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Christmas Island shrew

In memory of the Christmas Island shrew

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Oct 2025
White handed gibbon

International Gibbon Day: Spotlighting the overlooked, underprotected ‘lesser apes’

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Oct 2025
Cultivated poke bowl produced by Ivy Farm. Photo courtesy of Ivy Farm

Reimagining meat: The Good Food Institute’s bid to redesign the global food system

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Oct 2025
The Andean cat (Leopardus jacobita), an endangered species and one of the rarest felines in the Americas, in the central Andes of Chile. Image courtesy of Rodrigo Villalobos.

Researchers fear Chile copper project may threaten rare Andean cat population

Aimee Gabay 23 Oct 2025
The Pujada Nickel Mining Project leaves an open-wide brown pit, sandwiched between the Mount Hamiguitan Range Wildlife Sanctuary and Pujada Bay.

Nickel mining damage near UNESCO site stirs outrage in southern Philippines

Bong S. Sarmiento 23 Oct 2025
A harp seal on ice.

Arctic seals edge closer to extinction as sea ice vanishes

Keith Anthony Fabro 23 Oct 2025
An elephant in Assam's Kaziranga National Park. India's Assam state has one of the highest incidents of human-elephant conflicts.

AI system eavesdrops on elephants to prevent deadly encounters in India

Spoorthy Raman 23 Oct 2025
A diamond squid, which is found in both epipelagic and mesopelagic zones.

Global conservation body takes first step to protect ocean’s twilight zone

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 23 Oct 2025
A snow leopard by Ismail Shariff/Snow Leopard Trust via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0).

International Snow Leopard Day: Conservation and coexistence in India and Nepal

Shreya Dasgupta 23 Oct 2025
Christmas Island, Australia. Image by David Stanley via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0)

Christmas Island shrew officially declared extinct: IUCN

Shreya Dasgupta 23 Oct 2025
Members of the Nazareth Baptist (Shembe) Church in South Africa wearing both wildlife skins and synthetic Heritage Furs provided in partnership with Panthera. Image courtesy of Gareth Whittington-Jones/Panthera.

Study reveals overlooked cultural threat to wildcats across Africa

Charles Mpaka 22 Oct 2025
Soldiers from the PROLANSATE Foundation on patrol

Why is protecting this Honduran lagoon so dangerous? 

Fritz Pinnow, Sam Lee 22 Oct 2025
Birds flock in the foreground against wind turbines at the Spearville Wind Farm Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024, in Spearville, Kan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Radar study shows when offshore turbines pose greatest risks to migrating birds

Edward Carver 21 Oct 2025
Jorian Hendricks in the forest of Brito Ulu, Indonesian Borneo, taking field notes in his notebook while using a directional microphone to record the sounds of the forest.

Primatology goes high tech — from bioacoustics to drones & AI

Manuel Fonseca 21 Oct 2025
A raft of sea otters off the Alaska coast.

Booming sea otters and fading shellfish spark values clash in Alaska

Justin Catanoso 21 Oct 2025

Rescued African gray parrots return to DRC forests

Didier Makal 21 Oct 2025
Two olive ridley turtles caught in discarded fishing nets. Image courtesy of Galbokka Sea Turtle Conservation & Research Center.

Ghost nets entangling turtles, marine life in Sri Lanka’s waters

Mongabay.com 21 Oct 2025

Rare dugong calf sighting in Alor spotlights seagrass & marine mammal conservation

Basten Gokkon 21 Oct 2025

Negro River study finds genetic damage in fish after oil spill

Tiago da Mota e Silva 20 Oct 2025

South African sharks threatened by fisheries, weak enforcement

Victoria Schneider 20 Oct 2025
A manta ray in the Indian Ocean.

Mining the deep-sea could further threaten endangered sharks and rays

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 20 Oct 2025
A slender-billed curlew illustration by Elizabeth Gould & Edward Lear via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).

The slender-billed curlew, a migratory waterbird, is officially extinct: IUCN

Shreya Dasgupta 20 Oct 2025
The new-to-science Marmosa chachapoya species. Photo courtesy of Silvia Pavan.

Scientists describe new-to-science mouse opossum from Peruvian Andes

Mongabay.com 17 Oct 2025
A young female leopard photographed at night in Niokolo Koba National Park, Senegal. Panthera/Senegal DPN

West Africa’s leopards now officially endangered after 50% population crash

Elodie Toto 17 Oct 2025
A green turtle. Image by Bernard DUPONT via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Green turtle rebounds, moving from ‘endangered’ to ‘least concern’

Shreya Dasgupta 17 Oct 2025

New cluster of Tapanuli orangutans discovered in Sumatra peat swamp

Junaidi Hanafiah 17 Oct 2025

As wolves roam California, livestock losses remain low, yet ranchers’ fears grow

Spoorthy Raman 16 Oct 2025

Indonesia falls short in bid to increase its share of southern bluefin tuna catch

Edward Carver 16 Oct 2025

State-NGO collaboration expands protection for Patagonia’s biodiversity hotspot

Mark Hillsdon 16 Oct 2025
Photos of orcas captured using drones in Alaska.

Drone surveys offer early warnings on whale health and survival

Abhishyant Kidangoor 16 Oct 2025
Rodrigues fody by pierrickferret via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0).

20 animal species on the road to recovery: IUCN Red List update

Shreya Dasgupta 16 Oct 2025
A teenage mahout and his elephant in Bogura, Bangladesh.

Bangladesh plans to rehabilitate captive elephants in the wild

Abu Siddique 16 Oct 2025

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