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Poaching and the problem with conservation in Africa (commentary)

Richard Fynn, Oluwatoyin Kolawole 3 Mar 2020

Bolivia and Paraguay unite to protect critically endangered guanacos

Yvette Sierra Praeli 26 Feb 2020

Call for prosecution of Indonesian politician who kept baby orangutan as pet

Ayat S. Karokaro 26 Feb 2020

Camera traps confirm presence of lowland gorillas in central mainland Equatorial Guinea for first time in over a decade

Mongabay.com 25 Feb 2020

Burning and bullets: Forest fires push Bornean orangutans into harm’s way

Aseanty Pahlevi 18 Feb 2020

For tiger moms, the work-life balance struggle is real, study finds

Liz Kimbrough 13 Feb 2020

Rhino poaching in South Africa declines for fifth straight year

Mongabay.com 7 Feb 2020

Rangers in Indonesia’s Aceh to get guns as officials flex on violators

Basten Gokkon 16 Jan 2020
Burning a poisoned white-backed vulture carcass. Image courtesy Wildlife ACT.

Alarm over mass vulture poisoning in South Africa

Fred Kockott 29 Dec 2019
Bamboo lemur in Madagascar. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Global consumer demands fuel the extinction crisis facing the world’s primates

Alejandro Estrada, Paul A. Garber 29 Dec 2019

Deforestation for potential rubber plantation raises concerns in Papua New Guinea

John Cannon 19 Dec 2019

Sea turtles continue to swim in troubled waters: report

Elham Shirin 19 Dec 2019

Mountain gorilla census reveals further increase in numbers

John Cannon 17 Dec 2019

Illegal hunting a greater threat to wildlife than forest degradation

Nanditha Chandraprakash 9 Dec 2019
Nyeema Harris and her crew deployed motion-detecting cameras throughout their study site in West Africa. Credit: University of Michigan Applied Wildlife Ecology Lab

Camera traps yield surprises in West Africa’s largest protected area

Jerimiah Oetting 2 Dec 2019
Hooded vulture. Image courtesy John Davies/EWT

Lift-off for first African vulture safe zones

Fred Kockott, Tony Carnie 28 Nov 2019
Camera trap image of a pangolin foraging at night in South Sudan. Credit: Bucknell University/Fauna and Flora International

Pangolins are a victim of political instability in South Sudan

Ashleigh Papp 21 Nov 2019

Conserving wildlife is key to tropical forests’ carbon storage, study finds

Nanticha Ocharoenchai 18 Nov 2019

Finding hope in ‘extreme conservation’ (Insider)

John Cannon 31 Oct 2019

Reporter Katie Baker details Buzzfeed’s explosive investigation of WWF

Mike Gaworecki 29 Oct 2019

How Laos lost its tigers

Jeremy Hance 28 Oct 2019
WCS veterinarian Steve Harvey fitting a collar on one of the elephants. Image courtesy of Nacha Geoffrey/WCS

Satellite collars to help boost protection for Nigeria’s largest remaining elephant herd

Linus Unah 25 Oct 2019

Bonobo conservation stymied by deforestation, human rights abuses

Taran Volckhausen 24 Oct 2019
Green sea turtle. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

For one Indonesian fisher, saving caught turtles is a moral challenge

Ian Morse 23 Oct 2019
Big Tusker, Tembe Elephant Park. Photo courtesy Monica Klopper

Expansion of a famous elephant park holds out hope for Africa’s big tuskers

Matthew Hattingh, Mlu Mdletshe 14 Oct 2019

Legal and illegal trade negatively impacting survival and wellbeing of Africa’s wildlife: Report

Mongabay.com 9 Oct 2019

International wildlife trade sweeps across ‘tree of life,’ study finds

Mongabay.com 7 Oct 2019

Study tracks first incursion of poachers into ‘pristine’ African forest

John Cannon 3 Oct 2019
A young orangutan grasps and hangs on to a woody liana. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongaby.

Traveling Malaysia’s Pan Borneo Highway

Mongabay.com 1 Oct 2019

Restoring Sumatra’s Leuser Ecosystem, one small farm at a time

Junaidi Hanafiah 30 Sep 2019

Wilderness cuts the risk of extinction for species in half

John Cannon 26 Sep 2019

Notes from the road: 5 revelations from traveling the Pan Borneo Highway

John Cannon 25 Sep 2019

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