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A world of hurt: 2021 climate disasters raise alarm over food security

Sue Branford and Glenn Scherer 4 Aug 2021

Old and new solutions pave way to net-zero emissions farming, studies show

Claire Asher 30 Jul 2021

Turning Kenya’s problematic invasive plants into useful bioenergy

Anthony Langat 21 Jul 2021

Beef industry causes deforestation in Colombia’s Chiribiquete National Park

Tatiana Pardo Ibarra 29 Jun 2021

On the Mongolian steppe, conservation science meets traditional knowledge

Jacopo Pasotti 2 Jun 2021

African swine fever rips through parts of southern Indonesia

Ebed de Rosary 29 Mar 2021
Two babirusa fighting in Indonesia. Image by Meldy Tamenge, edited by Cart, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Southeast Asian wild pigs confront deadly African swine fever epidemic

John Cannon 12 Feb 2021

In the Horn of Africa, conflict and illegal trade create a ‘cheetah hell’

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 7 Oct 2020
Cheetah at Zimanga private game reserve. Image by Charl Senekal

Spots of hope: Some good news for South Africa’s cheetahs

Tony Carnie 28 Sep 2020

No, ‘regenerative ranching’ is not good for grassland birds (commentary)

Jennifer Molidor 8 Sep 2020

Why is Europe rewilding with water buffalo?

Jeremy Hance 21 Oct 2019

Humans have been transforming Earth for thousands of years, study says

Shreya Dasgupta 30 Aug 2019

’Livestock revolution’ triggered decline in global pasture: Report

John Cannon 19 Jun 2019

Flashing lights ward off livestock-hunting pumas in northern Chile

John Cannon 7 Jan 2019

Peccary’s disappearance foreboding for other Mesoamerican wildlife

Mongabay 20 Dec 2018

Pumas engineer their environment, providing habitat for other species

John Cannon 17 Dec 2018

Speed trap: Cameras help defuse human-cheetah conflict in Botswana

Calistus Bosaletswe 13 Nov 2018

Tsetse fly numbers dwindle in the warming Zambezi Valley

Mongabay.com 29 Oct 2018

A ‘perfect policy storm’ cuts puma numbers by almost half near Jackson, Wyoming

John Cannon 1 Aug 2018

Biomass study finds people are wiping out wild mammals

Mongabay.com 28 May 2018

Tanzania’s Maasai losing ground to tourism in the name of conservation, investigation finds

John Cannon 11 May 2018

Suspected poisoning takes down 11 lions in Uganda park

John Cannon 17 Apr 2018

African Parks to manage gorges, rock art and crocodiles of Chad’s Ennedi

Mongabay.com 27 Feb 2018
A pasture, forest, and town in Austria. Photo via pxhere.

More than half of Europe’s forests lost over 6,000 years

Mongabay.com 24 Jan 2018
Grass-fed beef production generates more greenhouse gas than using feedlots. Photo by Scott Bauer.

Raising beef cattle on grass can create a higher carbon footprint than feedlots, new study suggests

Kimberly Hickok 5 Dec 2017

Eat less meat, save species and ecosystems, says WWF UK

Mongabay.com 11 Oct 2017

Pandas losing ground to hungry livestock in Chinese nature reserve

Mongabay.com 5 Oct 2017
Snow leopards (Panthera uncial) in the Sanjiangyuan region of China, a still from “Ghost of the Mountains.” Photo courtesy of Disneynature.

Stalking snow leopards: Q&A with the director of “Ghost of the Mountains”

Rebecca Kessler 20 Sep 2017

Healthy soils can boost food security and climate resilience for millions (commentary)

Inger Andersen 6 Sep 2017

NOAA announces largest-ever Gulf of Mexico ‘dead zone’

Morgan Erickson-Davis 7 Aug 2017

A spotty revival amid decline for China’s endemic leopards

Wang Yan 7 Jul 2017

U.S. bans Brazilian beef imports

Mongabay.com 24 Jun 2017

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