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Xray fin shark (wildlife trade)

Spotted by AI: seahorses and shark fins

Abhishyant Kidangoor 19 Aug 2026

Dendroseris neriifolia

Is this the world’s loneliest tree?

Sam Lee 16 Aug 2026

Following FDA rangers during arrest of a migrant cacao worker in Grand Gedeh, Liberia. Photo by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

Something strange is happening in Liberia

Ashoka Mukpo, Juan Maza 19 Jul 2026

A collage featuring Ashoka Mukpo, a Mongabay reporter, and a cocoa bean

Why are forests vanishing in southeastern Liberia?

Juan Maza, Ashoka Mukpo 18 Jul 2026

Vans line up waiting for a kill in Maasai Mara, Kenya.

Kenya’s overcrowded safaris: Wildlife for who?

Izzy Sasada 28 Jun 2026

Collage, Fritz Pinnow, contributor, and a soldier

Honduras taps armed forces to eliminate deforestation by 2029. Is it working?

Fritz Pinnow 27 Jun 2026

Humpback whale family swimming

How courtrooms are deciding the fate of whales

Izzy Sasada 15 Jun 2026

Yo Yaj at Songkhla Lake, Thailand

What is happening to Thailand’s famous giant nets

Lucia Torres 30 May 2026

Northern white rhinos, Uganda

White rhinos are back in Uganda

Juan Maza 26 May 2026

Collage, Giant African Harvester Ant

Why are people buying pet ants?

Abhishyant Kidangoor 23 May 2026

Pit viper (trimeresurus lii)

New animals discovered in Cambodian caves

Gray Koala Sitting On A Tree Branch

How AI could save koalas

Abhishyant Kidangoor 15 May 2026

52 dead sloths: Inside Sloth World

Izzy Sasada 7 May 2026

Khudi Bari hause

This tiny house survives extreme floods

Lucia Torres 4 May 2026

Cabe at Gunung Mulu National

Borneo’s GIGANTIC bat caves

Izzy Sasada 30 Apr 2026

Khudi Bari hause

These tiny houses are designed to stand in extreme floods

Lucia Torres 25 Apr 2026

A portrait of a cute Gentoo penguin during the snowfall in Antarctica with a blurry background

How much does a penguin weigh?

Abhishyant Kidangoor 22 Apr 2026

Kakapo Strigops habroptila "Sirocco" amongst renga renga lillies. Maud Island, New Zealand.

World’s fattest parrots have mating frenzy

Sam Lee 18 Apr 2026

The mother of orangutans

Izzy Sasada 11 Apr 2026

Proyecto-Guacamayo-de-Tambopata; macaw, green and red

Hidden cameras reveal macaws’ secret lives

Romi Castagnino 5 Apr 2026

Giant Tortoise

Return of the giant tortoises

Sam Lee 2 Apr 2026

Collage of a cloned jaguar

Lab-made jaguar: Is cloning a solution to extinction?

Julia Lima, Gustavo Fonseca, Letícia Klein 30 Mar 2026

White rhinoceros, Khama Rhino Sanctuary, Botswana

Can this giant freezer de-extinct animals?

Izzy Sasada 23 Mar 2026

Red Belly Toad

The toughest toad in town

Julia Lima 15 Mar 2026

Sloth on tree

The dark side of smiling sloths

Sam Lee 12 Mar 2026

Scientists in Antarctica have just inaugurated the first global repository of mountain ice cores. As the climate crisis melts glaciers all around the world, this frozen vault aims to preserve the history of the Earth's atmosphere for future generations to study.

A sanctuary… for glacier ice?

Sam Lee 5 Mar 2026

Counting bats in the dark

Sam Lee 4 Mar 2026

Two black brown colored roosters having a cockfight.

Cockfights might knockout Peru’s rarest fish?

Romi Castagnino 26 Feb 2026

Collage featuring cockfighting and a largetooth sawfish

Why is cockfighting a risk to Peru’s rarest fish?

Romi Castagnino 25 Feb 2026

Monarch Butterfly

Flying along with monarch butterflies

Abhishyant Kidangoor 24 Feb 2026

Collage featuring a white-rumped shama (Copsychus malabaricus) and a poacher

The most desirable songbird in Indonesia is disappearing from the wild

Rizky Maulana Yanuar, Sandy Watt 18 Feb 2026

Urania leilus (Uraniidae)

That “butterfly” you saw? It was probably a moth

Romi Castagnino 17 Feb 2026

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