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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

As Indonesia fights COVID-19, warmer temperatures drive up dengue cases

Yitno Suprapto 16 Apr 2020

Indonesia’s new capital in the Bornean jungle on hold amid COVID-19 crisis

Basten Gokkon 15 Apr 2020

Rapid deforestation of Brazilian Amazon could bring next pandemic: Experts

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 15 Apr 2020

Chinese ban on eating wild animals likely to become law: Q&A with WCS’s Aili Kang

Malavika Vyawahare 9 Apr 2020
Red howler monkey in the Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Will the next coronavirus come from Amazonia? Deforestation and the risk of infectious diseases (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 8 Apr 2020

Sinking feeling for Indonesian fishers as COVID-19 hits seafood sales

Falahi Mubarok, M Ambari 7 Apr 2020

Indigenous Papuans initiate own lockdowns in face of COVID-19

Basten Gokkon 6 Apr 2020

First known case of tiger contracting COVID-19 at Bronx Zoo

Mongabay.com 6 Apr 2020

COVID-19 disrupts a major year for biodiversity policy and planning

James Dinneen 3 Apr 2020
Health officials from SESAI — the federal government’s body in charge of health services for indigenous people — were sent to monitor indigenous people in the Lago Grande village in Amazonas state. Image by heath department of Santo Antônio do Içá.

First COVID-19 case among indigenous people confirmed in Brazilian Amazon

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 2 Apr 2020

As COVID-19 rages, evangelical pastor may contact remote Amazon tribes

Sam Cowie 30 Mar 2020

Ending illegal deforestation is good for our health (commentary)

Kerstin Canby 27 Mar 2020

First possible COVID-19 indigenous cases detected near key Amazon reserve

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 25 Mar 2020

Keeping gorillas safe amid COVID-19 concerns

Liz Kimbrough 24 Mar 2020

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