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Oceanic whitetip shark (Carcharhinus longimanus), listed by the IUCN as a critically endangered species.

Global marine protected areas fail to safeguard most sharks and rays: Study

Madeline Shaw 14 Aug 2026
Sand cats are the only desert-dwelling wild feline.

Caught on camera: Sand cats may have a ‘sizable population’ in Qatar

Alex Megerle 14 Aug 2026
Ernita, farmer and member of women’s group Perbani, grows citrus trees on the perimeter of her oil palm farm, on the buffer zone of Tesso Nilo National Park, to drive away elephants. Image by Suryadi/Mongabay Indonesia.

How women farmers are helping elephants and forests in a Sumatran national park

Suryadi, Yenni Kwok 14 Aug 2026
A golden-crowned sifaka in Madagascar. Image courtesy of Association Fanamby.

100 species on the brink get a $200m conservation lifeline

Shanna Hanbury 14 Aug 2026
Bulan and Badar.

Rescued from traffickers, reintroduced orangutan becomes mother in the wild

Ayat S. Karokaro 14 Aug 2026
African savanna elephants in Namibia. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

More people, farms, and drought could mean more elephant conflict in Southern Africa

David Brown 14 Aug 2026
A Visayan spotted deer (Rusa alfredi) in a zoo.

From one deer’s DNA, a road map emerges to save an endangered Philippine species

Pippo Carmona 14 Aug 2026
Jackie and Shadow caring for their egg in their nest in the Big Bear Valley in 2019

Big Bear Valley’s beloved bald eagle Jackie is dead

Spoorthy Raman 13 Aug 2026
A Timor green pigeon (Treron psittaceus).

Timor green pigeon nears extinction after decades of inaction, study warns

Timothy Mihocik 13 Aug 2026
Dead fish in the Kafue River near the town of Luanshya, Zambia, a day after the tailings dam spill, Feb. 19, 2025. Image by AP Photo/Richard Kille.

A mine polluted a Zambian river in 2025: Residents continue to live with the impacts

Victoria Schneider 13 Aug 2026

Indonesia’s wildfire season surges as haze spreads into Malaysia

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Aug 2026

Bat virus fragments turn up in fertilizer sold in Thai markets, study finds

Mongabay.com 13 Aug 2026

Nepal enlists AI to help fight against crop-raiding macaques

Mongabay.com 13 Aug 2026
A zookeeper feeds a Sarus Crane bird at the Central Zoo in Lalitpur, Nepal

Delays, biosecurity failures worsened flu outbreak at Nepal zoo, probe finds

Deepak Adhikari 12 Aug 2026
Preparing to enter an Ebola treatment unit during the 2014 outbreak. Image by Athalia Christie via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

As DRC confronts largest Ebola outbreak, health agencies revise strategy

Mongabay.org 12 Aug 2026
Cape Three Points, Ghana. Image courtesy of Hεn Mpoano.

Illegal mining threatens Ghana’s first marine protected area

Mabel Adorkor Annang 12 Aug 2026
George Bowey in an illegal cacao farm in the proposed Kwa National Park. Photo by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

Cacao plantations in Liberia encroach into proposed Kwa national park

Mongabay.com 12 Aug 2026
forest elephants in Gabon. Image © Lucy Keith-Diagne via iNaturalist (CC BY 4.0).

World Elephant Day: How these giants are adapting to a changing world

David Brown 12 Aug 2026
African savannah elephants, the biggest land animals on the planet, are socially advanced and highly intelligent mammals. Image by O’Connell’s & Rodwell.

On ivory, follow the trafficking networks and not the headlines (commentary)

Mary Rice 11 Aug 2026
Whale slaughtering in Hvalfjörður, Iceland, July 2009. Image by Dagur Brynjólfsson via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Iceland to deport antiwhaling protest ship’s crew after they interfered with whale hunt

Alex Megerle 11 Aug 2026
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
An ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) photographed in the Encontro das Águas State Park, Mato Grosso, Brazil. Image by Giles Laurent on Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Brazil’s wildcats face multiple diseases due to habitat fragmentation

Lucas Berti 11 Aug 2026
A capped langur

New ropeways aim to save wildlife in Bangladesh’s fragmented habitats

Sadiqur Rahman 11 Aug 2026
Chimpanzees at Tacugama

What makes chimpanzee conservation last? Lessons from Sierra Leone

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Aug 2026

Uzbekistan’s houbara releases serve hunting, not conservation, expert says

Naina Rao 11 Aug 2026
Artisanal fishers at Cocobeach, Gabon. Photo by Ralph Messi on Unsplash.

Gabon ends fisheries partnership agreement with EU

Victoria Schneider 10 Aug 2026
Indonesian Borneo Orangutan

Can a photo save orangutans?

Juan Maza 10 Aug 2026
Umit, an adult female Amur tiger, recently released into Ile-Balkhash State Nature Reserve in southeastern Kazakhstan. Image courtesy of Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources.

Kazakhstan releases first tiger into the wild in 70 years

Yenni Kwok 10 Aug 2026

In Amazon rivers, fish breathe and ingest plastics

Tiago da Mota e Silva 10 Aug 2026
A group of cow elk traverses an active mine site as they move between forest patches. Image courtesy of Brittany L. Slabach.

Wildlife in the eastern US are making a comeback

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Aug 2026
A lion in Zambia.

World Lion Day: The communities living with lions

Mongabay.com 10 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

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