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Eastern tree hyrax in Pare mountains. Image courtesy of Hanna Rosti.

Tanzania’s tree-climbing hyraxes have adapted to life without trees

Ryan Truscott 19 Dec 2025
A bull elephant strolls past a fenced rural homestead in Namibia that is on high alert. Risk of confrontation between elephant and people is high if people don't know how to handle the situation safely. Image courtesy of Abi Best.

How Southern African farmers & elephants can both adapt to coexist

Ryan Truscott 19 Dec 2025
The presence of Sumatran elephants is intended to help transport wood left over from the flood.

Tsunami veteran rescue elephants mobilized for Indonesia cyclone disaster relief

Junaidi Hanafiah 19 Dec 2025
Gorongosa National Park team member presenting how they visualize wildlife, personnel, and other activity across the landscape on EarthRanger. Photo Credit: Gorongosa National Park.

Tech alone won’t stop poaching, but it’s changing how rangers work

Daniella Garcia Almeida 19 Dec 2025
A Southern giraffe in Africa.

New study splits giraffe experts on future wild captures for zoos

Shradha Triveni 18 Dec 2025

Tapanuli orangutan, devastated by cyclone, now faces habitat loss under zoning plans

Hans Nicholas Jong, Achmad Rizki Muazam 18 Dec 2025
A critically endangered lesser Antillean iguana in Dominica. Image courtesy of Andrew Snyder/Re:wild.

Tiny Caribbean island brings hope for critically endangered iguana

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Dec 2025
Monkeys traverse unprotected electric lines in Costa Rica, a situation that leads to deaths of many monkeys, sloths, kinkajous and more. Image courtesy of International Animal Rescue.

Costa Rica’s ‘shocking’ wildlife crisis: Nation must move to prevent animal electrocution (commentary)

Elena Kukovica 17 Dec 2025
A spectacled cobra in India.

Rapid urbanization, habitat loss are forcing the snakes out in Dhaka

Tasmin Era 17 Dec 2025

In Peru, community-led camera trapping boosts conservation and ecotourism

Astrid Arellano 16 Dec 2025
Previously undetected in other protected areas, a tigress known as SWT001F was the first individual tiger captured on camera in Thailand's Sisawat Non-Hunting Area in 2024. Panthera, Thailand's DNP and other partners are working to monitor and protect Indochinese tigers and their prey in this region where camera traps have shown tigers are using Sisawat forest as a corridor. Currently plans exist to propose the adjoining forest area to the east as an extension of Sisawat.

Hope for tigers grows as Thailand safeguards a key link in their habitat

Gloria Dickie 16 Dec 2025
The endangered African penguins (Spheniscus demersus)

South Africa considers site near African penguin colony for third nuclear power plant

Shreya Dasgupta 16 Dec 2025
Musofa arrived at the Javan Rhino Study and Conservation Area (JRSCA). Image courtesy of Ujung Kulon National Park Authority.

Indonesia’s 1st Javan rhino translocation ends in death, in conservation setback

Basten Gokkon 16 Dec 2025

‘Internet of Animals,’ a unified wildlife tracker, set to resume after hiatus

Abhishyant Kidangoor 16 Dec 2025
A pair of Galápagos yellow warblers. The increasing human population and the number of vehicles are impacting these birds and their behaviour. Image by Çaglar Akçay.

Noisy traffic is making Galápagos’ yellow warblers angry

Mongabay.com 15 Dec 2025
Smoke from wildfires fills the air over Lake Tefé in the Amazon. Image courtesy of Miguel Monteiro.

The Amazon’s lakes are heating up at ‘alarming’ rate, research finds

Shanna Hanbury 11 Dec 2025

Africa’s wildlife has lost a third of its ‘ecological power,’ study says

Malavika Vyawahare 11 Dec 2025
The African golden cat (Caracal aurata) is a medium-sized felid (though it’s classified as one of the world’s 33 small cat species). In Echuya Forest, it’s the largest predator remaining due to the extirpation of leopards from that forest.

Small cat conservationists hail Uganda’s new Echuya Forest National Park

Sean Mowbray 11 Dec 2025
A herd of elephants crosses the M10 highway en route to the Zambezi River, Zambia.

Corridors, not culls, offer solution to Southern Africa’s growing elephant population

Ryan Truscott 11 Dec 2025
Gray wolf: Image credits: John and Karen Hollingsworth/USFWS

Choosing coexistence over conflict: How some California ranchers are adapting to wolves

Spoorthy Raman 11 Dec 2025
Photo © California Academy of Sciences

Chris Grinter has spent much of his life surrounded by insects

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Dec 2025
Forest elephants

Wildlife and communities bear the cost as Simandou rail corridor advances across Guinea

Younoussa Naby Sylla 11 Dec 2025
A diver swimming close to a female sperm whale pod.

Unregulated tourism risks disrupting Timor-Leste’s whale migration

Robin Hicks 11 Dec 2025

The last of the Vaquita Porpoise (cartoon)

Rohan Chakravarty 9 Dec 2025
Iain Douglas-Hamilton. Image courtesy Save the Elephants.

Iain Douglas-Hamilton, elephant protector, has died at 83

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Dec 2025

Stricter rules adopted to protect sloths from pet trade and selfie tourism

Fernanda Wenzel 9 Dec 2025
greater mouse-deer

Reforestation and wild pig decline spark surge in miniature deer in Singapore

Carolyn Cowan 8 Dec 2025
Elephants in Botswana. Image by Joe Ross via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Botswana’s elephant hunting quota threatens to wipe out mature bulls: Report

Oscar Nkala 8 Dec 2025
Bamboo lemur in Madagascar. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Lemurs are at risk. So are the people protecting them.

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Dec 2025

To save jaguars from extinction, scientists in Brazil are trying IVF and cloning

Letícia Klein 5 Dec 2025
Gregg Treinish in Botswana's Okavango. Photo by Shah Selbe

Turning adventure into data

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Dec 2025
Image of cheetahs, by zgmorris13 via Pixabay (CC0).

International Cheetah Day: Survival still at stake for the world’s fastest cat

Mongabay.com 3 Dec 2025

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