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Map of Biodiversity. Esri, NatureServe

Esri co-founder Jack Dangermond: ‘People and planet are inextricably linked’

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Oct 2020

The rhino in the room: 3D scan brings near-extinct Sumatran species to virtual life

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Oct 2020

A radio program is helping save critically endangered gorillas in Nigeria

Mike Gaworecki 14 Oct 2020

Don’t cross this tiger mom: Close encounter in Russia’s Far East

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 29 Sep 2020
Planet images showing fire on recently deforested near Itaúba in the State of Mato Grosso, Brazil on June 29, 2020.

The view from above: How do we know what’s really burning in the Amazon?

Liz Kimbrough 11 Sep 2020

Philippine wildlife reporting app promises to upgrade fight against trafficking

Rosy Mina 3 Sep 2020

Facial recognition tech for chimps looks to bust online ape trafficking

Colin Sytsma 4 Aug 2020
A flying squid flushes as the NOAA research ship Reuben Lasker approaches. NOAA photo by Bernardo Alps.

Study: Chinese ‘dark fleets’ illegally defying sanctions by fishing in North Korean waters

Ashoka Mukpo 22 Jul 2020

What is the yellow-throated marten? Candid Animal Cam investigates

Romina Castagnino 21 Jul 2020

Does Lucius Fox know? Tiny tech tracks bats (and more)

Liz Kimbrough 3 Jun 2020

Mug shots and public pics join the dots of whale sharks’ Southeast Asian trips

Mongabay.com 28 May 2020

Philippines bids farewell to satellite that launched enviro policy into the space age

Rosy Mina 12 May 2020
Matsés woman with traditional facial tattoos, piercings, and face paint. Photo: Alicia Fox

Painstaking mapping initiative helps indigenous Peruvians defend their land

Yvette Sierra Praeli 5 May 2020

Reviving an ancient way of aquaculture at Hawaii’s Heʻeia fishpond

Shannon Brown 20 Apr 2020

Wireless grids and towers of power: Engineering our way out of dirty energy

Ian Morse 17 Apr 2020

Shah Selbe on how open source technology is creating new opportunities for conservation

Mike Gaworecki 5 Mar 2020

Philippine fruit bats may be entirely new species of their own, DNA suggests

Mongabay.com 17 Feb 2020

Rare plant species are especially vulnerable to climate change, and rarity is more common than previously understood

Mongabay.com 9 Jan 2020

From trash to cash: How a Thai entrepreneur turned used flip-flops into a sustainable business model

Ryan Anderson 2 Jan 2020
PORTO VELHO, RONDÔNIA, BRAZIL. Aerial view of burned areas in the Amazon rainforest, in the city of Porto Velho, Rondônia state. (Photo: Victor Moriyama / Greenpeace)

2019: The year rainforests burned

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Dec 2019
Sue Palminteri with elephants. Courtesy of George Powell.

Conservation biologist and wildtech journalist Sue Palminteri, 1965-2019

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Dec 2019
Nyeema Harris and her crew deployed motion-detecting cameras throughout their study site in West Africa. Credit: University of Michigan Applied Wildlife Ecology Lab

Camera traps yield surprises in West Africa’s largest protected area

Jerimiah Oetting 2 Dec 2019
Rainforest in Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

$10M in prize money for mapping rainforest biodiversity

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Nov 2019

Tree-planting programs turn to tech solutions to track effectiveness

Malavika Vyawahare 22 Nov 2019

New assessment method finds close to one-third of tropical Africa’s plants are potentially facing extinction

Mongabay.com 20 Nov 2019
A sound file revealing rich data on biodiversity. Image by Rhett Butler for Mongabay.

How bioacoustics can transform conservation – Wildtech event in Palo Alto

Mongabay.com 3 Oct 2019

New app tracks down forest fires in Bolivia

John Cannon 30 Sep 2019
Fire burning in an area of recent forest clearing in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Courtesy of Planet Labs Inc.

Satellite images from Planet reveal devastating Amazon fires in near real-time

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Aug 2019

Indonesia, facing a waste crisis, plans to burn it for electricity

Basten Gokkon 22 Jul 2019

On public interest in conservation and internet data (commentary)

Ricardo Correia 15 Jul 2019

Earth’s hidden tree-microbe network mapped for the first time ever

Shreya Dasgupta 27 May 2019

The health of penguin chicks points scientists to changes in the ocean

Mongabay.com 22 May 2019

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