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‘Stubborn optimism’ for elephants fuels Indigenous conservation effort

Mike Gaworecki 28 Jul 2021
China’s ‘wandering elephants’. Credit: Yunnan Forest Fire Brigade via AP.

China’s efforts to accommodate ‘wandering elephants’ is overshadowed by its conflict with elephants elsewhere (commentary)

William F. Laurance 21 Jun 2021

Tanzania’s “Ivory Queen” denied release after appeal

Lucy Taylor 17 Jun 2021
Elephants, Tanzania. Image by Consuelo Puchades via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND-2.0)

Poaching declines in Tanzania following prosecution of ivory trafficking ringleaders

Lucy Taylor 17 Jun 2021

It’s an ‘incredibly exciting’ time for the field of bioacoustics

Mike Gaworecki 16 Jun 2021
Africa's largest population of eastern chimpanzees live in Bili-Uéré. Image by gombe069 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Deforestation intensifies in northern DRC protected areas

Morgan Erickson-Davis 2 Jun 2021
Poached elephant in Garamba National Park, DRC. Image by Nuria Ortega/African Parks via Flickr

Tale of two traffickers is a rare spell of Congolese conservation convictions

Soraya Kishtwari 28 May 2021

For tool-wielding chimps of Ebo Forest, logging plan is a ‘death sentence’

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 30 Jul 2020

Myanmar ponders what to do with its out-of-work elephants

Curtis Segarra 5 Jul 2020
A calf attempts to sneak its trunk into a mineral pit that mom is drinking from. Protest calls are often heard from calves during these behavioral contexts, as mom sometimes pushes them away and they in turn express their displeasure with a little yell. Photo © Ana Verahrami, Elephant Listening Project.

Listening to elephants to protect Central Africa’s tropical forests

Mike Gaworecki 27 May 2020

Study tracks first incursion of poachers into ‘pristine’ African forest

John Cannon 3 Oct 2019

Sumatran elephant sanctuary under threat from bridge, port projects

Taufik Wijaya 26 Aug 2019

Congo government opens Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park to oil exploration

John Cannon 18 Jul 2019

In the Congo Basin, a road cuts through once-untouched ape wilderness

Eugene N. Nforngwa 1 Mar 2019

In Sumatra, a lone elephant leads rescuers on a cat-and-mouse chase

Cory Rogers, Lili Rambe 23 Jan 2019

Wild-caught timber elephants in Myanmar die earlier than captive-born ones

Mongabay.com 20 Aug 2018

Forest elephant DNA diverse, consistent, and distinct, study says

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 10 Aug 2018

Two suspected poachers arrested for killing of Sumatran elephant

Mongabay.com 5 Jul 2018

Poachers blamed in second Sumatran elephant death this year

Junaidi Hanafiah 11 Jun 2018

More gorillas and chimpanzees living in Central Africa’s forests than thought

John Cannon 27 Apr 2018

U.K. ban relegates legal ivory trade to ‘a thing of the past’

Mongabay.com 3 Apr 2018

Five-year sentences for elephant poachers in Republic of Congo

Mongabay.com 28 Feb 2018

East Africa’s Albertine Rift needs protection now, scientists say

Mongabay.com 15 Feb 2018

Poachers blamed as body of Sumatran elephant, missing tusks, found in protected forest

Taufik Wijaya 11 Jan 2018

New study: Gorillas fare better in logged forests than chimps

John Cannon 11 Dec 2017

Citizen scientists around the world are monitoring elephants in Gabon via camera traps — and you can too

Mike Gaworecki 10 Nov 2017

Ivory is out in the UK, as government moves to shutter legal trade

Mongabay.com 12 Oct 2017

Liberian park protects Critically Endangered western chimpanzees

John Cannon 22 Sep 2017

Central Africa’s ivory trade shifts underground, according to new report

Mongabay.com 12 Sep 2017

Watch: $8 million worth elephant ivory crushed in New York City

Shreya Dasgupta 4 Aug 2017

New genetic analyses help scientists rethink the elephant family tree

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 3 Aug 2017

Big forests, big ag: Are rainforests the right place for industrial agriculture? (commentary)

Glenn Hurowitz 20 Jul 2017

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