Shreya Dasgupta

Science Writer and Podcast Producer at Freelance

Newswire editor, Mongabay

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Singapore study says roadside flowers can improve urban butterfly biodiversity

3 days ago | news.mongabay.com | Shreya Dasgupta

Narrow strips of flowering plants along road edges can support high butterfly diversity, a recent study from Singapore has found. In late 2023, researchers surveyed 101 road verges — strips of green planted along the side of roads — across the tropical city-state of Singapore, recording 56 species of butterflies feeding on nectar from 96 flowering plant species a total of 1,320 times.
Ronan the sea lion outperforms humans at keeping a steady beat, study finds

1 week ago | news.mongabay.com | Shreya Dasgupta

A sea lion named Ronan is better able to keep a beat than the average human, a new study finds. Such ability in animals is generally thought to be unique to humans and some birds, but Ronan’s performance challenges those assumptions, the study’s researchers say. Ronan, a California sea lion (Zalophus californianus), was born in the wild in 2008 but struggled to survive on her own. She was found emaciated by rescuers multiple times, who rehabilitated and released her.
Hybrid mapping method key to EUDR cocoa compliance, study finds

1 week ago | news.mongabay.com | Shreya Dasgupta

A coalition of organizations has assessed how locally produced maps stack up against global open-access data sets to evaluate deforestation in the context of cocoa production. The assessment will be useful for cocoa producers as they work toward compliance with the EU anti-deforestation regulation (EUDR), set to take effect at the end of the year, the organizations note in a recent report.
Malice or memory lapse? Why honeyguides sometimes lead hunters to danger

1 week ago | news.mongabay.com | Shreya Dasgupta

Researchers may have finally cracked the centuries-old mystery of why African honeyguide birds sometimes lead human honey-hunters to dangerous animals instead of bees: they could just be recall errors. Honeyguides (Indicator indicator) are famed for guiding honey-hunters to wild bees’ nests in exchange for rewards of beeswax.
Les défenseurs de l’environnement et l’industrie de la pêche s’accordent pour protéger le manchot du Cap

1 week ago | fr.mongabay.com | Shreya Dasgupta

En mars dernier, les ONG de protection de la nature et les acteurs de la pêche commerciale à la sardine et à l’anchois d’Afrique du Sud, ont conclu un accord à l’amiable, au sujet de l’étendue des fermetures de pêche autour de six grandes colonies de reproduction de manchots du Cap.
Winners of 2025 Whitley Awards, the ‘Green Oscars,’ are announced

2 weeks ago | news.mongabay.com | Shreya Dasgupta

This year’s Whitley Awards, commonly dubbed the “Green Oscars,” have been presented to seven conservationists from three continents working to protect and revive a diverse range of threatened animals and plants, including jaguars, yew trees and orchids, frogs, monkeys, gibbons, elephants and cranes. Presented since 1994 by the Whitley Fund for Nature (WFN), the Whitley Awards recognize individuals for their achievements in grassroots conservation.
Mongabay reports fuel petition to block US import of coffee tied to slave labor

2 weeks ago | news.mongabay.com | Shreya Dasgupta

The nonprofit watchdog Coffee Watch recently filed a petition to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to stop the import of coffee produced with slave labor in Brazil. Coffee Watch relied in part on several Mongabay reports to file the petition. “Mongabay is kind of how I learned about the problem, way back in the day,” Etelle Higonnet, founder and director of Coffee Watch, told Mongabay by email. “I was so shocked that I started researching and googling the issue.
With primates in peril, the path forward lies in Indigenous stewardship

2 weeks ago | news.mongabay.com | Shreya Dasgupta

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. While most people are familiar with monkeys, the great apes, and possibly lemurs, fewer may realize that there are more than 500 known species of primates, making them one of the most diverse groups of mammals.
‘Snow-white’ monkeys of Sri Lanka draw in tourists

2 weeks ago | news.mongabay.com | Shreya Dasgupta

For a small village near the Sinharaja Forest Reserve in Sri Lanka, “snow-white monkeys” have become a major tourist attraction, reports contributor Malaka Rodrigo for Mongabay. These white monkeys are a color variant of the endangered purple-faced langur (Semnopithecus vetulus), also known as the purple-faced leaf monkey, found only in Sri Lanka.
An interview with orangutan conservationist and advocate Gary Shapiro

2 weeks ago | news.mongabay.com | Shreya Dasgupta

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Orangutans, with their expressive eyes and human-like behaviors, have long fascinated us. Few people, however, have delved as deeply into their world as Gary L. Shapiro.

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