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At COP 15, biodiversity finance, Indigenous rights, and corporate influence

Mike DiGirolamo 11 Jan 2023
An Arctic fox.

Protecting canids from planet-wide threats offers ecological opportunities

Sean Mowbray 10 Jan 2023
A tokay gecko.

Rumors and misconceptions threaten tokay geckos in Bangladesh

Rafiqul Islam 10 Jan 2023

In Ecuador, communities protecting a ‘terrestrial coral reef’ face a mining giant

Liz Kimbrough 9 Jan 2023
Sanjiv is a male Sumatran tiger who has arrived at a captive breeding center in Tacoma, Washington. Photo by Katie Cotterill for Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium. Sanjiv.

Sumatran tiger arrives at Tacoma captive-breeding program

Jeremy Hance 6 Jan 2023

Island conservation should focus on land-sea links for most impact, paper says

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 5 Jan 2023

Mexico dismantles illegal fishing cartels killing off rare vaquita porpoise

Maxwell Radwin 5 Jan 2023
A clownfish in the Red Sea. Image by Cinzia Osele Bismarck via Ocean Image Bank.

On climate & biodiversity, where are we, post-COP15? (commentary)

Zoë Quiroz Cullen 4 Jan 2023
A reef shark in Fiji.

Sharks received landmark protection to combat fin trade, but the culling must stop (commentary)

Trang Chu Minh 3 Jan 2023

Top 15 species discoveries from 2022 (Photos)

Liz Kimbrough 29 Dec 2022

The least social of the African antelopes: the bushbuck | Candid Animal Cam

Romina Castagnino 29 Dec 2022

Mongabay’s top 10 stories of 2022

Isabel Esterman 29 Dec 2022
A whale shark swimming with remoras.

2022’s top ocean news stories (commentary)

Aaron Roan, Callie Leiphardt, Douglas McCauley, Neil Nathan, Rachel Rhodes 29 Dec 2022
A Bengal tiger sits on a road in neighboring India.

For Nepal, 2022 was a roaring Year of the Tiger

Abhaya Raj Joshi 29 Dec 2022
A European bison running.

Mongabay’s 10 most popular videos of 2022

Lucia Torres 28 Dec 2022
A sound file revealing rich data on biodiversity. Image by Rhett Butler for Mongabay.

A bittersweet bioacoustics bonanza

Mike Gaworecki 27 Dec 2022

Unsustainable fishing to be banned in Irrawaddy dolphin’s Bornean sanctuary

Basten Gokkon 22 Dec 2022
A manta ray.

Strong marine protected areas credited with manta ray surge in Indonesia

Cassie Freund 22 Dec 2022

Landmark bill will ban the shark fin trade in the US

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Dec 2022
A capped langur crosses a canopy bridge.

Wildlife at risk in Bangladesh as roads run rampant through protected forests

Maksuda Aziz 21 Dec 2022
A mother and baby macaque.

Ebola-like African primate viruses ‘poised for spillover’ to humans, study finds

Mactilda Mbenywe 21 Dec 2022
Illustration of a Stellar's sea cow.

Extinct sea cow’s underwater engineering legacy lives on today, study finds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 20 Dec 2022
A young jaguar.

Brazil’s Pantanal is at risk of collapse, scientists say

Sharon Guynup 20 Dec 2022
A dead dolphin washed up.

Black Sea dolphin deaths prompt ecocide allegations against Russia

Elizabeth Fitt 16 Dec 2022
Blue-winged mountain tanager (Anisognathus somptuosus). Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Bright, unique colors can put tropical songbirds at greater risk

Anna Marie Yanny 15 Dec 2022
Two western hoolock gibbons.

Trafficking and habitat loss spell doom for Bangladesh’s western hoolock gibbons

Rafiqul Islam 14 Dec 2022
Wildebeest in the savannas.

Counterintuitive: Large wild herbivores may help slow climate change

Tim Vernimmen 13 Dec 2022
A Philippine pangolin hangs on to a branch.

For Philippine pangolins, tourism’s return could spell trouble

Keith Anthony Fabro 12 Dec 2022

Five pressing questions for the future of lithium mining in Bolivia

Maxwell Radwin 12 Dec 2022
Caribou, a vital food source for Indigenous peoples in Canada, is already a threatened species. Climate change is predicted to drive a further decline in their numbers and range. The peatlands are a favored habitat for these animals and help them escape from wolves, which find it hard to navigate in the swampy peatlands. Image by Bauer, Erwin and Peggy, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).

Will the world join Indigenous peoples in relationship with nature at COP-15? (commentary)

Jennifer Tauli Corpuz, Valérie Courtois 9 Dec 2022
An orange-tip butterfly.

Climate change is hammering insects — in the tropics and everywhere else: Scientists

Jeremy Hance 9 Dec 2022
Two natterjack toads (Epidalea calamita) in mating position. Image courtesy of Christoph Bühler.

If you build it, the amphibians will come: Swiss researchers show new ponds boost species at risk

Elissa Welle 9 Dec 2022

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