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Crows, in particular, have found themselves in the crosshairs of late.

As Singapore culls ‘nuisance’ birds, rapid urbanization continues to fuel an avian boom

Robin Hicks 11 Aug 2026
Michelle Schroeder and her dog, Lyka in Benfontein Nature Reserve. Image courtesy of Veer Bills.

From small cats to pangolins: Detection dogs help track elusive species

María de los Ángeles Orfila 8 Aug 2026
A female Eupelmus curvator. Image courtesy of Taisuke Kawano.

Social media images lead to first recording of parasitoid wasp species in Japan

David Brown 6 Aug 2026
Graphic by Andrés Alegría using images courtesy of Hokkaido University.

Scientists discover that giant octopuses were top predators of ancient oceans

Shanna Hanbury 4 Aug 2026
Black-footed cats (Felis nigripes) in southern Namibia. Image courtesy of Alex Sliwa

Africa’s smallest wildcat found using abandoned rodent burrows to raise kittens

Mongabay.com 28 Jul 2026
Shy albatross (Thalassarche cauta).

Extreme weather dampens breeding success for marine predators in Tasmania: study

Madeline Shaw 27 Jul 2026
John H. Rappole. Photo courtesy of the Post Journal

Smithsonian ornithologist John Rappole reconsidered why birds migrate

Rhett Ayers Butler 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
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
Bill Montevecchi. Photo courtesy of the Pacific Seabirds Group which honored Montevecchi with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2021.

Bill Montevecchi showed what seabirds could tell us about the sea

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Jul 2026
Gus Mills with a cheetah. Sourced via the Endangered Wildlife Trust

Gus Mills, hyena expert and ‘the cheerful pessimist of the Kalahari’, has died

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Jul 2026
Beavers act as ecosystem engineers, building dams that can transform small rivers into more complex wetlands that can support higher levels of biodiversity.

Beavers brought a volcanic wasteland back to life. Now it’s under threat

Isabel Gil 10 Jul 2026

A win-win, animal crossings make roads safer for wildlife and people

Mongabay.com 9 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
the last known wild individual of Dendroseris neriifolia, courtesy of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Rare seed collection offers hope for last wild tree of its kind from Chile

Shreya Dasgupta 7 Jul 2026
Humpback whales in French Polynesian waters. The intensity and duration of marine heat waves could have widespread effects on marine biodiversity, increasing the likelihood of species displacement and mortality. Image by Toby Matthews / Ocean Image Bank.

Listen to whales to improve connection, care & ocean health (commentary)

David Gruber, Sylvia Earle 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
Gelada monkeys engage in a group hug in Wilhelma Zoo in Germany. Image © Julie Larsen.

Gelada monkeys huddle in the cold: Photo of the week

Shanna Hanbury 30 Jun 2026
Mel Sunquist

Mel Sunquist, field biologist and mentor to generations of conservationists

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Jun 2026
A whitespotted eagle ray in its natural habitat. Understanding the diet of predators is crucial to figure out the resources they depend on and the pressure it puts on prey.

Chewing sounds can help decode an animal’s diet using AI, new study finds

Abhishyant Kidangoor 26 Jun 2026

How leopards and wolves share the same Himalayan valley: Study

Liz Kimbrough 25 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
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
A Mexican long-tongued bat feeds from an agave flower in the Sonoran Desert in Arizona, U.S. Image courtesy of Peter Hudson.

The bats that pollinate for tequila: Photo of the week

Shanna Hanbury 15 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
Sulphur-crested cockatoo on street lamp in Bondi, Sydney, Australia. Image by Sardaka via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

Urban wildlife is changing from the inside out (commentary)

João Guerreiro 9 Jun 2026

Ancient Maya knowledge helps Guatemalan farmers cut agrochemical use

Mark Hillsdon 9 Jun 2026
A thornback ray used in experiments to measure the impacts of electromagnetic field sensitivity rests in the Wageningen University & Research laboratory. Image courtesy of Annemiek Hermans.

Offshore wind power cables can affect sensory system of sharks and rays: studies

Malaka Rodrigo 4 Jun 2026

Conservationists wary of Nepal’s plan to relocate blackbucks

Mongabay.com 2 Jun 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

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