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Elephant in South Africa. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

As wildlife tourism grounds to a halt, who will pay for the conservation of nature?

Johan Robinson 23 Apr 2020

Sri Lanka’s COVID-19 lockdown sets wildlife free but raises poaching threat

Malaka Rodrigo 16 Apr 2020
Lion. Image by Tambako the Jaguar via Flickr (CC BY-ND-2.0)

Coronavirus is a crisis for South Africa’s captive lions, campaigners warn

James Fair 13 Apr 2020
Mountain gorilla in neighboring Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda. Photo for Mongabay.com by Rhett A. Butler.

For great apes at risk of infection, COVID-19 is also an economic threat

Heather Richardson 13 Apr 2020

Seychelles extends protection to marine area twice the size of Great Britain

Malavika Vyawahare 30 Mar 2020

COVID-19 prompts closure of Indonesian parks, and a chance to evaluate

Basten Gokkon 20 Mar 2020

Critics push back as cable car project for Indonesia’s Rinjani is revived

Fathul Rakhman 17 Mar 2020

Turning the tide for an endangered crab species in the Philippines

Jen Chan 12 Mar 2020

Activists win reprieve, for now, for Dominican coastline eyed by developers

Elizabeth Fitt 10 Mar 2020

Fred Swaniker on conservation as an economic growth opportunity for Africa

Mike Gaworecki 19 Feb 2020

Mining could topple community-managed forests in Mexico: New film

Mongabay.com 17 Feb 2020
Pack of bush dogs caught on camera trap at San Miguelito, Bolivia.

Rare Amazon bush dogs caught on camera in Bolivia

Mongabay.com 30 Jan 2020

Indonesia’s push to become a tourism paradise sidelines land rights

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Jan 2020

In Indonesia, a tourism village holds off a nickel mine — for now

Ian Morse 8 Dec 2019

Ayahuasca tourism an overlooked driver of trade in jaguar body parts, researchers say

Mongabay.com 30 Oct 2019

What makes community ecotourism succeed? In Madagascar, location, location, location

Rowan Moore Gerety 25 Oct 2019

Combining negotiation, legal backing and orchids to create ecotourism reserve

Sarah Foster 22 Oct 2019

Reforesting a village in Indonesia, one batch of gourmet beans at a time

Donny Iqbal 17 Oct 2019

Saving an island from the worst oil spill in the Philippines: The case of Guimaras

Arnel Murga 11 Oct 2019

Food is biggest stumbling block on zero-waste nature tour

JoAnna Haugen 10 Oct 2019

As wildfires roil Sumatra, some villages have abandoned the burning

Taufik Wijaya 3 Oct 2019

‘Vulture restaurants’ provide lifeline for critically endangered species

Abhaya Raj Joshi 27 Sep 2019

Give it back to the gods: Reviving Māori tradition to protect marine life

Monica Evans 27 Sep 2019

Notes from the road: 5 revelations from traveling the Pan Borneo Highway

John Cannon 25 Sep 2019

Report highlights business, political players behind Philippine environment defender deaths

Imelda Abano, Leilani Chavez 24 Sep 2019

Paradise, polluted: Cook Islands tries to clean up its tourism sector

Monica Evans 23 Sep 2019

Transforming African conservation from old social cause into next-gen growth market

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Sep 2019

Aimed at linking communities, Malaysian highway may damage forests

John Cannon 23 Aug 2019

Connecting an island: Traveling the Pan Borneo Highway

John Cannon 19 Aug 2019

Philippine eco-warrior Gina Lopez, who battled mines, dies at 65

Mongabay.com 19 Aug 2019

Travel: A charmed encounter with birds-of-paradise in Papua’s Arfak Mountains

Een Irawan Putra 19 Aug 2019
Jasiri, an eastern black rhino captive bred in Dvur Kralove in the Czech Republic. Photo: Dvur Kralove

Europe-bred rhinos join South African cousins to repopulate Rwanda park

Jim Tan 14 Aug 2019

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