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A siamang gibbon seized in Chennai, India in August 2024, along with turtles and pythons. It was being carried in the baggage of a passenger travelling from Bangkok.

Illegal trafficking of siamang gibbons is a concerning and underreported crisis (commentary)

Sinan Serhadli 18 Apr 2025
The pied tamarin (Saguinus bicolor) is one of the world’s most endangered monkeys. Image courtesy of Diogo Lagroteria.

New refuge helps protect Amazon’s most endangered monkey, but gaps remain

Shanna Hanbury 18 Apr 2025
A school of fish in the Palmyra Atoll in the Pacific. Image courtesy of Bryce Groark.

Trump opens massive marine protected area to commercial fishing

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Apr 2025
A young orangutan grasps and hangs on to a woody liana.

Nature on the move: How conservation must adapt to survive

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Apr 2025
Banner image of iconic tusker Unicorn in Minneriya, Sri Lanka, courtesy of Namal Kamalgoda.

Sri Lanka’s iconic tuskers ‘falling like dominoes,’ conservationists warn

Mongabay.com 18 Apr 2025
Banner image of quiver trees by Leonie Joubert for Mongabay.

Succulents die off with expanding desert in South Africa and Namibia

Mongabay.com 18 Apr 2025
The Cuyaba dwarf frog (Physalaemus nattereri) inflating its rear end to scare away predators. Image courtesy of Felipe Bittioli.

Most frogs in Brazil’s Pantanal wetlands to lose habitat by 2100: Study

Shanna Hanbury 17 Apr 2025
Giant harvester ants. Image by sandradennis via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Kenya arrests 4 suspected ant traffickers, seize 5,300 harvester ants

Spoorthy Raman 17 Apr 2025
Red-throated bee-eaters (Merops bulocki), Pehonko, Benin. Image by Yves Bas via iNaturalist (CC BY 4.0).

Africa’s growing cities are endangering birdlife (commentary)

Bello Adamu Danmallam 16 Apr 2025
Sable shearwaters are long-lived marine birds that nest in large colonies on islands and shores throughout the Indian and Pacific oceans

Plastic-eating seabird chicks show signs of organ failure and cognitive decline

Spoorthy Raman 16 Apr 2025
Crested black macaque. Photo by Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay.

Why conservation research findings are rarely surprising

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Apr 2025
Banner image of Mongabay Explores and Wild Frequencies logos.

2 Mongabay podcasts shortlisted for 2025 Publisher Podcast Awards

Mongabay.com 16 Apr 2025
Banner image of a hoary fox by Augusto Gomes for Mongabay.

Meet Brazil’s often-seen but little-known hoary fox

Mongabay.com 16 Apr 2025
Raffles' banded langur

Action plan aims to save Asia’s leaf-eating monkeys amid ‘alarming’ declines

Carolyn Cowan 15 Apr 2025
Banner image of a Darwin's frog and newborn at London Zoo, courtesy of Benjamin Tapley/ZSL.

Endangered Chilean frogs thrive in London while waiting out deadly fungus

Kristine Sabillo 15 Apr 2025
Nigerian authorities with pangolin scales seized in Lagos in April. Image courtesy of Nigeria Customs Service.

Nigerian authorities seize nearly 4 tons of pangolin scales, arrest five suspects

Spoorthy Raman 15 Apr 2025
Banner image of Nandera, a crime-fighting African giant pouched rat. Image by Lucia Torres/Mongabay.

Giant rats trained to sniff out illegal wildlife trade

Mongabay.com 15 Apr 2025
Fin whales, the second-largest mammal on earth, are hunted in Iceland, and their meat is exported to Japan. Image credits: Aqqa Rosing-Asvid - Visit Greenland - Flickr: Finhval, CC BY 2.0,

Icelandic whaling company calls off fin whale hunt this summer

Shreya Dasgupta, Spoorthy Raman 15 Apr 2025
Maoz Fine and Naama-Rose Kochman visit the lab’s coral nursery and monitoring station near Eilat.

Even the Gulf of Aqaba’s ‘supercorals’ bleached during 2024 heat wave

Ilan Ben Zion 14 Apr 2025
Banner image of an adult wattled crane and its chick, courtesy of Daniel Dolpire/International Crane Foundation.

Outlook improves for wattled crane in South Africa

Kristine Sabillo 11 Apr 2025
Banner image of Mommy, the Western Santa Cruz Galápagos tortoise, courtesy of Philadelphia Zoo.

97-year-old Galápagos tortoise becomes a first-time mom

Kristine Sabillo 11 Apr 2025
A lesser woolly horseshoe bat in Maharashtra. Image by Everestsh via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

New bat detection system in India promises more efficient data collection

Mongabay.com 11 Apr 2025

Singapore biobank offers backup plan for pangolins

Claire Turrell 10 Apr 2025
Eurasian brown bear courtesy of Magnus Lundgren/Swedensbigfive.org.

Coexistence with Europe’s carnivores is possible (commentary)

John Linnell 10 Apr 2025
Banner image of a painted swellshark courtesy of the National Geographic Exploration Technology Lab.

Deep-sea shark recorded on video for first time using low-cost camera

Kristine Sabillo 10 Apr 2025
Dugong in Thailand

Dugong numbers plummet amid seagrass decline in Thailand’s Andaman Sea

Carolyn Cowan 10 Apr 2025
Great Indian bustard chicks born at captive-breeding centers in Rajasthan, India. Image courtesy of the Bustard Recovery Program, WII.

Captive-raised chicks offer hope for extremely rare great Indian bustard

Shreya Dasgupta 10 Apr 2025
Sumatran tigers are critically endangered.

Snared, skinned, sold: Brutal March for Indonesia’s Sumatran tigers

Junaidi Hanafiah, Rahmi Carolina, Vinolia 10 Apr 2025
Scarecrow to protect a fields and crops. Image by Tulsi Rauniyar for Mongabay..

Photos: The volunteers standing guard at one of Nepal’s human-wildlife frontiers

Tulsi Rauniyar 9 Apr 2025
An Indochinese tiger. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Thailand’s ‘second’ tiger population stable, but barriers to expansion persist

Carolyn Cowan 9 Apr 2025
Brown bears captured on camera at the Chilkat State Park in Alaska.

Scientists team up for Snapshot USA nationwide mammal survey

Abhishyant Kidangoor 9 Apr 2025
Jaguar siblings in Porto Jofre in the Brazilian Pantanal. Image by Bernard Dupont via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Jaguar tourism in Brazil’s Pantanal needs new rules to avoid collapse: Study

Shanna Hanbury 8 Apr 2025

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