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In a first, DRC communities gain legal rights to forests

Scientists map the impact of trawling using satellite vessel tracking

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

Scientists, conservationists: Give Nobel Peace Prize to Jane Goodall

Traditional groups sowing sustainable crops could save Venezuelan park

Conservation groups herald protection of tiger habitat in Malaysia

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

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

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

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

Forest communities pay the price for conservation in Madagascar

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

Bold initiative aims to protect coral reefs in the Dominican Republic

Smartphone app helps indigenous communities fight deforestation

Honduras: Indigenous Garifuna use radio to fight for their land

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Black rhinos return to Zakouma National Park in Chad

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

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

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

Suspected poisoning takes down 11 lions in Uganda park

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

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