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Indigenous bioacoustics listens to the land for conservation and tradition

Mike Gaworecki 27 Oct 2021

Cooking with the sun: Entrepreneurs help launch Mexico’s solar revolution

Sandra Weiss 27 Oct 2021

Critically endangered Sunda pangolin caught on camera trap | Candid Animal Cam

Romi Castagnino 22 Oct 2021
Wooded landscape in Kõrvemaa Nature Park, Estonia. Image courtesy of Ireen Trummer via Creative Commons CC BY-SA 3.0.

Can we stop calling it ‘forest bathing’ now? Please, just get outside. (commentary)

Hannah Fries 22 Oct 2021
Sea turtle swimming under sunset.

Half-Earth, conservation, and hope: An interview with E.O. Wilson, Paula Ehrlich and Sir Tim Smit    

Liz Kimbrough 20 Oct 2021

Mangrove photo contest winners reveal majesty of these coastal forests

Erik Hoffner 18 Oct 2021

‘Kew Declaration’ unites experts on reforestation, aims at policymakers ahead of COP26

Liz Kimbrough 13 Oct 2021

Follow the butterfly: Rediscovery of ‘extinct’ plants highlights Sri Lanka’s new red list

Malaka Rodrigo 12 Oct 2021

Experts see no way back for NZ firm blocked from trying to mine the seabed

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 7 Oct 2021

From Shanghai Knights to gecko life: The Jackie Chan gecko among 12 new Indian species

Liz Kimbrough 7 Oct 2021

A bridge of trees reunites gibbons separated by a railway line in India

Anuraag Baruah 5 Oct 2021
Xiomara Cabraca, a Bribri farmer and member of ACOMUITA, checks the ripeness of cocoa pods. Palms, timber-yielding trees, and fruit trees are cropped with the cocoa in this agroforestry system in Shiroles, Talamanca, Costa Rica. Image by Monica Pelliccia for Mongabay.

For Costa Rica’s Indigenous Bribri women, agroforestry is an act of resistance and resilience

Monica Pelliccia 29 Sep 2021
Crocodile-WWF

Snapshot of hatchlings raises hopes for Siamese crocs in northeast Cambodia

Carolyn Cowan 24 Sep 2021

For World Gorilla Day 2021, a conservation success story

Tara Stoinski 23 Sep 2021
Rainforest in Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Jane Goodall launches effort in support of planting 1 trillion trees by 2030

Mongabay.com 23 Sep 2021

The cat is back: Wild Amur tigers rebound in China, thanks to govt policies

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Sep 2021

The secret lives of common hippos | Candid Animal Cam

Romi Castagnino 17 Sep 2021

African Parks secures $100M for conservation in Africa

Mongabay.com 16 Sep 2021
Western spotted skunk (Spilogale gracilis). Image by Robby Heischman courtesy of the Field Museum.

Pepé Le New: Meet the acrobatic spotted skunks of North America

Liz Kimbrough 15 Sep 2021

‘On the map’: App shines light on 5,000 ‘invisible’ families in Brazil’s Cerrado and beyond

Sarah Sax 10 Sep 2021

New coating could help seeds survive in drought conditions

Liz Kimbrough 2 Sep 2021

For male chimps looking to mate, an entourage is the way to go, study finds

Ed Holt 30 Aug 2021
Razan Khalifa Al Mubarak

Conservation needs more women, says Razan Khalifa Al Mubarak

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Aug 2021

What sets crab-eating raccoons apart from other carnivores? | Candid Animal Cam

Romi Castagnino 27 Aug 2021

A ‘sleeping beauty’ awakens to join Sri Lanka’s list of endemic plants

Malaka Rodrigo 26 Aug 2021

Keeling Curve Prize awarded to solar cooking and other climate change-reducing projects

Erik Hoffner 24 Aug 2021
Community Conservation. photo credit: Monica Dalmasso for Honeyguide

Convergence, community and justice: Key emerging conservation trends of the pandemic era (commentary)

Fred Nelson 24 Aug 2021

A bouquet of discovery: Three new orchid species described from Ecuador

Liz Kimbrough 20 Aug 2021

Indonesia reports two new Javan rhino calves in the species’ last holdout

Basten Gokkon 17 Aug 2021

The most widespread pig species on Earth: wild boar | Candid Animal Cam

Romi Castagnino 13 Aug 2021

New species of “killer tobacco” found at Australian truck stop

Liz Kimbrough 11 Aug 2021

Shoe-leather science helps quadruple protected area in Peruvian Amazon

Yvette Sierra Praeli 10 Aug 2021

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