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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
Transvaal Thicktail Scorpion (Parabuthus transvaalicus) is one of the two venomous scorpion species in South Africa whose stings could be fatal to humans

South African authorities thwart smuggling of 150 venomous scorpions, arrest man

Spoorthy Raman 19 Jun 2026
At the La Trobe University campus, Ligia Pizzatto sorts through frozen turtle specimens she has collected over the course of her fieldwork. Most are very young, found dead by Pizzatto or her team of students and volunteers. Image by Ana Norman Bermudez.

Vanilla, fake eggs and nausea: How Australian scientists are training foxes to avoid turtle nests

Ana Norman Bermúdez 18 Jun 2026
An Indian pangolin in India

Beyond wildlife trade: Endangered pangolins are losing habitat in Pakistan

Emma Smith 16 Jun 2026
Madagascar hissing cockroaches (Gromphadorhina portentosa) are found only in the island nation of Madagascar.

Australian authorities seize 100,000 live cockroaches in crackdown on exotic insect trade

Spoorthy Raman 15 Jun 2026
Just over 1,000 mountain gorillas remained in DRC’s Virunga National Park and Bwindi Impenetrable National Park as of 2018. Ebola infection would decimate populations: if just one contracted Ebola, it could “decimate the population,” with less than 20% projected to survive at 100 days post-infection.

As human Ebola cases climb in DRC, critically endangered gorillas are at risk

Kayleigh Long 12 Jun 2026
Bonobos in Salonga National Park, the largest tropical rainforest national park in Africa. Researchers are working to habituate wild bonobos to human presence in an effort to support conservation and scientific research. Photo by Alice Péretié / Chengeta Wildlife.

Four years to earn their trust: Habituating bonobos in DRC’s Salonga National Park

David Akana 11 Jun 2026
These sheep, photographed on a highway in Canada, may have been drawn to the road by deicing salt. Image by Ben Goldfarb.

The long and winding road to safe highways: Inside the global movement to reconnect habitat

Ben Goldfarb 10 Jun 2026
Rousettus aegyptiacus, commonly known as the Egyptian fruit bat, a widespread species found across much of Africa. Photo courtesy of Paul Wambura.

Evidence linking bats to Ebola inconclusive, scientist says. ‘Solution is not fear’

David Akana 10 Jun 2026
The wreathed hornbill, found widespread across South and Southeast Asia, was prominently represented in the seizures

Indonesia’s native hornbills are being hammered by online and offline trade

Spoorthy Raman 9 Jun 2026
The composition of Queensland’s rainforests would change without cassowaries dispersing seeds, and some plants may become greatly restricted or even threatened with extinction. Image by the Gondwana Rainforest Trust.

Amid efforts to save Australia’s southern cassowaries, their numbers remain unknown

Cooper Williams 26 May 2026
Amazonian migratory catfish for sale at the Ver-o-Peso market in Belém, Pará. Image by AP Photo/Eraldo Peres.

Countries push new protections for the Amazon’s iconic migratory catfish

Gustavo Faleiros 25 May 2026
Rhino populations across their ranges in Africa and Asia are threatened by poaching for their horns, which are in demand in China and Vietnam for medicinal uses and as a luxury item.

Rhino-poaching suspect, repeatedly freed on bail, shot dead in South Africa

Spoorthy Raman 23 May 2026

In Kyrgyzstan, a climate-ready corridor gives snow leopards and herders room to roam

Liz Kimbrough 22 May 2026
The Common wombat (Vombatus ursinus) frequents the western side of Cawleys Bridge, and it is hoped the bridge will reinforce the wombat population in Royal National Park. Image courtesy of Simone Cottrell / DCCEEW.

Above an Australian highway, a bridge reconnects wilderness for quolls, koalas and other animals

Starre Vartan 22 May 2026
This elusive animal hunts in the dim light of dawn and dusk, making it difficult to observe and hard to count. One of the few ways to survey them is by laying nets, pictured here.

An Australian icon, the platypus is struggling — and scientists still lack answers

Paul Harvey 20 May 2026
African savanna elephants are endangered, after years of poaching for their ivory, decimated their numbers. Now, their habitats are fast-shrinking due to human activities.

Trump called trophy hunting a “horror show,” but permitted 300-plus elephant trophy imports in 2025

Spoorthy Raman 18 May 2026

Light pollution reshapes predator-prey dynamics at California’s urban edge, study finds

Liz Kimbrough 15 May 2026
A captive Persian leopard in a British zoo, 2005.

Endangered Persian leopards persist across borders, despite hunters and landmines

Kayleigh Long 15 May 2026
Jaguars are native to the Americas and are found in 18 countries.

Honduran authorities seize jaguar kept as pet, put spotlight on local trafficking

Spoorthy Raman 14 May 2026

New Jaguar Rivers Initiative aims to reconnect South America’s fragmented ecosystems

Maxwell Radwin 12 May 2026
A European wildcat in Scotland, where 46 captive-bred wildcats have been released as part of an ongoing reintroduction project. The cats are repopulating former habitat in the Cairngorms mountain range in the eastern highlands.

The European wildcat hovers between recovery and local extinction

Sean Mowbray 11 May 2026
Deforestation, climate change, and trade pose threats to the species, which has dwindled to a few hundred from some 750,000 in the 1960s.

US proposes endangered species protections for an imperiled Jamaican butterfly

Spoorthy Raman 7 May 2026
A koala.

Australia’s new national park links habitat to protect koalas

Johan Augustin 6 May 2026
A Bengal tiger from Rajasthan, India. Poaching is one of the biggest threats to tigers, an endangered cat in Asia.

Facebook is a hub for illegal wildlife trade, and that’s by design, report says

Spoorthy Raman 5 May 2026
This red-tailed monkey was photographed at a hotel in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

As wildlife trade expands, so do pathways for disease spillover to humans

Cate Twining-Ward 4 May 2026
A healthy male jaguar captured on camera in Honduras’ Sierra del Merendón mountain range for the first time in a decade.

Rare, high-altitude jaguar sighting in Honduras raises hope for conservation

Spoorthy Raman 27 Apr 2026

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San Mateo village, one of 29 Matsés communities in Peru, on the banks of the Gálvez River. Image by Aimee Gabay/Mongabay.
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