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New rainforest gecko joins growing list of reptiles unique to Sri Lanka

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 11 Jun 2019

For the Philippine eagle, a shot at survival means going abroad

Leilani Chavez 11 Jun 2019

Inside an ambitious project to rewild trafficked bonobos in the Congo Basin

Christopher Clark 11 Jun 2019

Dam in Ethiopia has wiped out indigenous livelihoods, report finds

John Cannon 11 Jun 2019

Canada passes ‘Free Willy’ bill to ban captivity of all whales, dolphins

Mongabay.com 11 Jun 2019

The tropics in trouble and some hope

Jeremy Hance 10 Jun 2019

Caribbean nations boost protection for extremely rare largetooth sawfish

Shreya Dasgupta 8 Jun 2019
A short-finned pilot whale in the Canary Islands, Spain. Image by Gustavo Perez via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

New pilot whale subspecies revealed: Q&A with marine biologist Amy Van Cise

Rebecca Kessler 7 Jun 2019

Twice as many fishing vessels now, but it’s harder to catch fish

Shreya Dasgupta 6 Jun 2019

Researchers and customs officials unite to fight wildlife trafficking using eDNA

David Klinges 6 Jun 2019

Vanishing act in Europe and North America

Jeremy Hance 6 Jun 2019

‘You don’t find orchids; they find you’: Q&A with botanist Edicson Parra

Gianluca Cerullo 6 Jun 2019

Why more women should be included in the leadership of Virunga National Park (commentary)

Judith Verweijen, Janvier Murairi, Esther Marijnen 5 Jun 2019
A venomous snake in the DRC. Photo by Hugh Kinsella Cunningham.

Congo’s hidden crisis: Snakebites and envenomation

Hugh Kinsella Cunningham 5 Jun 2019

For artisanal fishers, fish fences are an easy, but problematic, option

Basten Gokkon 5 Jun 2019

Study reveals a fragile web of knowledge linking plants to people

Liz Kimbrough 4 Jun 2019

Lemur yoga: Fueling the capture of wild lemurs? (commentary)

Kim Reuter, Marni Lafleur 3 Jun 2019

A global look at a deepening crisis

Jeremy Hance 3 Jun 2019
Students of Bole Gerji Primary and Secondary school in Addis Ababa planting trees that they received from the botanical garden as part of its ‘Model Gardening’ Project. Image courtesy Gullele Botanical Garden.

In Ethiopia’s Addis Ababa, Gullele Botanical Garden captivates city dwellers

Maheder Haileselassie Tadese 3 Jun 2019

New nets make shrimp trawling more sustainable in Latin America and Caribbean

Michelle Carrere 3 Jun 2019

Mass die-offs of puffins in Alaska may be linked to climate change

Mongabay.com 31 May 2019
Red-billed tropicbird (Phaeton aethereus) at Abrolhos Marine National Park. Image by Mia Morete via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Brazil green-lights oil prospecting near important marine park

Thais Borges 31 May 2019

For Sri Lanka villagers, monkey business feeds off human actions

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 31 May 2019
Fishing boats in Seno de Última Esperanza (Last Hope Sound), in southern Chile. Image by Robert Nunn via Flickr.

Chile pledges to make its fishing vessel tracking data public

Marianne Messina 31 May 2019

Chinese banks risk supporting soy-related deforestation, report finds

John Cannon 30 May 2019

Land grabbing, cattle ranching ravage Colombian Amazon after FARC demobilization

Taran Volckhausen 30 May 2019

Tiny tracking tags help decode how echolocating bats navigate

Lakshmi Supriya 30 May 2019

The world’s biggest reptile fair is also a hub for traffickers

Denise Hruby 30 May 2019

Rare rhino’s death should light a fire under Indonesia (commentary)

Jeremy Hance 30 May 2019

Community conservation in Namibia requires balance and understanding (commentary)

Gail Potgieter 29 May 2019

In a first, chimps found bashing tortoises against trees to get at the meat

Mongabay.com 29 May 2019
Ape part traders in Nigeria say that primate hands, such as these photographed in Nigeria, are among the parts most highly in demand. Image courtesy of the EAGLE network.

What is magic without ape parts? Inside the illicit trade devastating Nigeria’s apes

Orji Sunday 29 May 2019

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