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NOAA publishes global list of fisheries and their risks to marine mammals

Mongabay.com 2 Apr 2018

New study discovers 81 lost human settlements in the Amazon rainforest

Mongabay.com 2 Apr 2018

Brazil creates four massive marine protected areas

Shreya Dasgupta 30 Mar 2018

Frogs may be ‘fighting back’ against deadly pandemic

Morgan Erickson-Davis 30 Mar 2018

‘Ropeless’ consortium aims to end entanglements of declining North Atlantic right whales

John Cannon 29 Mar 2018
A weedy seadragon (Phyllopteryx taeniolatus), native to southern Australia’s coastal waters. Photo by Katieleeosborne via Wikimedia Commons.

Australia opens vast swaths of famed marine parks to fishing

Mic Smith 29 Mar 2018

Under the sea: Life is the bubbles in newly described deep-reef zone

Basten Gokkon 28 Mar 2018

Small section of controversial refinery wall in Indian ‘elephant corridor’ demolished

Shreya Dasgupta 28 Mar 2018

PHOTOS: The great Sandhill crane migration makes its annual stopover on the Platte River

Mike Gaworecki 27 Mar 2018
Undifferentiated catch at a landing site in Karaikal, Tamil Nadu, India. Photo by Amanda Vincent/Project Seahorse.

‘Annihilation trawling’: Q&A with marine biologist Amanda Vincent

Rebecca Kessler 27 Mar 2018

Borneo’s elephants prefer degraded forests, a new study finds

John Cannon 27 Mar 2018

Range countries to lead new estimate of global snow leopard population as downgraded threat status remains controversial

Mike Gaworecki 26 Mar 2018

Trump’s elephant, lion trophy hunting policy hit with double lawsuits

Jeremy Hance 26 Mar 2018

‘IUCN Green List of species’: A new way to measure conservation success

Shreya Dasgupta 26 Mar 2018
The savannah and grasslands of the Mara conservancies are home to a spectacular abundance of wildlife, lying at the northern end of the greater Serengeti ecosystem. Photo Credit: Maasai Mara Wildlife Conservancies Association

Local conservancies create new hope for wildlife in Kenya’s Maasai Mara (commentary)

Daniel Sopia, Fred Nelson 26 Mar 2018

In Jakarta, wildlife monitors find a hotspot for the illegal tortoise trade

Basten Gokkon 26 Mar 2018

Study reveals the Pacific Garbage Patch is much heftier than thought — and it’s growing

Mongabay.com 26 Mar 2018
Gentoo penguins on Greenwich Island, part of the South Shetland Island group, Antarctica. Photo by Paul Hilton/Greenpeace.

“Save the Krill” urges Greenpeace report

Kim Smuga-Otto 23 Mar 2018

Colombia scraps Amazon highway plans due to deforestation concerns

Taran Volckhausen 23 Mar 2018

Microplastic pollution in world’s oceans poses major threat to filter-feeding megafauna

Mike Gaworecki 23 Mar 2018

In Bali fish die-offs, researchers spot a human hand

Luh De Suriyani 22 Mar 2018

New report highlights top 50 tortoises and turtles on brink of extinction

Mongabay.com 22 Mar 2018

More than 40 percent of Madagascar’s freshwater life sliding toward extinction, IUCN finds

Mongabay.com 22 Mar 2018

Leopards could reduce rabies by controlling stray dog numbers in India, study finds

Mongabay.com 21 Mar 2018

‘A real surprise’: Study reveals low phosphorus doesn’t hinder rainforest growth

Morgan Erickson-Davis 20 Mar 2018

Exploring humanity’s deep connection to water, plus the sounds of the Sandhill crane migration

Mike Gaworecki 20 Mar 2018

The world’s last male northern white rhino has died

Mongabay.com 20 Mar 2018

Belize creates one of Central America’s largest biological corridors

Shreya Dasgupta 19 Mar 2018

Indonesia launches bid to restore national park that’s home to tigers, elephants

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Mar 2018

Oil palm plantations’ dearth of biodiversity rubs off on nearby forests, study shows

Mongabay.com 19 Mar 2018
A critically endangered indri lemur (Indri indri). Ten indris were killed in the recent poaching incident. Photo by Rhett A. Butler. A critically endangered indri lemur (Indri indri). Ten indris were killed in the recent poaching incident. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Madagascar: Conservation official arrested for killing 11 endangered lemurs

Riana Raymonde Randrianarisoa 16 Mar 2018

Sharp-eyed Mongabay readers spot a jaguarundi (commentary)

Glenn Scherer 16 Mar 2018

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