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Short film takes you into the Amazon with researcher who discovered a new frog species

Mike Gaworecki 8 Mar 2017

Meet the ‘Almost Famous Animals’ that deserve more conservation recognition

Mike Gaworecki 7 Mar 2017

Nearly half of Mount Oku frogs are in danger of croaking, study finds

Rachel Fritts 7 Mar 2017

A Christmas Miracle? Perhaps someday

Caitlin Looby 6 Mar 2017

Newly discovered Tanzanian frog already facing extinction

Benji Jones 2 Mar 2017

What the geckos are telling us: new species point to conservation needs

Maxine Chen 2 Mar 2017

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

Mongabay 1 Mar 2017

7 new frogs discovered in India, some smaller than a thumbnail

Shreya Dasgupta 27 Feb 2017

African bush babies gain a new genus

John Cannon 20 Feb 2017
A close relative of Geckolepis maculata, Gecklolepis megalepis, a new species of fish-scale gecko, was described earlier this year. Photo courtesy of Frank Glaw

Newly discovered gecko loses scales in ‘really bizarre’ behavior

Benji Jones 16 Feb 2017

Saving Jamaica Bay’s diamondback terrapins

Sam Lee 16 Feb 2017

Field Notes: Predicting how the pet trade spreads infectious disease

Elizabeth Devitt 13 Feb 2017

An in-depth look at Mongabay’s collaboration with The Intercept Brasil

Mike Gaworecki 7 Feb 2017

Resurrected Jeypore ground gecko faces second death sentence

Fiona Broom 7 Feb 2017

Bright lights, big city, tiny frog: Romer’s tree frog survives Hong Kong

Asher Elbein 3 Feb 2017

The Philippines declares more than 100,000 acres as critical habitat

Shreya Dasgupta 2 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

New species of poison frog discovered in Amazonian slopes of Andes in southeastern Peru

Mike Gaworecki 17 Jan 2017

‘Too rare to wear’: new campaign targets tourists to end Hawksbill turtle trade

Shreya Dasgupta 9 Jan 2017

Exotic populations hold hope for internationally traded endangered species

Shreya Dasgupta 4 Jan 2017

Photos: Top 20 new species of 2016

Shreya Dasgupta 26 Dec 2016

Bastion of biodiversity protected in eastern DRC

Mongabay.com 22 Dec 2016

Wildlife for sale: More than 5,000 traffickers arrested this year in Colombia

María Lourdes Zimmermann 21 Dec 2016

All I want for Christmas… a wildlife researcher’s holiday wish list

Glenn Scherer 20 Dec 2016

Wildlife for sale: Jaguars are the new trafficking victims in Bolivia

Miriam Telma Jemio 20 Dec 2016

Wildlife for sale: Is it possible to win the fight in Ecuador?

Isabel Riofrio 16 Dec 2016

Land reclamation in Malaysia puts environment, endangered turtle at risk

Kate Mayberry 2 Dec 2016

Top scientists: Amazon’s Tapajós Dam Complex “a crisis in the making”

Claire Salisbury 28 Nov 2016

Scientists discover the real vocalists behind the ‘singing snake’: tree frogs

Shreya Dasgupta 23 Nov 2016

Military training areas can be important wildlife refuges: new study

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Nov 2016

Yosemite’s yellow-legged frogs bounce back from near extinction

Ula Chrobak 21 Nov 2016

The Philippines’ Mindanao is a treasure trove of reptile and amphibian diversity

Rachel Diaz-Bastin 17 Nov 2016

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