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NYT explores life and impact of Chico Mendes, “a Fighter for the Amazon”

Mike Gaworecki 28 Nov 2016

Innovative technology creates safe haven for rhinos

Laurel Neme 28 Nov 2016

Cash-strapped rhino groups turn to crowdfunding, with little success

Jeremy Hance 28 Nov 2016

Top scientists: Amazon’s Tapajós Dam Complex “a crisis in the making”

Claire Salisbury 28 Nov 2016
Ezekiel Philipo, a member of the Hadzabe tribe, works as a village game scout for Carbon Tanzania. The Hadzabe are considered one of the last hunter-gatherer tribes in the world and are the only remaining hunter-gatherer tribe in Tanzania. They use homemade bows and poison arrows to hunt animals like antelope, gazelles, baboons and quail. Photo by Willy Lowry for Mongabay.

Ancient hunter-gatherer tribe protects traditional forest with help from carbon trading

Sophie Tremblay, Willy Lowry 28 Nov 2016
Bags of coffee at the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange's warehouse in Awassa. Photo courtesy of DFID - UK Department for International Development

Development of Ethiopia’s Yayu biosphere a lifeline for organic coffee

Elias Gebreselassie 27 Nov 2016

Conservation in oil palm is possible (commentary)

Erik Meijaard 25 Nov 2016

Protests against Bangladesh power plant begin in Dhaka and Cambridge

Shreya Dasgupta 25 Nov 2016

Timber trading platform aims to increase transparency, legality

John Cannon 24 Nov 2016

Tigers face ‘unprecedented’ threat from transport projects: WWF

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Nov 2016

Peru rainforest lost to illegal gold mining eclipses 10 Manhattans

Benji Jones 24 Nov 2016

The Javan rhino: protected and threatened by a volcano

Tom Peeters 23 Nov 2016

Palm oil culprits apprehended in the Leuser Ecosystem. Who sent them?

Junaidi Hanafiah 23 Nov 2016

Scientists discover the real vocalists behind the ‘singing snake’: tree frogs

Shreya Dasgupta 23 Nov 2016

KEDR: Watching over the cedar forests of the Russian Far East

Julia John 23 Nov 2016
Forest cleared for oil palm in Malaysian Borneo. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

American retirement funds contribute to deforestation and climate change

Mike Gaworecki 22 Nov 2016

Silent soldiers of the extreme, or why I’m glad I’m not a wild yak

Joel Berger 22 Nov 2016

Humpback whales learn habitat loyalty from their mothers, Alaskan study shows

Teresa L. Carey 22 Nov 2016

Military training areas can be important wildlife refuges: new study

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Nov 2016

If you’re in the U.S., your ramen noodles might become a lot safer for forests

Mike Gaworecki 21 Nov 2016

Peru’s Manu National Park declared world’s top biodiversity hotspot

Milton López Tarabochia 21 Nov 2016

Over-fertilization diminishes the biodiversity of global grasslands

Emma Hiolski 21 Nov 2016

Amazon oil spill impacts indigenous villages on Teles Pires River

Zoe Sullivan 21 Nov 2016

Yosemite’s yellow-legged frogs bounce back from near extinction

Ula Chrobak 21 Nov 2016

Don’t feed the orangutans — a warning unheeded at popular ecotourism stop

Aria Danaparamita 21 Nov 2016

Major Congo Basin forest conference convenes in Rwanda

John Cannon, Ric Francis 21 Nov 2016

Tracking down logging roads in the Congo Basin

John Cannon 20 Nov 2016
Kahuzi-Biega National Park rangers stand in formation at the park in October, 2016. Photo by Thomas Nicolon for Mongabay.

Protecting gorillas at all costs: park rangers of the Congo

Thomas Nicolon 20 Nov 2016

Off-the-shelf hobby drones are helping save elephants in Tanzania

Mike Gaworecki 18 Nov 2016

Where have all the lutungs gone? Mystery monkeys fast disappearing

William H. Funk 18 Nov 2016

Large branches fall from the western Amazon rainforest canopy at a surprising rate

Sarah McQuate 18 Nov 2016

A data trove to support a hoped-for shark sanctuary in Indonesia

Marge Segre 18 Nov 2016

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