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Kent Carpenter. Image via Old Dominion University

Kent Carpenter spent half a century counting the life of Philippine reefs

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Jul 2026
The rusty lark, a Sahelian native bird, was not seen or heard by scientists for 94 years.

How birders in Chad ‘found’ the rusty lark, a bird lost to science for nearly a century

Spoorthy Raman 14 Jul 2026

Small-scale farming, logging eclipse megaprojects as top threats to Tapanuli orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Jul 2026
A rhesus macaque eats an orange in Kathmandu. Image by Rachid H via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

Monkey vs machine: Nepal tests AI to fight crop-raiding macaques

Praveen Kumar Yadav 13 Jul 2026
Linda Ingham with Pacific white-sided dolphin caught in Japanese driftnet, north Pacific. Photo © Greenpeace / Roger Grace

A marine protected area can ban fishing boats. It cannot stop drifting gear

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Jul 2026

Pangolin habitat at risk in Pakistan

Mongabay.com 13 Jul 2026
A view of Ngor Bay in Dakar, Senegal. Image by Jeff Attaway via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

What will Africa’s story on ocean governance be? Interview with David Willima

Victoria Schneider 13 Jul 2026
A red ruffed lemur in Madagascar.

Official tied to commercial breeding to represent US at global wildlife trade meeting

Spoorthy Raman 11 Jul 2026
Photograph of a Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) submitted by a KehatiKu citizen observer.

Can a photo save orangutans?

Juan Maza 11 Jul 2026
Lydia Möcklinghoff with a giant anteater. From her social media.

Lydia Möcklinghoff, champion of the giant anteater, has died in a plane crash. She was 45

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Jul 2026
A western chimpanzee at Tacugama.

Conserving Sierra Leone’s western chimpanzees: Interview with Tacugama’s Willie Tucker

Patricia Sia Ngevao 10 Jul 2026
Pallas’s cat, also known as the manul, roam widely across Central Asia and are present in 16 countries. Image by Richard Gillin via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Meme-face Pallas’s cat traverses a complex conservation landscape

Sean Mowbray 10 Jul 2026
Beavers act as ecosystem engineers, building dams that can transform small rivers into more complex wetlands that can support higher levels of biodiversity.

Beavers brought a volcanic wasteland back to life. Now it’s under threat

Isabel Gil 10 Jul 2026
A numbat in Western Australia. Image by © Kym Nicolson via iNaturalist (CC BY 4.0).

Once endangered, Australia’s numbat is making a hopeful recovery

Shreya Dasgupta 10 Jul 2026
The desert rain frog. Image courtesy of Bob Steele via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Desert rain frogs threatened with extinction in southern Africa

Victoria Schneider 10 Jul 2026
Tanjung Priok Customs officers inspect pangolin scales intended to be smuggled to Cambodia. Image courtesy of Tanjung Priok Customs.

Suspect charged and manhunt continues over Jakarta 3-ton pangolin scales case

Anggita Raissa 10 Jul 2026
The rescued tiger at Khulna Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Center. Image courtesy of the Bangladesh Forest Department.

Bangladesh gets ready for its first release of tiger rescued from poachers’ trap

Abu Siddique 10 Jul 2026

Nepal’s Rhino translocation success in numbers masks habitat struggles

Mongabay.com 10 Jul 2026

How effective are canopy bridges really?

Bobby Bascomb 9 Jul 2026
A moray eel in the coral reefs

Can conservation change how the world sees the Strait of Hormuz? (commentary)

Iman Ebrahimi 9 Jul 2026
A male Walia ibex in Ethiopia. Image courtesy of Paul Scholte.

Ethiopia’s iconic Walia ibex is critically endangered once again

Shreya Dasgupta 9 Jul 2026

Lawmakers seek rights probe into Indigenous conflict at Indonesian timber firm

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Jul 2026

A win-win, animal crossings make roads safer for wildlife and people

Mongabay.com 9 Jul 2026
A striped dolphin caught in a driftnet off the Azores, North Atlantic.


Seeking swordfish, catching dolphins and whales: EU pushes to rein in driftnets

Victoria Schneider 8 Jul 2026
A native Yellowstone cutthroat trout. Image courtesy of Jay Fleming via National Park Service.

Like wolves, non-native lake trout have radically altered Yellowstone ecosystems (commentary)

Lyle Lewis 8 Jul 2026
A hooded vulture landing on its roost in Lagos.

Confronting culture to protect vultures: Interview with Nigeria’s Michael Williams

Kingsley Charles 8 Jul 2026
Rothschild's giraffes at Murchison Falls National Park in Uganda. The Tilenga and Kingfisher fields lie close to the park. Image by Daryona via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Ugandan farmers sue TotalEnergies’ oil pipeline project in UK court

Elodie Toto 8 Jul 2026
A worker disinfects himself at the Evangelical Medical Center in Bunia, DRC. Image by Prosper Heri Ngorora.

Clinical trials begin in DRC epicenter of Bundibugyo strain of Ebola

Prosper Heri Ngorora 8 Jul 2026
A pineapple sea cucumber (Thelenota ananas).

Illegal fishing takes a toll on Australia’s sea cucumbers

Madeline Shaw 7 Jul 2026
A group of fishers upon returning from a fishing trip in the port of Mosteiros on Fogo Island. Image by Alice Pistolesi for Mongabay.

Cabo Verde program and its fishers have been protecting the sea for 10 years

Alice Pistolesi, Monica Pelliccia 7 Jul 2026
Yellow-billed kites are found across Africa and play an important role in keeping ecosystems healthy as one of the most common scavengers.

Belief-based use increasing threat to yellow-billed kite, an important African scavenger

Sean Mowbray 7 Jul 2026
Community members collect plastic waste during a beach cleanup organized by COMRED on Kenya’s coast. Image courtesy of COMRED.

‘The only possible transition is a just transition’: Interview with WEF’s Clemence Schmid

Jackson Ambole Okata 7 Jul 2026

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