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In Venezuela, natural regeneration helps restore a threatened cloud forest

María Fernanda Rodríguez 10 Sep 2024
Nakphul (Lantana camara L.),

Government inaction leaves Nepal without strategy to tackle invasive species

Abhaya Raj Joshi 29 Aug 2024
Close up of the shiny, bulbous brown compound eyes and dark brown and blue thorax of a Gambles's flatwing's (Neurolestes nigeriensis). Image © Jan van Leeuwen.

Search for rare Nigerian damselflies finds forest habitats under threat

Ryan Truscott 22 Aug 2024
Red-throated bee-eaters (Merops bulocki), Pehonko, Benin. Image by Yves Bas via iNaturalist (CC BY 4.0).

Birdsong rings out once again in Togo’s sacred forest of Titiyo

Charles Kolou 7 Aug 2024

As climate change shakes up global map of venomous snakes, health risks abound

Suzana Camargo 5 Aug 2024
A common Jezebel (Delias eucharis).

Scientists are racing to save South Asia’s butterflies from the threat of extinction

Hailey Smalley 31 Jul 2024

Cambodia’s largest mangrove forest is ‘teeming with life,’ biodiversity survey finds

Anton L. Delgado 30 Jul 2024

Rhino poop draws all the deer (and boars and more) to the yard, study finds

Abhaya Raj Joshi 26 Jul 2024

Frog ‘saunas’ may help threatened frogs fight off deadly fungus

Liz Kimbrough 9 Jul 2024

New study reaffirms Indigenous lands key to mitigating climate change in Brazil

Sarah Sax 25 Jun 2024
Members of BirdWatch Zambia with binoculars, pointing at something interesting out of the frame. Image © WeForest

Zambian forest reserve rebounds with a little assistance

Ryan Truscott 20 Jun 2024

Peru puts endemic fog oasis under protection

Dan Collyns 19 Jun 2024
A fire salamander, vulnerable on the IUCN list.

Know your salamander: To conserve amphibians, study their intelligence (commentary)

Deyatima Ghosh 13 Jun 2024

A Brazilian city restores its mangroves to protect against climate change

Letícia Klein 3 Jun 2024

Alaska’s Arctic rivers turn rusty orange as permafrost thaws

Liz Kimbrough 31 May 2024

An ancestral solution ensures water for Peruvian alpaca farmers, but is it enough?

Elizabeth Salazar Vega 30 May 2024

Yucatán Peninsula’s hidden underground life tracks changes at the surface

Astrid Arellano 29 May 2024

A fishing community celebrates its right to manage a Brazilian state park

Luís Patriani 28 May 2024

Collective effort monitors Amazon wildlife in heavily logged Brazil state

Beatriz Santomauro 24 May 2024
One of the roughly 1,300 sacred Nara deer seen close up.

Messengers of the gods: Nara’s ‘sacred’ deer at a conservation crossroads

Annelise Giseburt 22 May 2024

Chile to protect some salt flats, but selection lacks data, scientists say

Barinia Montoya 22 May 2024
Coffee beans on a plant.

As coffee expands in Bangladesh hills, conservationists worry about ecosystems

Abu Siddique 21 May 2024
Forest clearing for soy in Parecis in the state of Rondonia

New satellite data documents deforestation across ecosystems worldwide

Abhishyant Kidangoor 20 May 2024
shrimp farm

Venezuela’s shrimp farms push for sustainability against hardship and oil spills

Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres, María Fernanda Rodríguez 15 May 2024
A red-whiskered bulbul in Nijhum Dwip.

Bangladesh island’s switch from solar power to fossil fuels threatens birds

Sadiqur Rahman 14 May 2024

Fishers, scientists restore mangroves on a Mexican isle wrecked by salt mining

Astrid Arellano 13 May 2024
A fishing cat caught on camera wandering through a shrimp farm in Thailand, where wildcats can run into conflict with local communities.

Saving Asia’s fishing cat means protecting threatened wetland habitat

Sean Mowbray 9 May 2024
Savannah elephants at Majete NP, Malawi. Image by Peter Steward via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)

Malawi police arrest elephant poachers in Kasungu National Park

Charles Mpaka 18 Apr 2024

‘Planting water, eating Caatinga & irrigating with the sun’: Interview with agroecologist Tião Alves

Xavier Bartaburu 25 Mar 2024

Rising temperatures threaten the tiny animals responsible for groundwater quality

Bernardo Araujo 18 Mar 2024
Humpback whales.

Huge new no-fishing zones give Antarctic marine predators and their prey a break

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 14 Mar 2024

How a wind farm on Brazil’s coast erased a fishing village from the map

Lobato Felizola 14 Mar 2024

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