffickers

Mongabay.com 23 Nov 2018

Map pinpoints ‘last chance’ locations of endangered species

John Cannon, Shreya Dasgupta 23 Nov 2018

New picture of coral reef health opens avenues for saving them

Mongabay.com 21 Nov 2018

Panama, Namibia plan to reveal fishing fleet data via online map

Basten Gokkon 19 Nov 2018

Peru shares its fisheries surveillance data with the world

Yvette Sierra Praeli 16 Nov 2018

PNG to create 7,500 square kilometers of new marine protected areas in Bismarck Sea

Mongabay.com 13 Nov 2018
A map of Biacou (also spelled Beacou) made by residents of the village shows the location of various protected sites. Click here to enlarge. Image courtesy of RFLP/Sergio Pedroco.

Timor-Leste: With sacrifice and ceremony, tribe sets eco rules

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 8 Nov 2018

Are deep sea reefs really a lifeboat for our vanishing corals?

Emily Clark 7 Nov 2018

Parrotfish, critical to reef health, now protected under Mexican law

John Cannon 7 Nov 2018
A fishing boat in the town of Beheloke in southwestern Madagascar. Image by Rowan Moore Gerety for Mongabay.

Local fishers oppose $2.7 billion deal opening Madagascar to Chinese fishing

Edward Carver 5 Nov 2018

Coral bleaching events cause behavioral changes in key reef fish species

Mongabay.com 1 Nov 2018
Fishing boats in Timor-Leste. Image by Jennifer King/WorldFish.

Timor-Leste: Q&A with a Maubere fisherman on reviving depleted fisheries

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 31 Oct 2018

Amid lack of enforcement, fishermen take the fight to blast fishing

Ian Morse 29 Oct 2018

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