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A Hooded Pitohui (Pitohui dichrous) from Papua New Guinea.

Indonesia’s voracious songbird trade laps up rare and poisonous pitohuis

Spoorthy Raman 10 Jan 2025
radiated tortoise

‘You have to be passionate’: Interview with Turtle Survival Alliance’s Hery Razafimamonjiraibe

Carolyn Cowan 10 Jan 2025
A bottlenose wedgefish (Rhynchobatus australiae).

New evidence spells massive trouble for world’s sharks, rays and chimaeras

Spoorthy Raman 2 Jan 2025

Conservation corridors provide hope for Latin America’s felines

Antonio José Paz Cardona 2 Jan 2025

Four new tarantula species found in India’s Western Ghats mountains

Liz Kimbrough 31 Dec 2024
Kayapó children play in the Rio Pequeno, near their village.

10 notable books on conservation and the environment published in 2024

John Cannon 31 Dec 2024
A chestnut-tailed starling in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh adopts new technology to fight wildlife crimes

Sadiqur Rahman 31 Dec 2024

A deadly parasite turns jaguar conservation into a human health priority

Sarah Brown 30 Dec 2024

Tortoise protection culture prompts efforts to curb trafficking in Madagascar

Carolyn Cowan 30 Dec 2024
A Himalayan leaf-nosed bat (Hipposideros armiger)

Great Himalayan leaf-nosed bat finally confirmed in Bangladesh

Mohammad Al-Masum Molla 27 Dec 2024
The 2024 paper proposes Leopardus pardinoides, or the clouded tiger cat, as a new species. This small wildcat is found in the cloud forests of Costa Rica, south to Panama, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and Argentina. Image courtesy of Johanes Pfleiderer. Article title - A tiger cat gains new species designation, but conservation challenges remain

Photos: Top new species from 2024

Liz Kimbrough 26 Dec 2024
An adult radiated tortoise

Massive tortoise rewilding in Madagascar’s spiny forest strives to save fraught species

Carolyn Cowan 26 Dec 2024

Jaguar tracks still stained with blood in Bolivia

Iván Paredes Tamayo 24 Dec 2024

Unlike: Brazil Facebook groups give poachers safe space to flex their kills

Adele Santelli 19 Dec 2024

‘Killed while poaching’: When wildlife enforcement blurs into violence

Ashoka Mukpo 19 Dec 2024

New frog species show how geology shapes Amazon’s biodiversity

Sibélia Zanon 19 Dec 2024

Hundreds of whales to be harpooned as Iceland issues new hunting licenses

Spoorthy Raman 17 Dec 2024

‘Like you, I fear the demise of the elephants’

Ashoka Mukpo 17 Dec 2024

Armed conflict, not Batwa people, at heart of Grauer’s gorillas’ past decline in DRC park

Aimable Twahirwa, Latoya Abulu 16 Dec 2024
Hylomys macarong, a smooth hedgehog

Greater Mekong serves up 234 new species in a year, from fanged hedgehog to diva viper

Carolyn Cowan 16 Dec 2024

Endangered seabirds return to Pacific island after century-long absence

Liz Kimbrough 14 Dec 2024
red shanked douc

Vietnam’s mammals need conservation within and outside their range: Study

Carolyn Cowan 13 Dec 2024
A Save The Elephants researcher studies elephants at Lake Jipe in Kenya. Image courtesy of Wildlife Conservation Network.

Wildlife conservation is a key climate change solution (commentary)

Peter Lalampaa and Jean-Gaël Collomb 11 Dec 2024

Andes glacier melt threatens Amazon’s rivers & intensifies droughts

Amanda Magnani 11 Dec 2024
A southern patas monkey (Erythrocebus baumstarki) sits on the branch of a tree in the Serengeti. Image courtesy Katie Sanborn.

Gum-eating Tanzanian monkey is AWOL, fueling extinction fears

Ryan Truscott 9 Dec 2024

‘Bear’s-eye camera’ reveals elusive Andean bear cannibalism and treetop mating

Liz Kimbrough 6 Dec 2024
A Desmarest’s hutia in Cuba.

That Cuban rodent species you never knew about? Turns out it’s two species

Jeremy Hance 6 Dec 2024

The uncertain future of Amazon river dolphins amid historic drought

Mayala Fernandes 6 Dec 2024
The clouded leopard researchers caught on a camera trap while studying other wildlife.

Clouded leopard sighting raises questions about conservation and research in Bangladesh

Khadijatul Kobra 5 Dec 2024
Moose (Alces alces) populations in Ontario, Canada, have declined by 20 percent in the last two decades. Photo credit: Richard Lee on Unsplash

Why are Canadian moose declining? Interviews with Indigenous communities offer new clues

Carly Kay 4 Dec 2024
Killer whales swim in the icy Arctic waters that are newly open to them. Photo credit: Maha Ghazal

Killer whales have found new homes in the Arctic Ocean, potentially reshaping marine ecology

Caroline Hemphill 3 Dec 2024
● Turkmenistan is set to join the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) beginning 2025.

With Turkmenistan set to join CITES, wildlife trade regulation in Central Asia gets a boost

Spoorthy Raman 2 Dec 2024

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