Shreya Dasgupta

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Shreya Dasgupta is a Newswire editor at Mongabay. She's a writer, editor and podcast producer, focusing on science and the environment.

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Great Cumbung Swamp

Indigenous organization buys wetland property in Australia to help conserve it

Megan Strauss 12 Jun 2026
A Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) in India. Image by Charles J. Sharp via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Cambodia wants its tigers back. So it plans to import Bengal tigers from India

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Jun 2026
A rhino mother and calf in Manas National Park. Image courtesy of Deba Kumar Dutta.

Rhinos reintroduced to Indian park are breeding, but still need support

Mongabay.com 10 Jun 2026

Indonesia’s grassroots farmers face increased unpredictability, experts say

Naina Rao 10 Jun 2026
This platypus is ready for release, after being captured, weighed, measured and given a health assessment.

What the platypus can teach us about smarter conservation

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Jun 2026
Male and female Kongobatha spinosistyla in North Queensland. Image by Maurice Allan.

Three new ‘planking’ praying mantis species found in Australia and Papua New Guinea

Megan Strauss 8 Jun 2026
Microeledone galapagensis octopus. From Voight et al (2026)

New golf-ball sized blue octopus species now identified in the Galapagos

David Brown 5 Jun 2026

Sea cucumber tissue survives for years in open water, study finds

Naina Rao 5 Jun 2026

Scientists warn of climate blind spot as U.S. dismantles ocean sensors

Naina Rao 4 Jun 2026
Oxysternon festivum, the most common dung beetle found in the study. Image by Tom Murray via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Gold mining damages dung beetle communities in the Amazon, study finds

David Brown 4 Jun 2026

Tiny ‘sesame’ sea slug discovered in Taiwan is first of its genus named in 30 years

Naina Rao 4 Jun 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 is back. In some places.

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Jun 2026
A purebred dingo on K’gari, the world's largest sand island.

National platform launches in Australia to turn wildlife imagery into action

Megan Strauss 2 Jun 2026
Aerial view of a peatland forest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Image by Daniel Beltrá/Greenpeace.

World Peatland Day honors a crucial ecosystem in the fight against climate change

Bobby Bascomb 2 Jun 2026
A koala by Bernard Spragg. NZ via Flickr (CC0).

Australia has the money to protect nature. It just isn’t spending it, expert says

Mongabay.com 2 Jun 2026

Intense heat during Mecca’s spring threatens millions of Hajj pilgrims

Naina Rao 1 Jun 2026

27 Moon Bears rescued from illegal Laos bile farm

Naina Rao 1 Jun 2026
A Mediterranean monk seal off Formicula in Greece.

Hidden ‘bubble cave’ may help world’s rarest seal steer clear of humans: Study

Megan Strauss 30 May 2026
One of many unattributed AI-generated images doing the rounds on social media.

The new burden of proving wildlife is real

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 May 2026
Bumblebees tracked during the experiment. Image courtesy of Kimmo Kaakinen.

Household mosquito repellents may stop bumblebees from finding their way home

Shanna Hanbury 28 May 2026

New species of ghost pipefish named after Sesame Street character found in Australia

Naina Rao 28 May 2026
A platypus swimming

Reintroduced platypus population ‘tracking well’ in Australia’s oldest national park

Megan Strauss 27 May 2026
Banner image of Myanmar teak courtesy of EIA.

Luxury yacht maker Sunseeker pleads guilty to violating a US environmental law

Naina Rao 27 May 2026

Tracking Lucero: Scientists follow a rare Eastern Pacific leatherback sea turtle

Bobby Bascomb 26 May 2026
A leopard cat in India’s West Bengal state. India’s population of leopard cats is not contiguous, with individuals in the western part of the country isolated from the rest of the leopard cat’s range. Image by Soumyajit Nandy via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Asia’s overlooked leopard cat

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 May 2026
Carrying a solar panel in Malawi. Image by Jon Strand via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

China solar exports hit all-time record in March as Africa, Asia demand jumps

Shanna Hanbury 25 May 2026
The Sangtam Naga community recently passed a resolution banning pangolin hunting. Image by Thingtsali Sangtam via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

In India’s Nagaland, communities turn to Indigenous law to protect pangolins

Mongabay.com 25 May 2026
The plight of koalas was a factor in creating this new national park, but 66 threatened animals and 37 threatened flora species are also found here.

Great Koala National Park tests whether protected forests can stay connected

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 May 2026
A lake with a large-scale algae outbreak due to excess nutrients. Image courtesy of Brad Busenius via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

Mangroves are ‘powerful and undervalued’ for curbing nitrogen pollution, study finds

Shanna Hanbury 21 May 2026
Combining satellite images helped reveal reefs in northern Australia.

More than 1,000 uncharted coral reefs mapped in vast, understudied northern Australia

Megan Strauss 21 May 2026

Climate change triples chance of deadly 2026 South Asia pre-monsoon heatwave: Report

Naina Rao 21 May 2026

New conservation effort launched to protect coral reefs in Yap

Naina Rao 21 May 2026

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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).
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