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Scientists look to chimps’ past to gauge their future under climate change

Carolyn Cowan 17 Sep 2021

Shoe-leather science helps quadruple protected area in Peruvian Amazon

Yvette Sierra Praeli 10 Aug 2021
Amazon rainforest canopy. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler / mongabay

New index measuring rainforest vulnerability to sound alarm on tipping points

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 28 Jul 2021

Armed with data and smartphones, Amazon communities boost fight against deforestation

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 12 Jul 2021

Study warns of impacts of unregulated trade in Indonesian porcupines

Basten Gokkon 30 Jun 2021

$10 million XPRIZE Rainforest contest announces 33 qualifying teams

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 22 Jun 2021

Madagascar’s vanishing trees

Malavika Vyawahare 21 May 2021
The rhinoceros hornbill (Buceros rhinoceros). Image courtesy of Mark Louis Benedict via Flickr.

To keep tabs on ecosystem health in Borneo, follow these birds: Study

Basten Gokkon 14 May 2021

New map shows where the 80% of species we don’t know about may be hiding

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 31 Mar 2021

Indonesia’s plantation program on collision course with wildlife, Indigenous groups

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Jan 2021

Songbird trade in Indonesia threatens wild Sunda laughingthrush

Basten Gokkon 22 Dec 2020

‘CSI Amazon’: Epic study looks at what’s killing the rainforest’s trees

Liz Kimbrough 18 Nov 2020

Road-paving project threatens a wildlife-rich reserve in Indonesia’s Papua

Asrida Elisabeth 11 Nov 2020

Cameroon halts logging plans in Ebo Forest, home to tool-using chimps

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 14 Aug 2020

Climate change could put tropical plant germination at risk: Study

Claire Asher 12 Aug 2020

Ornithologists discover more rare hornbills than thought on Philippine island

Leilani Chavez 31 Jul 2020

For tool-wielding chimps of Ebo Forest, logging plan is a ‘death sentence’

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 30 Jul 2020

Legendary entomologist Terry Erwin passes away at age 79

Liz Kimbrough 15 May 2020

Pandemic lockdown gives Philippine province time to rethink planned split-up

Keith Anthony Fabro 10 May 2020

Three new species of chameleons emerge from centuries-old entanglement

Malavika Vyawahare 20 Mar 2020

Costa Rica caterpillar decline spells trouble for ecosystems

Aimee Gabay 16 Mar 2020

Economists, conservationists, political leaders urge adoption of carbon tax to halt tropical deforestation

Mongabay.com 13 Feb 2020
A canopy crane in the forest in Gutianshan National Nature Reserve. Photo courtesy of Lei Chen.

Beneficial and harmful fungi are at the root of forest diversity

Jack J. Lee 28 Nov 2019
Rainforest in Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

$10M in prize money for mapping rainforest biodiversity

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Nov 2019

10 takeaways from Indonesia’s grassroots #SaveAru success

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 28 Oct 2019

Study finds massive reorganization of life across Earth’s ecosystems

John Cannon 21 Oct 2019

Saving Aru: The epic battle to save the islands that inspired the theory of evolution

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 9 Oct 2019

Interfaith leaders step up to protect the world’s ‘sacred’ rainforests

Justin Catanoso 17 Sep 2019

The Pan Borneo Highway could divide threatened wildlife populations

John Cannon 26 Aug 2019

The Pan Borneo Highway brings wildlife threats to nat’l park doorstep

John Cannon 21 Aug 2019
Bulldozers parked in a muddy clearing near near Okuni, Cross River State, Nigeria

In Nigeria, a highway threatens community and conservation interests

Linus Unah 9 Jul 2019

Logging road construction has surged in the Congo Basin since 2003

John Cannon 24 Jun 2019

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