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How to build a Guardian: students learn about making technology work in the field

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 23 Mar 2018

Company outed for fires in Indonesian palm lease still clearing forests in timber concession, NGO finds

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 Mar 2018

Over $720 million in profit from tourism in Peru’s protected natural areas

Alexa Eunoé Vélez Zuazo 22 Mar 2018

Leopards could reduce rabies by controlling stray dog numbers in India, study finds

Mongabay.com 21 Mar 2018

Exploring humanity’s deep connection to water, plus the sounds of the Sandhill crane migration

Mike Gaworecki 20 Mar 2018

Belize creates one of Central America’s largest biological corridors

Shreya Dasgupta 19 Mar 2018

Indonesia launches bid to restore national park that’s home to tigers, elephants

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Mar 2018

Save the Sumatran rhino ‘because we can’ (commentary)

Mongabay.com 16 Mar 2018

Report finds projects in DRC ‘REDD+ laboratory’ fall short of development, conservation goals

John Cannon 16 Mar 2018

Five years after zero-deforestation vow, little sign of progress from Indonesian pulp giant

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Mar 2018

Bushmeat hunting threatens hornbills and raptors in Cameroon’s forests, study finds

Shreya Dasgupta 15 Mar 2018
Local fishers in the fishing town of Beheloke in southwestern Madagascar. Photo by Rowan Moore Gerety for Mongabay.

Will Madagascar’s industrial shrimp trawlers make way for local fishers?

Edward Carver 14 Mar 2018

Illegal cattle ranching deforests Mexico’s massive Lacandon Jungle

Rodrigo Soberanes 14 Mar 2018

Video: Rare newborn western lowland gorilla filmed in the wild

Mongabay.com 13 Mar 2018

Oil palm, rubber could trigger ‘storm’ of deforestation in the Congo Basin

John Cannon 12 Mar 2018
Koh Rong Sanloem, one of seven islands that make up Cambodia’s new Koh Rong Marine National Park. Photo by Wikirictor via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Cambodia creates its first marine national park where pirate fishers prowl

Matt Blomberg 12 Mar 2018

Jaguar numbers rising at field sites, WCS says

Mongabay.com 7 Mar 2018

How effective is environmental restoration?

Mike Gaworecki 6 Mar 2018

Budiardi, labeled a ‘provocateur’ and jailed in a dispute with a palm oil company

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 6 Mar 2018

Javan rhino population holds steady amid ever-present peril

Basten Gokkon 1 Mar 2018

Five-year sentences for elephant poachers in Republic of Congo

Mongabay.com 28 Feb 2018

African Parks to manage gorges, rock art and crocodiles of Chad’s Ennedi

Mongabay.com 27 Feb 2018

Detecting disasters on community lands in the Amazon: film highlights indigenous struggle

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 27 Feb 2018

Cambodia’s banteng-eating leopards edge closer to extinction, new study finds

Shreya Dasgupta 27 Feb 2018

Easter Island votes for world’s newest marine reserve

Jack Elliot Marley 27 Feb 2018

Seychelles announces two new marine protected areas the size of Great Britain

Mongabay.com 22 Feb 2018

‘Photo Ark’ a quest to document global biodiversity: Q&A with photographer Joel Sartore and director Chun-Wei Yi

Mongabay.com 21 Feb 2018

Exploring the minds and inner lives of animals

Mike Gaworecki 20 Feb 2018
An indri (Indri indri), another critically endangered lemur that lives in Makira Natural Park. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Study delves into overlooked community perceptions of conservation impact

Shreya Dasgupta 20 Feb 2018

‘It’s our home’: Pygmies fight for recognition as forest protectors in new film

John Cannon 20 Feb 2018

As Indonesia gears up for elections, activists brace for an environmental sell-off

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Feb 2018

Protected areas with deforestation more likely to lose status in Brazilian state

Mongabay.com 18 Feb 2018

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