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Facebook emerging as a ‘thriving’ wildlife trade marketplace

Shreya Dasgupta 3 Mar 2016

For Leap Day, 35 pictures of frogs

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Feb 2016

‘Biogeographical oddity’: New monitor lizard is the only large predator on remote Pacific Island

Shreya Dasgupta 25 Feb 2016

Soil carbon could be key to protecting global biodiversity and climate at same time

Mike Gaworecki 24 Feb 2016

Photos: ‘Extremely rare’ baby albino turtle spotted in Australia

Shreya Dasgupta 11 Feb 2016

Two new jewel-eyed tree frog species discovered in Taiwan, display strange reproductive behavior

Shreya Dasgupta 4 Feb 2016

Madagascar scientists unsure how best to guard frogs from fungus

Elizabeth Devitt 30 Jan 2016

Newly discovered chameleon sheds light on Tanzania biodiversity

Mike Gaworecki 28 Jan 2016

Tropical forest protected areas might be working better than you think

Mike Gaworecki 27 Jan 2016

Study answers question: how do boa constrictors kill their prey?

Sophie Furnival 26 Jan 2016

Over 40 years, half of China’s land vertebrates disappear

Wang Yan 25 Jan 2016

Scientists rush to save an iconic frog from an active volcano in Ecuador

Mike Gaworecki 21 Jan 2016

Rediscovered tree frogs get their own genus, eat their own eggs

Morgan Erickson-Davis 20 Jan 2016

Scientist makes painful discovery: a frog able to inject toxic venom

Kolawole Talabi 20 Jan 2016

Two new frog species discovered in remote Madagascar rainforest

Mike Gaworecki 13 Jan 2016

New species of venomous snake discovered in endangered Mexican cloud forests

Mike Gaworecki 7 Jan 2016

Facebook posts lead to arrest of two suspected tortoise thieves

Shreya Dasgupta 5 Jan 2016

Komodo dragon: one of Indonesia’s rare conservation success stories

Jeremy Hance 30 Dec 2015

Photos: The top 20 new species of 2015

Shreya Dasgupta 30 Dec 2015

Wildlife catastrophe at Amazon dam a warning for future Tapajós dams

Jennifer Huizen 28 Dec 2015

Bellavista no more: Peru’s infamous wildlife market reduced to rubble

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 17 Dec 2015

Huge plan underway to save North American salamanders from deadly epidemic

Shreya Dasgupta 10 Dec 2015

The week in environmental news – Dec 4, 2015

Brittany Stewart 5 Dec 2015

The inadequate global zoo response to the amphibian extinction crisis

John-Rob Pool 3 Dec 2015

Organized crime role in Latin American wildlife trade hidden in shadow

Saul Elbein 2 Dec 2015

U.S. a major destination for trafficked Latin American wildlife

Sharon Guynup 25 Nov 2015

Success! Biologists may have found a way to eliminate amphibian-killing fungus in the wild

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Nov 2015

Eden Besieged: Amazonia’s Matchless Wildlife Pillaged by Traffickers

William H. Funk 23 Nov 2015

Poisonous amphibians may be more likely to go extinct

Erin E.A. Ross 23 Nov 2015

Latin American wildlife trafficking takes to the air

Lindsay Fendt 19 Nov 2015

The impacts of haze on Southeast Asia’s wildlife

Jose Hong 19 Nov 2015

Farmed and legally exported Colombian poison frogs take on the illegal pet trade

John-Rob Pool 18 Nov 2015

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