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With drones, satellites, and camera traps proliferating, conservation needs better networking

Mongabay.com, Mongabay.com 27 Oct 2014

Daring activists use high-tech to track illegal logging trucks in the Brazilian Amazon

Jeremy Hance 15 Oct 2014

Google, zoo to leverage ‘TV white space’ to monitor wildlife

Jeremy Hance 9 Oct 2014

World’s rainforests could be mapped in 3D at high resolution by 2020 for under $250M

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Sep 2014

Next big idea in forest conservation? DNA fingerprinting trees to stem illegal logging

Dr Liz Kimbrough 21 Aug 2014

Phone-based logging alert system eyes expanding to the Amazon

Mongabay.com 23 Jul 2014

Scientists can now accurately count polar bears…from space

Jeremy Hance 17 Jul 2014

Next big idea in forest conservation? Rewards for reforestation

Dr Liz Kimbrough 10 Jul 2014

A fine line: new program predicts when human impact becomes too much

Morgan Erickson-Davis 3 Jul 2014

Next big idea in forest conservation? Playing games to understand what drives deforestation

Dr Liz Kimbrough 26 Jun 2014

‘Exciting implications’ for conservation: new technology brings the lab to the field

Morgan Erickson-Davis 26 Jun 2014

Discarded cell phones to help fight rainforest poachers, loggers in real-time

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Jun 2014

Shot Egyptian vulture leads conservationists to bizarre black-market for bird parts

Tanya Dimitrova 24 Jun 2014

Using Google Earth to protect uncontacted tribes in the Amazon rainforest

Shreya Dasgupta 19 Jun 2014

RSPO plantations publicly mapped for the first time

Mongabay.com 4 Jun 2014

Lab-grown meat: a taste of the future?

Morgan Erickson-Davis 3 Jun 2014

Acoustic surveying: new monitoring technique beats bats at their own game

Nika Levikov 29 May 2014

Extinction rates are 1,000x the background rate, but it’s not all gloomy

Jeremy Hance 29 May 2014

Next big idea in forest conservation? Crowdsourced forest monitoring

Dr Liz Kimbrough 25 Apr 2014

Brazil to test drones in monitoring the Amazon rainforest

Mongabay.com, Mongabay.com 24 Apr 2014

Next big idea in forest conservation? Maps for the masses

Dr Liz Kimbrough 18 Apr 2014

Next big idea in forest conservation? Empowering everyone to watch over forests

Dr Liz Kimbrough 10 Apr 2014

Bioluminescent bacteria expose toxic arsenic in Bangladesh

Nsikan Akpan 2 Apr 2014

Howard G. Buffett puts $24M toward saving rhinos

Mongabay.com 21 Mar 2014

Deforestation tracking system recognized with global innovation award

Mongabay.com 19 Mar 2014

A Turtle’s Tale: researchers discover baby turtles’ kindergarten (photos)

Tanya Dimitrova 14 Mar 2014

New web tool aims to help indigenous groups protect forests and navigate REDD+

Jeremy Hance 12 Mar 2014

Scientists spy on whales from space

Jeremy Hance 11 Mar 2014

New forest map for Sarawak reveals large-scale deforestation, encroachment on indigenous territories

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Feb 2014

Revolutionary Google-backed system unlocks power of ‘big data’ to save forests

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Feb 2014

Conservation groups launch new whistleblower site for wildlife and forest crimes

Jeremy Hance 18 Feb 2014

Tracking one of the world’s last Great Indian Bustards to save the species

Manasi Vaidya 17 Feb 2014

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