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Indonesian ex-soldier among three jailed for illegal trade in Sumatran rhino, tiger parts

Ayat S. Karokaro 10 Jan 2018

Lessons from Indigenous peoples about coping with climate change, plus the call of the night parrot

Mike Gaworecki 9 Jan 2018

‘AudioMoth’ device aims to deliver low-cost, power-efficient monitoring of remote landscapes

Mike Gaworecki 8 Jan 2018

Rhino DNA database helps officials nab poachers and traffickers

Mongabay.com 8 Jan 2018

IUCN, UN, global NGOs, likely to see major budget cuts under Trump

Sean Mowbray 8 Jan 2018

U.S. zoos learn how to keep captive pangolins alive, helping wild ones

Linda Lombardi 5 Jan 2018

Rhino horn seizure taps into Southeast Asian trafficking ring

Mongabay.com 3 Jan 2018

U.S. court ruling complicates Trump’s elephant and lion policy

Jeremy Hance 2 Jan 2018
A Kenyan ranger guards poached elephant tusks in preparation for the destruction of 105 tons of ivory and a ton of rhino horn in April. Photo by Mwangi Kirubi via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)

Ivory trade in China is now banned

Mongabay.com 2 Jan 2018

How a hunger for teeth is driving a bat toward extinction

Alex Fox 29 Dec 2017

Waterbirds flock to well-run countries, new study shows

Mongabay.com 29 Dec 2017

Roads, dams and railways: Ten infrastructure stories from Southeast Asia in 2017

Mongabay.com 27 Dec 2017

Zanzibar’s red colobus monkeys much more numerous than thought

Mongabay.com 18 Dec 2017

Do protected areas work in the tropics?

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Dec 2017
Hippos have large curved canine teeth and a pair of huge incisors in the lower jaw. Credit: Peripitus via Creative Commons (CC- BY-SA-3.0)

The curious case of the phantom hippo teeth

Laura G. Shields 4 Dec 2017

Forced out or killed: rare chimps go missing from Cameroon mountain forest

Eugene N. Nforngwa 1 Dec 2017

‘Extreme concern’: Report gives glimpse into scale of Kalimantan bird trade

Basten Gokkon 30 Nov 2017

Malaysia seizes 337 kg of pangolin scales worth nearly $1 million

Shreya Dasgupta 30 Nov 2017

WATCH: Rare sighting of mother Sunda clouded leopard and cubs caught on film

Mike Gaworecki 29 Nov 2017

Trump’s indecision on trophy hunting reignites heated debate

Jeremy Hance 28 Nov 2017

eBay is outselling the darknet in the illegal wildlife trade, fret researchers

Jack Elliot Marley 22 Nov 2017

Trump puts controversial decision allowing elephant trophy imports ‘on hold’

Shreya Dasgupta 20 Nov 2017
A baby silky sifaka lemur (Propithecus candidus) in Marojejy National Park. Photo by Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor for Mongabay.

Lemur on the menu: most-endangered primates still served in Madagascar

Dan Ashby, Lucy Taylor 15 Nov 2017
Jane Goodall. Photo credit: Jane Goodall Institute.

Dr. Jane Goodall on being proven right about animals having personalities, plus updates direct from COP23

Mike Gaworecki 15 Nov 2017

Trump family planning policy may increase population, hurt women and environment

Tina Deines 10 Nov 2017

Top 10 most widely traded animals in the Golden Triangle identified in new report

Mongabay.com 8 Nov 2017

Recent report: Totoaba trafficking a conservation and security problem

John Cannon 6 Nov 2017

Three rhinos killed in 48 hours in India’s Kaziranga National Park

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 6 Nov 2017

Trump budget undercuts U.S. commitment to global wildlife conservation

William H. Funk 30 Oct 2017

As Grauer’s gorillas cling to survival, new population found

Sharon Guynup 26 Oct 2017

First vaquita ‘rescued’ in bid to save the porpoise from extinction

Mongabay.com 25 Oct 2017

Rhino poacher sentenced to 18 years in prison

Mongabay.com 25 Oct 2017

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