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This tiny camera aims to catch poachers — before they kill

Shreya Dasgupta 1 Jun 2018

Indonesia targets illegal fishing vessel owners under new bill

Basten Gokkon 31 May 2018

Death by hippo poop: Scientists solve a fish massacre in the Mara River

Shreya Dasgupta 30 May 2018

Bolivia’s Madidi National Park home to world’s largest array of land life, survey finds

Mongabay.com 30 May 2018

Guardians of India’s rhinos find it takes a village to fight poachers

Moushumi Basu 24 May 2018

Rangers face a ‘toxic mix’ of mental strain and lack of support

Jim Tan 24 May 2018

Hunters are wiping out hornbills in Ghana’s forests

John Cannon 23 May 2018

Trio of studies challenges Indian government claim of increasing forest cover

T. V. Padma 23 May 2018

In unsuspecting Indian villages, the international rhino horn trade takes a toll

Moushumi Basu 22 May 2018

Lessons for developing countries in expansion of Madagascar’s protected area network

Mike Gaworecki 21 May 2018

Documenting the African elephant’s ‘last stand’: Q&A with filmmakers Cyril Christo and Marie Wilkinson

John Cannon 21 May 2018

How an island of mice is changing what we know about evolution

Morgan Erickson-Davis 17 May 2018

Humans are leaving their mark on the world’s protected areas, study finds

John Cannon 17 May 2018
A Verreaux's sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi) nursing. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Sifaka lemurs listed as “critically endangered” amid mysterious die-off

Edward Carver 15 May 2018

Typo derails landmark ruling against Indonesian palm oil firm guilty of burning peatland

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 May 2018

Sylvia Earle on why we must act now to save the oceans

Mike Gaworecki 15 May 2018

Scientists highlight 9 potentially new reef fish species off West Papua

Wahyu Chandra 14 May 2018

Indonesia enlists plantation companies to ensure haze-free Asian Games

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 May 2018

Tanzania’s Maasai losing ground to tourism in the name of conservation, investigation finds

John Cannon 11 May 2018

Sumatran habitat for tigers, orangutans gets a partial reprieve from development

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 May 2018

Can India’s ‘People’s Forest’ also serve as a haven for rhinos?

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 10 May 2018

Indonesian activists protest China-funded dam in orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 May 2018

Pleistocene climates help scientists pick out targets for conservation in Brazil’s forests

Mongabay.com 8 May 2018

Black rhinos return to Zakouma National Park in Chad

Mongabay.com 7 May 2018

Indonesia cites twisted bowel in death of Javan rhino

Mongabay.com 4 May 2018

‘Rarest’ ape’s path to survival blocked by roads, dams and agriculture

John Cannon 3 May 2018

‘Rarest’ ape’s path to survival blocked by roads, dams and agriculture

John Cannon 3 May 2018

Australia to invest $379 million to protect the Great Barrier Reef

Mongabay.com 3 May 2018

Palm oil supplier to food giants clears forest, peatland in Indonesia, Greenpeace says

Mongabay.com 30 Apr 2018

More gorillas and chimpanzees living in Central Africa’s forests than thought

John Cannon 27 Apr 2018

‘Shocking and worrying’: Selective logging has big, lasting impact on fish

Morgan Erickson-Davis 26 Apr 2018

Two newborn Javan rhinos spotted on camera in Indonesian park

Basten Gokkon 26 Apr 2018

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