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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

Celebrating the 50th Earth Day amidst a global pandemic

Mike Gaworecki 14 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

The links between COVID-19, wildlife trade, and destruction of nature with John Vidal

Mike Gaworecki 31 Mar 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

Chinese government reportedly recommending bear bile injections to treat coronavirus

Mongabay.com 23 Mar 2020

COVID-19 prompts closure of Indonesian parks, and a chance to evaluate

Basten Gokkon 20 Mar 2020

Amazon indigenous put at risk by Brazil’s feeble Covid-19 response: Critics

Sam Cowie 20 Mar 2020

Response to one pandemic, COVID-19, has helped ease another: Air pollution

Liz Kimbrough 20 Mar 2020

In reporting on COVID-19, the front line is the screen in front of you (Commentary)

Amantha Perera 19 Mar 2020
Part of anti-trafficking campaign in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Photo by Michael Tatarski for Mongabay.

Vietnam considers wildlife trade ban in response to coronavirus pandemic

Michael Tatarski 18 Mar 2020

Bringing Christ and coronavirus: Evangelicals to contact Amazon indigenous

Sue Branford 17 Mar 2020

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

Liz Kimbrough 13 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

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

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