Animals News

RSS
12715 stories
Pallas’s cat kittens in Mongolia. These small cats are vulnerable to declines in other burrowing species, as they can’t dig out holes for themselves that they use for shelter and to raise their young. Image by Sebastian Kennerknecht/Cat Expeditions

Nepal’s high-altitude wildernesses & wildlife are increasingly under threat (commentary)

Geraldine Werhahn, Sabita Gurung 9 Sep 2026

How to enhance ocean health and resilience with marine rewilding

Bobby Bascomb 9 Sep 2026
This orangutan, named Sampurna, was rescued after being exposed to smoke from forest and land fires in Ketapang Regency, West Kalimantan.

Rescuers scramble to save orangutans as El Niño-boosted fires spread across Borneo

Rendy Tisna 9 Sep 2026
A western marsh harrier (Circus aeruginosus)

To save Europe’s raptors, conservationists say, look to West Africa

Sean Mowbray 9 Sep 2026
The western tragopan depends on undisturbed mountain forests for survival. Image courtesy of Jainy Maria.

Colorful Himalayan pheasants face a less rosy future under human pressure

Mongabay.com 9 Sep 2026
Orangutans seen in the Leuser Ecosystem, the last place on earth where tigers, orangutans, elephants and rhinos still coexsist.

Singkil peat swamp: The embattled orangutan capital of the world

Mongabay 8 Sep 2026
A female Adenomera varcena. Image courtesy of Borburema et al., (2026).

New-to-science Amazon frog stands out for its slow ‘lazy’ song

Shanna Hanbury 8 Sep 2026
Wildlife of all kinds is for sale in Bangkok’s Chatuchak Market’s ‘Pets’ zone, with growing numbers coming from Latin America.

Why is Amazonian wildlife turning up at a Bangkok market?

Gloria Dickie 8 Sep 2026
Pallid harrier (Circus macrourus) at Omsk, Russia in 2026. Image by Yaroslav Burmatov via INaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0)

‘Birds know no borders’: Interview with BirdLife Africa’s Alex Ngari

Wilson Odhiambo 8 Sep 2026

In Panama’s Darién, Indigenous communities test a new way to fund conservation

María Paula Rubiano A. 7 Sep 2026
Western chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes ssp. verus) in the Guinea forest. Image by ©Juan Maza.

Guinea’s Iron Frontier

7 Sep 2026

New nocturnal snake from New Guinea named after Slash of Guns N’ Roses

Naina Rao 7 Sep 2026
DO NOT REUSE A Rüppell's vulture, in Boma National Park, South Sudan. Image © Marcus Westberg.

World Heritage status for South Sudan parks will be a boon for the birds

Ryan Truscott 7 Sep 2026
Lionfish Thumbnail

Why are they killing this beautiful fish?

Sandy Watt 5 Sep 2026
A tuskless elephant bull inside the Nyerere-Udzungwa Wildlife Corridor. Pic credit: Southern Tanzania Elephant Program.

Tanzania’s first official wildlife corridor links savanna elephants to rainforest

Ryan Truscott 4 Sep 2026

Marine conservation collides with mining in Indonesia’s biodiversity-rich Moramo Bay

La Ode Risman Hermawan 4 Sep 2026
An illegal gold mine in Nagan Raya, Aceh.

Illegal gold mining continues in Indonesia’s Aceh despite government crackdown pledge

Junaidi Hanafiah 4 Sep 2026
A Sundarban tiger swims in the deep water.

Study analyzes danger of parasites to Bengal tigers in South Asia

Sadiqur Rahman 4 Sep 2026

Genetic road map offers hope for threatened Visayan spotted deer

Mongabay.com 4 Sep 2026

Ebola outbreak underscores food insecurity crisis in DRC

Dan Yessa 3 Sep 2026
Mindoro Bleeding-heart captured via camera trap.

A ‘lost’ Philippine pigeon reappears after 20 years — but its forest is disappearing

Keith Anthony Fabro 3 Sep 2026
A Sumatran tiger, captured by a camera trap. This critically endangered subspecies is still under heavy threat from poachers, and though accurate numbers are unknown, fewer than 600 remain.

From seizure to sentence: Weak prosecution leaves tigers vulnerable to trafficking in Southeast Asia: Report

Sean Mowbray 3 Sep 2026
Andean Condor

Andean condors: From fear to coexistence

Julia Lima 3 Sep 2026

Vietnam seizes 1.2 tons of ivory, plus big cat bones, hidden in timber shipment

Naina Rao 3 Sep 2026
Hooded vulture (Necrosyrtes monachus). Image by Josh van der Meulen via INaturalist (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

West Africa’s plan to save its vultures struggles to take flight

Sean Mowbray 3 Sep 2026

Women farmers in Sumatra find a gentler way to keep elephants at bay

Mongabay.com 3 Sep 2026

Beetle larvae trick bees into feeding and sheltering them by smelling like flowers, study finds

David Brown 3 Sep 2026

Indigenous ‘turtle women’ help vulnerable reptiles recover in Ecuadorian Amazon

Mongabay.com 2 Sep 2026
A yellowtail dascyllus

Damselfish-assisted repair of wounded corals surprises scientists

Shradha Triveni 2 Sep 2026
For the Iraya, the forest is a largely unwritten living archive.

The race to document Indigenous knowledge to protect Philippines’ birds

Mongabay.com 2 Sep 2026

Togo cosponsors proposal to review commercial whaling ban

Victoria Schneider 1 Sep 2026
Woodland caribou live in the boreal rainforests across Canada and parts of the U.S., surviving on lichens growing on centuries-old trees.

As British Columbia mulls continued wolf-killing to save caribou, critics say habitat loss is the real threat

Spoorthy Raman 1 Sep 2026

you're currently offline