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Smallholder agriculture cuts into key Sumatran tiger habitat

Rachel Fritts 26 Jan 2021

With just 10 years left to save Sumatran elephants, what can be done now?

Mongabay.com 22 Jan 2021

Sumatran rhino conservation inspires a thriving creative economy

Agus Susanto 14 Jan 2021

Six rangers killed in deadly militia attack in DRC’s Virunga National Park

Ashoka Mukpo 11 Jan 2021

On plantations and in ‘protected’ areas, Sumatran elephants keep turning up dead

Mongabay Indonesia, Tempo 16 Dec 2020

Big mammals are at risk in the world’s poorest countries, even within parks

Tess Joosse 27 Nov 2020

Snare traps decline, but still pose a threat to Leuser’s Sumatran rhinos

Junaidi Hanafiah 13 Nov 2020
Construction on the Pan Borneo Highway in northern Sabah. Image by John C. Cannon/Mongabay.

Activists in Malaysia call on road planners to learn the lessons of history

John Cannon 13 Nov 2020

Saving the singing rhino

Mongabay.com 5 Nov 2020

Where to patrol next: ‘Netflix’ of ranger AI serves up poaching predictions

Claudia Geib 5 Nov 2020

IPBES report details path to exit current ‘pandemic era’

John Cannon 30 Oct 2020
Elephant, Lopé National Park, Gabon. Image by Nathalie Bertrams for Mongabay.

With a drastic decline in tropical fruit, Gabon’s rainforest mega-gardeners go hungry

Ingrid Gercama, Nathalie Bertrams 29 Oct 2020
Man roasting bushmeat. Image by Corinne Staley via Flickr (BY-NC-2.0)

Bushmeat hunting: The greatest threat to Africa’s wildlife?

Jim Tan 26 Oct 2020

Planned road projects threaten Sumatran rhino habitat, experts say

Junaidi Hanafiah 26 Oct 2020
Newly hatched olive ridley sea turtle in Costa Rica. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

The turtle egg that pinged back: Tracing a poaching pathway in Costa Rica

Claudia Geib 22 Oct 2020

In Uganda, safeguarding chimpanzees against the scourge of snaring

Alex Dudley 20 Oct 2020

Deforestation threatens to wipe out a primate melting pot in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Oct 2020

‘Luckiest people’: Encountering a newborn Sumatran rhino in the wild

Basten Gokkon 14 Oct 2020

In Sumatra, forest edge communities must be at the center of conservation efforts (commentary)

Roderick T.J. Buiskool 30 Sep 2020

Bolivia’s jaguar seizures down as suspicions rise over new mafia

Vanessa Romo 15 Sep 2020

Poaching pressure mounts on jaguars, the Americas’ iconic big cat

Vanessa Romo 14 Sep 2020

Fishing for change: Local management of Amazon’s largest fish also empowers women

Claudia Geib 31 Aug 2020
Burmese roofed turtle moments after emerging from an egg collected from a sandbank along the Chindwin River and incubated at a head-starting facility in Limpha village, Sagaing region, Myanmar. Photo by Myo Min Win/WCS Myanmar (Platt et al 2020).

Back from the brink, baby Burmese roofed turtles make their debut

Liz Kimbrough 28 Aug 2020

Protecting African wildlife: A defense of conservation territories (commentary)

Leif Brottem 27 Aug 2020

In Cambodia, a sweeping new environment code languishes in legal limbo

Andrew Nachemson 26 Aug 2020

Traversing Russia’s remote taiga in pursuit of the Blakiston’s fish owl

Gloria Dickie 6 Aug 2020

Facial recognition tech for chimps looks to bust online ape trafficking

Colin Sytsma 4 Aug 2020

Saved from poisoning, these rare African vultures take wing again

Ed Holt 3 Aug 2020

Anticipated new restrictions on wildlife trade in Vietnam fall short of a ban

Michael Tatarski 30 Jul 2020

A jaguar nicknamed “Short-Tail” the first known to cross between Belize and Guatemala

Liz Kimbrough 29 Jul 2020
A ground pangolin (Smutsia temminckii), the species of pangolin that lives in Zimbabwe. Three other pangolin species live in Africa, and four others live in Asia. Image by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

Nigeria’s wildlife traders, who weathered Ebola, eye post-COVID-19 boom

Orji Sunday 17 Jul 2020

As COVID-19 curbs patrols in Nicaragua, turtle eggs risk being poached

Monica Pelliccia 13 Jul 2020

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