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Wikipedia searches reveal how people’s interests in wildlife change

Shreya Dasgupta 13 Mar 2019

European Parliament to vote on timber legality agreement with Vietnam

John Cannon 11 Mar 2019

Encounters with the Javan rhino (commentary)

Haerudin R. Sadjudin 11 Mar 2019
Camera trap image showing a jaguar on a road at San Miguelito. Courtesy of Duston Larsen.

Can jaguar tourism save Bolivia’s fast dwindling forests?

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Mar 2019

Proximity to towns stretches giraffe home ranges

Mongabay.com 6 Mar 2019

Record levels of deforestation in Peruvian Amazon as gold mines spread

Yvette Sierra Praeli 6 Mar 2019

Salt fiends: Search for sodium puts Rwanda’s gorillas in harm’s way

Jim Tan 6 Mar 2019

Without indigenous leadership, zero-deforestation policies will fail (commentary)

Malika Virah-Sawmy, Tiago Reis 5 Mar 2019

Scott Wallace on the importance of protecting uncontacted indigenous groups in the Amazon

Mike Gaworecki 5 Mar 2019
Natural Burmese teak on a deck at the London Boat Show. Photo by Sophie Cohen/Mongabay.

Late timber kingpin who plundered Myanmar’s forests unmasked

Lauren Crothers 5 Mar 2019

Activists fighting to save orangutan habitat from dam unfazed by legal setback

James Fair 5 Mar 2019
A black howler monkey (Alouatta pigra), a resident of Cerro Amay photographed in Belize. Image by Rhett A. Butler.

Guatemala: Proposed new park on indigenous land treads fine ethical line

Maxwell Radwin 4 Mar 2019

Brazil’s New Forest Code puts vast areas of protected Amazon forest at risk

Claire Asher 4 Mar 2019

In Nigeria, hunters turn into guardians of the rarest gorilla on Earth

Linus Unah 4 Mar 2019

Architects bring bamboo revival to Indonesian village

Eko Rusdianto 4 Mar 2019

As extinction looms, can Javan rhinos survive in Ujung Kulon? (Commentary)

Haerudin R. Sadjudin 4 Mar 2019

Norway divests from plantation companies linked to deforestation

Morgan Erickson-Davis 1 Mar 2019

Brazil to receive first-ever results-based REDD+ payment, but concerns remain

Sarah Sax 1 Mar 2019

In the Congo Basin, a road cuts through once-untouched ape wilderness

Eugene N. Nforngwa 1 Mar 2019

Protests flare as pressure mounts on dam project in orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Mar 2019

For the famed chimps of Gombe, human encroachment takes a toll

Anthony Langat 28 Feb 2019

Abandoned plantations in forested areas may not recover fully: Study

Shreya Dasgupta 27 Feb 2019

Is there another Javan Rhino habitat as ideal as Ujung Kulon? (Commentary)

Haerudin R. Sadjudin 26 Feb 2019

The odor side of otters: Tech reveals species’ adaptations to human activity

Visvak P. 25 Feb 2019

Fears of a dire precedent as Brazil seeks results-based REDD+ payment

Sarah Sax 25 Feb 2019

Allegation of forged signature casts shadow over China-backed dam in Sumatra

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Feb 2019

World’s largest bee filmed alive for the first time in Indonesia

Mongabay.com 25 Feb 2019
Fire set for peatland clearing in Riau Province, Indonesia in July 2015. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Stunting, loss of earning potential linked to Indonesia’s 1997 wildfires

Lauren Crothers 22 Feb 2019

Indonesian minister blasted over palm permit for graft-tainted concession

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 Feb 2019
Just a few baobab trees remain standing in a part of the Menabe Antimena Protected Area near Kirindy village that was forested a few years ago. Image by Pierre Koval.

Illegal corn farming menaces a Madagascar protected area

Emilie Filou 21 Feb 2019

In a predator-infested forest, survival for baby birds comes by the road

John Cannon 21 Feb 2019

Cambodia’s fragile Prey Lang forest remains under threat

Lauren Crothers 21 Feb 2019

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