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Sodwana Bay, South Africa. Photo by Greg Asner/www.Divephoto.org.

Can marine reserves help counteract climate change?

Kim Smuga-Otto 8 Jun 2017

Extinction in the wild looms for two California fish (commentary)

Leon Kolankiewicz 8 Jun 2017

Vaquita survival hinges on stopping international swim bladder trade

Mongabay.com 8 Jun 2017

Gabon pledges ‘massive’ protected network for oceans

Mongabay.com 6 Jun 2017

A rising chorus of voices condemns Laos’ planned Pak Beng dam

Jenny Denton 2 Jun 2017

Reef Market Economy: Energetics key to keeping fish in the sea and the store

Caitlin Looby 1 Jun 2017
Caboco on a Sunday fishing trip. Photo by Maximo Anderson for Mongabay.

Amid life and death risks, Brazil’s land defenders stand firm

Maximo Anderson 29 May 2017

Singapore is world’s second largest shark-fin trader: TRAFFIC

Shreya Dasgupta 26 May 2017

Crabbing gone commercial: Brazilian mangroves threatened by shift in local traditions

Kayla Walsh 12 May 2017

To help stop illegal fishing, ban practice of transshipment on high seas, researchers say

Mike Gaworecki 1 May 2017
The coast of DRC. Photo by William Clowes for Mongabay.

Conserving Congo’s wild places on a shoestring

William Clowes 25 Apr 2017

Namibia’s low cost, sustainable solution to seabird bycatch

William H. Funk 25 Apr 2017
Not for republication. Image by Rod Harbinson/Rodharbinson.com

Is a property boom in Malaysia causing a fisheries bust in Penang?

Rod Harbinson 19 Apr 2017
Fishermen in the Tana River earlier this year . Photo by Nathan Siegel for Mongabay.

The Tana River, Kenya’s lifeblood, strains under development and drought

Nathan Siegel 14 Apr 2017

Murky future for freshwater fish in the Amazon floodplains

Caitlin Looby 7 Apr 2017

Officials, Greenpeace nab four boats for illegally fishing near Guinea-Bissau

John Cannon 3 Apr 2017

Military base-building destroys coral reefs in the South China Sea

Greg Asner 26 Mar 2017
Not for republication. Image by Rod Harbinson/Rodharbinson.com

Cambodia’s Sambor Dam plans cause controversy as public left in the dark

Rod Harbinson 16 Mar 2017

Climate change-induced bleaching decimating Great Barrier Reef

John Cannon 15 Mar 2017

Forests provide a nutritional boon to some communities, research shows

Mongabay.com 2 Mar 2017

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

Mongabay 1 Mar 2017

China’s Domestic Dams: Hydropower not only an export for world’s biggest dam builder

Luc Forsyth 28 Feb 2017

How acoustic monitoring gave us a last chance to save the vaquita

Rachel Fritts 22 Feb 2017

A Thai oil firm, Indonesian seaweed farmers and Australian regulators. What happened after the Montara oil spill?

Tim Henry 14 Feb 2017

Ecological trap ensnares endangered African penguins

John Cannon 10 Feb 2017

Fish magnet boom creates headaches in Indonesia’s war on overfishing

Mike Cronin 9 Feb 2017

Shrugging off the risks, Laos plans to proceed with the Pak Beng dam

Jenny Denton 8 Feb 2017

Giant catfish clocks longest ever freshwater migration

Shreya Dasgupta 8 Feb 2017

There are now just 30 vaquita left in the wild

Mike Gaworecki 2 Feb 2017

In response to pollution complaints, a coal plant in Indonesia offered soap and mops

Nuswantoro 1 Feb 2017
An olive ridley sea turtle hatchling, pictured here in Costa Rica. Photo by Rhett Butler.

Efforts to conserve sea turtles disrupted by coal plant in East Java

Nuswantoro 31 Jan 2017
A rarely seen Bay Owl (Phodilus badius). Photo by Arie Prasetya.

A possible undiscovered orangutan population in Borneo?

Erik Meijaard 31 Jan 2017

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