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COP24: US, Russia, Saudis downplay IPCC report in display of disunity

Justin Catanoso 10 Dec 2018

Global biodiversity treaty still searches for its moment in the spotlight

Isabel Esterman 3 Dec 2018

The secret deal to destroy paradise

Malaysiakini, Mongabay, Tempo, The Gecko Project 28 Nov 2018

Five wildlife conservationists held by Iran could face the death penalty

Mongabay.com 27 Nov 2018

Two iconic birds make a striking comeback, but much work remains

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Nov 2018

Illegal cheetah trade continues through Instagram, 4sale, YouTube

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Oct 2018
Griffon vulture (Gyps fulvus). Photo courtesy Anton Khalilieh.

Bird watchers of the West Bank navigate a fraught political climate

Miriam Berger 29 Aug 2018
Palestinian bedouin in Gaza Valley dig for worms in the polluted shallow waters on Gaza’s coast to use for fishing. Photo by Kaamil Ahmed/Mongabay.

Gaza City residents’ water problems continue to compound

Kaamil Ahmed 12 Mar 2018
Kavous Seyed Emami. Photo courtesy of Center for Human Rights in Iran.

Conservationist, imprisoned for ‘spying’ with wildlife camera traps, dies in Iranian prison

Mongabay 23 Feb 2018

In post-revolution Egypt, a fierce fight over coal imports

Louise Sarant 5 Apr 2017

Cheetah populations crash as fastest-animal disappears from 91% of its range

Mongabay.com 26 Dec 2016

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

Geoffrey Kamadi 12 Dec 2016
Lar National Park in northern Iran, about 100 kilometers from Tehran. Photo by Mahdi Kalhor via Panoramio

Three murders highlight troubles of Iran’s park rangers

Jennifer Huizen 18 Aug 2016

Turkey’s wild bears migrate for food; but some bears prefer garbage dumps

Shreya Dasgupta 1 Jul 2016

Fishing nets kill ‘high proportion’ of adult loggerhead turtles in the Mediterranean

Shreya Dasgupta 13 Apr 2016

Global carbon dioxide emissions stay flat for second year in a row

Shreya Dasgupta 17 Mar 2016

Hunt for rare fragrance is pushing one of world’s most expensive trees towards extinction: Al Jazeera documentary

Shreya Dasgupta 9 Mar 2016

‘Fluorescent flashlights’: Newly discovered glow-in-the-dark polyps light up snails in the Red Sea

Shreya Dasgupta 17 Feb 2016

Two-thirds of the world’s population doesn’t have reliable access to fresh water

Mike Gaworecki 15 Feb 2016

Click to like this: Is Instagram a hub for illegal ape deals?

Christopher Haslett 10 Dec 2015

Saving the unicorns: using the sun to produce freshwater and restore an endangered species

Katie Taylor 11 Nov 2015

‘Intolerable’ heat waves likely to hit Persian Gulf by 2100

Shreya Dasgupta 28 Oct 2015

2015 Equator Prize winners span 19 countries

Mongabay.com 21 Sep 2015

Turkish government bears down on rural resistance to mining and hydro projects

Jennifer Hattam 22 Jun 2015

New solidarity in struggle to protect Turkey’s ‘life spaces’

Jennifer Hattam 19 Jun 2015

Earthworm farming in the West Bank (commentary)

Scott Poynton 25 Nov 2014

Saudi Prince kills two percent of global population of endangered bird

Shreya Dasgupta 1 May 2014

Featured video: Showtime releases first episode of major new climate change series online

Jeremy Hance 8 Apr 2014

The smoothtooth blacktip shark and four other species rediscovered in markets

Frank Izaguirre 21 Jan 2014

Iraq gets its first national park: just call it Eden

Jeremy Hance 19 Aug 2013

Biodiversity conservation funding can be better targeted, scientists find

Tanya Dimitrova 4 Jul 2013

Syrian bald ibis may be down to a single bird

Jeremy Hance 11 Jun 2013

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