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Bowling for Rhinos: a grassroots project with global reach

Linda Lombardi 25 May 2017

When it comes to the IUCN Red List, accuracy is the order of the day (commentary)

Don Melnick, Vijay Ramesh 25 May 2017

Nepal burns more than 4,000 confiscated wildlife parts

Shreya Dasgupta 24 May 2017

Big animals can survive reduced-impact logging — if done right

Jeremy Hance 22 May 2017
Teloschistes chrysophthalmus. Photo by Jason Hollinger.

New lichen database takes big picture approach to forest monitoring

Amy McDermott 22 May 2017

Skewed sex ratio spells danger for rhinos in India’s Gorumara National Park

Moushumi Basu 22 May 2017

Location, location, location goes high-tech: Facts and FAQs about satellite-based wildlife tracking

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 20 May 2017
A snow leopard in the Sanjiangyuan region of China's Qinghai province, captured by camera trap. Photo courtesy of Shanshui Nature Center.

China’s first national park, an experiment in living with snow leopards

Wang Yan 19 May 2017

Meet the 2017 ‘Green Oscars’ winners

Shreya Dasgupta 19 May 2017

A Whitley Award winner’s 20-year battle to save the world’s largest eagle in Venezuela

Bruno Moraes 18 May 2017
Adult harpy eagle image courtesy of Tom Ambrose.

Goddesses of the wind: How researchers saved Venezuela’s harpy eagles

Bruno Moraes 17 May 2017

Bill Laurance on the “infrastructure tsunami” sweeping the planet

Mike Gaworecki 17 May 2017

With poaching curtailed, a new menace to Nepal’s wildlife

Alex Dudley 17 May 2017

An evolving IUCN Red List needs to be both innovative and rigorous (commentary)

Craig Hilton-Taylor 17 May 2017

Field Notes: Reinvigorating wild parrot populations with captive birds

Elizabeth Devitt 17 May 2017

Microalgae genes help them adapt to harsh oceans, other species less lucky

Maxine Chen 17 May 2017

More than 300 smuggled tortoises seized in Malaysia

Shreya Dasgupta 17 May 2017
Mt. Kenya Bush Viper, aka Ashe’s Viper (Atheris desaixi). Photo courtesy of CITES.

Kenya cracks down on illegal trade in rare and venomous vipers

Gitonga Njeru 16 May 2017

Manmade noise pollution even more prevalent in US protected areas than researchers expected

Mike Gaworecki 16 May 2017

Location, location, location: Facts and FAQs about radio telemetry

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 12 May 2017

Crabbing gone commercial: Brazilian mangroves threatened by shift in local traditions

Kayla Walsh 12 May 2017

50 new spiders discovered in Australia

Mongabay.com 12 May 2017

Hong Kong Ivory traders encouraging buyers to smuggle ivory: TRAFFIC

Shreya Dasgupta 11 May 2017

Howler monkeys booming in Belize sanctuary 25 years after translocation

John Cannon 10 May 2017

Extremely rare bay cat filmed in Borneo

Shreya Dasgupta 9 May 2017
Giraffes roam in Garamba National Park in DRC. Photo by Thomas Nicolon for Mongabay.

DRC’s Garamba National Park: The last giraffes of the Congo

Thomas Nicolon 9 May 2017

Protected species in Gulf of Mexico could take decades to recover from Deepwater Horizon oil spill

Mike Gaworecki 8 May 2017
Ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta) in Madagascar. Photo by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Anti-trafficking activist held without trial in Madagascar

Fabienne Rafidiharinirina 8 May 2017

Study finds hundreds of thousands of tropical species at risk of extinction due to deforestation

Mike Gaworecki 5 May 2017

Fighting a plant to save rhinos in Nepal

Giovanni Ortolani 5 May 2017
Carnegie Airborne Observatory (CAO) forest scan in the Peruvian Amazon. The CAO uses advanced optical and chemical sensors in combination with Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technologies to map forest carbon, chemistry, and other features. Image courtesy of the Carnegie Airborne Observatory/Greg Asner.

Indigenous lands ‘critical’ to forest protection in Peru, biodiversity maps show

John Cannon 5 May 2017

Scientists rediscover ‘lost’ monitor lizard in Papua New Guinea

Shreya Dasgupta 5 May 2017

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