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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

A red ruffed lemur in Madagascar.

Official tied to commercial breeding to represent US at global wildlife trade meeting

Spoorthy Raman 11 Jul 2026

Pallas’s cat, also known as the manul, roam widely across Central Asia and are present in 16 countries. Image by Richard Gillin via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Meme-face Pallas’s cat traverses a complex conservation landscape

Sean Mowbray 10 Jul 2026

Yellow-billed kites are found across Africa and play an important role in keeping ecosystems healthy as one of the most common scavengers.

Belief-based use increasing threat to yellow-billed kite, an important African scavenger

Sean Mowbray 7 Jul 2026

Himalayan Pangolin, Manis aurita museum speciment

Himalayan pangolin emerges as distinct species, 189 years after first described

Abhaya Raj Joshi 7 Jul 2026

A greater flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus), pictured here in France.

War reveals the isolation of Iran’s scientists

John Cannon 6 Jul 2026

A leafy sea dragon among seagrass in South Australia. Image by Jayne Jenkins / Ocean Image Bank

Australia’s seagrass meadows under pressure as climate change turns up the heat

Sean Mowbray 3 Jul 2026

A leopard in Pendjari NP, in 2022. Camera traps were placed along likely travel routes and positioned to photograph both sides of the leopards to aid with identification. The researchers were able to identify 30 individual leopards from their unique spot patterns. Image courtesy of ZSL-CCI/Panthera/APN-Pendjari National Park.

Endangered West African leopards show signs of recovery, despite odds. ‘It’s a win’

Ruth Kamnitzer 2 Jul 2026

A Florida panther.

Wildlife’s unpredictable movements make climate-change planning difficult

Gloria Dickie 1 Jul 2026

A jimbu (Allium przewalskianum) in the Tibetan Plateau.

What’s jimbu? The herb that bolsters an iconic Nepali dish could also help save snow leopards

Bibek Bhandari 30 Jun 2026

One mountain lion changed the food web in a California suburb, study finds

Liz Kimbrough 29 Jun 2026

A Himalayan wolf.

How snow leopards, wolves and leopards share the same Himalayan valley, study

Liz Kimbrough 26 Jun 2026

African grey parrot is an endangered species native to Central and West Africa

Seizures reveal macabre grey parrot blood trade in Cameroon

Spoorthy Raman 25 Jun 2026

A brown skua. Image by Antoine Lamielle via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Deadly bird flu strain confirmed in Australia for first time

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Jun 2026

While caracals are classified as species of least concern overall, some populations are seriously declining, with some local extinctions; rodenticides join habitat loss, hunting, conflict with humans and other threats to their survival.

Rodent-killing baits threaten small wild cats and other wildlife

Sean Mowbray 23 Jun 2026

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