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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

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

Malaria surges in deforested parts of the Amazon, study finds

John Cannon 23 Oct 2019

West Nile virus lingers longer in birds exposed to light pollution

Mongabay.com 29 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

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

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

Bats and viruses: Beating back a bad reputation

John Cannon 29 Aug 2017

Soil research aided by citizen scientists, boots and all

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 9 Jun 2017

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