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A green iguana. Photo by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Florida’s iguanas falling from trees in cold snap

Genevieve Belmaker 5 Jan 2018

U.S. zoos learn how to keep captive pangolins alive, helping wild ones

Linda Lombardi 5 Jan 2018

New ‘ghost’ scorpion among several species recorded for the first time in Malaysian rainforest

Shreya Dasgupta 4 Jan 2018

Rhino horn seizure taps into Southeast Asian trafficking ring

Mongabay.com 3 Jan 2018

U.S. court ruling complicates Trump’s elephant and lion policy

Jeremy Hance 2 Jan 2018
A Kenyan ranger guards poached elephant tusks in preparation for the destruction of 105 tons of ivory and a ton of rhino horn in April. Photo by Mwangi Kirubi via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)

Ivory trade in China is now banned

Mongabay.com 2 Jan 2018

Top 20 forest stories of 2017

Mongabay 29 Dec 2017

How a hunger for teeth is driving a bat toward extinction

Alex Fox 29 Dec 2017

Photos: Top 20 new species of 2017

Mike Gaworecki 28 Dec 2017
A manta ray in the South China Sea. Photo by Greg Asner/Divephoto.org.

2017’s top 10 ocean news stories

Douglas McCauley, Paul DeSalles 27 Dec 2017

The top 6 moments from the Mongabay Newscast in 2017

Mike Gaworecki 27 Dec 2017

Roads, dams and railways: Ten infrastructure stories from Southeast Asia in 2017

Mongabay.com 27 Dec 2017

Glimmer of hope as Malaysia’s last female Sumatran rhino shows signs of recovery

Basten Gokkon 27 Dec 2017

Scientists determine there are seven species of silky anteater, not one

Mike Gaworecki 22 Dec 2017

Zanzibar’s red colobus monkeys much more numerous than thought

Mongabay.com 18 Dec 2017

Do protected areas work in the tropics?

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Dec 2017

Malaysia’s last female Sumatran rhino falls ill

Mongabay.com 17 Dec 2017

‘A vicious cycle towards extinction:’ Hunting and trade can push even abundant wildlife populations to the brink

Mike Gaworecki 15 Dec 2017

DNA analysis shows Sumatran rhinos peaked during last Ice Age, never recovered

Basten Gokkon 14 Dec 2017

African Parks backs marine reserve brimming with wildlife in Mozambique

Mongabay.com 14 Dec 2017
Fish swim in a healthy seagrass meadow. The seagrass provides cover from currents and predators. Photo courtesy of MCC.

Bees for trees: testing a potential tool for reducing human-elephant conflict

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 13 Dec 2017

Saving Sumatran orchids from deforestation, one plant at a time

Sean Mowbray 12 Dec 2017

Amazon tribe’s traditional medicine encyclopedia gets an update, and conservation effectiveness in Madagascar examined

Mike Gaworecki 12 Dec 2017

Monkey business: Building a global database of primate conservation studies (commentary)

Claire Wordley 12 Dec 2017

As 2017 hurricane season ends, scientists assess tropical forest harm

Claire Salisbury 11 Dec 2017

Scientists call for cheetahs to be listed as Endangered

Mongabay.com 11 Dec 2017

New study: Gorillas fare better in logged forests than chimps

John Cannon 11 Dec 2017

Counting tigers on smartphones

Deepa Padmanabhan 8 Dec 2017

The world’s newest great ape, revealed a month ago, is already nearly extinct: IUCN

Basten Gokkon 7 Dec 2017

Camera traps reveal surprises in Peru

Alexa Eunoé Vélez Zuazo 6 Dec 2017

Deforestation in Sumatra carves up tiger habitats into ever smaller patches

Basten Gokkon 5 Dec 2017

Huge new ocean reserves announced in Mexico, Arctic

Mike Gaworecki 5 Dec 2017

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