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Global biodiversity treaty still searches for its moment in the spotlight

Isabel Esterman 3 Dec 2018

Five wildlife conservationists held by Iran could face the death penalty

Mongabay.com 27 Nov 2018

Two iconic birds make a striking comeback, but much work remains

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Nov 2018

Illegal cheetah trade continues through Instagram, 4sale, YouTube

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Oct 2018
Griffon vulture (Gyps fulvus). Photo courtesy Anton Khalilieh.

Bird watchers of the West Bank navigate a fraught political climate

Miriam Berger 29 Aug 2018
Palestinian bedouin in Gaza Valley dig for worms in the polluted shallow waters on Gaza’s coast to use for fishing. Photo by Kaamil Ahmed/Mongabay.

Gaza City residents’ water problems continue to compound

Kaamil Ahmed 12 Mar 2018

In post-revolution Egypt, a fierce fight over coal imports

Louise Sarant 5 Apr 2017
Lar National Park in northern Iran, about 100 kilometers from Tehran. Photo by Mahdi Kalhor via Panoramio

Three murders highlight troubles of Iran’s park rangers

Jennifer Huizen 18 Aug 2016

Fishing nets kill ‘high proportion’ of adult loggerhead turtles in the Mediterranean

Shreya Dasgupta 13 Apr 2016

Global carbon dioxide emissions stay flat for second year in a row

Shreya Dasgupta 17 Mar 2016

Hunt for rare fragrance is pushing one of world’s most expensive trees towards extinction: Al Jazeera documentary

Shreya Dasgupta 9 Mar 2016

Click to like this: Is Instagram a hub for illegal ape deals?

Christopher Haslett 10 Dec 2015

‘Intolerable’ heat waves likely to hit Persian Gulf by 2100

Shreya Dasgupta 28 Oct 2015

Earthworm farming in the West Bank (commentary)

Scott Poynton 25 Nov 2014

Saudi Prince kills two percent of global population of endangered bird

Shreya Dasgupta 1 May 2014

The smoothtooth blacktip shark and four other species rediscovered in markets

Frank Izaguirre 21 Jan 2014

Iraq gets its first national park: just call it Eden

Jeremy Hance 19 Aug 2013

Syrian bald ibis may be down to a single bird

Jeremy Hance 11 Jun 2013

Poisonous jellyfish on the rise in the Mediterranean

Giles Tremlett 11 Jun 2013

Iraqi who is bringing back the Garden of Eden wins top environment award

John Vidal 16 Apr 2013

Asiatic cheetahs: on the road to extinction?

Erica Santana 26 Feb 2013

Scientist: releasing invasive birds in Turkey to eat ticks will backfire

Thomas Handley 4 Feb 2013

Saving the Arabian leopard, the world’s smallest leopard

Rhett A. Butler 14 Jan 2013

Hopes pinned on Obama again as Doha Climate Summit opens

Jeremy Hance 26 Nov 2012

As Doha Climate Summit kicks off, more ambitious cuts to greenhouse gas emissions needed

Jeremy Hance 26 Nov 2012

Mysteries surrounding the legendary and vanishing oriental bald ibis

Gianluca Serra 31 Oct 2012

Food prices rise as food aid needed in Middle East and Africa

Jeremy Hance 4 Oct 2012

Cute animal picture of the day: caracal kitten in Yemen

Jeremy Hance 1 Oct 2012

Cute animal picture of the day: baby Yemen chameleons

Jeremy Hance 23 Jul 2012

Animal picture of the day: rare image of Asiatic cheetah and cubs

Jeremy Hance 3 Jul 2012

New reptile discovered in world’s strangest archipelago

Jeremy Hance 25 Apr 2012

Earth systems disruption: Does 2011 indicate the “new normal” of climate chaos and conflict?

Ryan King 21 Dec 2011

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