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Rare fish-eating crocodile confirmed nesting in southwest Nepal after 37 years

Mongabay.com 21 Nov 2019

‘Fantastic grandmothers’ snorkel, help uncover large sea snake population

Mongabay.com 4 Nov 2019

Beach clean-ups, community visits, and compensation to fishers build environmental awareness in Nigeria

Linus Unah 25 Oct 2019

This toad from central Africa impersonates a deadly viper to avoid predators

Mongabay.com 24 Oct 2019
Green sea turtle. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

For one Indonesian fisher, saving caught turtles is a moral challenge

Ian Morse 23 Oct 2019

A ‘sly’ species of leaf-tailed gecko uncovered from Madagascar

Malavika Vyawahare 23 Oct 2019

Legal and illegal trade negatively impacting survival and wellbeing of Africa’s wildlife: Report

Mongabay.com 9 Oct 2019

International wildlife trade sweeps across ‘tree of life,’ study finds

Mongabay.com 7 Oct 2019

New gecko species named in honor of Sri Lankan herpetologist Anslem de Silva

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 13 Sep 2019

Sri Lanka scientists stand by naming of new geckos amid nationalist criticism

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 10 Sep 2019

Meet the first gene-edited reptile: An albino lizard

Malavika Vyawahare 28 Aug 2019

What’s in a name? For Sri Lanka’s newest geckos, a political firestorm

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 27 Aug 2019

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

John Cannon 21 Aug 2019

Indigenous-managed lands found to harbor more biodiversity than protected areas

Mongabay.com 9 Aug 2019

Some turtle embryos can influence their own sex, study finds

Shreya Dasgupta 2 Aug 2019

Logging, mining companies lock eyes on a biodiverse island like no other

Gianluca Cerullo 31 Jul 2019

Conservation tech prize with invasive species focus announces finalists

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 19 Jul 2019

Chance rescue turns out to be first record of elusive tortoise species in India

Shreya Dasgupta 5 Jul 2019

An ill-deserved reputation threatens Sri Lanka’s ‘secretive snake’

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 28 Jun 2019

Belize to protect critical wildlife corridor that’s home to jaguars and more

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Jun 2019

Primates lose ground to surging commodity production in their habitats

Mongabay.com 17 Jun 2019

Exotic pet trade responsible for hundreds of invasive species around the globe

Mongabay.com 14 Jun 2019

New rainforest gecko joins growing list of reptiles unique to Sri Lanka

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 11 Jun 2019
A venomous snake in the DRC. Photo by Hugh Kinsella Cunningham.

Congo’s hidden crisis: Snakebites and envenomation

Hugh Kinsella Cunningham 5 Jun 2019

The world’s biggest reptile fair is also a hub for traffickers

Denise Hruby 30 May 2019

In a first, chimps found bashing tortoises against trees to get at the meat

Mongabay.com 29 May 2019

Interest in protecting environment up since Pope’s 2015 encyclical

John Cannon 21 May 2019

Public education could curb bushmeat demand in Laos, study finds

Mongabay.com 15 May 2019

Climate change spurs deadly virus in frogs in the U.K.

Mongabay.com 13 May 2019

Reptile haven of Sri Lanka yields up new species of rough-sided snake

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 11 May 2019

Meet the new species of venomous pit viper described from India

Shreya Dasgupta 9 May 2019

‘To save a forest you have to destroy a nicer one’: U.S. Marines target forest in Guam

Nina Finley 8 May 2019

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