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500 years of species loss: Humans drive defaunation across Neotropics

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 15 Sep 2020

Mauritius grapples with worst environmental crisis in a generation

Malavika Vyawahare 10 Aug 2020

Fires in Argentina’s Paraná Delta are burning ‘out of control’

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 7 Aug 2020

Fires in the Pantanal: ‘We are facing a scenario now that is catastrophic’

Ana Ionova 6 Aug 2020

In Bogotá, communities weave an unlikely wetland success story

Genevieve Glatsky 4 Aug 2020
Mangrove forest at MSN island, where groups hope to use the land as an educational center and nursing ground for various mangroves species. Photo by Ann Wang

Mangrove collapse ‘inevitable’ unless emissions curbed

Lauren Crothers 18 Jun 2020

In a Colombian wetland, oil woes deepen with the arrival of fracking

Mauricio Ochoa / Semana Sostenible 15 Apr 2020

‘Out of control’: Unprecedented fires ravage Brazil’s Pantanal wetlands

Ana Ionova 27 Feb 2020

Lucky ducks: Once thought extinct, rare pochards take steps toward recovery

Edward Carver 6 Feb 2020

Endangered migratory birds on collision course with Philippine airport project

Mongabay.com 3 Feb 2020

Wise use and wetlands: Why we need to nurture nature (commentary)

Matthew McCartney and Chris Dickens 31 Jan 2020
Grey Crowned Cranes. Image by Fredrick Mugira for Mongabay.

Community conservation agreements a lifeline for Uganda’s grey crowned cranes

Fredrick Mugira 24 Dec 2019

Indonesia to revive idle shrimp farms to boost fisheries and save mangroves

Basten Gokkon 13 Dec 2019

Activists fighting for their lands swept up in Philippines crackdown

Mongabay.com 19 Nov 2019

Grassroots campaign saves major wetland in Montenegro

Mark Hillsdon 1 Nov 2019

For India’s flood-hit rhinos, refuge depends increasingly on humans

Manon Verchot 9 Oct 2019

Fires still being set in blazing Bolivia (commentary)

Claire Wordley 1 Oct 2019

How climate change could throw Māori culture off-balance

Ashley Stumvoll 23 May 2019

In Indonesia, bigger catches for a fishing village protecting its mangroves

Aseanty Pahlevi 3 May 2019

‘Judas’ snakes lead scientists on a high-tech Easter egg hunt for pythons

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 24 Apr 2019

Deforestation diminishes access to clean water, study finds

John Cannon 15 Apr 2019

Solving the mystery of the UK’s vanishing hen harriers

Lakshmi Supriya 12 Apr 2019

Malaysian state chief: Highway construction must not destroy forest

Mongabay.com 26 Mar 2019

New maps show where humans are pushing species closer to extinction

John Cannon 15 Mar 2019

Putting the Blue in the Green New Deal (commentary)

David Helvarg, Jason Scorse 13 Mar 2019

Freshwater fishes and other threatened but overlooked biodiversity must be new flagships for conservation (commentary)

Mike Baltzer 12 Mar 2019

European Parliament to vote on timber legality agreement with Vietnam

John Cannon 11 Mar 2019

Wetland forests: What are they worth? (commentary)

Dr. Sam Davis & Lucia Ibarra 1 Feb 2019

Latam Eco Review: Some whales may benefit from Japan’s whaling commission exit

Mongabay.com 26 Jan 2019

Chile renews contract with lithium company criticized for damaging wetland

Michelle Carrere 26 Dec 2018

New species of giant salamander described after decades of mystery

Mongabay.com 11 Dec 2018

US could cut emissions more than one-fifth through ‘natural climate solutions’ like reforestation

Mongabay.com 21 Nov 2018

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