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Conservationists set the record straight on COVID-19’s wildlife links

Liz Kimbrough 13 Mar 2020

Western lowland gorillas may be territorial, a new study finds

Liz Kimbrough 12 Mar 2020

Coronavirus outbreak may spur Southeast Asian action on wildlife trafficking

Imelda Abano 4 Mar 2020

China beefs up wildlife trade ban as COVID-19 outbreak intensifies

Malavika Vyawahare 26 Feb 2020

Coronavirus, trawls take a toll on shrimp fishery in Indonesia’s Jambi

Elviza Diana 25 Feb 2020

Coronavirus outbreak hits Vietnam’s timber sector

Michael Tatarski 24 Feb 2020

New parasitoid wasp species discovered in Amazon manipulate host behavior in ‘complex way’

Mongabay.com 21 Feb 2020

When disinformation is a bigger threat than the coronavirus (commentary)

Nalaka Gunawardene 18 Feb 2020

Illegal pangolin trade may have played a part in coronavirus outbreak

Malavika Vyawahare 13 Feb 2020
Wildlife in a market in Laos. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay

The wildlife trade threatens people and animals alike (commentary)

David S. Wilcove 5 Feb 2020
Pangolins rescued from wildlife traffickers. These individuals are at a rehabilitation center in Cambodia. Photo by Rhett Butler.

Conservationists welcome China’s wildlife trade ban

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Jan 2020

Mountain gorilla census reveals further increase in numbers

John Cannon 17 Dec 2019

Shrinking sea ice in the Arctic opens new pathways for animal disease

Mongabay.com 2 Dec 2019

Meet the new parasitic wasp species named ‘Idris elba’

Mongabay.com 21 Nov 2019

Malaria surges in deforested parts of the Amazon, study finds

John Cannon 23 Oct 2019

Mysterious plants that thrive in darkness, steal food: Q&A with botanist Kenji Suetsugu

Shreya Dasgupta 19 Aug 2019

West Nile virus lingers longer in birds exposed to light pollution

Mongabay.com 29 Jul 2019

Slight warming could be enough to heighten risk of malaria: Study

Mongabay.com 4 Jul 2019

Public education could curb bushmeat demand in Laos, study finds

Mongabay.com 15 May 2019

Virus may have caused mysterious foot disease in Chile’s rare huemul deer

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Apr 2019

Peru’s first autonomous indigenous gov’t strikes back against deforestation

Marcio Pimenta 18 Apr 2019

Research into chimp health benefits human, ecosystem well-being too

Giovanni Ortolani 22 Feb 2019
Rose-ringed parakeets seized from the parrot trade in Senegal. Photo courtesy of Davide de Guz/World Parrot Trust

Deadly parrot virus found in native birds from Asia and Africa

Erin I. Garcia de Jesus 5 Dec 2018

For Javan rhinos, the last holdout may also be a deadly disease hotspot

Katy Waters 8 Nov 2018

Tsetse fly numbers dwindle in the warming Zambezi Valley

Mongabay.com 29 Oct 2018

Identifying Zika-transmitting mosquito fast, cheaply, and on the go

David Klinges 3 Oct 2018

How an African bat might help us prevent future Ebola outbreaks

Mike Gaworecki 2 Oct 2018

Leprosy prevalent among Amazon’s armadillos, study finds

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Jun 2018

Study links malaria to deforestation in the Amazon

Morgan Erickson-Davis 15 May 2018

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

Mongabay.com 21 Mar 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

Farming and forest loss: study exposes malaria’s best friends

Jack Elliot Marley 16 Oct 2017

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