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Cambodian project aims to revive flagging fish populations in Tonle Sap Lake

Carolyn Cowan 22 Mar 2022

Colombian palm oil company under investigation for polluting rivers

Alianza periodística tras las huellas de la palma 2 Mar 2022

Threatened wetlands in Paraguay’s Lake Ypacaraí raise legal questions

Maxwell Radwin 25 Feb 2022

Stretch of Borneo’s Mahakam River eyed for protection to save Irrawaddy dolphins

Basten Gokkon 5 Nov 2021
Crocodile-WWF

Snapshot of hatchlings raises hopes for Siamese crocs in northeast Cambodia

Carolyn Cowan 24 Sep 2021
Laysan albatross

Not just sea life: Migratory fish, birds and mammals also fall foul of plastic

Carolyn Cowan 3 Sep 2021

New map identifies risks, and potential sanctuaries, for Brazil’s diving duck

Carolina Pinheiro 2 Sep 2021

Hold the scuba: These lizards can breathe underwater

Mongabay.com 28 May 2021
Neotropical river otter by Sabrina Bettoni

Chirp, chuckle and growl: Neotropical river otters call out to communicate

Liz Kimbrough 26 May 2021

Rare captive-bred crocodiles develop new, ‘odd’ habits in Philippine wild

Erwin M. Mascariñas 2 Apr 2021

Invasion of the crayfish clones: Q&A with Ranja Andriantsoa

Rowan Moore Gerety 27 Jan 2021

Well, hello there: Glass frogs ‘wave’ to communicate near noisy waterfalls

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Jan 2021

Industrial agriculture threatens a wetland oasis in Bolivia

Gustavo Jiménez Gonzáles 30 Dec 2020

Conserve freshwater or land biodiversity? Why not both, new study asks

Claire Asher 16 Nov 2020

Mercury from gold mining contaminates Amazon communities’ staple fish

Fernanda Wenzel 3 Sep 2020

Life among the turtles: Traditional people struggle inside an Amazon reserve

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 10 Aug 2020

Migratory freshwater fish in peril as report shows population plunge

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 30 Jul 2020

Turtles and tortoises in trouble: More than half of all species face extinction

Liz Kimbrough 8 Jul 2020

Brazil could dynamite Amazon dolphin, turtle habitat for industrial waterway

Tiffany Higgins 2 Jul 2020

Extinction of a megafish: Can this spark action to save other migratory freshwater species? (commentary)

William Darwall 14 Feb 2020

Killing gods: The last hope for the world’s rarest reptile

Jeremy Hance 7 Jan 2020

The long goodbye: Study declares ancient Chinese paddlefish extinct

Shreya Dasgupta 6 Jan 2020

India’s Ganga River dolphins are being shouted down by noisy boats

Shreya Dasgupta 12 Nov 2019

New eDNA sampling system aims for cleaner, more efficient field research

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 2 Jul 2019

Two-thirds of Earth’s longest rivers no longer free-flowing

Mike Gaworecki 8 May 2019

Freshwater fishes and other threatened but overlooked biodiversity must be new flagships for conservation (commentary)

Mike Baltzer 12 Mar 2019

Tiny subterranean Texas salamanders could be extinct in 100 years

Morgan Erickson-Davis 8 Mar 2019

Brazil’s Sinop Dam flouts environmental legislation (Commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 1 Mar 2019

Nepali scientists deploy drones to count endangered crocodiles

Abhaya Raj Joshi 4 Oct 2018

Satellites and citizen science pinpoint migratory bird refueling stops

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 17 Sep 2018

‘Shocking and worrying’: Selective logging has big, lasting impact on fish

Morgan Erickson-Davis 26 Apr 2018

In Jakarta, wildlife monitors find a hotspot for the illegal tortoise trade

Basten Gokkon 26 Mar 2018

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