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Freshwater fishes and other threatened but overlooked biodiversity must be new flagships for conservation (commentary)

In the Solomon Islands, making amends in the name of conservation

Grasshoppers: They come, they eat, they … pollinate?

Indigenous communities in post-FARC Colombia struggle to destigmatize sacred coca leaf

Termites help to protect tropical forests during drought, study finds

Machine learning tool helps prioritize plants for conservation

Photos: Top 10 new species of 2018

Social media, e-commerce sites facilitate illegal orchid trade

More than one-third of critically endangered plants cannot be conserved in seed banks

Invisible plant-enemy interactions drive diversity in forest fragments

Fire fundamentally alters carbon dynamics in the Amazon

New tree species from Cameroon is possibly already extinct

Runners’ woes at Asian Games highlight Jakarta’s air pollution problem

More remote islands might be more susceptible to invasive species: study

Saving rare orchids that are ‘confusingly difficult’ to grow in labs: Q&A with orchid expert Marc Freestone

In protecting songbirds, Indonesia ruffles owners & breeders’ feathers

Nitrogen pollution is choking forests’ carbon-protecting fungi

Indonesia adds hundreds of birds to protected species list

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

Forest communities pay the price for conservation in Madagascar

Brazil’s plant biodiversity still not fully present in its seed banks

Plant communities roar back after rat removal from Pacific islands

First fern genomes sequenced — and they hold a lot of promise

Nearly four decades of cycling race video reveals climate change’s effects

Climate change could be killing Africa’s giant baobabs

Taller, older trees fare better during Amazon droughts, study finds

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

Biomass study finds people are wiping out wild mammals

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

In the Canary Islands, a good seed disperser is hard to find

Global warming may poison monarch butterflies, study finds

Indonesian conservation bill is weak on wildlife crime, critics say