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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
Giraffes at sunset. Photo by Francois Deacon.

Disappearing giraffes

Fred Bercovitch 13 Sep 2015

Rhino killing on record pace in South Africa

Mongabay.com 1 Sep 2015

How can conservationists match high-tech design with on-the-ground realities?

Nathan Hahn 17 Aug 2015

Lions return to Rwanda

Jeremy Hance 29 Jun 2015

Video: Vet describes emotional toll of responding to brutal rhino poaching

Mic Smith 24 Jun 2015

Amid rhinoceros poaching frenzy, dark days for South African society

Mic Smith 5 Jun 2015

South African Airways bans all wildlife trophies from flights

Jeremy Hance 14 May 2015

Rhino poaching rate rises 18 percent in South Africa

Jeremy Hance 13 May 2015

Borneo’s rainforest may get high-tech 3D scan to boost conservation

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 May 2015

Accounting for natural capital on financial exchanges

Sarah Friedman 26 Jan 2015

1,215 rhinos butchered in South Africa in 2014

Jeremy Hance 22 Jan 2015

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