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A mangrove pitta

How to tell if mangrove restoration is working? Listen to the birds

Carolyn Cowan 3 Feb 2025
Chemical lures designed to mimic the scent of ripe fruit have helped attract fruit-eating bats from the genus Carollia, such as Seba's short-tailed bat (C. perspicillata).

Lures that attract seed-dispersing bats could aid tropical reforestation

Sean Mowbray 30 Jan 2025
A golden shrimp plant (Pachystachys lutea) in Missouri Botanical Garden.

Digitizing 6 million plant specimens: Interview with Gunter Fischer & Jordan Teisher

Abhishyant Kidangoor 24 Jan 2025
A Trimeresurus cardamomesis photographed in Cambodia’s Samlout Multiple Use Area.

Survey uncovers ‘wildlife treasure’ in Cambodian park — but also signs of threats

Anton L. Delgado 22 Jan 2025
An aerial image shows rainforest fragmented by cattle ranching.

Study shows degradation changes a forest’s tree profile and its carbon storage

Peter Speetjens 22 Jan 2025

Brazil’s ‘innovative’ reforestation agenda discussed in Davos (commentary)

Guilherme Leal, Paulo Hartung, Roberto Waack 21 Jan 2025
Standing amidst a vibrant field of cosmos flowers, Azharul Islam Khan highlights their numerous benefits.

In Bangladesh, a botanist brings quick, fun lessons to social media

Mohammad Al-Masum Molla 17 Jan 2025

New alert system can track changes in grasslands, farms, temperate forests

Shreya Dasgupta 13 Jan 2025

India’s latest forest cover report hints at countrywide degradation

Mongabay.com 7 Jan 2025

Rare new Guinean flower is ‘canary in a coal mine’ — but in an actual iron mine

Ryan Truscott 27 Dec 2024

Unboxed: New lipstick vine revealed in Philippine expedition with Banao tribe

Shreya Dasgupta 27 Dec 2024
The 2024 paper proposes Leopardus pardinoides, or the clouded tiger cat, as a new species. This small wildcat is found in the cloud forests of Costa Rica, south to Panama, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and Argentina. Image courtesy of Johanes Pfleiderer. Article title - A tiger cat gains new species designation, but conservation challenges remain

Photos: Top new species from 2024

Liz Kimbrough 26 Dec 2024

From Christmas trees to mistletoe: Holiday plants facing threats

Kristine Sabillo 25 Dec 2024

Experts question benefits of Colombian forestation project led by top oil trader

Carla Ruas 23 Dec 2024
Bright red flowers of a miracle clivia (Clivia mirabilis), hang in front of green foliage. Image courtesy Dave Garriock.

Poachers target South Africa’s ‘miracle’ plant with near impunity

Leonie Joubert 20 Dec 2024
Hylomys macarong, a smooth hedgehog

Greater Mekong serves up 234 new species in a year, from fanged hedgehog to diva viper

Carolyn Cowan 16 Dec 2024
Banner image of Koru superyacht by Conmat13 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Maker of Jeff Bezos’s yacht fined for using Myanmar ‘blood timber’

Kristine Sabillo 6 Dec 2024
Tree cover in Kauai. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Trees live out their lives in surprising ways, massive new study finds

Collin Blinder 5 Dec 2024
Mangroves in Raja Ampat.

How are mangrove restoration projects doing? Interview with Tom Worthington

Abhishyant Kidangoor 3 Dec 2024
Banner image of the Bougainville forest planted by Carteret Islanders, by Thibault Le Pivain for Mongabay.

PNG climate migrants sail away with native trees to their new home

Mongabay.com 28 Nov 2024
Citizen scientist photographing a Northern Queen of Sheba Orchid in Lesueur National Park, Western Australia. Photo credit: Thomas Mesaglio

Citizen scientists can boost IUCN species assessments, but need better guidance from ecologists

Mahima Samraik 26 Nov 2024
An Amazonian manatee (Trichechus inunguis) comes up for air. Image courtesy of André Dib.

Researcher discovers new role played by manatees, ‘the gardeners of the Amazon’

Tiago da Mota e Silva 25 Nov 2024
Carteret islanders on a canoe. Image credit: Friends of the Earth.

In a Noah’s Ark move, PNG migrants bring thousands of trees to safer ground

Thibault Le Pivain 21 Nov 2024

Last wild hurricane palm of its kind falls, marking extinction

Shanna Hanbury 20 Nov 2024
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‘Scratching the surface’ of Nepal butterfly research: Interview with Sanej Suwal

Abhaya Raj Joshi 20 Nov 2024

Hopes and fears for the Amazon: Interview with botanist Hans ter Steege

Peter Speetjens 19 Nov 2024
Paphiopedilum haynaldianum

A key driver of decline, can wild orchid collectors change their ways?

Carolyn Cowan 14 Nov 2024

More than 20% of Earth’s plants grow only on islands, global study finds

Shanna Hanbury 13 Nov 2024

Long-running tropical forest research stalls amid Venezuelan crisis

Tony Frangie Mawad 11 Nov 2024
A fallen tree in the Amazon.

Brazil researchers boost timber traceability with new chemical analysis

Fernanda Wenzel 4 Nov 2024
Farmer Ignatius Kakompe standing by a pod mahogany tree felled recently by illegal loggers.

Defending the hidden forest gems of Zambia’s Copperbelt Province

Ryan Truscott 31 Oct 2024

COP16: ‘A fund unlike any other’ will pay tropical nations to save forests

Justin Catanoso 30 Oct 2024

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