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Monitoring hack shines a light on fishing boats operating under cover of dark

Counting on eDNA for a faster, easier way to count coral

‘Judas’ snakes lead scientists on a high-tech Easter egg hunt for pythons

Panamanian indigenous people act to protect the forest from invading loggers

How land grabbers co-opt indigenous ritual traditions in Papua: Q&A with anthropologist Sophie Chao

New map shows every forest matters in helping save the Javan leopard

The odor side of otters: Tech reveals species’ adaptations to human activity

New space lasers offer best 3D look at global forests yet

Can satellite data help monitor sustainable rural development?

Protecting India’s fishing villages: Q&A with ‘maptivist’ Saravanan

Machine learning tool helps prioritize plants for conservation

10 ways conservation tech shifted into auto in 2018

2018’s top 10 ocean news stories (commentary)

Illegal mining in the Amazon ‘not comparable to any other period of its history’

Photos highlight evolving roles of AI, citizen science in species research

One map to rule them all: Indonesia launches unified land-use chart

In pursuit of the rare bird that vanishes for half the year

Panama, Namibia plan to reveal fishing fleet data via online map

Radar helps Kenya map mangroves and other cloud-covered forests

Satellite technology unites Kenyans against bush fires

The iNaturalist species data sharing platform reaches one million users

Real-time plantation map aims to throttle deforestation in Papua

Study games out oil palm development scenarios in Borneo

Indonesian mine watchdog sues government for concession maps

DNA database helps Nepal’s officials monitor tigers, punish poachers

Underwater tech unlocks the secrets of The Bahamas’ Exuma Sound

Indonesia’s ‘one-map’ database blasted for excluding indigenous lands

Industrial fishing fleets traveling farther to reel in fewer fish

Combining aerial imagery and field data estimates timber harvest and carbon emissions

Global marine wilderness has dwindled to 13 percent, new map reveals

Southeast Asian deforestation more extensive than thought, study finds

Indigenous peoples control one-quarter of world’s land surface, two-thirds of that land is ‘essentially natural’

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