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COVID-19 compounds a poaching problem targeting the Amazon’s pirarucu

Matheus Lopes Quirino 23 Apr 2021

Shark catastrophe points to failure to enact global biodiversity agreements

Anna Nordseth 19 Apr 2021

Sharks on a knife’s edge as Maldives mulls lifting 10-year fishing ban

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 16 Apr 2021

South Korea faces a public reckoning for financing coal plants in Indonesia

Seulki Lee 15 Apr 2021

An Amazonian arapaima washed up in a Florida river. It didn’t swim there

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 9 Apr 2021

European tuna boats dump fishing debris in Seychelles waters ‘with impunity’

Malavika Vyawahare 9 Apr 2021

Red flag: Predatory European ships help push Indian Ocean tuna to the brink

Malavika Vyawahare 8 Apr 2021

Frustration over light penalties for coal mine that polluted Indonesian river

Della Syahni 5 Apr 2021

Madagascar: Businesses drive disappearance of a wetland ‘reed forest’

Rivonala Razafison 31 Mar 2021

Surge in seizures of giant clam shells has Philippine conservationists wary

Keith Anthony Fabro 29 Mar 2021
Wildlife off the coast of the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, in 2015. Image by Enric Sala.

Ocean protection scheme can yield ‘triple benefits’ study says

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 26 Mar 2021

Chinese ‘fishing fleet’ anchored on Philippine reef raises tensions

Leilani Chavez 26 Mar 2021

Study calls for a marine reserve in a $500m fishing hotspot in Indonesia

Cassie Freund 23 Mar 2021
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Amid South China Sea dispute, Philippines’ Palawan is besieged by political split

Criselda Yabes, Leilani Chavez 12 Mar 2021

First female leader signals new day for WTO (commentary)

Isabel Jarrett 10 Mar 2021

‘Minke whales for dinner’: Norway’s controversial whale hunt is still on

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 10 Mar 2021

Amazon’s Belo Monte dam cuts Xingu River flow 85%; a crime, Indigenous say

Tiffany Higgins 8 Mar 2021

Illegal fishing: The great threat to Latin America’s marine sanctuaries

Michelle Carrere 5 Mar 2021

When Chinook salmon is off the menu, other prey will do for endangered orcas

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 3 Mar 2021

Human impacts leave reefs short on sharks and long on moray eels

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 24 Feb 2021

When seas turn rough, gleaning keeps the fish on the table for some communities

Basten Gokkon 24 Feb 2021
A lemur tree frog (Hylomantis lemur) in Costa Rica. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

U.N. report lays out blueprint to end ‘suicidal war on nature’

John Cannon 19 Feb 2021

A tale of two seas: Closed season is a mixed bag for Philippine sardines industry 

Bong S. Sarmiento 18 Feb 2021

In the fight to save the vaquita, conservationists take on cartels

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 16 Feb 2021

Activists make the case that bigger is better to protect Galápagos reserve

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 29 Jan 2021

Mozambique’s new fisheries law expands protections but old problems persist

Malavika Vyawahare 19 Jan 2021

Fisheries need to make gender inclusion a norm, not just ‘reach’ women, says Pacific study

Carinya Sharples 12 Jan 2021
A bucket of fish at a market in Labuan Bajo, Indonesia. Image by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay

How can Southeast Asia benefit from the new U.S. policy on illegal fishing? (commentary)

Aristyo Rizka Darmawan 8 Jan 2021

Top environment stories from Madagascar in 2020

Mongabay.com 30 Dec 2020

Indonesia’s five most consequential environmental stories of 2020

Loren Bell 29 Dec 2020

2020’s top ocean news stories (commentary)

Callie Steffen, Emma Critchley, Douglas McCauley 21 Dec 2020

Indonesia allows use of destructive seine and trawl nets in its waters again

Basten Gokkon 17 Dec 2020

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