43+ min ago  (536+ words) I think the international community really does need to put more pressure on Australia to do better," says Euan Ritchie, a professor of wildlife ecology and conservation at Deakin University in Australia, in a recent episode of Mongabay's Newscast. From…...

3+ hour, 51+ min ago  (752+ words) BOGOR, Indonesia " In a village bordering Gunung Halimun-Salak National Park on the Indonesian island of Java, local people browse a row of fabrics carrying impressions of plants and the silhouette of the forest's silvery gibbon. They are made by the…...

19+ hour, 2+ min ago  (1673+ words) Smuggled in cars, aboard airplanes, or on sailboats crossing the Atlantic Ocean, tiny golden-furred monkeys are being wrenched from their Brazilian forest homes and trafficked overseas by sophisticated criminal networks. "It is frightening in the sense that [tamarin trafficking] is…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (481+ words) In what was described as the largest bear farm rescue in Southeast Asia, authorities in Laos in conjunction with the international NGO Free the Bears freed 27 Asiatic black bears from a foreign-owned illegal bear bile farm in Laos. All 27 rescued…...

2+ day, 5+ hour ago  (810+ words) Crowther is also interested in less visible signals of ecological change. Bioacoustics, he says, offers a way to measure the complexity of an ecosystem by listening to its frequencies of life, from birds and insects to wind and rain. Sound,…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago  (495+ words) On the Greek islet of Formicula, researchers have found rare Mediterranean monk seals will take refuge in an air-filled "bubble cave," according to a recent study. This type of hidden chamber, accessible via underwater passages, allows the seals to breathe,…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago  (240+ words) Founder's Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Conservation journalists are facing a new issue: AI-generated wildlife imagery. AI is already useful in conservation. Researchers use it to analyze camera-trap images,…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago  (549+ words) A chemical used in mosquito repellents may disorient bumblebees, stopping them from finding their way back to their nests, a recent study found. Researchers in Finland exposed 123 buff-tailed bumblebees (Bombus terrestris), one of the most abundant bumblebee species in Europe,…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago  (532+ words) Avian vampire flies (Philornis downsi) were not discovered in the Gal'pagos Islands for almost three decades after they were thought to have arrived from mainland Ecuador in the 1960s. Even then, the first were found by accident. "I was stunned " the…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago  (474+ words) It's "hairy," bright orange or red and "exceptional" at camouflaging. Meet the hairy ghost pipefish, whose recent formal description demonstrates that even well-studied marine environments like the Great Barrier Reef still hold remarkable secrets for science. In a recent study,…...