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Photos: Top 10 new species of 2018

Shreya Dasgupta 25 Dec 2018

Critically endangered Philippine eagle hangs on despite horde of threats

Brad Miller 24 Dec 2018
The Great Barrier Reef in Australia. Image by Christopher Brunner/ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies via Flickr (CC BY-ND 2.0).

2018’s top 10 ocean news stories (commentary)

Douglas McCauley, Francis Joyce 24 Dec 2018

Two Indian tribes help reconstruct a forest’s history, in war and in peace

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Dec 2018

Investigation reveals illegal cattle ranching in Paraguay’s vanishing Chaco

Aldo Benítez 22 Dec 2018

‘Snot otters’ threatened by disease and stress

Liz Kimbrough 21 Dec 2018

Every sea turtle in global study found to have synthetic fibers and microplastics in their guts

Mike Gaworecki 21 Dec 2018

Essential ubiquity: How one tiny salamander species has a huge impact

Emily Clark 21 Dec 2018
Wild orchids still attached to tree branches, for sale in a street market in China. Photo courtesy Amy Hinsley.

Social media, e-commerce sites facilitate illegal orchid trade

Stephanie Parker 21 Dec 2018

DNA test helps officials spot dodgy shark shipments

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 21 Dec 2018

The female park rangers protecting turtles from traffickers in Nicaragua

Monica Pelliccia 21 Dec 2018

Conservation officers forced online in fight against bird trafficking

Ian Morse 20 Dec 2018

Peccary’s disappearance foreboding for other Mesoamerican wildlife

Mongabay 20 Dec 2018

Scarlet macaws stalked by wildlife traffickers in Guatemala

Rodrigo Soberanes 20 Dec 2018

The long journey to saving the Sumatran rhino, via Borneo (commentary)

Haerudin R. Sadjudin 20 Dec 2018

Deforestation and mining threaten a monarch butterfly reserve in Mexico

Martha Pskowski 19 Dec 2018

The true story of how 96 endangered sea turtle hatchlings survived a New York City beach

Mike Gaworecki 19 Dec 2018

‘Death by a thousand holes’: Scientists race to avert a salamander crisis

Benji Jones 19 Dec 2018

Deep-sea survey of Australian marine parks reveals striking species

Mongabay.com 19 Dec 2018

U.S. whale entanglement figures steady in 2017

Mongabay.com 19 Dec 2018
1. Adbul Kadeem inspecting drying coffee outside of his house in Manyate Village on the outskirts of Harenna Forest. Photo by Nathan Siegel for Mongabay.

Pressure mounting for the home of wild coffee and Ethiopian wolves

Nathan Siegel 18 Dec 2018

Christmas ad conundrum: Is a palm oil boycott the way to save apes?

James Fair 18 Dec 2018

Relative of ‘penis snake’ amphibian named after Donald Trump

Mongabay.com 18 Dec 2018

Bird business: The man who taught his tribe to profit from conservation

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Dec 2018
Baobab trees in Western Madagascar.

Wildlife, ecotourism industry at stake in Madagascar’s election, says scientist

Mongabay.com 18 Dec 2018
Piupiu ferns (families Blechnaceae and Thelypteridaceae) on the forest floor. Image by Monica Evans for Mongabay.

A Māori community leans on tradition to restore its forest

Monica Evans 17 Dec 2018

Shorebirds can no longer count on the Arctic as a safe haven for rearing their young

Mongabay.com 17 Dec 2018

Photos highlight evolving roles of AI, citizen science in species research

David Klinges 17 Dec 2018

Pumas engineer their environment, providing habitat for other species

John Cannon 17 Dec 2018

Latam Eco Review: Jaguar protection plan signed by 14 Latin countries

Mongabay.com 15 Dec 2018

Hobby-grade drones can monitor marine animals beneath the surface

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 14 Dec 2018
The Mozambique Channel off the west coast of Madagascar. Image by Rod Waddington via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Madagascar auctioning a large swath of virgin waters for oil exploration

Edward Carver 14 Dec 2018

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