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Great hammerhead (Sphyrna mokarran).

Migratory species summit adopts new marine protections amid extinction warnings

Francesco De Augustinis 8 Apr 2026

In Laos, ancestral spirits are helping save one of the world’s rarest crocodiles

Liz Kimbrough 25 Mar 2026
Sea turtles, another migratory species, need safe ocean passageways to move between feeding grounds and nesting beaches.

Outlook for migratory species worsens amid habitat loss & avian flu, report finds

Gloria Dickie 12 Mar 2026
Previously undetected in other protected areas, a tigress known as SWT001F was the first individual tiger captured on camera in Thailand's Sisawat Non-Hunting Area in 2024. Panthera, Thailand's DNP and other partners are working to monitor and protect Indochinese tigers and their prey in this region where camera traps have shown tigers are using Sisawat forest as a corridor. Currently plans exist to propose the adjoining forest area to the east as an extension of Sisawat.

Hope for tigers grows as Thailand safeguards a key link in their habitat

Gloria Dickie 16 Dec 2025

Indonesia labeled ‘Fossil of the Day’ for echoing industry talking points at COP30

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Nov 2025
Asian golden cat caught on camera in Nepal.

Asian golden cat range expands, but declines continue amid rising threats

Sean Mowbray 7 Nov 2025
Bouba Ndjida is one of the only sites in Central Africa where we are seeing the early signs of recovery in the population.

Northern Cameroon’s lions are reproducing, but concerns remain

Leocadia Bongben 30 Sep 2025
Community rangers guard elephants in Sera Conservancy, Northern Rangelands, Kenya.

Wildlife crime crackdown in jeopardy worldwide after US funding cuts

Carolyn Cowan, Philip Jacobson, Spoorthy Raman, Charles Mpaka, Hans Nicholas Jong, Gerald Flynn 22 May 2025
A Yucatán black howler monkey

Protection is only the beginning: Creating connection through Belize’s Maya Forest Corridor

Ruth Kamnitzer 19 May 2025

Can carbon markets save forests?

Mongabay.com 23 Dec 2024
African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana). Image by Charles J. Sharp via Wikimedia Commons.

Conservation comeback in Central African Republic’s Manovo-Gounda St Floris National Park (commentary)

Dodé H.M. Houehounha, Ichu G. Ichu, Paul Telfer, Felin Twagirashyaka, Jennica Betsch, Jean Hugé, Baudouin Michel, Cédric Vermeulen 26 Mar 2024
Bolivian red howler monkeys in Madidi Landscape.

New fund supports Indigenous-led land management in biodiverse area of Bolivia

Aimee Gabay 1 Feb 2024
A long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis) in Borneo.

Leveraging the hypothetical: The uncertain world of carbon credit calculations

John Cannon 12 Jan 2024
An Indigenous person in a boat.

Vast new MPAs are PNG’s first to be co-managed by Indigenous communities

Ian Morse 14 Dec 2023
WCS President and CEO Dr. Cristián Samper observes forest elephants from an observation tower at the Dzanga Bai research site in the Central African Republic. Photo: Elizabeth Bennett/WCS.

Achieving a ‘nature positive future’: an interview with Cristián Samper

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Nov 2021

Experience or evidence: How do big conservation NGOs make decisions?

Shreya Dasgupta 21 Nov 2017

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