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Balinese rituals fuel spike in trafficking of endangered sea turtles

Johnny Langenheim 4 May 2017

Over the bridge: The battle for the future of the Kinabatangan

John Cannon 3 May 2017

Reptiles being sold openly and illegally in Moroccan markets

Shreya Dasgupta 3 Apr 2017

Watch a leatherback sea turtle return to the ocean after nesting on a Costa Rica beach

Mike Gaworecki 29 Mar 2017

Stepping on their paws: study explores recreation’s unfun impacts on wildlife

Maxine Chen 17 Mar 2017

Climate change driving widespread local extinctions; tropics most at risk

Claire Salisbury 9 Mar 2017

A Christmas Miracle? Perhaps someday

Caitlin Looby 6 Mar 2017

What the geckos are telling us: new species point to conservation needs

Maxine Chen 2 Mar 2017

Law enforcers recover 38 sea turtles in eastern Indonesia — 6 of them dead

Mongabay 1 Mar 2017
A close relative of Geckolepis maculata, Gecklolepis megalepis, a new species of fish-scale gecko, was described earlier this year. Photo courtesy of Frank Glaw

Newly discovered gecko loses scales in ‘really bizarre’ behavior

Benji Jones 16 Feb 2017

Field Notes: Predicting how the pet trade spreads infectious disease

Elizabeth Devitt 13 Feb 2017

Resurrected Jeypore ground gecko faces second death sentence

Fiona Broom 7 Feb 2017
An olive ridley sea turtle hatchling, pictured here in Costa Rica. Photo by Rhett Butler.

Efforts to conserve sea turtles disrupted by coal plant in East Java

Nuswantoro 31 Jan 2017

Photos: Top 20 new species of 2016

Shreya Dasgupta 26 Dec 2016

Wildlife for sale: More than 5,000 traffickers arrested this year in Colombia

María Lourdes Zimmermann 21 Dec 2016

Wildlife for sale: Jaguars are the new trafficking victims in Bolivia

Miriam Telma Jemio 20 Dec 2016

Wildlife for sale: Is it possible to win the fight in Ecuador?

Isabel Riofrio 16 Dec 2016

Land reclamation in Malaysia puts environment, endangered turtle at risk

Kate Mayberry 2 Dec 2016

Top scientists: Amazon’s Tapajós Dam Complex “a crisis in the making”

Claire Salisbury 28 Nov 2016

Military training areas can be important wildlife refuges: new study

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Nov 2016

Climate change is impacting all aspects of life on Earth: new study

Shreya Dasgupta 11 Nov 2016

Discovery of baby Chinese alligators boosts hope for rare species

Shreya Dasgupta 7 Nov 2016

Global wildlife populations on pace for two-thirds decline by 2020

Mike Gaworecki 27 Oct 2016

Quantifying the ecological impacts of the 20th century trade in Amazonian furs

Mike Gaworecki 25 Oct 2016

Belize suspends oil exploration near World Heritage Site after public outcry

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Oct 2016

TripAdvisor bans ticket sales to wild animal attractions

Shreya Dasgupta 21 Oct 2016

Man surrenders pet crocodile he raised for 13 years

Ayat S. Karokaro 20 Oct 2016

Indonesia’s oil palm plantations are rife with spitting cobras

Dyna Rochmyaningsih 6 Oct 2016

CITES CoP17 closes after key votes on elephants, lions, pangolins, rosewood, and more

Mike Gaworecki 5 Oct 2016

Missing data puts thousands of illegally traded wild animals at risk

Shreya Dasgupta 28 Sep 2016

Madagascar’s largest tortoise could become extinct in 2 years

Shreya Dasgupta 27 Sep 2016

Good news for Giant Panda, Tibetan Antelope in updated IUCN Red List

Shreya Dasgupta 5 Sep 2016

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