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How much suffering do invasive species cause? Researchers are measuring that

Daniel Shailer 28 May 2026
The common squirrel monkey (Saimiri sciureus) is one of 63 species that can be recognized by TropiCam-AI.

Most wildlife AI focuses on the ground. This model looks up in the trees

Abhishyant Kidangoor 28 May 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
A male blackbuck in neighboring India's Rajasthan state.

Nepal’s plan to release blackbucks into tiger country raises red flags

Bibek Bhandari 18 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
Carrion crows engage in cooperative breeding which requires intricate communication between entire families that are involved in raising chicks.

From caws to code: AI helps decrypt animal communication

Abhishyant Kidangoor 14 May 2026

New study explores how reforestation could help Java’s leopards survive

Basten Gokkon 13 May 2026
Kea parrot Bruce at New Zealand’s Willowbank Wildlife Reserve. Images courtesy of Alexander Grabham.

No beak = weak? Not for this New Zealand parrot that’s the alpha male of his flock

Shanna Hanbury 12 May 2026
Awareness of leopard cats is generally low across their range, as they are small, difficult to spot, and are sometimes mistaken for domesticated cats or leopard cubs.

Asia’s mainland leopard cat is abundant but still cloaked in mystery

Annelise Giseburt 11 May 2026
Mama ring-tailed lemur with baby in Anja, Madagascar. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

A Mother’s Day lesson from a digger wasp

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 May 2026
“For mothers and young elephants, Dzanga Bai becomes something of a playground and a very safe place,” says Yvonne Kienast, project manager and head researcher of the Dzanga Forest Elephant Project. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Rethinking conservation through elephants’ sense of time and memory

Mongabay.com 6 May 2026

Unusual ant interaction hints at mutualistic ‘cleaning’ system

David Brown 2 May 2026
A gemsbok (Oryx gazella), also known as the South African oryx, in a mixed herd of herbivores at Tswalu. Image by John Cannon/Mongabay.

The value of South Africa’s wildlife shouldn’t be in the hands of wealthy foreign hunters (commentary)

Stephanie Klarmann 30 Apr 2026
Young Atlantic salmon, Image by Jörgen Wiklund via Eurekalert.

Cocaine exposure drives salmon to alter movements

Shreya Dasgupta 30 Apr 2026
Moreangels Mbizah tracking lions in Chizarira National Park, Zimbabwe. Image courtesy of the Whitley Foundation.

Conservationist wins top award to protect lions and people in Zimbabwe

Ryan Truscott 30 Apr 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
An older chimp, BF, was the last male to go between groups.

Chimp ‘civil war’ follows rare community split in a Ugandan national park

Keith Anthony Fabro 17 Apr 2026

A chimpanzee’s rhythmic drumming with floorboards hints at origins of instruments

Liz Kimbrough 16 Apr 2026
A coyote in Chicago. Image courtesy of Cook County Coyote Project.

Coexisting with America’s growing urban coyote population is easier than you think

Mike DiGirolamo 14 Apr 2026
Schaller with a peccary. Courtesy of the George B. Schaller Archive.

George Schaller: The field biologist who helped redefine conservation

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Apr 2026
Hot pink individual of Arota festae. Image courtesy of Benito Wainwrig

Researchers find ‘remarkable’ hot-pink insect in Panama rainforest

David Brown 13 Apr 2026
Lack of prey in Atlantic Forest protected areas could drive local extinctions of jaguars, a recent study warns.

Loss of prey could drive Atlantic Forest jaguars to extinction

Sean Mowbray 8 Apr 2026
A fan mussel (Pinna nobilis) in a Neptune grass meadow. Image by Arnaud Abadie via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

A French city cut its marine pollution — and its seagrass bounced back

Edward Carver 7 Apr 2026
Young bear seen via a camera trap. Image courtesy of ADLO Pirineo.

Pyrenees brown bear population climbs to an estimated 130 in latest census

Shanna Hanbury 3 Apr 2026
A grey-headed flying fox in flight

Australia’s flying foxes offer valuable services & deserve better reputation: Study

Megan Strauss 1 Apr 2026
Research shows that a koala’s gut microbiome directly influences its diet limitations, determining the species of eucalyptus it can eat. Translocations and reintroductions should take this relationship into account, says Michaela Blyton. Image by Mathias Appel via Flickr (CC0 1.0).

Poop pills and gut microbes: Wildlife microbiome studies aid conservation

Sean Mowbray 26 Mar 2026
An Asian dhole (Cuon alpinus) in a grassy field. Human impact hot spots for Canidae, like dhole, include Southeast Asia, Southern Africa, and South America. Image credit: Kalyan Varma / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0

Asian wild dog spotted in Vietnam for the first time in 20 years

Naina Rao 25 Mar 2026

A bonobo named Kanzi could play pretend, challenging ideas about animal imaginations

Liz Kimbrough 18 Mar 2026
The noise from dredges and large vessels may interfere with the Amazon river turtle’s communication. Image courtesy of Camila Ferrara/WCS Brasil.

Amazon waterway noise threatens unique social life of giant river turtles

Fernanda Wenzel 17 Mar 2026
Lions. Image courtesy of Kasaine Sankan-Mara Predator Conservation Program.

Study finds livestock pushing lions away from shared rangeland in Kenya

Charles Mpaka 12 Mar 2026
Northern quoll caught on camera trap.

Indigenous knowledge helps guide conservation of Australia’s endangered northern quoll

Nick Rodway 9 Mar 2026
A vulture nesting colony on Ngethelewan, an inselberg located on the Boma plateau, in South Sudan.

Satellite images identify vulture breeding colonies by their droppings

Ryan Truscott 5 Mar 2026

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