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Nubian flapshell turtle (Cyclanorbis elegans) in its preferred riverbank habitat. Image courtesy of ONG OeBenin via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-NC).

Nile Basin farmers grow food forests to restore wetlands and bring back a turtle

David Njagi 28 Feb 2024

Giant anaconda species found on Waorani Indigenous land in Ecuador

Liz Kimbrough 28 Feb 2024

Nepal’s human-wildlife conflict relief system hits roadblock with new guidelines

Abhaya Raj Joshi 28 Feb 2024
De Winton's Golden Mole, a blind mole that lives beneath the sand and has sensitive hearing that can detect vibrations from movement above the surface. (Photo by JP Le Roux)

We’re losing species faster than we can find them, study shows

Liz Kimbrough 27 Feb 2024
A southern pig-tailed macaques infant.

‘Shocking’ mortality of infant macaques points to dangers of oil palm plantations

Spoorthy Raman 27 Feb 2024
A chattering lory (Lorius garrulus).

Maluku farmer turns guardian of eastern Indonesia’s threatened parrots

Mahmud Ichi 27 Feb 2024
Dholes (Cuon alpinus) hunting a spotted deer in Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve, Maharashtra, India.

Dholes latest wild canids likely making comeback in Nepal, study shows

Abhaya Raj Joshi 27 Feb 2024

Smallest wildcat of the Atlantic Forest faces enormous threats

Aldo Benítez 27 Feb 2024

Skywalker gibbons confirmed in Myanmar for the first time

Carolyn Cowan 26 Feb 2024
Image of a honeybee by Andrea Fabiani Ph via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Bees bring honey and hope to a forest reserve in Nigeria

Orji Sunday 24 Feb 2024
A whale shark with remoras.

Summit on migratory species sides with science, throws shade on deep-sea mining

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 23 Feb 2024
A Boodie (Bettongia lesueur) and a Bilby (Macrotis lagotis), two Australian marsupials.

New funding boosts AI-enabled wildlife identification project in Australia

Abhishyant Kidangoor 23 Feb 2024

Colombia adds hundreds of species to list of threatened flora and fauna

Maxwell Radwin 22 Feb 2024

After 50 years of the U.S. Endangered Species Act, we need new biodiversity protection laws (commentary)

Sean O'Brien 16 Feb 2024
A manatee

Find the manatee: New AI model spots sea cows from images

Abhishyant Kidangoor 15 Feb 2024
A Bengal tiger in neighboring India.

UN award for Nepal’s tiger range restoration spurs euphoria amid challenges

Abhaya Raj Joshi 15 Feb 2024
Walruses east of Svalbard in the Barents Sea.

The new Arctic: Amid record heat, ecosystems morph and wildlife struggle

Sharon Guynup 14 Feb 2024
An Indus river dolphin (Platanista minor). This species is found in a small area of the Indus River, near the city of Sukkur in the central province of Sindh, Pakistan. Image courtesy of WWF Pakistan.

Indus River dolphins’ survival is our responsibility (commentary)

Sabir Hussain 13 Feb 2024
Saltwater crocodile

Risks to Myanmar’s last saltwater crocs point to coastal conservation needs

Carolyn Cowan 13 Feb 2024
A black rhino in Loisaba Conservancy.

Black rhinos moved to Kenya’s Loisaba Conservancy as species recovers

Graeme Green 13 Feb 2024

Landmark report on migratory species underlines threats to Asia’s wildlife

Anton L. Delgado 12 Feb 2024

Rewilding in Argentina helps giant anteaters return to south Brazil

Sarah Brown 12 Feb 2024

Great apes can remember long-lost friends and relatives

Romi Castagnino 11 Feb 2024

Concern for Mexico’s vaquita as totoaba swim bladder trafficking surges online

Maxwell Radwin 9 Feb 2024
African elephants

Cornell receives $35m gift for research at nexus of wildlife and health

Carolyn Cowan 9 Feb 2024
Dorado catfish. Image courtesy of Instituto de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Mamirauá via Macaulay Library.

Amazon catfish must be protected by the Convention on Migratory Species COP-14 (commentary)

Mariana Varese 8 Feb 2024
Sea otters eating clams in California.

Where sea otters play, salt marshes stay, new study shows

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 7 Feb 2024
A Fejervarya iskandari

Java’s frogman reflects on half-century dive into amphibian world

Donny Iqbal 7 Feb 2024

Like a moth to a flame: Science finally explains why insects flock to artificial lights

Liz Kimbrough 5 Feb 2024
Workers at a mangrove nursery in Dam, a coastal town in Pakistan's Balochistan province. Image by Ayaz Khan for Mongabay.

Pakistan bucks global trend with 30-year mangrove expansion

Ayaz Khan 5 Feb 2024

Indonesia and Spain sign agreement to protect migrant fishing workers

Basten Gokkon 5 Feb 2024
A white-backed vulture. showing brown wings and lighter breast, dark grey face and beak against green foliage in Mole National Park, Ghana. Image courtesy of Nico Arcilla.

Endangered vulture species nesting in Ghana is rare good news about raptors

Sean Mowbray 2 Feb 2024

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