Cities may save some species from extinction, but they don’t save species’ ecological functions
Apr 19, 2019, 3:05 pm By Mongabay
The responses of wildlife species when their natural habitat is converted into urban areas are many…New ancient, giant carnivore described from bones in museum drawer
Apr 19, 2019, 12:34 pm By Mongabay
For a long time, some of the fossil remains that had been excavated from a site in western Kenya in…In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, April 18, 2019
Apr 19, 2019, 10:58 am By Mongabay
Tropical forests The American Museum of Natural History has withdrawn its hosting of an event by a…Singapore acquits trader in world’s biggest rosewood bust, worth $50m
Apr 19, 2019, 8:00 am By Mongabay
Singapore’s highest court has acquitted a businessman who brought Malagasy rosewood valued at $50…Peru’s first autonomous indigenous gov’t strikes back against deforestation
Apr 18, 2019, 5:49 pm By Mongabay
PUERTO GALILEA, Peru — In 2009, special decrees signed by then-president Alan García opened up…Lift-off for thermal-imaging system to estimate wildlife populations
Apr 18, 2019, 3:01 pm By Mongabay
A prototype system to identify rare species in real time using thermal-imaging cameras mounted on…Sri Lanka calls for increased protection for endemic lizards
Apr 18, 2019, 1:10 pm By Mongabay
Sri Lanka will push for international protection of its endemic lizards threatened by smuggling…U.S. companies implicated in illegal timber trade from West Africa
Apr 18, 2019, 12:41 pm By Mongabay
An illegal timber trade supply chain stretching from Chinese companies operating out of two…Illegal charcoal trade threatens Myanmar’s remaining mangroves
Apr 18, 2019, 9:37 am By Mongabay
RANONG, Thailand — Beyond a metal gate in Ranong, a port town in southern Thailand, a warehouse is…Rise in crocodile sightings linked to habitat degradation in Indonesia
Apr 18, 2019, 1:16 am By Mongabay
AMBON, Indonesia — Last February, a crocodile in eastern Indonesia crawled right into a trap. The…Swelling amount of plastic in the ocean confirmed by new study
Apr 17, 2019, 3:11 pm By Mongabay
Scientists have fretted over the expanding masses of plastic in the ocean for decades. Most have…Omura’s whale much more widespread across the globe than previously thought
Apr 17, 2019, 12:14 pm By Mongabay
The global range of the world’s most recently discovered large whale species is starting to come…Shade or sun? Forest structure affects tree responses to Amazon drought
Apr 17, 2019, 11:54 am By MongabayAn intact forest canopy in a sustainably managed forest in Pará state, Brazil. Degraded forests,…China seizes over 2,700 elephant tusks in massive bust
Apr 17, 2019, 9:45 am By Mongabay
In one of the biggest busts in recent years, Chinese officials have seized 2,748 elephant tusks…IUCN calls for moratorium on projects impacting rarest great ape species
Apr 17, 2019, 8:36 am By Mongabay
JAKARTA — The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has called for a halt to all…A park in Bolivia bears the brunt of a plan to export electricity
Apr 17, 2019, 7:25 am By Mongabay
The peacefulness of Monte Punku is disrupted every day at lunchtime, when many vehicles and hundreds…Audio: Tool-using, ground-nesting chimp culture discovered in DR Congo
Apr 16, 2019, 4:53 pm By Mongabay
On today’s episode, we talk to primatologist Cleve Hicks, who recently led a research team that…Amazon could be biggest casualty of US-China Trade war, researchers warn
Apr 16, 2019, 12:48 pm By Mongabay
A single surviving tree amid a sea of soy. Photo credit: Jeff Belmonte on VisualHunt.com / CC…Last known female Yangtze giant softshell turtle dies in China
Apr 16, 2019, 12:24 pm By Mongabay
Until recently, there were just four known Yangtze giant softshell turtles in the world. On April…A fishy translocation highlights dangers of ‘taxonomic inflation’
Apr 16, 2019, 7:55 am By Mongabay
A tiny fish described in 2013 from a stream in Sri Lanka was apparently a known species that had…
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