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Fruit from the 70 last known adults of the endangered tree Magnolia polyhypsophylla.

Botanists decode secret life of rare plants to ensure reintroduction success

Katarina Zimmer 25 Nov 2025
A turkey moray in a coral reef in Mauritius.

In Mauritius, an NGO is tracking the sex life of corals to save them

Malavika Vyawahare 30 Oct 2025

Mauritius rethinks coral restoration as reefs suffer from another mass bleaching

Malavika Vyawahare 30 Oct 2025

Mauritius reopens talks with U.K. on controversial Chagos deal

Malavika Vyawahare 26 Dec 2024

Thousands feared dead as Cyclone Chido devastates southeast Africa

Kristine Sabillo 18 Dec 2024

Last wild hurricane palm of its kind falls, marking extinction

Shanna Hanbury 20 Nov 2024

Wildlife releases have a mixed record, and climate change complicates things

Natasha Gilbert 13 Oct 2021

What the Mauritius kestrel can teach us about wildlife reintroductions

Marlowe Starling 20 Sep 2021

Birthday party on ship may have led to oil spill in Mauritius, Panama regulator says

Mongabay.com 16 Sep 2020

Mauritians take to the street over oil spill and dolphin and whale deaths

Malavika Vyawahare 1 Sep 2020

Mauritius’s plan to dump part of wrecked ship sparks controversy

Malavika Vyawahare 21 Aug 2020

Mauritius grapples with worst environmental crisis in a generation

Malavika Vyawahare 10 Aug 2020

‘Radically changing’ a rare Mauritian plant’s story: Q&A with ecologist Prishnee Bissessur

Shreya Dasgupta 12 Sep 2019

Culls push endangered fruit bat closer to extinction in Mauritius

Mongabay.com 5 Dec 2018

Biologist Carl Jones wins top prize for saving many rare species from extinction

Shreya Dasgupta 9 May 2016

Mauritius to start culling 18,000 bats from November 7

Shreya Dasgupta 6 Nov 2015

Mauritius to kill 18,000 threatened native bats in ‘disgraceful’ cull

Shreya Dasgupta 16 Oct 2015

Does conservation work? Using the IUCN Red List to evaluate groups’ performance

John-Rob Pool 9 Sep 2015

Invasive plants hurt locals in Mauritius

Jeremy Hance 18 Mar 2013

Animal pictures of the day: booming captive breeding for Mauritius skinks

Jeremy Hance 14 Aug 2012

Invasive ant interferes with gecko’s role in pollinating endangered plant

Mongabay.com 28 Nov 2008

Neon green gecko key to preventing Mauritian plant extinction

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Apr 2007

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