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Red howler monkey in the Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Will the next coronavirus come from Amazonia? Deforestation and the risk of infectious diseases (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 8 Apr 2020
Hill Myna, Gracula religiosa, for sale in a bird market, Java, Indonesia. photo credit: Gabby Salazar

Mischaracterizing the conservation benefits of trade (commentary)

Brett R. Scheffers; Brunno F. Oliveira; Ieuan Lamb; and David P. Edwards 8 Nov 2019
Oil palm plantation in Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Can jurisdictional certification curb palm oil deforestation in Indonesia? (commentary)

John Watts; Dan Nepstad; and Silvia Irawan 10 Jul 2019
Pair of jaguar in the Peruvian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Progress on jaguar conservation in Suriname

Mark J. Plotkin 20 Nov 2018
River in the Peruvian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

California’s big climate change opportunity: tropical forests (commentary)

Daniel Nepstad / Chris Field / Jonah Busch 29 Aug 2018

Making the most of conservation science (commentary)

Claire Wordley 23 May 2018

Rachel Carson: A sensitive soul who changed the way we see — and treat — the world

Leon Kolankiewicz 8 Mar 2017

The last elephants of Cambodia’s Virachey National Park

Gregory McCann 7 Mar 2017

Where the forest grants went

Harriet Williams 6 Mar 2017

The two sides of Indonesia’s Baluran National Park

Mark Rademaker 2 Mar 2017

Renowned biologist Edward O. Wilson calls for preserving half of Earth to save biodiversity

Leon Kolankiewicz 22 Feb 2017

Endangered species and habitats threatened by US-Mexico border wall

Rina Herzl 14 Feb 2017

Anger rises over human-elephant conflict in Tanzania

Adam C. Stein, Brennan PetersonWood, Hannah Shaw 9 Feb 2017

The good, the bad, and the ugly in palm oil (commentary)

Erik Meijaard and Douglas Sheil 9 Sep 2016

In the Crosshairs of Development

Peter Bosshard 2 May 2016

Do we really want to save the Sumatran rhinoceros? (commentary)

Francesco Nardelli 21 Apr 2016

Making sense of a rare rhino’s death in Indonesian Borneo (commentary)

Erik Meijaard 14 Apr 2016
Fires in Far North Queensland, Australia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Rekindling Australia’s Aboriginal past to fight climate change (Commentary)

Catherine Monagle 8 Apr 2016
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Mato Grosso leading the fight against climate change and deforestation (commentary)

Daniel Nepstad 10 Mar 2016

World Wildlife Day 2016: Why Wildlife Needs YOU

Paul Rosolie 3 Mar 2016

Oil palm plantations need to protect orangutans (commentary)

Erik Meijaard 22 Feb 2016

Primate-Watching: In the Year of the Monkey, let’s build a Conservation Movement

Russell A. Mittermeier 3 Feb 2016

Fighting climate change means protecting forests and wildlife

Russell A. Mittermeier 19 Jan 2016
A Bornean tarsier. Photo by Russ Mittermeier.

Potential crisis in Sabah’s amazing Kinabatangan rainforest

Russell A. Mittermeier 13 Jan 2016

An unconventional trinity: conservation, religion, and evolution

Fred Bercovitch 22 Dec 2015
Giraffes at sunset. Photo by Francois Deacon.

Disappearing giraffes

Fred Bercovitch 13 Sep 2015

To accelerate conservation progress in Africa, improve support to African civil society organizations (commentary)

Fred Nelson and Emily Wilson 30 Jul 2015

Rising seas, sinking peat to swamp Malaysian and Indonesian palm oil

Erik Meijaard 13 Jun 2015

The ivory trade and the war on wildlife (rangers) [commentary]

Fred Bercovitch 13 Jun 2015

Malaysian palm oil body encourages fiction over fact

David Dellatore Of The Sumatran Orangutan Society 17 May 2015

Paper or paperless? Navigating the ecological impact strait between Scylla and Charybdis

Fred Bercovitch 6 Apr 2015

Common ground: balancing rights and responsibilities for natural resource investments and community development

Kirk Talbott and Gabriel Thoumi 3 Apr 2015

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