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A clownfish’s last stand
Twenty years ago, scientist and Mongabay board member Debby Ng joined a team documenting life at Terumbu Bayan, a coral reef south of Singapore that was about to be reclaimed.
There she encountered a pair of false clownfish living in an an...
During COVID-19, some Borneo villages lost far less forest than others.
Sungai Utik community forest in West Kalimantan. My photo
During COVID-19, some Borneo villages lost far less forest than others.
When the pandemic hit Borneo, communities receiving medical care and job programs saw deforestation rates...
For 50 years, Philip Fearnside has calculated the costs of losing the Amazon
Clarification: Last week, I mentioned closing down my “Nature Obituaries” Substack newsletter. That news prompted some disappointed reactions from readers, so I’d like to clarify that I still plan to write these pieces periodically for my b...
Daniel Janzen and the long work of bringing back a forest
A note about some changes
- Over the past year the amount of time I’ve spent writing has become unsustainable and I'm entering a period when I need to focus more heavily on fundraising for Mongabay. With the donor environment for journal...
What conservation looks like from the outside
Earlier this month, I spoke with Adam Falk, who became president and CEO of the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) in July 2025.
Unusually for the head of such an organization, he has no background in conservation. A theoretical physicist...
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