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Biodiversity boosts crop pollinators and pest controllers, study finds

Mongabay.com 16 Oct 2019

Wilderness cuts the risk of extinction for species in half

John Cannon 26 Sep 2019

Nine new Fijian bees described, some restricted to a single mountaintop

Mongabay.com 24 Sep 2019

Madagascar: What’s good for the forest is good for the native silk industry

Edward Carver 16 Aug 2019

Conservation tech prize with invasive species focus announces finalists

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 19 Jul 2019
Sakondry, ready to eat. Image by Brian Fisher.

Eat the insects, spare the lemurs

Emilie Filou 11 Jul 2019

Stylish jumping spider named after late fashion icon Karl Lagerfeld

Mongabay.com 4 Jul 2019

Slight warming could be enough to heighten risk of malaria: Study

Mongabay.com 4 Jul 2019

New eDNA sampling system aims for cleaner, more efficient field research

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 2 Jul 2019

New film details wrenching impact of illegal rhino horn trade on families

John Cannon 27 Jun 2019

Thousands of endangered snails raised in captivity returned to natural habitat in Bermuda

Mongabay.com 26 Jun 2019
A mantis nymph found at a seedling nursery outside Gunung Palung National Park in Borneo, Indonesia. Image by Timothy Treuer.

Mongabay investigative series helps confirm global insect decline

Jeremy Hance 24 Jun 2019

Primates lose ground to surging commodity production in their habitats

Mongabay.com 17 Jun 2019

How to save insects and ourselves

Jeremy Hance 13 Jun 2019
A tiny sampling of tropical beetle diversity displayed at the Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Germany. Image by H. Zell/CC 3.0.

The tropics in trouble and some hope

Jeremy Hance 10 Jun 2019

Vanishing act in Europe and North America

Jeremy Hance 6 Jun 2019

A global look at a deepening crisis

Jeremy Hance 3 Jun 2019

Altered forests threaten sustainability of subsistence hunting

Mongabay.com 29 May 2019

The health of penguin chicks points scientists to changes in the ocean

Mongabay.com 22 May 2019

Interest in protecting environment up since Pope’s 2015 encyclical

John Cannon 21 May 2019

An urban ‘butterfly experience’ in Sri Lanka

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 15 May 2019

’Unprecedented’ loss of biodiversity threatens humanity, report finds

Mongabay.com 7 May 2019

All you need is human feces: The strange world of dung beetle sampling

Gianluca Cerullo 6 May 2019

Waters off Galápagos have way more alien species than previously known

Shreya Dasgupta 16 Apr 2019

New Amazonian species of short-tailed whip scorpion sheds light on ‘the mating march’

Mongabay.com 12 Apr 2019

Scientists urge overhaul of the world’s parks to protect biodiversity

John Cannon 11 Apr 2019

Hunting pumas to save deer could backfire, new research suggests

John Cannon 9 Apr 2019

Malaysian state chief: Highway construction must not destroy forest

Mongabay.com 26 Mar 2019

New maps show where humans are pushing species closer to extinction

John Cannon 15 Mar 2019
The spider Pamphobeteus sp. (Theraphosidae) and Chiasmocleis royi. Photo by Emanuele Biggi.

Video: scientists capture giant spider eating an opossum

Mongabay.com 2 Mar 2019

We know why zebras got their stripes, but how do they work?

Mongabay.com 27 Feb 2019

World’s largest bee filmed alive for the first time in Indonesia

Mongabay.com 25 Feb 2019

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