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Each dry season, members of the community group VOI Sohisika try to keep brush fires at bay with controlled burns that run along firebreaks on the perimeter of the preserve. Photo courtesy of Missouri Botanical Garden.

How small is too small? The uncertain fate of Madagascar’s forest fragments

Rowan Moore Gerety 18 Oct 2017

One man’s quest to save the world’s wildest places: Hansjörg Wyss

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Oct 2017

SMART and well-Connected: reserve patrol data system adds communications capacity

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 17 Oct 2017

Study maps out reptiles’ ranges, completing the ‘atlas of life’

Mongabay.com 17 Oct 2017

When a rhino calls in the forest, this guy hears it: Q&A with a Javan rhino researcher

Mongabay.com 16 Oct 2017

Indonesia to miss carbon emissions target under existing climate policies: study

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Oct 2017

Is Bangladesh’s expanded sanctuary a brave step or a paper tiger?

Jack Elliot Marley 13 Oct 2017
chameleon, a species that lives in Ranomafana National Park. Photo by

Conservation in a weak state: Madagascar struggles with enforcement

Rowan Moore Gerety 10 Oct 2017

Conserving habitat not enough to help species cope with climate change

John Cannon 9 Oct 2017

Pandas losing ground to hungry livestock in Chinese nature reserve

Mongabay.com 5 Oct 2017

Can community forestry deliver for Madagascar’s forests and people?

Rowan Moore Gerety 2 Oct 2017

How effective is conservation in Madagascar? Series starts next week

Rowan Moore Gerety 28 Sep 2017

Colombian president honored in Washington, D.C. for efforts to protect biodiversity

Justin Catanoso 25 Sep 2017

Liberian park protects Critically Endangered western chimpanzees

John Cannon 22 Sep 2017

Can the Javan rhino be saved before disaster strikes?

Linda Lombardi 22 Sep 2017

Local approaches to conservation may be the most effective, study finds

Morgan Erickson-Davis 15 Sep 2017
Deforestation in Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

What works in conservation? In-depth series starts next week

Shreya Dasgupta 15 Sep 2017

Ecologist wins Heinz environment prize for airborne mapping that informs policy

Mongabay.com 14 Sep 2017

Javan rhinos face human incursions into their last remaining habitat

Donny Iqbal 11 Sep 2017

Deforestation in Cambodia linked to ill health in children

Shreya Dasgupta 11 Sep 2017

A global view from a mountain town: how conservation became ingrained in Monteverde

Caitlin Looby 6 Sep 2017

Saving the Serranía de San Lucas, a vital link in the ‘jaguar corridor’

Sean Mowbray 1 Sep 2017
A snow leopard comes in for a close-up. Photo courtesy of Snow Leopard Trust.

Collateral damage: Snow leopards and trophy hunting in Kyrgyzstan

Katie Arnold 31 Aug 2017

‘Ecological disaster’: controversial bridge puts East Kalimantan’s green commitment to the test

Basten Gokkon 30 Aug 2017

Extensive illegal cattle ranching destroys core area of Nicaragua’s Indio Maíz Biological Reserve

Duyerling Ríos, Cristopher Mendoza 28 Aug 2017

Deforestation from gold mining in Peru continues, despite gov’t crackdowns

John Cannon 22 Aug 2017

The tiger population in Nepal’s Parsa National Park is recovering rapidly

Mike Gaworecki 16 Aug 2017

Mammal numbers high in logged tropical forests, study finds

John Cannon 16 Aug 2017
 Basantes readies his motorcycle as he prepares to lead a group of tourists to one of the Mashpi Amagusa Reserve’s birdwatching areas. Photo by Johnny Magdaleno/Mongabay

Father and son butt heads in decades-long battle over bird tourism site

Johnny Magdaleno 9 Aug 2017

Malaysia’s East Coast Rail Link a double-edged sword for environment, wildlife

Kate Mayberry 9 Aug 2017
The Mittermeier sportive lemur (Lepilemur mittermeieri) is found only on the Ampasindava peninsula. Researchers warn that its population could be harmed if TREM moves ahead. Photo by Leslie Wilmet.

Troubled firm aims to mine Madagascar forest for rare earth elements

Edward Carver 8 Aug 2017

Road projects threaten Sumatra’s last great rainforests

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Aug 2017

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