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Hawaii braces for potential mass-coral bleaching event

Liz Kimbrough 23 Aug 2019

Travel: A charmed encounter with birds-of-paradise in Papua’s Arfak Mountains

Een Irawan Putra 19 Aug 2019

Newly described giant extinct penguin and parrot once lived in New Zealand

Mongabay.com 16 Aug 2019

Tests show multi-rotor UAVs can improve cetacean behavioral studies

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 9 Aug 2019

Logging, mining companies lock eyes on a biodiverse island like no other

Gianluca Cerullo 31 Jul 2019

New roads in Papua New Guinea may cause ‘quantum leap’ in forest loss

John Cannon 24 Jul 2019

“Part of something bigger”: the social movement around New Zealand’s Predator-Free 2050 goal

Monica Evans 20 Jun 2019

Why sustainability should be on your plate when you travel (commentary)

Isolina Boto 19 Jun 2019

Predator-free by 2050? High-tech hopes for New Zealand’s big conservation dream

Monica Evans 13 Jun 2019

Bumpy ride for conservation in PNG as lack of roads hinders activities

Lucy EJ Woods 10 Jun 2019

The tropics in trouble and some hope

Jeremy Hance 10 Jun 2019

Healthy reefs, healthy people: Community-based marine conservation in Papua New Guinea (commentary)

Jonathan Booth 7 Jun 2019

How climate change could throw Māori culture off-balance

Ashley Stumvoll 23 May 2019

Solomon Islanders imprisoned for trying to stop the logging of their forests

Louise Hunt 17 May 2019

A new election brings little hope for Solomon Islands’ vanishing forests

Louise Hunt 17 May 2019

Hunting for rare plants in inaccessible spots: Q&A with drone pilot Ben Nyberg

Shreya Dasgupta 13 May 2019

Counting on eDNA for a faster, easier way to count coral

Stephanie Parker 8 May 2019

‘To save a forest you have to destroy a nicer one’: U.S. Marines target forest in Guam

Nina Finley 8 May 2019

What we learned from two years of investigating corrupt land deals in Indonesia

Mongabay, The Gecko Project 8 May 2019

Drone rediscovers Hawaiian flower thought to be extinct

Mongabay.com 1 May 2019
Jacqueline Evans. Image courtesy of Goldman Environmental Prize.

Building the world’s biggest MPA: Q&A with Goldman winner Jacqueline Evans

Monica Evans 30 Apr 2019

Meet the winners of the 2019 Goldman Environmental Prize

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Apr 2019

An epic Pacific survey reveals mixed fortunes for green and hawksbill turtles

Malavika Vyawahare 29 Apr 2019
Coral garden on the bow of the Saratoga. Photo by Greg Asner.

Guns, Corals and Steel: Are Nuclear Shipwrecks a Biodiversity Hotspot?

Greg Asner 28 Apr 2019

Creating a high-tech island to save one of the world’s rarest birds

Hannah Thomasy 25 Apr 2019
Rennell Island in the Solomon Islands, where the oil spill occurred. Image courtesy of Google Earth. 

Solomon Islands: Oil stops spilling but environmental toll still being calculated

Catherine Wilson 2 Apr 2019

How land grabbers co-opt indigenous ritual traditions in Papua: Q&A with anthropologist Sophie Chao

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 28 Mar 2019

‘Nothing was left’: Flash floods, landslides hit Indonesia’s Papua region

Asrida Elisabeth, Della Syahni, Lusia Arumingtyas 21 Mar 2019

PNG politicians push coal as Pacific islanders rail against climate change

Catherine Wilson 12 Mar 2019

Latam Eco Review: Scandal rocks famed Easter Island park and a freshwater crab discovery

Mongabay.com 9 Mar 2019

Norway divests from plantation companies linked to deforestation

Morgan Erickson-Davis 1 Mar 2019

The sounds of a rare New Zealand bird reintroduced to its native habitat

Mike Gaworecki 20 Feb 2019

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