Asian elephant footprints serve as safe spaces for frog nurseries
Aug 16, 2019, 6:49 am By MongabayWhile wandering through northwestern Myanmar in 2016, a group of scientists stumbled on hundreds of…Newly described giant extinct penguin and parrot once lived in New Zealand
Aug 16, 2019, 12:21 am By MongabayMillions of years ago, giant birds roamed ancient New Zealand. There was the moa, an extinct…Ekuri Initiative: Inside a Nigerian community’s battle to keep its forest
Aug 15, 2019, 8:03 pm By MongabayLAGOS, NIGERIA — Surrounded by smoke-capped dense forest thick with tall, evergreen trees and…Precision conservation: High tech to the rescue in the Peruvian Amazon
Aug 15, 2019, 10:26 am By MongabayThis story was supported in part by Conservation X Labs’ Artisanal Mining Grand Challenge, a…Nigeria finds itself at the heart of the illegal pangolin trade
Aug 15, 2019, 5:41 am By MongabayEPE, LAGOS – A babel of voices hangs in the misty air over the Oluwo bushmeat market in Epe, in…Europe-bred rhinos join South African cousins to repopulate Rwanda park
Aug 14, 2019, 5:47 pm By MongabayFive eastern black rhinos translocated from European zoos to Rwanda’s Akagera National Park have…From science to reporting (Insider)
Aug 14, 2019, 3:08 pm By MongabayWhen I was growing up, I always thought I would become a writer. I loved reading and writing, and…Indonesia forest-clearing ban is made permanent, but labeled ‘propaganda’
Aug 14, 2019, 6:55 am By MongabayJAKARTA — Indonesia’s president has made permanent a temporary moratorium on forest-clearing…Rainforest destruction accelerates in Honduras UNESCO site
Aug 13, 2019, 5:01 pm By MongabayPowerful drug-traffickers and landless farmers continue to push cattle ranching and illegal logging…Germany cuts $39.5 million in environmental funding to Brazil
Aug 13, 2019, 3:12 pm By MongabayA wide range of environmental and conservation projects in Brazil are at stake after the government…Sea Around Us: Global fisheries data and the goose that laid the golden egg (commentary)
Aug 13, 2019, 12:19 pm By MongabayThe end of the 2010s will be remembered as the time when the world realized that we are in the midst…Big cat trade driven by demand for traditional Asian medicine, according to report
Aug 13, 2019, 10:17 am By MongabayTraditional Asian medicine is driving the growing international trade in big cat products and…World’s largest frog moves heavy rocks to build nests, study finds
Aug 13, 2019, 9:00 am By MongabayThe world’s largest known living frog species doesn’t build ordinary nests. It does a lot of…Campaigners push for reform of outdated CITES wildlife trade system
Aug 12, 2019, 5:42 pm By MongabayGroundbreaking reforms to the $320 billion legal wildlife trade are being put up for discussion at a…A family’s commitment: 30 years of the Goldman Environmental Prize (commentary)
Aug 12, 2019, 12:45 pm By MongabayOne morning in the late 1980s, San Francisco businessman and philanthropist Richard Goldman was…Bolsonaro administration approves 290 new pesticide products for use
Aug 12, 2019, 12:11 pm By MongabayA pesticide warning sign. Image courtesy of Austin Valley on flickr. Brazil is experiencing an…Is the rhino horn trade a cartel? Economic analysis suggests it works like one
Aug 12, 2019, 5:04 am By MongabayWhen economist Adrian Lopes read a recent report by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), a question popped…Sri Lanka pushes for protection of sea cucumbers amid overexploitation
Aug 10, 2019, 6:09 am By MongabayIn the early 1980s, a common sight along the still unpolluted beaches of southern Sri Lanka was that…Tests show multi-rotor UAVs can improve cetacean behavioral studies
Aug 9, 2019, 6:43 pm By MongabayA New Zealand-based research team assessing the utility of small, multi-rotor unmanned aerial…Gov’t takedown of illegal gold mining in Peru shows promise, but at a cost
Aug 9, 2019, 2:43 pm By MongabayPUERTO MALDONADO, Peru — Luis Hidalgo Okimura, the new governor of Peru’s Madre de Dios region,…
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