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Indonesia is running out of places to put rescued animals

Ayat S. Karokaro, Basten Gokkon, Luh De Suriyani 3 Jul 2017

Harry Potter may have sparked illegal owl trade in Indonesia

Shreya Dasgupta 3 Jul 2017

The women who live alongside rhinos in India

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 30 Jun 2017

Footprints in the forest: The future of the Sumatran rhino

John Cannon 23 Jun 2017

Dried lizard penis being sold online as rare ‘magical’ plant root

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Jun 2017

When it comes to rhino conservation, Asia and Africa can learn a lot from each other

Alex Dudley 21 Jun 2017

Wildlife ecologist killed in Rwandan national park by recently translocated rhino

Mike Gaworecki 16 Jun 2017

30 years of protecting the mysterious Okapi

Shreya Dasgupta 13 Jun 2017

Demand for elephant skin driving up poaching in Myanmar (warning: graphic images)

Shreya Dasgupta 6 Jun 2017

Conservation group African Parks to look after West African wildlife

Mongabay.com 5 Jun 2017

New York detective work saves rhinos in South Africa (commentary)

Axel Hunnicutt 2 Jun 2017

Nepal burns more than 4,000 confiscated wildlife parts

Shreya Dasgupta 24 May 2017

Skewed sex ratio spells danger for rhinos in India’s Gorumara National Park

Moushumi Basu 22 May 2017

A Whitley Award winner’s 20-year battle to save the world’s largest eagle in Venezuela

Bruno Moraes 18 May 2017
Adult harpy eagle image courtesy of Tom Ambrose.

Goddesses of the wind: How researchers saved Venezuela’s harpy eagles

Bruno Moraes 17 May 2017

Field Notes: Reinvigorating wild parrot populations with captive birds

Elizabeth Devitt 17 May 2017

More than 300 smuggled tortoises seized in Malaysia

Shreya Dasgupta 17 May 2017
Mt. Kenya Bush Viper, aka Ashe’s Viper (Atheris desaixi). Photo courtesy of CITES.

Kenya cracks down on illegal trade in rare and venomous vipers

Gitonga Njeru 16 May 2017

Hong Kong Ivory traders encouraging buyers to smuggle ivory: TRAFFIC

Shreya Dasgupta 11 May 2017
Giraffes roam in Garamba National Park in DRC. Photo by Thomas Nicolon for Mongabay.

DRC’s Garamba National Park: The last giraffes of the Congo

Thomas Nicolon 9 May 2017

Balinese rituals fuel spike in trafficking of endangered sea turtles

Johnny Langenheim 4 May 2017

Rwanda welcomes 20 black rhinos to Akagera National Park

Mongabay.com 3 May 2017

Saving the most endangered plants in the world

Shreya Dasgupta 2 May 2017

Despite numerous challenges, rhinos are thriving in India’s Jaldapara National Park

Moushumi Basu 1 May 2017

Illegal trade threatens nearly half the world’s natural heritage sites: WWF

Shreya Dasgupta 27 Apr 2017
Diademed Sifaka (Propithecus diadema), a species threatened by the Madagascar rosewood trade. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Singapore convicts rosewood trader in historic CITES seizure

Edward Carver 26 Apr 2017
Park rangers on patrol in Garamba National Park in DRC earlier this month. Photo by Thomas Nicolon for Mongabay.

2 wildlife rangers shot and killed by poachers in Congo park

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Apr 2017

Women could be a key to great ape conservation in the Congo

Tina Deines 21 Apr 2017

No safe forest left: 250 captive orphan chimps stuck in sanctuaries

Eugene N. Nforngwa 20 Apr 2017

Indonesian tiger smugglers escape with light sentences in Sumatra

Lili Rambe 20 Apr 2017

Crystal Davis, director of Global Forest Watch, on conservation and Big Data

Mike Gaworecki 18 Apr 2017

Rhino poachers in Borneo: Q&A with a conservationist who lived with them

Giovanni Ortolani 17 Apr 2017

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