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How acoustic monitoring gave us a last chance to save the vaquita

Rachel Fritts 22 Feb 2017

Scrapping Nigerian superhighway buffer isn’t enough, say conservation groups

John Cannon 22 Feb 2017

Naomi Oreskes on what stories we can’t let get lost in the noise of 2017 and why scientists should speak up

Mike Gaworecki 21 Feb 2017

Proposed Trump policy threatens Critically Endangered Grauer’s gorilla

Sharon Guynup 21 Feb 2017

Scimitar-horned oryx return to the Sahara nearly two decades after going extinct in the wild

Mike Gaworecki 20 Feb 2017

African bush babies gain a new genus

John Cannon 20 Feb 2017

Singapore’s wild bird trade threatens exotic species

Shreya Dasgupta 20 Feb 2017

It’s World Pangolin Day!

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Feb 2017

Protected areas found to be ‘significant’ sources of carbon emissions

Benji Jones 17 Feb 2017
A close relative of Geckolepis maculata, Gecklolepis megalepis, a new species of fish-scale gecko, was described earlier this year. Photo courtesy of Frank Glaw

Newly discovered gecko loses scales in ‘really bizarre’ behavior

Benji Jones 16 Feb 2017

Saving Jamaica Bay’s diamondback terrapins

Sam Lee 16 Feb 2017

Camera traps proving to be powerful tool for studying endangered species in remote locations

Mike Gaworecki 15 Feb 2017

Getting there: The rush to turn the Amazon into a soy transport corridor

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 15 Feb 2017

Seven ‘most wanted’ elephant poachers arrested in Malaysia

Shreya Dasgupta 15 Feb 2017

Endangered species and habitats threatened by US-Mexico border wall

Rina Herzl 14 Feb 2017

Loving apes celebrated this Valentine’s Day

Mongabay.com 14 Feb 2017

Revisiting Java’s little Africa: Indonesia’s safari potential

Erik Meijaard 13 Feb 2017

Trees need a little help to reclaim deforested land, study finds

Mike Gaworecki 13 Feb 2017

India’s Manas National Park illustrates the human dimension of rhino conservation

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 13 Feb 2017

Field Notes: Predicting how the pet trade spreads infectious disease

Elizabeth Devitt 13 Feb 2017

Investors learning to pay heed to community land rights

John Cannon 13 Feb 2017

Increasing tree cover threatens world’s most endangered antelope

Shreya Dasgupta 13 Feb 2017
A necklace made from mpingo and another local hardwood. Mpingo’s dark, lustrous properties has made it one of the most valuable timbers in the world. Photo by Sophie Tremblay for Mongabay

In one Tanzanian village, survival is intimately linked to forest conservation

Sophie Tremblay, Willy Lowry 12 Feb 2017

Trophy hunters overstate contribution of big game hunting to African economies: Report

Mike Gaworecki 10 Feb 2017

Trump administration delays listing of rusty patched bumblebee as endangered

Shreya Dasgupta 10 Feb 2017

Camera traps reveal undiscovered leopard population in Javan forest

Hariyawan A. Wahyudi 10 Feb 2017

Ecological trap ensnares endangered African penguins

John Cannon 10 Feb 2017
Kalapalo tribal men, an indigenous group that lives in the Xingu Resex in 2008. Photo by Eduardo Giacomazzi/Wikimedia Commons

Brazil’s ‘river people’ join forces with indigenous communities, offer alternative to deforestation

Maximo Anderson 10 Feb 2017

World’s largest tropical peatlands discovered in swamp forests of Congo Basin

Mike Gaworecki 9 Feb 2017

Anger rises over human-elephant conflict in Tanzania

Adam C. Stein, Brennan PetersonWood, Hannah Shaw 9 Feb 2017

The clouded leopard: conserving Asia’s elusive arboreal acrobat

Linda Lombardi 9 Feb 2017

Fighting rhino poaching in India, CSI-style

Giovanni Ortolani 9 Feb 2017

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