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Former lowland rainforest replaced with cocnut in West Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Deforestation in Borneo threatens three endangered, endemic plant species

Basten Gokkon 21 Apr 2023
Setting a prescribed fire around vernal pools at Agate Desert Preserve. Image courtesy of Evan Barrientos/TNC.

Counterintuitive conservation: Fire boosts aquatic crustaceans in U.S. savannas

Ashli Blow 21 Apr 2023
Lilia Java at Lake Tarapoto.

Indigenous women in Colombia protect rich Amazonian wetland from overfishing

Astrid Arellano 20 Apr 2023
A flock of snow geese.

Feathered forecast: Tech tools comb weather data for bird migrations

Abhishyant Kidangoor 20 Apr 2023
A small cat.

Small cats face big threats: Reasons to save these elusive endangered species

Sean Mowbray 19 Apr 2023

Conservationists unite to tackle Latin America’s dog threat to wild cats

Sean Mowbray 19 Apr 2023
A baby tree kangaroo on a community chief's wife's shoulder.

PNG youths’ loss of tradition is bad news for hunting — but also for conservation

Spoorthy Raman 14 Apr 2023

Top French court orders closure of fisheries amid mass dolphin deaths

Juliette Portala 14 Apr 2023

World’s newest great ape faces habitat loss, multiple threats: Will it survive?

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Apr 2023
Eurasian lynx mother and cub.

Could biodiversity be a key to better forest carbon storage in Europe?

Mark Hillsdon 13 Apr 2023

Scientists and fishers team up to protect Bolivian river dolphin

Rocío Lloret 12 Apr 2023
Captive mountain bongo. Image via Pixabay (CC 0)

Biogas project offers lifelines to Kenyan community, forest, and rare species

Shadrack Omuka 11 Apr 2023

Flawed count puts ‘glorified’ Javan rhinos on path to extinction, report says

Basten Gokkon 11 Apr 2023
A Sulawesi flying fox.

Community conservation benefits Sulawesi flying foxes, but more is needed, experts say

Sean Mowbray 11 Apr 2023
A researcher takes an ultrasound reading from a whale shark.

Uterine implants and underwater ultrasounds aim to demystify shark births

Abhishyant Kidangoor 7 Apr 2023
An illustration of a hispid hare

Rare hispid hares feel the heat from Nepal’s tiger conservation measures

Abhaya Raj Joshi 7 Apr 2023

National corridor project aims to save Chile’s endangered huemul deer

Sean Mowbray 6 Apr 2023
An Iberian lynx.

Vulture carrion potential boon and threat for endangered Iberian lynx: Studies

Sean Mowbray 4 Apr 2023
A squirrel and a bird share a bird feeder.

Bioacoustics in your backyard: Q&A with conservation technologist Topher White

Abhishyant Kidangoor 31 Mar 2023
A monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus).

Monarch butterflies become a powerful symbol for justice at the U.S./Mexico border (commentary)

Meg Perret 31 Mar 2023
Birds flying through wind turbines.

What’s black and white and spins? Wind turbines that don’t kill birds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 31 Mar 2023
A Baird's tapir walking at night through her natural habitat.

Rewilding animals could be key for climate: Report

Liz Kimbrough 30 Mar 2023
The endangered golden lion tamarin (Leontopithecus rosalia).

Reconnecting ‘island habitat’ with wild corridors in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest

Jeremy Hance 30 Mar 2023
Jashodhar Pramanik.

Jashodhon Pramanik: The farmer guardian of birds in Bangladesh

Maksuda Aziz 30 Mar 2023
A resplendent quetzal.

Mountain islands: Restoring a transitional cloud forest in Costa Rica

Jeremy Hance 29 Mar 2023
The vulnerable ʻiʻiwi (Drepanis coccinea).

From ukuleles to reforestation: Regrowing a tropical forest in Hawai‘i

Jeremy Hance 28 Mar 2023
Forest in Peru.

Citizen-run conservation booms in South America, despite state neglect

Shanna Hanbury 28 Mar 2023
A pair of the critically endangered Hainan gibbons.

To save Hainan gibbons, Earth’s rarest primate, experts roll out the big tech

Abhishyant Kidangoor 27 Mar 2023

Paraguay weighs natural gas drilling in Médanos del Chaco National Park

Maxwell Radwin 23 Mar 2023

For Argentina’s ruddy-headed goose, threats grow while population shrinks

Rodolfo Chisleanschi 23 Mar 2023
Boundbrook Farm's agroecology system for growing rice relies on mulard (French for ‘mule-like’), a hybrid, non-fertile duck, to control weed growth and provide fertilizer, eliminating the use of pesticides or other chemicals. The ducks are released into the paddies about seven to ten days after the rice seedlings are transplanted, allowing time for the roots to take hold. Image courtesy of Boundbrook Farm.

Duck, duck, rice: Vermont farm models diverse method of raising sustainable grains

Cheryl Perusse Daigle 22 Mar 2023
A swimming cougar in British Columbia.

Island-hopping cougars redraw boundaries of big cats’ potential range

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 22 Mar 2023

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