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Countries overwhelmingly support bid to bar Galápagos iguanas from international trade

Spoorthy Raman 3 Dec 2025
Jean Beasley with the Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Center with a juvenile Kemp's Ridley sea turtle on Sept. 17, 2013 in Surf City, N.C. Photo courtesy of KEN BLEVINS/STARNEWS

Jean Beasley, who turned her young daughter’s dying wish into a mission to save sea turtles, has died

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Dec 2025

Countries back strong new trade limits for sharks and rays at CITES summit

Victoria Schneider 3 Dec 2025
Monarch butterfly resting on a plant. Photo by José López-García

Saving critical winter habitat for monarch butterflies may depend on buy-in from their human neighbors

Claudia Steiner 3 Dec 2025
A male black grouse, currently declining in Wales. Image by Vnp via Wikimedia Commons (CCBY-SA3.0)

Extinctions ‘already happening’ in Wales as report lists 3,000 at-risk species

Mongabay.com 3 Dec 2025
An Asian dhole (Cuon alpinus) in a grassy field. Human impact hot spots for Canidae, like dhole, include Southeast Asia, Southern Africa, and South America. Image credit: Kalyan Varma / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0

Predators in peril: Protected areas cover just a fraction of global carnivore ranges

Alonso Daboub 3 Dec 2025
Andean condor flying

Artificial incubation gives Colombia’s threatened Andean condor a new lifeline

Christina Noriega 2 Dec 2025

Peru’s Río Abiseo park yields new marsupial, hinting at more undiscovered species

Yvette Sierra Praeli 2 Dec 2025
Jaguars in Mexico. Image courtesy of Andrea Reyes/Jaguars in the Wild Foundation.

International Jaguar Day: A year of wins for the big cat

Mongabay.com 2 Dec 2025
A Bornean orangutan.

Indigenous Dayak sound alarm as palm oil firm razes orangutan habitat in Borneo

Hans Nicholas Jong 2 Dec 2025
Small-scale fishers unloading buckets of fish from their boats in South Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Healthy oceans are a human right (commentary)

Nathan Bennett 1 Dec 2025
The California two-spot octopus (Octopus bimaculoides). Photo by Anik Grearson.

Octopuses use their arms to sense and respond to microbiomes on the seafloor

Pepper St. Clair 1 Dec 2025
Early-career conservationists take part in the 2025 EDGE Conservation Tools Course, part of a global fellowship program that supports emerging leaders to drive locally led conservation. Image by Paul Barnes /EDGE of Existence, Zoological Society of London.

Small grants can empower the next generation of conservationists

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Dec 2025
Stingless bees in a box hive at the headquarters of Embrapa’s Eastern Amazon office.

Amazon’s stingless bee propolis shows potent healing power, studies show

Lucas Berti 1 Dec 2025

Returning baby gibbons to the wild

Izzy Sasada 29 Nov 2025
Screenshot of Gramma. Courtesy of the San Diego Zoo.

The long life of a Galápagos tortoise

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Nov 2025
A gray wolf in Minnesota.

First state-authorized killings mark escalation in California’s management of wolves

Spoorthy Raman 29 Nov 2025

Solar-lights protect sea turtles from fishing nets, Mexico trials show

Liz Kimbrough 28 Nov 2025

A fragile Sri Lankan island fights back against the threat of mineral extraction

Malaka Rodrigo 28 Nov 2025

Lemurs are being eaten as an urban delicacy in Madagascar

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Nov 2025

Behind Sri Lanka’s ‘fish rain’ lies a web of migrations now blocked by rising dams

Malaka Rodrigo 27 Nov 2025

Central America’s forests are crucial for migrating birds: Study

Bobby Bascomb 26 Nov 2025

45 more shark species up for CITES protections; tight vote expected

Philip Jacobson 26 Nov 2025

Deep-diving manta rays use the ocean’s midnight zone to build mental maps, study suggests

Liz Kimbrough 26 Nov 2025
Fledglings of Lesser Adjutant in the Parsa-Koshi Complex. Image by Hem Bahadur Katuwal.

Bird diversity drops in human-dominated habitats, Nepal study suggests

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 26 Nov 2025

As Sri Lanka continues new elephant drive, scientists warn against creating new conflicts

Malaka Rodrigo 26 Nov 2025
O'Shaughnessy's chameleon (Calumma oshaughnessyi), restricted to Madagascar. Image courtesy of Ricardo Rocha.

Island-confined reptiles face high extinction risk, but low research interest

Shreya Dasgupta 26 Nov 2025

The roughed-up roughy fish (cartoon)

Rohan Chakravarty 26 Nov 2025

Drought amplifies human-wildlife conflict, study finds

Bobby Bascomb 25 Nov 2025
A female tiger. Tigers were among the first few species added to CITES Appendix I in 1975 to halt the illegal trade of tigers and their parts.

Global tiger trafficking crisis worsens with nine big cats seized monthly

Associated Press 25 Nov 2025

Are wolves scared of us?

Abhishyant Kidangoor 25 Nov 2025
A juvenile orange-fronted parakeet seized by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Office of Law Enforcement at the Otay Mesa Port of Entry in California.

It’s ‘whack-a-mole’: Alarming rise in pet trade fuels wildlife trafficking into California

Spoorthy Raman 25 Nov 2025

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