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‘Status symbols’: Japan emerging as major hub for illegal trade in slow lorises due to their popularity as pets

For Leap Day, 35 pictures of frogs

The week in environmental news – Feb 26, 2016

Can privatization save parks?

Thailand’s efforts to protect wild tigers starting to pay off, but recovery slower than expected

The dangers of China’s ‘thumb monkey’ trend

‘Biogeographical oddity’: New monitor lizard is the only large predator on remote Pacific Island

Soil carbon could be key to protecting global biodiversity and climate at same time

Indonesia’s peat peninsula being drained into oblivion, study finds

A new plan to pull the “forest giraffe” back from the brink of extinction

Eight newly discovered species of whip spiders could soon become extinct

Oil palm plantations need to protect orangutans (commentary)

Communities and cutting-edge tech keep Cambodia’s gibbons singing

Aquaculture comes to Lake Victoria, but will it help wild fish?

The week in environmental news – Feb 19, 2016

It’s World Pangolin Day again. What can you do to help?

To stop the Zika virus from spreading in Brazil, specialists call for an ‘environmental revolution’

After Cecil: lion perturbation, conservation, and value to a global society

Recovery of Island foxes a ‘historic success’; officials recommend removing them from endangered species list

Ubiquitous microplastic pollution in oceans found to disrupt oyster reproduction

‘Fluorescent flashlights’: Newly discovered glow-in-the-dark polyps light up snails in the Red Sea

Tracking technologies help to identify key marine areas for basking sharks

Bangladesh sticks with coal power plant project despite major backlash

Study gauges use of tea as buffer crop to curb mountain gorilla raids

Guatemala’s La Pasión River is still poisoned, nine months after an ecological disaster

Toxic beetles and poisonous plants: Study reveals how southern Africa’s ‘bushmen’ make deadly poison arrows

Focus on breeding sites and biodiversity to control Zika, says leading entomologist

Scientists see like predators to prove camouflage works

Bolivia’s second largest lake disappears, due to desertification and contamination

The week in environmental news – Feb 12, 2016

Can Cutting-Edge Drone Technology Help Answer the Age-Old Question of Bipedalism?

Focus on great apes, draws attention from other species, finds study

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