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Social media enables the illegal wildlife pet trade in Malaysia

John Cannon 9 May 2019

Meet the new species of venomous pit viper described from India

Shreya Dasgupta 9 May 2019
Sanazy, from Beheloke Haut, says “hunger” pushed her to start farming seaweed three years ago: she earns about $20 from the crop during her best months. Photo by Rowan Moore Gerety for Mongabay.

Amid aquaculture boom, report guides investors toward sustainability

Maxwell Radwin 8 May 2019

Two-thirds of Earth’s longest rivers no longer free-flowing

Mike Gaworecki 8 May 2019

New map shows warming waters where coral reefs could be under threat

Shreya Dasgupta 8 May 2019

‘To save a forest you have to destroy a nicer one’: U.S. Marines target forest in Guam

Nina Finley 8 May 2019

Climate change is causing marine species to disappear from their habitat twice as fast as land animals

Mongabay.com 7 May 2019

’Unprecedented’ loss of biodiversity threatens humanity, report finds

Mongabay.com 7 May 2019
A Punta Fuego voice actor reads off the script. Photo by J. Sanchez for WCS.

Radio drama encourages Belizean fishers to follow the rules

Ashley Stumvoll 6 May 2019

‘Landscape of fearlessness’: bushbuck emboldened following top-predator decline in Mozambique

Sophie Manson 6 May 2019

All you need is human feces: The strange world of dung beetle sampling

Gianluca Cerullo 6 May 2019

Malaysia calls on Southeast Asia to back palm oil against ‘unfair’ claims

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 May 2019

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

Aseanty Pahlevi 3 May 2019

Illegal logging poised to wipe Cambodian wildlife sanctuary off the map

Kit Humphrey 2 May 2019

Hippos poop a lot of silica, and that’s critical for Africa’s rivers and lakes

Shreya Dasgupta 2 May 2019

It’s now or never for Madagascar’s biodiversity, experts say

Malavika Vyawahare 2 May 2019

Huge rubber plantation in Cameroon halts deforestation following rebuke

Rachel Fritts 1 May 2019

Recently discovered Brazilian river dolphin’s calls could help us understand evolution of marine mammal communication

Mongabay.com 1 May 2019

Drone rediscovers Hawaiian flower thought to be extinct

Mongabay.com 1 May 2019
A whale shark in Mexico. Image by MarAlliance2018 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Mobile app encourages Indian fishers to free entangled whale sharks

Vasudevan Sridharan 1 May 2019

How India’s shrub frogs crossed a bridge to Sri Lanka – and changed forever

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 1 May 2019
Western Chimpanzees at Tacugama Chimp Sanctuary in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Photo by BigMikeSndTech, licensed under CC by 2.0

Western chimp numbers revised up to 53,000, but development threats loom

Ashoka Mukpo 1 May 2019

Saving forests and biodiversity by providing affordable healthcare

Mike Gaworecki 30 Apr 2019
Jacqueline Evans. Image courtesy of Goldman Environmental Prize.

Building the world’s biggest MPA: Q&A with Goldman winner Jacqueline Evans

Monica Evans 30 Apr 2019

Javan rhino found dead in Indonesia, bringing global population down to 68

Basten Gokkon 30 Apr 2019

Meet the winners of the 2019 Goldman Environmental Prize

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Apr 2019
Coral garden on the bow of the Saratoga. Photo by Greg Asner.

Guns, Corals and Steel: Are Nuclear Shipwrecks a Biodiversity Hotspot?

Greg Asner 28 Apr 2019

Phasepardhis and the lesser florican (commentary)

Neema Pathak Broome, Shrishtee Bajpai 26 Apr 2019
A shark catch in Pucusana, Perú. Image courtesy of Oceana.

Weak governance undermines South America’s ocean ecosystems

Michelle Carrere 26 Apr 2019

Large emperor penguin colony suffers ‘catastrophic’ breeding failure

Mongabay.com 26 Apr 2019

That Malagasy forest featured in Netflix’s ‘Our Planet’? It’s vanishing fast

Malavika Vyawahare 26 Apr 2019

Creating a high-tech island to save one of the world’s rarest birds

Hannah Thomasy 25 Apr 2019

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