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Re:wild and Age of Union announce conservation partnership

Maxwell Radwin 13 Mar 2025
95% of identified deforestation cases between 2017 and 2020 have not resulted in environmental compensation payments. Image © Marizilda Cruppe/Greenpeace.

Only 5% of deforesters in Brazil’s Amazon fully paid fines, report finds

Shanna Hanbury 12 Mar 2025
Banner image of Cyclone Alfred as it nears the Australian coast, by NASA via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).

Flash floods, blackouts and a ‘sharknado’ as Cyclone Alfred lashes Australia

Kristine Sabillo 11 Mar 2025
A new species of critically endangered guitar shark was identified off the coast of Tanzania. Image courtesy of The Nippon Foundation-Nekton Ocean Census/Sergey Bogorodsky.

Scientists identify more than 800 new species in global Ocean Census

Shanna Hanbury 11 Mar 2025
Banner image of a yellow fever mosquito (Aedes aegypti) by James Gathany, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).

Dry season predictability and temperature drive dengue cases: Study

Kristine Sabillo 10 Mar 2025
Banner image of a white-capped albatross (Thalassarche cauta steadi) on Maukahuka/Auckland Island by Jake Osborne.

Initiative sets sights on rewilding three New Zealand islands

Kristine Sabillo 7 Mar 2025
Deforested Chiquitano forest on the edge of the Bolivian Amazon for soy production. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Rich nations fuel global biodiversity loss at ‘disproportionate’ scale, study finds

Shanna Hanbury 7 Mar 2025
Scientists describe a new parrot snake species from the Brazilian Cerrado. Image courtesy of Diego Santana.

New species of parrot snake described in Brazil’s threatened Cerrado

Shanna Hanbury 6 Mar 2025
Banner image of Cyclone Garance by MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).

Thousands affected as cyclone floods Réunion Island in Indian Ocean

Kristine Sabillo 4 Mar 2025
Image of a Eurasian lynx walking on snow, staring at the camera. Image by Rolf Nyström/Swedensbigfive.org.

Sweden to kill 87 Eurasian lynx despite complaints to EU Commission

Shreya Dasgupta 4 Mar 2025

Mountain bongo antelope fly from Florida to Kenya to help save a species

Gilbert Nakweya 27 Feb 2025
Image of a female lion with wildebeest kill in Tanzania. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

African NGOs appeal judgement in controversial oil pipeline case

Shreya Dasgupta 27 Feb 2025

First Niger Delta red colobus monkey videos reflect community conservation success

Spoorthy Raman 25 Feb 2025
Image of an aardvark, a nocturnal ant-eating mammal found in sub-Saharan Africa. Image by Theo Kruse via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Study confirms that ant-eating aardvarks have a craving for buried melons

Shreya Dasgupta 25 Feb 2025

USAID funding freeze throws international conservation into disarray

Mongabay.com 21 Feb 2025

Conservation in wealthy nations may worsen global biodiversity loss, study finds

Shanna Hanbury 21 Feb 2025

Wisdom, the world’s oldest known bird at 74, has a new chick

Shreya Dasgupta 21 Feb 2025

Thermal drones detect rare tree kangaroos in Australia

Shreya Dasgupta 20 Feb 2025

Photo series on Himalayan water-saving ice stupas wins global award

Shanna Hanbury 18 Feb 2025

Bonobos can recognize ignorance and help, a new ‘milestone’ in ape intelligence

Shanna Hanbury 18 Feb 2025
A camera trap filmed two black wolves in a Polish forest. Images courtesy of SAVE Wildlife Conservation Fund Poland.

Camera trap films two rare black wolves in Poland

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Feb 2025

Cargill weakens Amazon no-deforestation vow, raising concerns about wider backslide

Shanna Hanbury 13 Feb 2025

‘Truffle dogs’ help sniff out two new truffle species

Shreya Dasgupta 13 Feb 2025

Petition calls on EPA to tighten pesticide rules to protect bees

Bobby Bascomb 12 Feb 2025

Wild baboons don’t recognize their own mirror reflections

Shreya Dasgupta 12 Feb 2025

Indigenous protests in Brazil topple law seen as threat to rural schools

Shanna Hanbury 7 Feb 2025

January 2025 was warmest on record as climate change ‘overwhelms’ La Niña’s cooling

Shanna Hanbury 6 Feb 2025

One-third of food giants ignore fertilizer risks, report finds

Shanna Hanbury 3 Feb 2025

Over 1,100 dead olive ridley turtles wash ashore in southern India

Shreya Dasgupta 31 Jan 2025
Banner image of the spoon-billed sandpaper dubbed K9, courtesy of Dongming Li.

World’s tiniest transmitter finds nesting area of rarest migratory shorebird

Kristine Sabillo 24 Jan 2025

US set to lose out as Trump retreats from climate agreement, NGOs warn

Kristine Sabillo 23 Jan 2025

Floods devastate tortoise sanctuary in southern Madagascar

Shanna Hanbury 23 Jan 2025

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