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The cutting-edge technologies allowing us to monitor ecosystems like never before

Mike Gaworecki 6 Feb 2018
A boy uses several mosquito nets to catch fish in the coastal waters near Chittagong, Bangladesh. Photo by R.C. Browmick.

Fishing with insecticide-laced mosquito nets is a global phenomenon

Benjamin Graham 6 Feb 2018

Robbery or retribution? Police investigate death of prominent conservationist in Kenya

Mongabay.com 6 Feb 2018

Mountain lions often lose to wolves and bears, study finds

Shreya Dasgupta 6 Feb 2018

Scientists find ‘surprising’ connections between tropical forests

Morgan Erickson-Davis 5 Feb 2018

Trumping Colombia’s peace: U.S. drug war threatens fragile accord, forests

Sean Mowbray 5 Feb 2018

Scientists deploy DNA analysis and radiocarbon dating in latest salvo against ivory trafficking

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 5 Feb 2018

Maps tease apart complex relationship between agriculture and deforestation in DRC

John Cannon 2 Feb 2018

Indonesian rubber farmers charged in gruesome killing of Bornean orangutan

Basten Gokkon 2 Feb 2018

Hong Kong votes to ban ivory trade by 2021

Mongabay.com 1 Feb 2018

$23.5 million funding pledge aims to protect critical West African national park

Mongabay.com 1 Feb 2018
Mantaray, northwest Galápagos. Photo by Greg Asner / DivePhoto.org

Corals thrive on remotest islands in the Galápagos

Greg Asner, Clare LeDuff 31 Jan 2018
A local volunteer plants a mangrove sapling at the Trapeang Sangke inlet. The best time for transplanting is July, the peak of the wet season when the estuary is least salty. With a full team of volunteers, 4,000 saplings get transplanted in the most productive months. Photo by Matt Blomberg for Mongabay.

Mega developments set to transform a tranquil Cambodian bay

Matt Blomberg 31 Jan 2018

New study suggests Borneo’s had elephants for thousands of years

John Cannon 31 Jan 2018

Two new dog-faced bats discovered in Panama and Ecuador

Mongabay.com 31 Jan 2018

Sumatra’s ‘tiger descendants’ cling to their customs as coal mines encroach

Dedek Hendry 30 Jan 2018

For Australia’s fire-starting falcons, pyromania serves up the prey

Mongabay.com 30 Jan 2018

As nesting beaches warm, sea turtle populations are turning female–how scientists found out

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 29 Jan 2018

Camera trap captures spotted hyena in Gabon national park, the first in 20 years

Mongabay.com 29 Jan 2018

Elephant tusks and pangolin scales seized, six suspects arrested in Ivory Coast

Mongabay.com 29 Jan 2018

Fang trafficking to China is putting Bolivia’s jaguars in jeopardy

Roberto Navia 26 Jan 2018
Radiated Tortoise Hatchling (Astrochelys radiata). Madagascar’s radiated tortoises have all but disappeared from their island home due to habitat loss, hunting for their meat, and collection for the pet trade. The females lay from three to 12 eggs that resemble ping pong balls. The hatchlings have beautiful, roundish shells, and at 1½ inches, are miniature versions of their 35 pound parents. Photo &copy Julie Larsen Maher / WCS.

Baby photos of 10 of the world’s rarest turtles from the zoo trying to save them

Avishai Shuter, Don Boyer, Julie Larsen Maher 26 Jan 2018

Do catch and release-induced abortions harm shark and ray populations?

Jack Elliot Marley 26 Jan 2018

Rhino poaching in South Africa dipped slightly last year, but ‘crisis continues unabated,’ conservationists say

Mongabay.com 25 Jan 2018

The ups and downs of marine protected areas: Examining the evidence

Shreya Dasgupta 25 Jan 2018

Stranger than fiction? New spiders found in Brazil named after creatures from popular fantasy stories

Mongabay.com 24 Jan 2018

Smallest wild cat in the Americas faces big problems — but hope exists

Niki Rust 24 Jan 2018

No more elephants? Poaching crisis takes its toll in the Central African Republic

Alexandra Popescu 24 Jan 2018

Indonesia hints rhino sperm transfer to Malaysia may finally happen this year

Basten Gokkon 24 Jan 2018

Muskox and other Arctic mammals are feeling the heat of climate change

Gloria Dickie 23 Jan 2018

After exporting baby elephants, Zimbabwe pledges to turn over new leaf on conservation

Jeremy Hance 23 Jan 2018

David Suzuki on why indigenous knowledge is critical for human survival

Mike Gaworecki 23 Jan 2018

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