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Arley Estupiñan walks towards his house at night. Photo by Ana Cristina Vallejo with permission.

The uncertain future of Bogotá’s shantytowns

Maximo Anderson 16 Nov 2017

Carbon sequestration role of savanna soils key to climate goals

Justin Catanoso 1 Nov 2017

Traffickers find new ways to smuggle rhino horn out of Africa

Isabel Esterman 19 Sep 2017

Rhino horn on the auction block in South Africa

John Cannon 22 Aug 2017

On poaching in South Africa, education “has saved more wildlife than any guard with a gun”

Justin Catanoso 13 Jul 2017
A male southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina) among king penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) on Marion Island. Photo by Nico de Bruyn.

Hard but worth it: researchers fight invasives on Subantarctic islands (commentary)

P.J.N. (Nico) de Bruyn 29 Jun 2017

When it comes to rhino conservation, Asia and Africa can learn a lot from each other

Alex Dudley 21 Jun 2017

New York detective work saves rhinos in South Africa (commentary)

Axel Hunnicutt 2 Jun 2017
An elephant in Botswana far from people and unlikely to encounter and break fences.

Breaking a fence-breaking habit: maintaining the fences that reduce human-elephant conflict

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 2 Jun 2017

Human-wildlife conflict is decimating leopard numbers in one of their last African strongholds

Mike Gaworecki 3 May 2017

South Africa makes it legal to sell rhino horns

Shreya Dasgupta 6 Apr 2017

Plans to mine coal in South African protected area trigger conservation battle

Kim Harrisberg 22 Mar 2017

Translating the barcode of wildlife into action

Lalini Pedris 3 Mar 2017
Elephants in Tarangire National Park in Tanzania

Scanning the barcode of wildlife

Lalini Pedris 14 Feb 2017

Trophy hunters overstate contribution of big game hunting to African economies: Report

Mike Gaworecki 10 Feb 2017

Ecological trap ensnares endangered African penguins

John Cannon 10 Feb 2017

Fighting rhino poaching in India, CSI-style

Giovanni Ortolani 9 Feb 2017

Q&A with director of short film on The Black Mambas anti-poaching unit in South Africa

Mike Gaworecki 3 Feb 2017

Swallowing swimming pools: New sensory tags capture kinetics of lunge-feeding whales

Julia John 2 Dec 2016

Innovative technology creates safe haven for rhinos

Laurel Neme 28 Nov 2016
Rangers at Kenya’s Samburu National Reserve. Photo by Ninara via Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

Poaching in Africa becomes increasingly militarized

William H. Funk 12 Sep 2016
Red-eyed tree frog. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

The top 10 most biodiverse countries

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 May 2016

Conservation today, the old-fashioned way

Jeremy Hance 10 May 2016

Want to identify that bug or beetle in your photo? Ask the crowd.

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 6 May 2016

South Africa drops proposal to legalize international trade in rhino horn

Mike Gaworecki 27 Apr 2016

In the rush to reforest, are the world’s old-growth grasslands losing out?

Morgan Erickson-Davis 10 Feb 2016

2015 was the worst year on record for rhino poaching in Africa

Mike Gaworecki 21 Jan 2016

South African ban on domestic rhino horn sales in limbo after court overturns it

Mic Smith 8 Jan 2016

Could these technologies reduce shark attacks and culls?

Roz Evans 19 Nov 2015

Sung te giac ethics: New wealth brings new responsibilities (commentary)

Mic Smith 30 Oct 2015

HORN looks at rhino poaching through a different lens

Marie Frei 3 Oct 2015

The best defense is a good bee-fence

Caleb O'Brien, Sammi Dowdell 23 Sep 2015

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