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Rare beaked whale sighting could be a world first for the species

Cypress Hansen 14 Jan 2021

Sumatran rhino conservation inspires a thriving creative economy

Agus Susanto 14 Jan 2021

Indigenous agroforestry revives profitable palm trees and the Atlantic Forest

Xavier Bartaburu 13 Jan 2021

How endangered are monk seals? Candid Animal Cam meets these underwater mammals

Romi Castagnino 12 Jan 2021

Bringing color to conservation: a conversation with wildlife artist Morgan Richardson

Dave Martin, Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Jan 2021
: Scarab beetles on little white flowers in the canopy. Image by Susan Kirmse (CC BY-ND).

Canopy beetles and flowering trees rely on each other in the Amazon, study

Liz Kimbrough 6 Jan 2021
Coral reef in at Raja Ampat, Indonesia. Photo by Beth Watson / Ocean Image Bank.

Top positive environmental stories from 2020

Liz Kimbrough 30 Dec 2020

Top 15 species discoveries from 2020 (Photos)

Liz Kimbrough 28 Dec 2020

Notable deaths in conservation in 2020

Mongabay.com 28 Dec 2020

Ribeirinhos win right to waterside Amazon homeland lost to Belo Monte dam

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 22 Dec 2020

Why do Eurasian badgers live with foxes? Candid Animal Cam spots badgers

Romi Castagnino 22 Dec 2020

Sighting of super rare Chacoan fairy armadillo in Bolivia ‘a dream come true’

Milan Sime Martinic 21 Dec 2020

Widodo Ramono, the man on a mission to save Sumatran rhinos

Rahmadi Rahmad 17 Dec 2020

In the Colombian Amazon, a leader trains her people to save the forest

Maria Fernanda Lizcano 16 Dec 2020

Restaura Cerrado: Saving Brazil’s savanna by reseeding and restoring it

Sarah Sax 14 Dec 2020
Pit Viper in striking mode. The 'mountain fer-de-lance' is a new species of pit viper that was discovered on the Zongo RAP survey. It has since been described as Bothrops monsignifer. Bothrops is a genus of pit vipers endemic to Central and South America. The generic name, Bothrops, is derived from the Greek words βόθρος, bothros, meaning "pit", and ώπς, ops, meaning "eye" or "face", together an allusion to the heat-sensitive loreal pit organs.

[Photos] Tiny frog, venomous viper among 20 new species described in Bolivia

Liz Kimbrough 14 Dec 2020

Whale of a find: Scientists spot beaked whale believed to be a new species

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 11 Dec 2020

Herd opportunity: Hundreds of elephants return to DRC’s Virunga

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 10 Dec 2020
The entrance to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, Norway, a remote archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. Photo by Subiet via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Through war, wildfire and pandemic, the world’s seed vaults hold strong

Liz Kimbrough 8 Dec 2020

What is a white-faced capuchin? Candid Animal Cam meets monkeys

Romi Castagnino 8 Dec 2020
A trail camera captures a rare shot of a New Guinea singing dog in 2016. These pictures were the first solid evidence that the dogs were present around Grasberg mine. Photo credit: James McIntyre.

The New Guinea singing dog, once thought extinct, is alive in the wild

Freda Kreier 1 Dec 2020

What is a white-lipped peccary? Candid Animal Cam is in South America

Romi Castagnino 1 Dec 2020

Meet the 2020 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners

Liz Kimbrough 30 Nov 2020

How are jaguars different from leopards? Candid Animal Cam is in the Americas

Romi Castagnino 24 Nov 2020

Philippine ‘raptor boy’ shows it takes a village to protect a migration route

Bong S. Sarmiento 22 Nov 2020

A Malagasy community wins global recognition for saving its lake

Malavika Vyawahare 18 Nov 2020

The Amazon’s short-eared dog was thought to be a scavenger. Now there’s video

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 17 Nov 2020

What is a tayra? Candid Animal Cam is in the Americas

Romi Castagnino 17 Nov 2020

What makes chimps unique? Candid Animal Cam meets our close relatives

Romi Castagnino 10 Nov 2020

A new conservation project is created in Costa Rica thanks to COVID-19

Milan Sime Martinic 9 Nov 2020

Conservationists replant legal palm oil plantation with forest in Borneo

Jeremy Hance 9 Nov 2020
A Loa water frog at the National Zoo of Chile. Photo by the Metropolitan Park of Santiago Parquemet

‘Don’t give up!’ The last known Loa water frogs produce 200 tadpoles

Liz Kimbrough 5 Nov 2020

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