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Salted shark meat, called cecina, drying in the sun. Image courtesy of MarAlliance.

Fishing for sharks in Honduras’s sanctuary seas: Q&A with biologist Gabriela Ochoa

Michelle Carrere 8 Apr 2019

Planning without action will see the Javan rhino go extinct (commentary)

Haerudin R. Sadjudin 8 Apr 2019

Climb confirms that the world’s tallest tropical tree tops 100 meters

John Cannon 7 Apr 2019

Indigenous leaders decry Colombia’s deadly crackdown on land protesters

Taran Volckhausen 4 Apr 2019
Kahuzi Biega National Park

Farming communities abused at troubled DRC mega-farm, campaigners say

Ashoka Mukpo 4 Apr 2019
A Wounaan bird-watching group from the community of Puerto Lara during a hike in the local forest. Image by Alexander Arosemena for Mongabay.

Panamanian indigenous people act to protect the forest from invading loggers

Guido Bilbao 2 Apr 2019

Crab season to be cut short in California to protect whales and turtles

Mongabay.com 1 Apr 2019

Video: Scientists surprised to discover tiny toadlets can glow

Morgan Erickson-Davis 29 Mar 2019

Ascension, the Atlantic ‘Galápagos,’ to get massive marine reserve

Sophie Manson 27 Mar 2019

No more fires in Indonesia? Blazes on Sumatran peatland say otherwise

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Mar 2019

How digital technologies can transform nature conservation engagement (commentary)

Julio Corredor 26 Mar 2019

Malaysian state chief: Highway construction must not destroy forest

Mongabay.com 26 Mar 2019

Sergio Rojas Ortiz, leader of Costa Rica’s indigenous Bribri, slain by gunmen

Mongabay.com 26 Mar 2019

Study maps where tunas, sharks and fishing ships meet

Shreya Dasgupta 25 Mar 2019

Nepal reckons with the dark side of its rhino conservation success

Abhaya Raj Joshi 25 Mar 2019

‘Managed resilience’ not a successful strategy for conserving coral reefs, researchers find

Mongabay.com 22 Mar 2019

West Bengal’s rhino population hits a record high

Gurvinder Singh 22 Mar 2019

Indonesia investigates mass shark deaths at captive-breeding facility

Jay Fajar, M Ambari 22 Mar 2019
A juvenile Brazilian tapir (Tapirus terrestris) in the Pantanal. Tapirs have been found to disperse seeds in disturbed Amazon forests. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Tapirs could be key in helping degraded rainforests bounce back

Mongabay.com 20 Mar 2019

Invasive plants a fast-growing threat to India’s rhinos

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 18 Mar 2019

Possible vaquita death accompanies announcement that only 10 are left

Mongabay.com 18 Mar 2019

Study identifies climate-resilient trees to help orangutan conservation

Taran Volckhausen 15 Mar 2019

New maps show where humans are pushing species closer to extinction

John Cannon 15 Mar 2019
Julio Cusurichi. Image courtesy of FENAMAD.

Defending the Amazon’s uncontacted peoples: Q&A with Julio Cusurichi

Dan Collyns 13 Mar 2019

Putting the Blue in the Green New Deal (commentary)

David Helvarg, Jason Scorse 13 Mar 2019

Bank of China to review funding of dam in orangutan habitat in Sumatra

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Mar 2019

Encounters with the Javan rhino (commentary)

Haerudin R. Sadjudin 11 Mar 2019

Something smells fishy: Scientists uncover illegal fishing using shark tracking devices

Sophie Manson 7 Mar 2019

New MPA established in Philippines includes community-led monitoring program

Mike Gaworecki 7 Mar 2019

Proximity to towns stretches giraffe home ranges

Mongabay.com 6 Mar 2019

Salt fiends: Search for sodium puts Rwanda’s gorillas in harm’s way

Jim Tan 6 Mar 2019

Scott Wallace on the importance of protecting uncontacted indigenous groups in the Amazon

Mike Gaworecki 5 Mar 2019

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