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Rewilding efforts throw a lifeline to Brazil’s most trafficked endangered bird

James Hall 30 May 2024
Trawlers docked outside Sihanoukville. Screenshot from ‘Illegal fishing and land grabs push Cambodian coastal communities to the brink’ by Andy Ball / Mongabay.

Small-scale fishers lose out to trawlers in race to catch Cambodia’s last fish

Andy Ball, Gerald Flynn, Vutha Srey 30 May 2024

Ecuador’s Los Lobos narcotrafficking gang muscles in on illegal gold mining

Arturo Torres, Dan Collyns 28 May 2024
A pangolin fitted with a radio transmitter prior to re-release.

On foot and by drone, radio tracking helps rehabilitate pangolins in Vietnam

Claudia Geib 10 May 2024
Dendrobium longicornu orchid flower.

It’s tough to be a wild orchid: Interview with conservation biologist Reshu Bashyal

Abhaya Raj Joshi 26 Apr 2024

Outdated infrastructure and oil spills: the cases of Colombia, Peru and Ecuador

Timothy J. Killeen 25 Apr 2024

Rewilding program ships eggs around the world to restore Raja Ampat zebra sharks

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Apr 2024
Satellite image of dredging in South China Sea

Island-building and overfishing wreak destruction of South China Sea reefs

Carolyn Cowan 8 Apr 2024

Mining in the Pan Amazon in pursuit of the world’s most precious metal

Timothy J. Killeen 4 Apr 2024
Long-tailed macaques living in the mountains of Cambodia's Battambang province

Cambodian official acquitted in trial that exposed monkey-laundering scheme

Gerald Flynn 29 Mar 2024

The environmental and social liabilities of the extractive sector

Timothy J. Killeen 26 Mar 2024
Exploratory oil drilling in the Amazon. Image courtesy of Colin Dunlop.

Mineral commodities: the wealth that generates most impacts in the Pan Amazon | Chapter 5 of “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon”

Timothy J. Killeen 21 Mar 2024
turtles Peru

In Peru, conservationists and authorities struggle to get turtle eggs off the menu

Ryan Biller 18 Mar 2024

Peru’s illegal pet monkey trade is also an infection superhighway

Carla Ruas 14 Mar 2024

Madagascar takes key step toward improving transparency of its fisheries

Rivonala Razafison 7 Mar 2024

Rehabilitation of Guatemalan fauna highlights opacity of illegal wildlife trade

Sandra Cuffe 7 Mar 2024
A juvenile northern pig-tailed macaque (Macaca leonina) held in a cage outside a gas station in Cambodia. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Impunity for Cambodia’s exotic pet owners as trade outpaces legislation

Gerald Flynn, Nehru Pry 7 Mar 2024

Son of Cali Cartel leader tied to Colombia-Hong Kong shark fin trafficking

Mongabay Latam, OCCRP, Armando Info 6 Mar 2024

Concern for Mexico’s vaquita as totoaba swim bladder trafficking surges online

Maxwell Radwin 9 Feb 2024
Blacktip sharks.

In East Java, social media push against Indonesia shark & ray trade lacks bite

Asad Asnawi 8 Feb 2024

Cambodia sea turtle nests spark hope amid coastal development & species decline

Gerald Flynn 1 Feb 2024
Western hoolock gibbon. Image credit: Scott Trageser Photography/Creative Conservation Alliance.

Western hoolock gibbon conservation in Bangladesh urgently needs funding (commentary)

Sinan Serhadli 18 Jan 2024
An oceanic whitetip shark.

Global shark deaths increasing despite finning bans, study shows

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 17 Jan 2024
Spix’s macaw

EU’s legal loophole feeds gray market for world’s rarest parrot

Brendan Borrell 17 Jan 2024

Uncovering the illegal jaguar trade in Bolivia

Romi Castagnino 11 Jan 2024
Bottom trawler Ivan Nores

Spain sanctions fishing vessels for illegally ‘going dark’ near Argentine waters

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 11 Jan 2024
Confiscated illegal wildlife parts.

Elite appetite turns Bangladesh from source to consumer of tiger parts

Mahadi Al Hasnat 9 Jan 2024
Unregulated gold mining on a river in, Nowshera, Pakistan. Image courtesy of Sabir Hussain.

Illegal gold mining threatens Indus River water and biodiversity in Pakistan (commentary)

Sabir Hussain 9 Jan 2024
A close shot of a black mangabey monkey (Lophocebus.aterrimus) in 3/4 profile, showing off its grey whiskers and funky mohawk crest. Image by Nathan Rupert via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Togo monkey seizure turns spotlight on illicit wildlife trafficking from DR Congo

Didier Makal 8 Jan 2024

Study: Fishing with pesticides and dynamite puts Ecuadorian Amazon in peril

Mark Hillsdon 2 Jan 2024
A whale shark.

Still on the menu: Shark fin trade in U.S. persists despite ban

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 27 Dec 2023
Man in the forest near village of Ngon, Ebolowa District, Cameroon. Ollivier Girard via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Incentivizing conservation shows success against wildlife hunting in Cameroon

Sean Mowbray 19 Dec 2023

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