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A hawksbill sea turtle in Grand Cayman, part of the Mesoamerican Reef.

After historic 2024 coral bleaching, hope remains for Mesoamerican Reef

Fritz Pinnow 6 Dec 2024
Costa Rica rainforest

Conservation pays and everyone’s benefitting from it (commentary)

Diego Vincenzi 15 Jul 2024

Alternatives to farmwork empower communities and save forests, study finds

Kimberley Brown 10 Oct 2022
A white-necked jacobin with the brightly colored feather patterns typical of males. Photo by Irene Mendez Cruz.

Some hummingbird females display male coloring to avoid being harassed

Megan Kalomiris 23 Nov 2021
Jaguar in a river in Mexico. Photo credit: Gerardo Ceballos

Jaguars in Mexico are growing in number, a promising sign that national conservation strategies are working

Guananí Gómez-Van Cortright 22 Nov 2021
Myrna Cunningham

For some Indigenous, COVID presents possibility of cultural extinction, says Myrna Cunningham

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Oct 2021
A mural of murdered activists Berta Cáceres in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Photo by disoniador via Pixabay.

Former dam executive found guilty in the killing of Berta Cáceres

Mongabay.com 6 Jul 2021
Coral garden. Photo credit: Raising Coral Costa Rica

Scientists in Costa Rica are growing new corals to save reefs

Ashleigh Papp 12 Nov 2020
Newly hatched olive ridley sea turtle in Costa Rica. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

The turtle egg that pinged back: Tracing a poaching pathway in Costa Rica

Claudia Geib 22 Oct 2020

Keystone mammal plunges 87% in Mesoamerica

Francesca Edralin 17 Jul 2020

The perfect firestorm: COVID-19 in Mesoamerica’s indigenous territories (commentary)

Jeremy Radachowsky 10 Jun 2020

Deforestation clips howler monkey calls, study finds

Mongabay.com 20 Jan 2020

Greta and Mesoamerica’s five great forests (commentary)

Jeremy Radachowsky and Chris Jordan 23 Sep 2019
Rainforest in Sarawak, Malaysia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

The biggest rainforest news stories in 2018

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Dec 2018
Members of the Tosepan cooperative’s youth solar panel installation team and the ONergia solar cooperative put the finishing touches on a domestic panel installation while community members chip in. Image by Ethan Bien for Mongabay.

‘Light for everyone’: Indigenous youth mount a solar-powered resistance

Ethan Bien 10 Dec 2018
Rainforest on Costa Rica's Osa Peninsula. Photo by Rhett Butler.

Secondary forests in Costa Rica are re-cleared within decades

Rodrigo Pérez Ortega 7 Dec 2018
Handroanthus guayacan tree in full bloom.

Tropical trees grow most easily where they are rare

Tom Garlinghouse 3 Dec 2018

Researcher names spectacular new frog after his granddaughter

Mongabay.com 31 Jul 2018

Scientists condemn expansion of industrial monocultures at expense of traditional gardens in Mexico

Mongabay.com 14 Jul 2017

Guatemalan authorities destroy secret airstrip in Laguna del Tigre National Park

Sebastián Escalón 19 May 2017

Do Costa Rica’s payments for environmental services work?

Mongabay.com 17 Sep 2007

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