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Frigatebird displaying in the Galapagos. The Wyss Campaign for Nature partnered with the Charles Darwin Foundation to strengthen the management of the 138,872 square kilometer Galapagos Marine Reserve. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Despite COVID, political divides, conservation can advance: Hansjörg Wyss

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Oct 2020

Planned road projects threaten Sumatran rhino habitat, experts say

Junaidi Hanafiah 26 Oct 2020

Brazil’s Amazon dam plans: Ominous warnings of future destruction (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 22 Oct 2020
Jacob Hamblin Arch, Escalante, Utah. Photo by Tina Butler.

Public lands and parks are our common heritage: Bruce Babbitt

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Oct 2020
Rainbow over the Colombian Amazon. Photo © Wade Davis

Colombia, ethnobotany, and America’s decline: An interview with Wade Davis

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Oct 2020

At-risk Cerrado mammals need fully-protected parks to survive: Researchers

Sharon Guynup 20 Oct 2020

In Uganda, safeguarding chimpanzees against the scourge of snaring

Alex Dudley 20 Oct 2020

Why do wombats poop cubes? Candid Animal Cam is in Australia

Romina Castagnino 20 Oct 2020

Deforestation threatens to wipe out a primate melting pot in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Oct 2020

Madagascar experiments with drones for its massive reforestation effort

Rivonala Razafison 19 Oct 2020

The Sumatran rhino is sliding into extinction. It doesn’t have to

Mongabay.com 19 Oct 2020
A scarlet macaw reared by the WCS Guatemala Program is ready to fly into the forest. Photo courtesy of WCS.

Captive-reared scarlet macaws get a second chance at life in the wild

Liz Kimbrough 16 Oct 2020

Gorongosa National Park is being reforested via coffee and agroforestry

Erik Hoffner 15 Oct 2020

A radio program is helping save critically endangered gorillas in Nigeria

Mike Gaworecki 14 Oct 2020

‘Luckiest people’: Encountering a newborn Sumatran rhino in the wild

Basten Gokkon 14 Oct 2020

Mexico: Four decades of community lessons from the forests of Durango

Marco A. Hernández T. 13 Oct 2020

What is the Mexican hairy dwarf porcupine? Candid Animal Cam heads to Mesoamerica

Romina Castagnino 13 Oct 2020

The post-COVID opportunity for the environment: An interview with the GEF’s Carlos Manuel Rodriguez

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Oct 2020

In Bali, the pandemic unravels a hard-won campaign to save Benoa Bay

Alaine Johnson 12 Oct 2020
A local fisherman in Tonga. Tonga has less than 1% marine protected areas around the island. Photo by Asian Development Bank via Flickr. (CC BY-NC 2.0).

We’re not protecting enough of the right areas to save biodiversity: Study

Liz Kimbrough 9 Oct 2020

The Amazon savanna? Rainforest teeters on the brink as climate heats up

Mongabay.com 8 Oct 2020

Brazilian frog believed ‘extinct’ for 50+ years, found with eDNA testing

Peter Yeung 6 Oct 2020

Automakers fuelling deforestation, dispossession in Paraguay’s Gran Chaco: report

Mongabay.com 6 Oct 2020

Meet the red fox found in the Northern Hemisphere on Candid Animal Cam

Romina Castagnino 6 Oct 2020
A mother brown bear and her two cubs in the Gästrikland region of Sweden. Image by Roger Borgelid for Mongabay.

As predators return to Sweden’s wild, ecotourism looks to change mindsets

Johan Augustin 2 Oct 2020

When roads cross wilderness areas, plant pathogens can hitch a ride

Ian Morse 2 Oct 2020

A Philippine tribe’s plant-based medical tradition gets its moment

Bong S. Sarmiento 2 Oct 2020
Mycena haematopus (Burgundydrop Bonnet)

World’s plants and fungi a frontier of discovery, if we can protect them: Report

Liz Kimbrough 1 Oct 2020

World’s protected areas lack connections, recent study finds

John Cannon 1 Oct 2020

In Sumatra, forest edge communities must be at the center of conservation efforts (commentary)

Roderick T.J. Buiskool 30 Sep 2020
Rainforest rainbow in Sabah. Image by Rhett Butler for Mongabay.

World leaders endorse ‘Pledge for Nature’ to address planetary emergency

Liz Kimbrough 29 Sep 2020

How loud are howler monkeys? Candid Animal Cam is in the trees this week

Romina Castagnino 29 Sep 2020

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