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In a first, DRC communities gain legal rights to forests

Mongabay.com 18 Oct 2018

Scientists map the impact of trawling using satellite vessel tracking

John Cannon 17 Oct 2018

$25m in funding to help African gov’ts prosecute poachers, traffickers

Mongabay.com 15 Oct 2018

Scientists, conservationists: Give Nobel Peace Prize to Jane Goodall

Mongabay.com 11 Oct 2018

Traditional groups sowing sustainable crops could save Venezuelan park

Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres 24 Sep 2018

Conservation groups herald protection of tiger habitat in Malaysia

Mongabay.com 11 Sep 2018

Poachers caught on video killing mother bear and cubs at den in Alaska

Mongabay.com 21 Aug 2018

A ‘perfect policy storm’ cuts puma numbers by almost half near Jackson, Wyoming

John Cannon 1 Aug 2018

In Kenya’s Maasai Mara, detection dogs are a ranger’s best friend

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 31 Jul 2018

Global marine wilderness has dwindled to 13 percent, new map reveals

John Cannon 26 Jul 2018

Forest communities pay the price for conservation in Madagascar

John Cannon 25 Jul 2018

Cross-border camera trap research puts wild Amur leopard number at 84

Mongabay.com 19 Jul 2018
Coral reef in the Dominican Republic. Photo by Greg Asner.

Bold initiative aims to protect coral reefs in the Dominican Republic

Greg Asner and Clare LeDuff 16 Jul 2018

Smartphone app helps indigenous communities fight deforestation

Mongabay.com 2 Jul 2018
Cesar Benedict goes on air at Faluma Bimetu community radio station in Triunfo de la Cruz. Image by Christopher Clark for Mongabay.

Honduras: Indigenous Garifuna use radio to fight for their land

Christopher Clark 25 Jun 2018

DRC adopts a strategy that will bolster community forestry, conservation group says

John Cannon 25 Jun 2018

Primate-rich countries are becoming less hospitable places for monkeys, apes and lemurs

John Cannon 15 Jun 2018
Rangers in neighboring Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda. Photo for Mongabay.com by Rhett A. Butler.

DRC’s Virunga National Park closes until 2019 due to violence

Mongabay.com 14 Jun 2018

Field Museum honors Peruvian organization for its conservation work with indigenous groups

Mongabay.com 5 Jun 2018

Bolivia’s Madidi National Park home to world’s largest array of land life, survey finds

Mongabay.com 30 May 2018

Documenting the African elephant’s ‘last stand’: Q&A with filmmakers Cyril Christo and Marie Wilkinson

John Cannon 21 May 2018

Humans are leaving their mark on the world’s protected areas, study finds

John Cannon 17 May 2018
A Verreaux's sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi) nursing. Image by Rhett A. Butler.

Sifaka lemurs listed as “critically endangered” amid mysterious die-off

Edward Carver 15 May 2018

Tanzania’s Maasai losing ground to tourism in the name of conservation, investigation finds

John Cannon 11 May 2018

Pleistocene climates help scientists pick out targets for conservation in Brazil’s forests

Mongabay.com 8 May 2018

Black rhinos return to Zakouma National Park in Chad

Mongabay.com 7 May 2018

More gorillas and chimpanzees living in Central Africa’s forests than thought

John Cannon 27 Apr 2018

Restoring flagging oil palm plantations to forest may benefit clouded leopards, study finds

Mongabay.com 24 Apr 2018

Island logging must go beyond current ‘best practices’ to avoid erosion: New study

Mongabay.com 23 Apr 2018

Suspected poisoning takes down 11 lions in Uganda park

John Cannon 17 Apr 2018

Vine-like lianas alter the edges of fragmented forests: New study

John Cannon 6 Apr 2018

Report finds projects in DRC ‘REDD+ laboratory’ fall short of development, conservation goals

John Cannon 16 Mar 2018