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A leopard.

In Nepal, conservationists suspect link between canine distemper and human-leopard conflict

Abhaya Raj Joshi 10 Feb 2023

New reserve in Ecuador secures over 3 million acres of forest

Maxwell Radwin 9 Feb 2023

No croak: New silent frog species described from Tanzania’s ‘sky island’ forests

Liz Kimbrough 9 Feb 2023
Oceanographer Canyon, creating an ideal microhabitat for a deep-water coral community and a couple of octopus. Image courtesy of NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program, 2013 Northeast U.S. Canyons Expedition.

Win for science as BP pressured into cleaning up offshore gas plans

Elodie Toto 9 Feb 2023
Ann Dumaliang.

Saving Masungi, a last green corridor of the Philippines: Q&A with Ann Dumaliang

Jewel S. Cabrera 9 Feb 2023
A fresh tilapia from Lake Toba, where the fish are raised by small farmers and large companies, for local consumption and for export to countries like the U.S. Photo by Drriss & Marrionn/Flickr

Sustainable fish farming & agroecology buoy Kenyan communities

David Njagi 8 Feb 2023
Aplastodiscus leucopygius.

Restore linked habitat to protect tropical amphibians from disease: Study

Sean Mowbray 8 Feb 2023
A researcher shows one of the illustrations that are part of the stingless bee project. Image courtesy of Conservation International Colombia.

Indigenous women record age-old knowledge of bees in Colombia’s Amazon

Astrid Arellano 8 Feb 2023
Mount Namuli.

Forests & finance: Setbacks for a rare bat, and progress for an oil pipeline

Mongabay.com 8 Feb 2023
A margay.

Forest loss may push tree-dependent marbled cats into threatened category

Sean Mowbray 8 Feb 2023

Pollinator declines linked to half million early human deaths annually: Study

Jeremy Hance 2 Feb 2023

The illegal jaguar trade is thriving online. Why aren’t governments stopping it?

Maxwell Radwin 2 Feb 2023
Gotu kola image by Shahidul Hasan Roman via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

‘War with weeds’ lacks ecological understanding and empathy (commentary)

Nimal Chandrasena 1 Feb 2023
A monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus).

Western monarch populations reach highest number in decades

Liz Kimbrough 31 Jan 2023
A Cape Mountain Zebra and Young.

Temperature extremes, plus ecological marginalization, raise species risk: Studies

Tim Vernimmen 31 Jan 2023

‘Grumpiest cat’ leaves its calling card on the world’s highest mountain

Abhaya Raj Joshi 31 Jan 2023

Canopy bridges connect forests, wildlife, and international researchers

Liz Kimbrough 30 Jan 2023
An elephant.

Elephants promote jumbo trees, boosting the carbon stores in Africa’s forests

Malavika Vyawahare 27 Jan 2023
A leopard cub on a tree branch.

With climate change, Nepal’s leopards get a bigger range — and more problems

Abhaya Raj Joshi 27 Jan 2023
Golden snub-nosed monkey are listed as an endangered species by the IUCN. Photo by Jack Hynes / Wikimedia Commons.

In wake of ‘natural’ disasters, not reducing biodiversity loss is a big missed opportunity (commentary)

Roger S. Pulwarty 26 Jan 2023
An Irrawaddy dolphin.

Banned but abundant, gillnets pose main threat to Bangladesh’s river dolphins

Abu Siddique 26 Jan 2023
Blue starfish in coral reef.

Re-carbonizing the sea: Scientists to start testing a big ocean carbon idea

Jeremy Hance 25 Jan 2023

Logging threats loom over tree kangaroo refuge in Papua New Guinea

John Cannon 25 Jan 2023
A fishing cat.

Plastic works its way up the food chain to hit fishing cats, study shows

Sean Mowbray 25 Jan 2023
Tower for measuring forest CO2

Even in recovery, previously logged tropical forests are carbon sources: Study

Carolyn Cowan 25 Jan 2023

Study identifies priority forests in Oregon for max conservation benefit

Liz Kimbrough 24 Jan 2023

Botanists are disappearing at a critical time

Mike DiGirolamo 24 Jan 2023
A staffer prepares seedlings in a nursery.

From Japan to Brazil: Reforesting the Amazon with the Miyawaki method

Nieves Zúñiga 24 Jan 2023
Juvenile Salmon in Estuary. Image by Travish Campbell via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

As sea lice feast away on dwindling salmon, First Nations decide the fate of salmon farms

Spoorthy Raman 23 Jan 2023
A greater one-horned rhino and her calf.

Rare case of rhino poaching jolts conservation community in Nepal

Abhaya Raj Joshi 23 Jan 2023

Colombia’s ‘tree of life’ births a new culinary and conservation movement

Ocean Malandra 23 Jan 2023
A pair of jaguars.

Ecotourism and education: Win-win solution for Pantanal jaguars and ranchers

Sarah Brown 20 Jan 2023

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