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South Georgia declared ‘rat-free’ in largest-ever rodent eradication program

Shreya Dasgupta 9 May 2018

Island logging must go beyond current ‘best practices’ to avoid erosion: New study

Mongabay.com 23 Apr 2018
Black-spotted Nudibranch (Ceratophyllidia papilligera). Photo by Nick Hobgood/via Wikimedia Commons.

Haiti’s most popular ecotourism destinations

Mongabay.com 15 Jan 2018

Efforts to save island wildlife from extinction get a boost from new database

Mike Gaworecki 10 Jan 2018

How a hunger for teeth is driving a bat toward extinction

Alex Fox 29 Dec 2017
An underwater view of the reef at Layang Layang Atoll in the Spratly Islands, South China Sea. Photo courtesy of Greg Asner / Divephoto.org.

Experts to China: cooperate or South China Sea fisheries may collapse

David Brown 21 Dec 2017

Zanzibar’s red colobus monkeys much more numerous than thought

Mongabay.com 18 Dec 2017

Seychelles home to new species of caecilian, a legless amphibian

Mongabay.com 19 Oct 2017

Two new ‘birdcatcher’ trees described from Puerto Rico

Mongabay.com 2 Oct 2017

Giant tree-dwelling rat discovered in the Solomon Islands

Shreya Dasgupta 27 Sep 2017

Kiribati confronts climate upheaval by preparing for ‘migration with dignity’

Kayla Walsh 11 Jul 2017

Delicate Solomon Island ecosystem in danger of heavy logging

Elliot Dawea & John C. Cannon 1 May 2017

Corruption drives dealings with logging companies in the Solomon Islands

Elliot Dawea, John Cannon 1 May 2017
Not for republication. Image by Rod Harbinson/Rodharbinson.com

Is a property boom in Malaysia causing a fisheries bust in Penang?

Rod Harbinson 19 Apr 2017

Military base-building destroys coral reefs in the South China Sea

Greg Asner 26 Mar 2017

Kalaodi, Tidore’s eco-village in Indonesia’s spice capital

M Rahmat Ulhaz 28 Feb 2017

SpongeBob SquarePants and the ‘last frontier’ of the Philippines

Isabel Esterman 23 Feb 2017

Indonesia adds more than 1,100 to the official tally of its islands

M Ambari 12 Jan 2017

Why should we care about the endemism hotspot of São Tomé and Príncipe

Ricardo F. de Lima, Sara Saraiva 21 Dec 2016
A mother humpback and calf off the coast of Maui in the Hawaiian Islands. Photo courtesy of NOAA

Whalesong, interrupted

Melati Kaye 23 Sep 2016

Atauro island has highest average reef fish diversity in the world

Shreya Dasgupta 23 Aug 2016

Tadpoles found living in Japanese streams with hottest water ever recorded for an amphibian

Mike Gaworecki 5 Aug 2016

Manatees to make a comeback in Guadeloupe for the first time in over a century

Shreya Dasgupta 3 Aug 2016

This island plans to remove invasive rats and goats to save its native wildlife

Shreya Dasgupta 1 Aug 2016

Luzon Island in the Philippines is an endemic mammalian hotspot

Mike Gaworecki 21 Jul 2016

9 new natural sites added to World Heritage List

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Jul 2016

South China Sea ruling slams China for poaching, reef destruction

David Brown 14 Jul 2016
A still of juvenile blacktip reef sharks (Carcharhinus melanopterus) from the baited Go-Pro rig that researchers set in the waters of the Daram no-take zone in West Papua, Indonesia. Photo by Vanessa Jaiteh.

Protected areas grow populations of shark — and disenfranchised fishers

Melati Kaye 15 Jun 2016

Five Pacific islands have already disappeared due to sea level rise

Mike Gaworecki 10 May 2016

Baby boom for New Zealand’s extremely rare giant parrot

Shreya Dasgupta 26 Apr 2016

Climate change is drying up small islands, study says

Shreya Dasgupta 12 Apr 2016

Recovery of Island foxes a ‘historic success’; officials recommend removing them from endangered species list

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Feb 2016

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