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From friends to strangers: The decline of the Irrawaddy dolphin (commentary)

Sabrina Gyorvary with Namthip Khudsavanh 20 Nov 2017
Jane Goodall. Photo credit: Jane Goodall Institute.

Dr. Jane Goodall on being proven right about animals having personalities, plus updates direct from COP23

Mike Gaworecki 15 Nov 2017

4 sperm whales dead after mass stranding in Sumatra

Mongabay.com 14 Nov 2017

VaquitaCPR ends capture program in Gulf of California after vaquita dies in captivity

Mike Gaworecki 13 Nov 2017

Breeding-age female vaquita dies after being taken into captivity

Mike Gaworecki 6 Nov 2017

Recent report: Totoaba trafficking a conservation and security problem

John Cannon 6 Nov 2017

‘Record’ number of migratory species protected at October wildlife summit

Mongabay.com 31 Oct 2017

First vaquita ‘rescued’ in bid to save the porpoise from extinction

Mongabay.com 25 Oct 2017

Indonesian rainforests for sale and bat calls of the Amazon

Mike Gaworecki 18 Oct 2017

Mexico takes ‘unprecedented’ action to save vaquita

Mongabay.com 15 Oct 2017

Biodiversity of Indian Sunderbans recorded in one compendium for first time

Bhavya Khullar 6 Oct 2017

Second Irrawaddy dolphin death in Borneo linked to fishing nets

Yovanda 3 Oct 2017

‘Ships, sonar and surveys’: Film explores impacts of a noisy ocean

John Cannon 21 Sep 2017

Move to open U.S. Atlantic coast to oil drilling meets increased opposition

Mike Gaworecki 13 Sep 2017

The “dolphin who became man”: will the boto survive the catfish trade?

Maxine Chen 31 Jul 2017
A male southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina) among king penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) on Marion Island. Photo by Nico de Bruyn.

Hard but worth it: researchers fight invasives on Subantarctic islands (commentary)

P.J.N. (Nico) de Bruyn 29 Jun 2017

Surprisingly, Indonesia’s most famous dive site is also a playground for whales and dolphins (commentary)

Heike Iris Vester, Ricardo F. Tapilatu 27 Jun 2017

The fight to save Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem

Mike Gaworecki 27 Jun 2017

Whale entanglements skyrocket off the U.S. West Coast

Lillie Howell 19 Jun 2017

‘The ones we named are all dead now’: dolphins and fishers struggle to survive in Myanmar

Kayla Walsh 13 Jun 2017

Leonardo DiCaprio teams up with Mexico’s president and wealthiest individual to save the vaquita

Mike Gaworecki 8 Jun 2017

Vaquita survival hinges on stopping international swim bladder trade

Mongabay.com 8 Jun 2017

Gabon pledges ‘massive’ protected network for oceans

Mongabay.com 6 Jun 2017

Underwater cameras let scientists dive beneath the surface with dolphins

Mike Gaworecki 5 Jun 2017

Microalgae genes help them adapt to harsh oceans, other species less lucky

Maxine Chen 17 May 2017

Protected species in Gulf of Mexico could take decades to recover from Deepwater Horizon oil spill

Mike Gaworecki 8 May 2017

A deep dive into the study of marine wildlife through bioacoustics

Mike Gaworecki 3 May 2017

Illegal trade threatens nearly half the world’s natural heritage sites: WWF

Shreya Dasgupta 27 Apr 2017

Paul Simon on his new tour in support of E.O. Wilson’s Half-Earth initiative

Mike Gaworecki 21 Mar 2017

Rare beaked whale filmed underwater for the first time

Shreya Dasgupta 7 Mar 2017

How acoustic monitoring gave us a last chance to save the vaquita

Rachel Fritts 22 Feb 2017

An in-depth look at Mongabay’s collaboration with The Intercept Brasil

Mike Gaworecki 7 Feb 2017

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