🦧 Did you know that bonobos are unique because females are able to gain the upperhand against males by forming coalitions? Humans might learn something from our bonobo cousins. 📷 A bonobo group by Martin Surbeck/Kokolopori Bonobo Research Project.

🦌 Have you ever heard about the Great Nile Migration? More than 6 million hooved animals travel across across South Sudan and Ethiopia and now there are maps to show their unique movement patterns. 📷 Tiang in South Sudan ©Marcus Westberg/@AfricanParks

Here's one story I enjoyed working on recently. The work that Wildlife Conservation Society and the local Q’eqchi’ community put into hand-rearing and conserving these birds are truly inspiring.

The study found high PLANTdex scores, indicating high environmental impacts, for crops planted in Central America, Southern Europe, the region between the Black and Caspian seas, Southern Africa, and South, East and Southeast Asia.

A regional fishery body is seeking to reduce cormorant numbers across Europe through “coordinated” culling, citing the aquatic birds’ reported impacts on fisheries and aquaculture. My report for Mongabay: @BirdLife_News.

Alarming news: Gerry Flynn, Mongabay journalist who has been investigating illegal logging in Cambodia (and has written great pieces about it), has been denied re-entry into the country. 👇.

RT @geraldrflynn: 1/ Sad to confirm that I was denied re-entry to #Cambodia on Jan. 5 and, a month later, it's no clearer as to whether I c….

The most extensive global assessment of freshwater animals to date has revealed that a quarter of all freshwater animal species on the IUCN Red List are threatened with extinction.

I'm writing a story about Cyclone Chido devastating French island territory Mayotte and Southeast Africa and it's giving me flashbacks of the Haiyan aftermath. I do hope the fatalities are not as high as expected. :( Crazy impacts of climate change being felt all over the world.

It’s been a century since an onager or Asiatic wild ass was last seen in Saudi Arabia. But in April this year, seven onagers were relocated from neighboring Jordan into one of Saudi Arabia’s nature reserves.

The coral is located in the Lombok Strait where the Pacific Ocean flows into the Indian Ocean, “a central location where corals can grow to gigantic sizes and produce billions of larvae that seed reefs all over the Indian Ocean,” Ocean Gardener said.

So happy to be writing positive stories this week.

From late October to November this year, six consecutive tropical cyclones battered the Philippines, affecting 30 million people. Data analyses from @ClimateCentral @WWAttribution now show they were intensified by human-induced climate change.

“It’s finally happened!” someone could be heard saying as the camera on board the @EVNautilus' ROV Hercules zoomed in to reveal a lone deep-sea mollusk that shares the same name as the research vessel: a nautilus.

A curious case of missing tigers in India’s Ranthambore National Park has raised concerns about how authorities monitor and update fluctuating tiger numbers, and how they define “missing,” contributor Deshdeep Saxena reports for Mongabay India.

Dutch prosecutors have fined the makers of Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’s superyacht for its use of dubious Myanmar teak. @JusticeMyanmar @EIAEnvironment @EIA_News.

Yacht builder @Sunseeker_Intl has become the first company fined by a U.K. court for using illegally imported timber from military-controlled Myanmar on some of its vessels. @EIAEnvironment @EIA_News @RFUK @JusticeMyanmar.

The report reviewed 40 climate and biodiversity projects that listed farmers as beneficiaries and found that no financing went directly to small-scale family farmers or their organizations. Only 18% of the projects involved farmers in the decision-making.

One of the many great things about our non-profit news org: No one donor makes up more than 9 percent of Mongabay’s revenue. “It gives me the power to walk away from any grant or say no to any funder, which I think is really important,” Butler said.

ICYMI: Negotiations for a global plastics treaty ended on Dec. 2, without a consensus on how to curb plastic pollution despite its increasing negative impacts on people and nature. My report: