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Hunting, fishing causing dramatic decline in Amazon river dolphins

Claire Asher 13 Jun 2018

Biomass study finds people are wiping out wild mammals

Mongabay.com 28 May 2018

Humans are leaving their mark on the world’s protected areas, study finds

John Cannon 17 May 2018

Pangolins on the brink as Africa-China trafficking persists unabated

Sharon Guynup 8 May 2018

Frogs may be ‘fighting back’ against deadly pandemic

Morgan Erickson-Davis 30 Mar 2018

More than 40 percent of Madagascar’s freshwater life sliding toward extinction, IUCN finds

Mongabay.com 22 Mar 2018

Cerrado: appreciation grows for Brazil’s savannah, even as it vanishes

Alicia Prager, Flávia Milhorance 12 Mar 2018

Trump to allow elephant and lion trophies on case-by-case basis

Jeremy Hance 8 Mar 2018

Beyond polar bears: Arctic animals share in vulnerable climate future

Gloria Dickie 7 Mar 2018

‘Photo Ark’ a quest to document global biodiversity: Q&A with photographer Joel Sartore and director Chun-Wei Yi

Mongabay.com 21 Feb 2018

The ozone layer is still getting thinner, new study finds

Mongabay.com 12 Feb 2018

Muskox and other Arctic mammals are feeling the heat of climate change

Gloria Dickie 23 Jan 2018

Natural World Heritage Sites in trouble, especially in the Tropics

Claire Asher 11 Jan 2018

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

Linda Lombardi 5 Jan 2018

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

Jeremy Hance 2 Jan 2018

Trump’s indecision on trophy hunting reignites heated debate

Jeremy Hance 28 Nov 2017

Trump budget undercuts U.S. commitment to global wildlife conservation

William H. Funk 30 Oct 2017

Seychelles home to new species of caecilian, a legless amphibian

Mongabay.com 19 Oct 2017

Booming legal Amazon wildlife trade documented in new report

Claire Salisbury 6 Oct 2017

North America’s ash trees, Africa’s antelopes face heightened threat of extinction

Mike Gaworecki 14 Sep 2017

The world’s first biotacide (commentary)

Fred Bercovitch 22 Aug 2017

Sixth mass extinction ‘tsunami’ coming, but preventable

John Cannon 4 Aug 2017

Global megadam activism and the sounds of nature in Taiwan

Mike Gaworecki 25 Jul 2017

Ongoing mass extinction causing ‘biological annihilation,’ new study says

John Cannon 11 Jul 2017

How a mass extinction event gave us the majority of frogs alive today

Mike Gaworecki 11 Jul 2017

Research suggests less affluent countries more dedicated to wildlife conservation than rich countries

Mike Gaworecki 20 Jun 2017

‘Crunch time for biodiversity’: Farming, hunting push thousands of species toward extinction

John Cannon 7 Jun 2017

Study finds hundreds of thousands of tropical species at risk of extinction due to deforestation

Mike Gaworecki 5 May 2017

‘We can save life on Earth’: study reveals how to stop mass extinction

Morgan Erickson-Davis 18 Apr 2017

Extinct mammoths and rhinos portend a grim future in a warming climate

John Cannon 28 Mar 2017

Controversial policy could spur tiger trade in China

Sharon Guynup 10 Mar 2017

Climate change driving widespread local extinctions; tropics most at risk

Claire Salisbury 9 Mar 2017

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