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Scientists look to chimps’ past to gauge their future under climate change

Carolyn Cowan 17 Sep 2021

African Parks secures $100M for conservation in Africa

Mongabay.com 16 Sep 2021
Image by Valdir Hobus via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA 2.0).

Deforestation sweeps national park in Brazil as land speculators advance

Ana Ionova 10 Sep 2021

Shoe-leather science helps quadruple protected area in Peruvian Amazon

Yvette Sierra Praeli 10 Aug 2021

‘Stampede’ of legislation threatens accelerated destruction of the Amazon

Débora Pinto 26 Jul 2021

Road construction imperils tree kangaroo recovery in PNG

John Cannon 19 Jul 2021

Overcoming community-conservation conflict: Q&A with Dominique Bikaba

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Jul 2021

In DRC, community ownership of forests helps guard the Grauer’s gorilla

Marlowe Starling 6 Jul 2021

Deforestation spikes in Virunga National Park, DRC

Morgan Erickson-Davis 18 Jun 2021
Proboscis monkeys in Malaysian Borneo. Image by John C. Cannon/Mongabay.

Scientists call for solving climate and biodiversity crises together

John Cannon 14 Jun 2021
A fire burns in Xingu Indigenous Park in 2016. Image by Ibama via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Slash-and-burn clearing nears Indigenous park as Brazil’s fire season ignites

Morgan Erickson-Davis 10 Jun 2021

Can Biden’s 30×30 plan put U.S. on a positive conservation track?

Mike Gaworecki 3 Jun 2021

Drugs, fire, settlers poised to wipe out one of Paraguay’s most biodiverse forests

Aldo Benítez 27 May 2021

Belize’s Maya Forest Corridor a ‘missing link’ to giant rainforest reserve (commentary)

Jut Wynne 24 May 2021
A member of the Indigenous Tikuna nation paddling a dugout canoe on a tributary of the Amazon in Colombia by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Protected areas now cover nearly 17% of Earth’s surface: U.N. report

John Cannon 20 May 2021
African elephants in Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda. Photo credit: Gregoire Dubois

An engaged society is key for the future of African conservation, says WWF Africa’s Alice Ruhweza

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 May 2021

Settlers invading, deforesting Colombian national parks ‘at an unstoppable speed’

Antonio José Paz Cardona 19 May 2021
Satellite image of Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Image credit: Maxar Technologies

New Australian marine parks protect area twice Great Barrier Reef’s size

Mongabay.com 13 May 2021

In the Honduran Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve, an illegal road for cattle and drugs

Ashoka Mukpo 13 May 2021
Redwood trees in California. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Biden lays out vision for protecting 30% of US land, waters by 2030

Mongabay.com 6 May 2021

A Colombian national park reveals its natural secrets through camera traps

Maria Fernanda Lizcano 4 May 2021

Casinos, condos and sugar cane: How a Cambodian national park is being sold down the river

James Fair 4 May 2021

Deforestation rises in Colombia’s Chiribiquete National Park as cattle invade

Antonio José Paz Cardona 2 Apr 2021

Deforestation surge threatens endangered species in Tanintharyi, Myanmar

Morgan Erickson-Davis 30 Mar 2021

Rewilding public lands in Patagonia and beyond: Q&A with Kris Tompkins

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Mar 2021
Ranger training in Zimbabwe

Saving Africa’s biodiversity is a challenging, but urgent necessity, says Rodger Schlickeisen

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Mar 2021
Drone image of alleged clearing for luxury residential estates in Bokor National Park. Image courtesy of Mother Nature Cambodia.

‘A disgrace’: Luxury housing plans threaten Cambodia’s Bokor National Park

Kit Humphrey 25 Feb 2021
A Panamanian golden toad. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Indigenous community wins recognition of its land rights in Panama

John Cannon 17 Feb 2021

Cat corridors between protected areas is key to survival of Cerrado’s jaguars

Romi Castagnino 16 Feb 2021

The controversial hunt for a multibillion-dollar treasure in a Chilean park

Barinia Montoya 12 Feb 2021

Brazil flower-gatherers win acclaim: ‘Efficient, long-lasting, resilient’

Thais Borges, Sue Branford 8 Feb 2021
Squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus) play in the trees, along the Yasuni river. Image by Kimberley Brown for Mongabay.

France contributes to protection of Amazon stronghold, Yasuní National Park

Vincent Ricci 27 Jan 2021

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