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In a rhino stronghold, indigenous wood-carvers cut through stereotypes

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 10 Oct 2018
A fisherman pulls in a barracuda at sunset on the waters of the Casamance River, accompanied by an apprentice. Image by Jennifer O’Mahony for Mongabay.

Senegal: After reviving fish and forests, Jola villages tackle new threats

Jennifer O’Mahony 10 Oct 2018

Whales not enough sustenance for polar bears in fast-changing climate

Mongabay.com 10 Oct 2018

Indonesian government puts off Sumatran rhino IVF program

Basten Gokkon 10 Oct 2018
Monopterus rongsaw, a swamp eel from India. Photo © Rachunliu G Kamei

Hot pink swamp eel discovered in Indian rainforest

Mongabay.com 9 Oct 2018
The coast of Freedom Island in Metro Manila teems with trash in this photo taken in 2017. Image courtesy of Greenpeace.

Plastic trash from the ‘sachet economy’ chokes the Philippines’ seas

Bong S. Sarmiento 9 Oct 2018

Decoding the language of bats key to their conservation

Javier Lyonnet 8 Oct 2018

The bioethics of wildlife intervention (commentary)

Elvina Yau 8 Oct 2018

Int’l protections not stopping pangolin overexploitation in Cameroon

John Cannon 8 Oct 2018

Loss of forest elephant may make Earth ‘less inhabitable for humans’

Emily Clark 8 Oct 2018

Hunting, agriculture driving rapid decline of jaguars in South America’s Gran Chaco

Mike Gaworecki 5 Oct 2018

Deforestation surges in Virunga National Park in the wake of violence

Benji Jones 5 Oct 2018

Latam Eco Review: Kissable sharks and spectacled bears

Mongabay.com 5 Oct 2018

Dam project pushes threatened orangutans from forest to farms

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Oct 2018

Frogs coping with fatal fungus in Panamanian forest, study finds

Mongabay.com 5 Oct 2018

Nepali scientists deploy drones to count endangered crocodiles

Abhaya Raj Joshi 4 Oct 2018

Scientists urge greater protection of Brazil’s secondary forests

Morgan Erickson-Davis 4 Oct 2018

Young right whale dies, likely from entanglement in fishing gear

Mongabay.com 3 Oct 2018

New tree species from Cameroon is possibly already extinct

Mongabay.com 3 Oct 2018

How an African bat might help us prevent future Ebola outbreaks

Mike Gaworecki 2 Oct 2018

The rhino reckoning

Jeremy Hance 2 Oct 2018

Ape sanctuaries in the DRC brace themselves as Ebola hits the country

Tina Deines 2 Oct 2018

Managing the data deluge: Twitter as a tool for ecological research

Marianne Messina 1 Oct 2018
Nomura jellyfish, Nemopilema nomurai. Photo Shin-ichi Uye

A ‘monoculture of jellyfish’ threatens the oceans as we know them (insider)

Jeremy Hance 1 Oct 2018

Largely banned industrial chemicals could wipe out killer whales, study warns

Mongabay.com 1 Oct 2018

Scientists urge world leaders to scale up ambitions to protect global biodiversity

Mongabay.com 28 Sep 2018

Massive loss of mammal species in Atlantic Forest since the 1500s

John Cannon 28 Sep 2018

The great rhino U-turn

Jeremy Hance 28 Sep 2018

Tiny tags and a broad research network help track small animal movements

Jason J. Gregg 27 Sep 2018

Latam Eco Review: Shark ceviche, bat-friendly tequila, and protein-rich worms

Mongabay.com 27 Sep 2018

New survey results show Nepal is on track to double its tiger population by 2022

Mongabay.com 26 Sep 2018

New species of neon-colored fish discovered off Brazil

Mongabay.com 26 Sep 2018

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