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Pleione praecox flowers.

Illegal orchid trade threatens Nepal’s ‘tigers of the plant world’

Abhaya Raj Joshi 28 Dec 2022
A sound file revealing rich data on biodiversity. Image by Rhett Butler for Mongabay.

A bittersweet bioacoustics bonanza

Mike Gaworecki 27 Dec 2022

Zero-deforestation commitments can push agriculture to other rich biomes, study warns

Maurício Brum, Sílvia Lisboa 27 Dec 2022
Pits dug by the bears.

Of Yetis and extinct turtles: Top wildlife discoveries in Nepal in 2022

Abhaya Raj Joshi 26 Dec 2022

Fighting wildlife trafficking in Peru: Q&A with prosecutor Alberto Caraza

Maxwell Radwin 26 Dec 2022

Guatemala landfill feeds ‘trash islands’ hundreds of miles away in Honduras

Maxwell Radwin 23 Dec 2022

Unsustainable fishing to be banned in Irrawaddy dolphin’s Bornean sanctuary

Basten Gokkon 22 Dec 2022
Kelp Forest in Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. Photo by Chad King/NOAA.

California’s network of marine protected areas must be strengthened and expanded (commentary)

Ben Grundy 22 Dec 2022
seedling

Mexican restoration dominated by non-environmental interests

Dimitri Selibas 22 Dec 2022
A manta ray.

Strong marine protected areas credited with manta ray surge in Indonesia

Cassie Freund 22 Dec 2022

Landmark bill will ban the shark fin trade in the US

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Dec 2022
A greater one-horned rhino and her calf.

Crafting Nepal’s conservation success: Q&A with Sharad Chandra Adhikary

Abhaya Raj Joshi 21 Dec 2022
A capped langur crosses a canopy bridge.

Wildlife at risk in Bangladesh as roads run rampant through protected forests

Maksuda Aziz 21 Dec 2022
Deforestation in Borneo.

Up to half of tropical forestland cleared for agriculture isn’t put to use, research shows

Calvin Rock Odhiambo 21 Dec 2022
Illustration of a Stellar's sea cow.

Extinct sea cow’s underwater engineering legacy lives on today, study finds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 20 Dec 2022
A young jaguar.

Brazil’s Pantanal is at risk of collapse, scientists say

Sharon Guynup 20 Dec 2022
From center left to right: David Cooper, CBD Deputy Executive Secretary; COP 15 President Huang Runqiu, Minister of Ecology and Environment, China; Xia Yingxian, China; and Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, CBD Executive Secretary. Image by UN biodiversity via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Nations adopt Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

Latoya Abulu, Sahana Ghosh 20 Dec 2022

Mongabay’s Conservation Potential series investigates: Where do we need to protect biodiversity?

Liz Kimbrough 19 Dec 2022
Lulilan obscurus is a newly discovered scorpionfly from Nepal. Image courtesy of Rainer Willmann

‘Bizarre’ newly classified scorpionfly shines light on Nepal’s insect diversity

Abhaya Raj Joshi 17 Dec 2022

COP15 deal needs a ‘holistic approach to conservation’: Q&A with Joan Carling and Ramiro Batzin

Dimitri Selibas 16 Dec 2022

Emmanuel Macron’s “Biodiversity Credits”: What are we talking about? (commentary)

Alain Karsenty 16 Dec 2022
A dead dolphin washed up.

Black Sea dolphin deaths prompt ecocide allegations against Russia

Elizabeth Fitt 16 Dec 2022
Shanties stand along the bank of Buriganga River.

In Bangladesh, Ecologically Critical Areas exist only on paper

Abu Siddique 16 Dec 2022
The developers on Koh Toteung smothered the island's corals in sand while creating an artificial beach in June 2022.

Island shopping: Cambodian officials buy up the Cardamoms’ coast

Gerald Flynn, Andy Ball, Vutha Srey 16 Dec 2022
New saplings grow on a rotting stump.

Japan’s example: Can forest planting reduce climate disaster risk?

Annelise Giseburt 15 Dec 2022
Residents of Hanging Site.

In Sierra Leone’s fishing villages, a reality check for climate aid

Ashoka Mukpo 15 Dec 2022
Reginaldo Oliveira.

In Brazil’s agricultural heartland, rivers run dry as monoculture advances

Ana Ionova 14 Dec 2022
Community members restore coastal mangrove forests.

Nearly half of replanted trees die, but careful site selection can help

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 14 Dec 2022
Two western hoolock gibbons.

Trafficking and habitat loss spell doom for Bangladesh’s western hoolock gibbons

Rafiqul Islam 14 Dec 2022
First Nations drummers at U.N. COP15 Nature and Culture summit. Image by UN Biodiversity via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Amid struggling COP15 talks, Indigenous leaders from Canada offer some solutions

Chris Arsenault 14 Dec 2022
Liana

Lianas affect forest carbon uptake differently by region, study shows

Carolyn Cowan 14 Dec 2022
Wildebeest in the savannas.

Counterintuitive: Large wild herbivores may help slow climate change

Tim Vernimmen 13 Dec 2022

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