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Field Notes: Finding Jacobo; an Andean cat captivates conservationists

Elizabeth Devitt 28 Feb 2017

Field Notes: Predicting how the pet trade spreads infectious disease

Elizabeth Devitt 13 Feb 2017

Bright lights, big city, tiny frog: Romer’s tree frog survives Hong Kong

Asher Elbein 3 Feb 2017

‘Running out of time’: 60 percent of primates sliding toward extinction

John Cannon 19 Jan 2017

All I want for Christmas… a wildlife researcher’s holiday wish list

Glenn Scherer 20 Dec 2016

Vanishing point: Bumblebee bat is world’s smallest; it’s also at risk

Jeremy Hance 13 Dec 2016

Home for the holidays: Chimp exits war-torn Iraq, lands in Kenya

Geoffrey Kamadi 12 Dec 2016

Silent soldiers of the extreme, or why I’m glad I’m not a wild yak

Joel Berger 22 Nov 2016

Where have all the lutungs gone? Mystery monkeys fast disappearing

William H. Funk 18 Nov 2016

Hunted to the brink: Mammals in crisis

John Cannon 24 Oct 2016

The Myanmar snub-nosed monkey: discovered and immediately endangered

Sean Mowbray 4 Oct 2016

Field Notes: Can we alter endangered species to be more adaptable?

Elizabeth Devitt 28 Sep 2016

How humans create as well as destroy species

Jack Peacock 2 Sep 2016

Climate change pledges not nearly enough to save tropical ecosystems

Jeremy Hance 16 Aug 2016

Out of sight, out of mind: Asia’s elusive Fishing Cat in trouble

Sean Mowbray 11 Aug 2016

Malayan Sun bear: bile trade threatens the World’s smallest bear

Claire Asher 1 Aug 2016

Unknown, ignored and disappearing: Asia’s Almost Famous Animals

Laurel Neme 6 Jul 2016

Conservation, Divided: in-depth series starts Tuesday

Jeremy Hance 21 Apr 2016

Will mining company drive mass extinction of Madagascar’s wildlife?

Shreya Dasgupta 11 Mar 2016

Here Are The Top 15 Environmental Stories of 2015

Mike Gaworecki 30 Dec 2015

Biologist finds “we are on pace to create a mass extinction” of frogs worldwide

Mike Gaworecki 7 Oct 2015

World on course to lose 1 in 6 species to climate change – South America, Australia, New Zealand face even more extinctions

Glenn Scherer 4 May 2015

Ongoing overkill: loss of big herbivores leading to ’empty landscapes’

Jeremy Hance 1 May 2015

Empty seas? Scientists warn of an industrialized ocean

Jeremy Hance 15 Jan 2015

To collect or not to collect? Experts debate the need for specimens

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 10 Dec 2014

Egyptian art helps chart past extinctions of big mammals

Kim Smuga-Otto 1 Dec 2014

It only took 2,500 people to kill off the world’s biggest birds

Jeremy Hance 10 Nov 2014

Pet trade likely responsible for killer salamander fungus

Jeremy Hance 30 Oct 2014

The Search for Lost Frogs: one of conservation’s most exciting expeditions comes to life in new book

Jeremy Hance 30 Oct 2014

How do we save the world’s vanishing old-growth forests?

Jeremy Hance 26 Aug 2014

Why conservationists need a little hope: saving themselves from becoming the most depressing scientists on the planet

Jeremy Hance 19 Aug 2014

13 newly-discovered birds declared extinct

Jeremy Hance 18 Aug 2014

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