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Marcellus Adi Riyanto: The Indonesian vet who lived for the Sumatran rhino

Julia John 19 Jun 2020

Legendary entomologist Terry Erwin passes away at age 79

Liz Kimbrough 15 May 2020
Yohanes Terang in his beloved forest. © Titayanto Pieter

Indonesian environmental poet and Dayak leader Yohanes Terang, 1956-2020

Erik Meijaard 11 May 2020

Tribute to Garth Owen-Smith, African conservationist (commentary)

Integrated Rural Development and Nature Conservation 18 Apr 2020
Tommy Apriando from @tommyapriando on Instagram.

Indonesian investigative reporter and journalism advocate Tommy Apriando, 1989-2020

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Feb 2020
Sue Palminteri with elephants. Courtesy of George Powell.

Conservation biologist and wildtech journalist Sue Palminteri, 1965-2019

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Dec 2019
Bramble Cay melomys. Photo by Queensland Government

Bramble Cay Melomys: requiem for a small brown rat

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Dec 2019

Wild Kingdom’s Jim Fowler has died

Mongabay.com 9 May 2019
Red-footed Boobies flying over Palmyra Atoll, Northern Line Islands, USA. Photo copyright Erik Oberg / Island Conservation

Trapper, turned conservationist: Bill Wood (obituary)

Bernie Tershy 24 Oct 2018

Alan Rabinowitz, big cat evangelist and voice of the wild, dies at 64

Mongabay.com 7 Aug 2018

Conservation biology loses a leader: Navjot Sodhi, 1962-2011

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Jun 2011

Climate change claims a snail

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Aug 2007
A critically endangered baiji dolphin. Image by Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences / Wikimedia Commons.

A farewell to the Yangtze’s ghost, the Baiji

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Dec 2006

Goodbye to the Baiji

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Dec 2006
Bufo periglenes. Photo courtesy of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Golden Toad: Elegy for a jewel of the cloud forest

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Oct 2005

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