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From endangered species to commodities: report reveals scale of wildlife crime

Apoorva Joshi 10 Jun 2016

Rising CO2 is reducing nutritional value of food, impacting ecosystems

Claire Salisbury 1 Jun 2016
Chelonoidis donfaustoi: Eastern Santa Cruz Tortoise, Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos. Photo credit: Washington Tapia

Pictures: the top 10 new species of 2016?

Mongabay.com 1 Jun 2016
Red-eyed tree frog. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

The top 10 most biodiverse countries

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 May 2016

49 species added to Australia’s threatened list

Shreya Dasgupta 13 May 2016

How many plant species are there in the world? Scientists now have an answer

Shreya Dasgupta 12 May 2016

New group of Caribbean plants named after James Bond

Shreya Dasgupta 5 May 2016

What will climate change mean for Borneo’s carnivorous pitcher-plants?

Kevin Curran 24 Mar 2016

Smallest of giant flowers ‘accidentally’ discovered in the Philippines

Shreya Dasgupta 2 Mar 2016

Toxic beetles and poisonous plants: Study reveals how southern Africa’s ‘bushmen’ make deadly poison arrows

Shreya Dasgupta 16 Feb 2016

A small European island teaches conservation through its herbs and spices

Nika Levikov 29 Jan 2016

Why should I care about endangered species?

Shreya Dasgupta 12 Jan 2016

The impacts of haze on Southeast Asia’s wildlife

Jose Hong 19 Nov 2015

The miraculous Moringa tree: potential solution for world malnutrition

Taryn Farber 18 Nov 2015

50% of world’s natural history specimens may have wrong names

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Nov 2015

Land rights and access to credit in Sulawesi community brings prosperity to land

Wahyu Chandra 9 Nov 2015
Sungai Utik elder Bandi in 2019. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

The indigenous community whose forest is their supermarket

Andi Fachrizal 28 Oct 2015

Punk rocker likes what he sees in Sumatra’s resin forest

Taufik Wijaya 19 Oct 2015

The village where a curse protects the forest

Indra Nugraha 15 Oct 2015

Could canned fish soup stop government-community conflict in Sumatra?

Taufik Wijaya 9 Oct 2015

Photos: Hundreds of new species discovered in the Eastern Himalayas

Mike Gaworecki 5 Oct 2015

Cacti more threatened than mammals and birds

Shreya Dasgupta 5 Oct 2015

Indonesian village opts to protect mangroves, preserve livelihoods

Themmy Doaly 28 Aug 2015

Norway’s wealth fund expels POSCO, Daewoo Int’l over palm oil holdings

Philip Jacobson 18 Aug 2015

Mexico’s club mosses at risk of extinction

Shreya Dasgupta 26 Mar 2015

New report connects human health to biodiversity protection

Adam Force 17 Mar 2015

Meet Biomuseo: the world’s first biodiversity museum

Alexander Montoro 12 Mar 2015

Cunning carnivorous plants catch more prey by letting some go

Loren Bell 25 Feb 2015

When predators attack, plants grow fewer thorns

Michael Buelna 17 Dec 2014

To collect or not to collect? Experts debate the need for specimens

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 10 Dec 2014

‘Guns kill trees too’: overhunting raises extinction threat for trees

Jeremy Hance 12 Nov 2014

Conservationists propose Dracula Reserve in Ecuador

Morgan Erickson-Davis 24 Oct 2014

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