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DRC’s golden-bellied mangabeys: A little-known but much-threatened monkey

Liz Kimbrough 25 Jul 2024

Short on funds and long on risk, Venezuelan conservation groups worry for future

Maxwell Radwin 25 Jul 2024

After 2-year wait, Sonoran wilderness protection law gets closer to reality

Daniel Shailer 17 Jul 2024

In Mexico City’s precolonial canals, scientists aim to save ancient salamanders

Boris van der Spek 16 Jul 2024

Panama’s ‘Caribbean Corridor’ highway threatens three protected areas, critics say

Maxwell Radwin 11 Jul 2024
Jaguar in a river in Mexico. Photo credit: Gerardo Ceballos

Shrimp farms threaten Mexico’s mangroves and the jaguars that inhabit them

Sarah Brown 11 Jul 2024

In Peru, conservationists and archaeologists unite to save a threatened gecko

James Hall 10 Jul 2024

Frog ‘saunas’ may help threatened frogs fight off deadly fungus

Liz Kimbrough 9 Jul 2024
Pastoralists in Somalia

To protect the planet’s rangelands, give pastoralists a boost, UN report says

Ashoka Mukpo 5 Jul 2024

Peru puts endemic fog oasis under protection

Dan Collyns 19 Jun 2024

Conservationists upbeat as zebra shark reintroduction in Raja Ampat gathers pace

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Jun 2024

In Brazil, conservationists try to save one of the world’s most endangered cats

Sarah Brown 13 Jun 2024

Amazon deforestation threatens one of Brazil’s key pollinators, study shows

Molly Herring 5 Jun 2024
Chun Seiha demonstrates the forest loss across Chi Ouk Boeung Prey, where almost all the large, valuable trees have been logged by Santana Agro. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Cambodian companies tied to abuses promoted by UN program, rights group alleges

Gerald Flynn 5 Jun 2024
Two male specimen of the Devils Hole Pupfish (Cyprinodon diabolis) photographed in the Devil's Hole, Nevada. Photo courtesy of Olin Feuerbacher/ USFWS (CC BY 2.0)

A tiny desert fish hits a 25 year population high in one of Earth’s harshest environments

Liz Kimbrough 30 May 2024

Rewilding efforts throw a lifeline to Brazil’s most trafficked endangered bird

James Hall 30 May 2024

What’s at stake for the environment in Mexico’s upcoming election?

Maxwell Radwin 27 May 2024

Otter-preneurs: Female sea otters lead the way in tool use for survival

Liz Kimbrough 24 May 2024

All aboard Tren Maya: Here’s what we found riding Mexico’s controversial railway

Maxwell Radwin 24 Apr 2024
Two male proboscis monkeys in Malaysian Borneo.

Indonesian capital project finally gets guidelines to avoid harm to biodiversity

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Apr 2024
Long-tailed macaques living in the mountains of Cambodia's Battambang province

Cambodian official acquitted in trial that exposed monkey-laundering scheme

Gerald Flynn 29 Mar 2024
jaguar cub

Jaguar release offers a lifeline to Gran Chaco’s lonely big cats

Sarah Brown 27 Mar 2024
Amazon river dolphins (Inia geoffrensis). Image courtesy of WWF Sweden.

Ancient giant river dolphin species found in the Peruvian Amazon

Liz Kimbrough 20 Mar 2024
turtles Peru

In Peru, conservationists and authorities struggle to get turtle eggs off the menu

Ryan Biller 18 Mar 2024

Peru’s illegal pet monkey trade is also an infection superhighway

Carla Ruas 14 Mar 2024
The access road to the Stung Tatai Leu hydropower dam cuts through forest in the Central Cardamoms National Park, Koh Kong province, Cambodia in April 2022

New report details rights abuses in Cambodia’s Southern Cardamom REDD+ project

Gerald Flynn, Phoung Vantha 13 Mar 2024

Norway pension fund breaks with U.K. conglomerate Jardines over endangered orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Mar 2024

Indonesian gold mine expanding in ‘wrong direction’ into orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Mar 2024

Rehabilitation of Guatemalan fauna highlights opacity of illegal wildlife trade

Sandra Cuffe 7 Mar 2024
A juvenile northern pig-tailed macaque (Macaca leonina) held in a cage outside a gas station in Cambodia. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Impunity for Cambodia’s exotic pet owners as trade outpaces legislation

Gerald Flynn, Nehru Pry 7 Mar 2024

Biological field stations deliver high return on investment for conservation, study finds

Liz Kimbrough 6 Mar 2024
De Winton's Golden Mole, a blind mole that lives beneath the sand and has sensitive hearing that can detect vibrations from movement above the surface. (Photo by JP Le Roux)

We’re losing species faster than we can find them, study shows

Liz Kimbrough 27 Feb 2024

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