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Four new toads discovered in Sumatra

Fransisca N. Tirtaningtyas 21 Sep 2017

Fossil discovery in Indonesia reveals ‘lost world’ of beasts

Basten Gokkon 19 Sep 2017

Rehabilitating wildlife in the aftermath of Harvey

Mike Gaworecki 14 Sep 2017

Good quality monitoring surveys key to wildlife conservation: new study

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Aug 2017

9 rare Siamese crocodiles hatch in Cambodia

Shreya Dasgupta 15 Aug 2017

Madagascar’s radiated tortoises have personalities, too

Jacqueline Hernandez 9 Aug 2017

Sixth mass extinction ‘tsunami’ coming, but preventable

John Cannon 4 Aug 2017

Three new frog species found in Peruvian Andes with more to come

Mike Gaworecki 4 Aug 2017

First ‘intrusions’ into unbroken forests drive pulses of biodiversity loss

John Cannon 28 Jul 2017

Ongoing mass extinction causing ‘biological annihilation,’ new study says

John Cannon 11 Jul 2017

How a mass extinction event gave us the majority of frogs alive today

Mike Gaworecki 11 Jul 2017

Photos: Four new species of burrowing frogs discovered in India

Shreya Dasgupta 30 Jun 2017

2 new reptiles discovered in Sumatra

Reza Septian 27 Jun 2017

Dried lizard penis being sold online as rare ‘magical’ plant root

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Jun 2017

Photos: India’s rarest crocodile, the gharial

Julie Larsen Maher 19 Jun 2017

New ‘Elfin mountain toad’ discovered in Annamite Mountains of Vietnam

Mike Gaworecki 14 Jun 2017

Field Notes: Pond turtle studies could help sea turtles survive toxic algal blooms

Elizabeth Devitt 8 Jun 2017

Gabon pledges ‘massive’ protected network for oceans

Mongabay.com 6 Jun 2017

Lizard DNA reveals India’s grasslands are likely pre-human – and need protection

Maxine Chen 31 May 2017

More than 300 smuggled tortoises seized in Malaysia

Shreya Dasgupta 17 May 2017
Mt. Kenya Bush Viper, aka Ashe’s Viper (Atheris desaixi). Photo courtesy of CITES.

Kenya cracks down on illegal trade in rare and venomous vipers

Gitonga Njeru 16 May 2017

Protected species in Gulf of Mexico could take decades to recover from Deepwater Horizon oil spill

Mike Gaworecki 8 May 2017

Study finds hundreds of thousands of tropical species at risk of extinction due to deforestation

Mike Gaworecki 5 May 2017

Scientists rediscover ‘lost’ monitor lizard in Papua New Guinea

Shreya Dasgupta 5 May 2017

Balinese rituals fuel spike in trafficking of endangered sea turtles

Johnny Langenheim 4 May 2017

Over the bridge: The battle for the future of the Kinabatangan

John Cannon 3 May 2017

Saving Congo’s sea turtles: progress made but dangers ahead

William Clowes 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

Skin slime of Indian frog can kill flu virus

Shreya Dasgupta 20 Apr 2017

‘We can save life on Earth’: study reveals how to stop mass extinction

Morgan Erickson-Davis 18 Apr 2017

Crystal Davis, director of Global Forest Watch, on conservation and Big Data

Mike Gaworecki 18 Apr 2017

New genus created for arboreal toads in Indonesia

Basten Gokkon 13 Apr 2017

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