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Study urges legal protection for Sulawesi’s endangered bear cuscus amid habitat loss

Basten Gokkon 3 Jul 2025

As Thailand’s fishing cats face habitat loss & conflict, experts seek resolution

Carolyn Cowan 3 Jul 2025
Marbled white butterflies (Melanargia galathea)

Assisted colonization could be our ally in adapting to climate change, study suggests

Spoorthy Raman 2 Jul 2025
A dhole in India.

Nepal launches plan to boost science, awareness to save dholes

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 Jun 2025

After USAID cut, Ethiopia’s largest community conservation area aims for self-sufficiency

Solomon Yimer 27 Jun 2025

As iconic wild leopard ages in Sri Lanka, debate about human intervention ensues

Malaka Rodrigo 26 Jun 2025
Drying cacao beans before crushing them.

Cacao agroforestry in Belize hits the sweet spot for people and nature

Ruth Kamnitzer 26 Jun 2025
A leopard in Panna National Park, India.

‘Forgotten’ leopards being driven to silent extinction by poaching and trade

Spoorthy Raman 26 Jun 2025
Ndijingala, an eastern lowland gorilla, at the GRACE sanctuary before being reintroduced to the wild.

Signs of hope for rescued gorillas rewilded in DRC, but security concerns linger

Elodie Toto 25 Jun 2025
wo whales allokelping, with a small length of kelp stem visible between them. Center for Whale Research, NMFS NOAA Permit 27038

Orcas discovered making tools from seaweed to ‘massage’ each other

Liz Kimbrough 25 Jun 2025
Stefanie Brendl free diving with sharks. Photo by Phil Waller

What sharks are worth—and why that matters

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Jun 2025
Marlyse in Lobéké National Park, south-east Cameroon. Image by Yannick Kenné for Mongabay.

From porter to conservation leader, the inspiring journey of Marlyse Bebeguewa in Cameroon

David Akana, Yannick Kenné 23 Jun 2025

Checkout counter tech eases wildlife identification in the field

Miguel Monteiro 23 Jun 2025
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.

Whales still aren’t ‘eating all the fish’ (commentary)

Peter Corkeron 18 Jun 2025
Clown anemonefish live symbiotically with anemone

When heat waves hit, clownfish shrink to survive, study finds

Keith Anthony Fabro 18 Jun 2025
Fishermen releasing a sea turtle.

Peru’s new bycatch training aims to help save hooked sea turtles: Q&A with fisher Gustavo Rosales

Ana Cristina Alvarado 18 Jun 2025
A dusky whaler shark (Carcharhinus obscurus) entangled in Ballina, New South Wales, Australia in 2017.

On its 50th anniversary, ‘Jaws’ continues to provoke shark conservationists

Edward Carver 18 Jun 2025
A female elephant with her calf on agricultural land in northeastern Bangladesh.

Bangladesh plans new ‘protected area’ for elephants in its conflict-prone northeast

Abu Siddique 18 Jun 2025
A forest elephant, not from Senegal.

First elephant sighting in 6 years sparks hope for species’ return to a Senegal park

Spoorthy Raman 17 Jun 2025
White-bellied pangolin (Phataginus tricuspis), Gabon. Image by bureaubenjamin via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Pandemic-era slump in ivory and pangolin scale trafficking persists, report finds

Spoorthy Raman 17 Jun 2025
Employed women of the Banpewa community carrying seedlings to the planting site.

After controversy, Plant-for-the-Planet focuses on the trees

Maxwell Radwin 13 Jun 2025
A snow leopard in Nepal

Snow leopards frequently cross Nepal, India, China borders, study finds

Bibek Bhandari 12 Jun 2025
A shortfin mako

Endangered shark trophies dominate the online wildlife trade, study finds

Spoorthy Raman 11 Jun 2025
A southern white rhino explores its surrounding after translocation from South Africa to Rwanda's Akagera National Park. Image © Gael Vande Weghe.

Seventy southern white rhinos arrive at their new home in Rwanda from South Africa

Graeme Green 10 Jun 2025
A herd of female and young Borneo elephants eat chipped palms in a plantation.

Uniting plantations to save Bornean elephants: Interview with Farina Othman

Lee Kwai Han 10 Jun 2025
Pangolin at the Lilongwe Wildlife Centre in 2022

High-profile wildlife trafficking case tests Malawi’s conservation commitment

Madalitso Wills Kateta 10 Jun 2025

Pushback grows against nickel mining in Indonesian marine paradise of Raja Ampat

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Jun 2025
Group of grey-shanked douc langurs in a tree.

New population of rare douc langurs found in Vietnam’s highland forests

Carolyn Cowan 9 Jun 2025

In Nepal, northernmost sighting of Eurasian otter raises hope, concerns

Abhaya Raj Joshi 7 Jun 2025
The Paduka community cooking for visitors.

Villagers in Sumatra bring ancient forest flavors back to the table

Claire Turrell 5 Jun 2025

Signs of hope as elephant seals rebound from avian flu in remote Chilean fjord

Barinia Montoya 4 Jun 2025

Researchers identify 22 key areas for protecting struggling giant otters

Geraldine Santos 4 Jun 2025

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