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Ecuador announces a new national park in the Andes

Valeria Sorgato 7 Feb 2018

A tale of two otters: settling in Singapore, suffering in China

Joshua Parfitt 7 Feb 2018

Orangutan shot 130 times in Indonesia, in second killing reported this year

Mongabay.com 7 Feb 2018

Earthquake triggers spawning in world’s rarest fish a few thousand miles away

Shreya Dasgupta 7 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

2018 Tyler Prize awarded to two US-based biological oceanographers

Mongabay.com 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

Carbon pricing could save millions of hectares of tropical forest: new study

John Cannon 5 Feb 2018
Conducting field research. Photo by US Bureau of Land Management.

Safe spaces: Tackling sexual harassment in science

Carinya Sharples 5 Feb 2018
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Deforestation wanes in Indonesia’s Aceh and Leuser Ecosystem, but threats remain, NGO says

Hans Nicholas Jong, Junaidi Hanafiah 5 Feb 2018

Meet the winners of Mongabay’s best intern articles awards

Mongabay.com 5 Feb 2018

Amazon rainforest hit by surge in small-scale deforestation, study finds

Morgan Erickson-Davis 2 Feb 2018

In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, February 2, 2018

Mongabay.com 2 Feb 2018

Indonesian palm, pulp companies commit to peatland restoration

Hans Nicholas Jong 2 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

Venezuela: can a failing state protect its environment and its people?

Glenn Scherer 1 Feb 2018

Powering cameras and empowering people

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 1 Feb 2018

Zero-deforestation pledges need help, support to meet targets, new study finds

Mongabay.com 1 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

More murders: Conservationists allegedly killed by soldiers in Cambodia

Morgan Erickson-Davis 31 Jan 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
Buttress roots of a rainforest tree in Sulawesi, Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Is a plantation a forest? Indonesia says yes, as it touts a drop in deforestation

Hans Nicholas Jong 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
A farmer feeds elephant grass to his horses in Cao Bang Province, planted so farmers don't send their livestock to graze inside a nearby protected forest. Photo by Michael Tatarski/Mongabay.

Environmental reporting in Vietnam often a comedy of errors

Michael Tatarski 30 Jan 2018

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