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Amazon poor go hungry as Brazil slashes social safety net, cuts forests: Study

Shanna Hanbury 11 Jun 2020

Conservationists find opportunity and community amidst current crises

Mike Gaworecki 10 Jun 2020

‘Every time an elder dies, a library is burnt’: Amazon COVID-19 toll grows

Sue Branford 9 Jun 2020

Climate conundrum: Could COVID-19 be linked to early Arctic ice melt?

Gloria Dickie 8 Jun 2020

Triple crisis of pipelines, pesticides and pandemic is an existential threat to Ecuador’s indigenous peoples (commentary)

Mitch Anderson 5 Jun 2020

Mystery ailments, asymptomatic individuals: Spotlight on monkeypox in chimps

Shreya Dasgupta 5 Jun 2020

MRN bauxite mine leaves legacy of pollution, poverty in Brazilian Amazon

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 4 Jun 2020

Loss, resilience and community amid an outbreak: Q&A with gorilla researcher Magdalena Bermejo

Heather Richardson 4 Jun 2020

Amazon deforestation gig economy booms despite COVID-19 (Photo Essay)

Fábio Nascimento (photos), Gustavo Faleiros 3 Jun 2020

Offensive against the Amazon: An incontrollable pandemic (commentary)

Marcos Colón; Luís de Camões Lima Boaventura; and Erik Jennings 1 Jun 2020

Poaching in Indonesia’s biodiverse Leuser Ecosystem on the rise amid COVID-19

Junaidi Hanafiah 28 May 2020

A new sanctuary for the Sumatran rhino is delayed amid COVID-19 measures

Junaidi Hanafiah 27 May 2020

Brazil judge blocks appointment of missionary to indigenous agency

Sam Cowie 26 May 2020

Vietnam wildlife trade ban appears to flounder amid coronavirus success

Michael Tatarski 25 May 2020

Coronavirus puts Brazil’s quilombos at risk; will assistance come?

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 21 May 2020

For Indonesia’s captive wildlife, lockdown measures may prove deadly

Basten Gokkon 19 May 2020

It’s time to implement solutions that make the bushmeat trade unnecessary (commentary)

Cate Twining-Ward, Colin A. Chapman 18 May 2020
Uncontacted indigenous group in the Amazon photographed by authorities with the Brazilian Indian affairs agency FUNAI. Photo by Gleison Miranda-FUNAI.

Indigenous COVID-19 cases top 500, danger mapped in Brazil agricultural hub

Sam Cowie 18 May 2020

As COVID-19 pandemic deepens, global wildlife treaty faces an identity crisis

Malavika Vyawahare 15 May 2020

Will fish boom amid pandemic-driven fishing bust?

Shreya Dasgupta 13 May 2020

Bats: Resistant to viruses, but not to humans

Thelma Gómez Durán 13 May 2020

Market-based solutions cannot solely fund community-level conservation (commentary)

Sinan Serhadli 11 May 2020
Artibeus phaeotis. Photo by Adrian Forsyth

In defense of bats in a COVID world (commentary)

Enrique Ortiz 11 May 2020

Get sick or go hungry? Workers face dilemma at Freeport’s Grasberg mine

Febriana Firdaus 8 May 2020

Plans to prevent future pandemics must consider gender issues, too (commentary)

Tyler Nuckols 6 May 2020

As COVID-19 batters fishery, Indonesia’s sharks get a respite

Basten Gokkon 4 May 2020
Pangolin rescued from the wildlife trade in Vietnam. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Jane Goodall: COVID-19 is a product of our unhealthy relationship with animals and the environment (commentary)

Jane Goodall 4 May 2020

No more business as usual: Halt dangerous development projects that put our health at risk (commentary)

Gaurav Madan 1 May 2020
Aerial view of the Amazon rainforest canopy. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

As a campaigner against deforestation, almost dying of COVID-19 was ironic (commentary)

Etelle Higonnet 29 Apr 2020

As calls to shutter wildlife markets grow, China struggles with an industry worth billions

Ashoka Mukpo 27 Apr 2020

Madagascar’s president promotes unproven herbal cure for COVID-19

Malavika Vyawahare 20 Apr 2020

How to prevent the next COVID-19? Conservationists weigh in

Malavika Vyawahare 17 Apr 2020

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