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Rhino populations across their ranges in Africa and Asia are threatened by poaching for their horns, which are in demand in China and Vietnam for medicinal uses and as a luxury item.

Rhino-poaching suspect, repeatedly freed on bail, shot dead in South Africa

Spoorthy Raman 23 May 2026
Lake Victoria in Kenya. Image by Jozef020 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Kenyan communities protest planned nuclear plant near Lake Victoria

Elodie Toto 22 May 2026

World Turtle Day: Important conservation wins amid turtle extinction crisis

Mongabay.com 22 May 2026

In Kyrgyzstan, a climate-ready corridor gives snow leopards and herders room to roam

Liz Kimbrough 22 May 2026
Tigers swim in an artificial pond inside the central zoo in Kathmandu.

Nepal prepares to hand over mega zoo project to conservation body

Rajendra Pokherel 22 May 2026
A yellowfin tuna captured for electronic tagging off the coast of Seychelles in the Western Indian Ocean. Image by Marc Taquet via Ifremer (CC BY 4.0).

Indian Ocean tuna regulator eases yellowfin fishing curbs amid sustainability concerns

Malavika Vyawahare 22 May 2026
The Common wombat (Vombatus ursinus) frequents the western side of Cawleys Bridge, and it is hoped the bridge will reinforce the wombat population in Royal National Park. Image courtesy of Simone Cottrell / DCCEEW.

Above an Australian highway, a bridge reconnects wilderness for quolls, koalas and other animals

Starre Vartan 22 May 2026
Endangered subspecies Southern resident orcas (Orcinus orca ater). Image by ywcai via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0).

AI listens for endangered orcas to help reduce underwater noise exposure

Mongabay.com 22 May 2026
Two hoolock gibbon in Hoollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary, India. Image by কুমুদ ঘোষ via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).

What drives the trafficking of gibbons? Conservationists shed light on demand

Mongabay.com 22 May 2026
Bengal slow loris

Slow lorises struggle to survive in the wild after captivity

Mongabay.com 22 May 2026
Kasereka Valyathire Baraka, left, and Munguakonkwa Mihigo Jacques were the latest Virunga rangers killed in the line of duty. Images courtesy of Virunga National Park.

Gunmen kill two rangers in latest deadly attack in DRC’s Virunga National Park

David Akana 22 May 2026

Three Thai nationals suspected of smuggling Galápagos iguanas arrested in Ecuador

Spoorthy Raman 21 May 2026
Image of women look after their cattle on the fringes of Bardiya National Park.

Rural women at increasing risk of human-wildlife conflict in Nepal

Mongabay.com 21 May 2026

Nepal proposes park for ‘problem’ tigers amid rising conflicts

Mongabay.com 21 May 2026
Dugong rescue in Thailand

Thai island community rallies to protect beloved dugongs, revive declining seagrass

Carolyn Cowan 21 May 2026

Three baby pumas born in Minnesota, US, is a first in more than 100 years

Bobby Bascomb 20 May 2026
Prehistoric rock art site in northeast Zimbabwe showing a variety of large animals that were symbolic of the hunter-gather world view. Includes elephant, rhino. They relate to they complex system of trance or myth, both essential elements of their socio-religious system. Image courtesy of Robert Stewart Burrett via Wikimedia Commons.

Humanity’s ancient bond with biodiversity is visible in rock art (analysis)

Kerry Bowman 20 May 2026
A new species of carnivorous “death ball” sponge from the genus Chondrocladia, discovered off the South Sandwich Islands. Image courtesy of ROV SuBastian/Schmidt Ocean Institute.

Ghost shark, carnivorous sponge among 1,000+ newly discovered marine species

Shreya Dasgupta 20 May 2026
A fever of mobula rays photographed underwater in June 2025. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

A fever of mobula rays off Mexico’s coast: Photo of the week

Shanna Hanbury 20 May 2026
Elephants (Loxodonta africana) in Malawi in 2006. Image by st georges via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Electric fences help farmers and elephants coexist in Zambian borderlands

Ryan Truscott 20 May 2026
A female langur with her baby crosses an artificial canopy bridge called Numi’s Crossing along Lembah Permai road in the Tanjung Bungah area of George Town, Penang Island. Image by Mohd Rasfan / AFP.

In Malaysia, a bridge helps endangered langurs and humans coexist

Philip Jacobson, Isabelle Leong 20 May 2026
This elusive animal hunts in the dim light of dawn and dusk, making it difficult to observe and hard to count. One of the few ways to survey them is by laying nets, pictured here.

An Australian icon, the platypus is struggling — and scientists still lack answers

Paul Harvey 20 May 2026

Texas man convicted of buying eagle parts from a wildlife trafficking ring

David Brown 19 May 2026
A New Zealand long-tailed bat (Mystacina tuberculata). Image © hrubbo via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0).

‘We’ve got bats’: The community bringing New Zealand’s pekapeka into the spotlight

Isabel Gil 19 May 2026
Emmanuel Bahati Lukoo is currently deputy director of Kahuzi-Biega National Park. Image courtesy of Emmanuel Bahati Lukoo.

He survived a deadly attack, now he is calling for better working conditions for rangers in DRC

David Akana 19 May 2026
The short-eared dog inhabits the Amazon and prefers untouched forests. Image courtesy of Guido Ayala & María Viscarra/WCS Bolivia.

Study gathers over 4,000 photos to find Bolivia’s rarest Amazonian dog

Iván Paredes Tamayo 19 May 2026
A boy gathers water in Kalokol, with submerged palm trees behind. Image by Christopher Clark for Mongabay.

Rising waters and mounting pressures collide on Kenya’s Lake Turkana

Christopher Clark 19 May 2026
Fisherman James Lekubo on Lake Turkana. Image by Christopher Clark for Mongabay.

‘Turkana has always adapted to change’: Interview with environmentalist Ikal Angelei

Christopher Clark 19 May 2026

Timor green pigeon could go extinct without immediate action, study finds

Naina Rao 19 May 2026

Who controls Indian Ocean tuna?

Mongabay.com 18 May 2026
Sand mining along the Mekong River

19,000 Great Pyramids a year: Report flags unsustainable rate of sand mining

Carolyn Cowan 18 May 2026
African savanna elephants are endangered, after years of poaching for their ivory, decimated their numbers. Now, their habitats are fast-shrinking due to human activities.

Trump called trophy hunting a “horror show,” but permitted 300-plus elephant trophy imports in 2025

Spoorthy Raman 18 May 2026

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