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An Australian sea lions (Neophoca cinerea)

Invading the globe: Bird flu now threatens Australia and Oceania

Christine Heinrichs 7 Oct 2026

A maleo

Wildlife traffickers are now targeting Indonesia’s critically endangered maleo birds

Spoorthy Raman 2 Oct 2026

An earless monitor lizard, endemic to Borneo.

Illegal wildlife continues to slip through Canada’s borders. Experts explain how

Alex Megerle 30 Sep 2026

GCF and team members observe giraffes in the capture funnel.

First Angolan giraffes return to Bicuar National Park after 25 years

Alex Megerle 23 Sep 2026

In this operation, enforcement officials recovered 28 native reptiles, including shingleback lizards (pictured here), spiny-tailed skinks and lace monitors. Image courtesy of the National Environmental Protection Agency.

Reptiles, gold and money: How Australia is cracking down on wildlife trafficking

Johan Augustin 23 Sep 2026

H5N1 bird flu jumps to marine mammals and wildlife in Australia

Naina Rao 21 Sep 2026

Beginning in the mid-2000s, poachers targeted elephants for their tusks, which were worth hefty sums on the black market. In some countries, including Zambia, governments and conservationists are trying to find new ways to combat poaching — like understanding motivations and trying to provide alternative, legal employment.

‘How did you come to be here?’ Study digs into origins of Zambian wildlife crime

Alex Megerle 19 Sep 2026

Swami Gowda stands with his herd of sheep and cattle

India’s tiger success brings a new challenge: Living alongside the big cats

Arathi Menon 17 Sep 2026

Saruni, a male giant ground pangolin

Electric fences that kill and the Maasai trying to save Kenya’s last giant pangolins

Pauline Kairu 15 Sep 2026

Wildlife of all kinds is for sale in Bangkok’s Chatuchak Market’s ‘Pets’ zone, with growing numbers coming from Latin America.

Why is Amazonian wildlife turning up at a Bangkok market?

Gloria Dickie 8 Sep 2026

A Sumatran tiger, captured by a camera trap. This critically endangered subspecies is still under heavy threat from poachers, and though accurate numbers are unknown, fewer than 600 remain.

From seizure to sentence: Weak prosecution leaves tigers vulnerable to trafficking in Southeast Asia: Report

Sean Mowbray 3 Sep 2026

Woodland caribou live in the boreal rainforests across Canada and parts of the U.S., surviving on lichens growing on centuries-old trees.

As British Columbia mulls continued wolf-killing to save caribou, critics say habitat loss is the real threat

Spoorthy Raman 1 Sep 2026

The superb fairywren is one of 30 endemic Australasian wrens.

Superb fairywrens disappearing in Australia’s capital: Conserving insects could help save them

Cooper Williams 31 Aug 2026

A critically endangered female red handfish (Thymichthys politus) at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies in Hobart, Tasmania.

As Photo Ark turns 20, Joel Sartore photographs 18,000 animal species

Liz Kimbrough 28 Aug 2026

An elephant tusk offered for sale to undercover ELI investigators in Cambodia. Image courtesy of Earth League International.

Cambodia targets online wildlife trade on social media, but experts say it’s not enough

Spoorthy Raman 25 Aug 2026

Koalas typically climb into the upper reaches of trees to escape fire

Rescue networks built by fire: Saving animals from Australia’s bushfires

Starre Vartan 24 Aug 2026

Spinach pipefish is an endemic species found in Papua New Guinea's Sepik River. It was not seen by scientists for more than four decades. Image Courtesy of New Guinea Binatang Research Centre.

Local knowledge guides rediscovery of spinach pipefish, not seen in four decades

Spoorthy Raman 24 Aug 2026

Many think of wildlife corridors as connected landscapes, but across the globe, animals on land, in freshwater, in the sea and in the skies need to be able to safely move to find food, water, to find a mate and reproduce. Flyways are aerial avian corridors. Image by AP Photos/Jae C. Hong.

Reconnecting the skies: Linking flyways for migratory seabirds across continents

Ruth Kamnitzer 21 Aug 2026

Criminal probe clears Sloth World of criminal neglect in deaths of 57 animals

Bobby Bascomb 20 Aug 2026

Young male puma crosses a public road. The presence of pumas — aka cougars, mountain lions, etc. — push deer away from roads into less populated areas, reducing road collisions. Image by Nick Garbutt.

Cougars cut deadly vehicle-deer collisions in the US by up to 76%, study shows

Starre Vartan 19 Aug 2026

A jaguarundi at a zoo in Germany.

Increasingly rare: Jaguarundi moves up a notch on the endangered species list

Sean Mowbray 17 Aug 2026

Sand cats are the only desert-dwelling wild feline.

Caught on camera: Sand cats may have a ‘sizable population’ in Qatar

Alex Megerle 14 Aug 2026

Jackie and Shadow caring for their egg in their nest in the Big Bear Valley in 2019

Big Bear Valley’s beloved bald eagle Jackie is dead

Spoorthy Raman 13 Aug 2026

Whale slaughtering in Hvalfjörður, Iceland, July 2009. Image by Dagur Brynjólfsson via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Iceland to deport antiwhaling protest ship’s crew after they interfered with whale hunt

Alex Megerle 11 Aug 2026

Unowned, free-roaming cats in New York City. Trap-neuter-return programs can help sterilize and manage feral and stray populations in the city.

Some free-roaming cats in New York City are parasite ‘super-shedders,’ study shows

Alex Megerle 6 Aug 2026

Two golden lion tamarins in Brazil.

Researchers find ‘priority zones’ for yellow fever vaccination of golden lion tamarins

Alex Megerle 30 Jul 2026

Tigers are territorial and must strike out to find their own territory when they leave their mothers at 18 months-two years of age and adult cats require large home ranges, making safe pathways between protected areas critical for their survival. Image © Steve Winter/Big Cat Voices.

India’s tiger numbers are rising. Protecting their pathways is next

Nirmal Ghosh 28 Jul 2026

Jefferson Salamander (Ambystoma jeffersonianum)

Why a New England city is building tunnels to protect an imperiled salamander

Alex Megerle 22 Jul 2026

For some animals, roadways act like fences, and they don’t even attempt to cross. Others, like bears, moose and bighorn sheep, and some smaller species, may attempt to cross, though it may prove deadly. Image by Jane Palmer.

How to stitch a massive wildlife corridor through the Rocky Mountains

Jane Palmer 22 Jul 2026

Tigers in Rajasthan, India. The country is a stronghold of wild tigers, and the report found that most of the wild tigers smuggled into Cambodia came from India.

Report reveals Cambodia’s appetite for tigers, rhinos and other endangered wildlife

Spoorthy Raman 21 Jul 2026

Under difficult circumstances when food is scarce, capuchin monkeys alter their behavior.

How Costa Rica’s extreme climate changes the social behaviors of white-faced capuchin

Adam Litchkofski 17 Jul 2026

The rusty lark, a Sahelian native bird, was not seen or heard by scientists for 94 years.

How birders in Chad ‘found’ the rusty lark, a bird lost to science for nearly a century

Spoorthy Raman 14 Jul 2026

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