Africa’s slender-snouted crocodile is not one but two species
Oct 26, 2018, 12:25 pm By Mongabay
At first glance, the slender-snouted crocodiles living in Lake Tanganyika in Central Africa look…In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, October 26, 2018
Oct 26, 2018, 11:38 am By Mongabay
Tropical forests New research offers alternative tropical tree species for bioenergy production…Whales and dolphins change the way they communicate in a noisy ocean
Oct 26, 2018, 10:43 am By MongabayNoise from ships changes the way that whales and dolphins communicate with each other, according to…Bird-rich Indonesian island yields up new songbird species
Oct 26, 2018, 10:15 am By MongabayJAKARTA — Less than a decade after the world was introduced to the latest species of Asian…Peru seizes plane with 30kg of cocaine in Bahuaja-Sonene National Park
Oct 25, 2018, 6:30 pm By Mongabay
LIMA, Peru — A joint operation by law enforcement agencies in Peru managed to seize 30 kilograms…Genome-wide study confirms there are six tiger subspecies
Oct 25, 2018, 11:35 am By MongabayWhile there were perhaps as many as 1000,000 tigers in the world a century ago, scientists say that…Indonesia’s anti-graft agency ‘eager to intervene’ in palm oil sector
Oct 25, 2018, 1:11 am By MongabayIndonesia’s graft-ridden palm oil sector is in need of an “overhaul,” according to the…Trapper, turned conservationist: Bill Wood (obituary)
Oct 24, 2018, 11:51 pm By MongabayOn October 10th the world lost an unlikely conservation hero: Bill Wood, a trapper who turned his…Violence spikes during Brazil elections, rural minorities fear worse
Oct 24, 2018, 5:50 pm By MongabayAloisio Sampaio, a trade unionist known as Alenquer, and leader of a landless peasant occupation. He…Citizen Ape: The fight for personhood for humans’ closest relatives
Oct 24, 2018, 4:57 pm By Mongabay
Cecilia spent more than 30 years locked up without a trial. After the death of her companions, she…Camera trap photos confirm discovery of lowland bongo in Uganda for first time
Oct 24, 2018, 3:01 pm By MongabayCamera trap photos have confirmed the first-ever sighting of the world’s largest forest antelope…Stay or go? Understanding a partial seasonal elephant migration
Oct 24, 2018, 2:45 pm By Mongabay
African elephants use areas of grassland, bushland, and woodland, but how do they move through these…Bat Week: the super powers of bats (photos)
Oct 24, 2018, 2:07 pm By Mongabay
Sure, you may know that bats echolocate to control insect populations, but bats have other offbeat…CITES rejects another Madagascar plan to sell illegal rosewood stockpiles
Oct 24, 2018, 12:49 pm By Mongabay
A single log of rosewood from Madagascar can sell for thousands of dollars in China, and a bed made…Absent for decades, zebras reintroduced to park in southern Tanzania
Oct 24, 2018, 7:51 am By MongabayA herd of zebra now roams the southern highlands of Tanzania for the first time since the 1960s.…Two black rhinos found dead in Chad after move from South Africa
Oct 24, 2018, 6:27 am By Mongabay
Two of the six black rhinoceroses flown to Chad’s Zakouma National Park from South Africa earlier…New research measures impacts of China’s elephant ivory trade ban
Oct 23, 2018, 6:01 pm By Mongabay
When China banned all commercial trade in elephant ivory and shuttered its domestic ivory markets at…Amazon and climate science threatened if Bolsonaro elected Brazil’s president (commentary)
Oct 23, 2018, 11:38 am By Mongabay
A howler monkey. Eighteen Brazilian scientists have expressed concern over the environmental policy…Study warns of dire ecological, social fallout from Sumatran dam
Oct 23, 2018, 8:08 am By MongabayJAKARTA — The last place on Earth that’s home to wild tigers, rhinos, orangutans and elephants…Chinese demand wiping out forests in the Solomon Islands: New report
Oct 22, 2018, 8:56 pm By MongabayLogging in the Solomon Islands, a small country of 667,000 people in the South Pacific, is…
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