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A southern mountain caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) from the Columbia North herd. The herd is one of three remaining within the Syilx Okanagan Nation territory, and, with an estimated population of 185, the one considered most viable.

First Nations in Canada call for emergency order to protect southern mountain caribou

Ruth Kamnitzer 29 Aug 2026

Global sea surface temperatures reach a record high, again

Bobby Bascomb 28 Aug 2026
A critically endangered female red handfish (Thymichthys politus) at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies in Hobart, Tasmania.

As Photo Ark turns 20, Joel Sartore photographs 18,000 animal species

Liz Kimbrough 28 Aug 2026
Hà Đình Đức with the great softshell of Hồ Gươm. Photo by ZNews Vietnam

Hà Đình Đức, guardian of Hanoi’s legendary turtle, died at 86

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Aug 2026
An Australian eastern quoll (Dasyurus viverrinus).

The conservation population of Australia’s endangered eastern quoll welcomes joeys

Paul Harvey 28 Aug 2026

Singapore made a crow-friendly city. Now it wants to shoot them

Mongabay.com 28 Aug 2026
The first ever release of white-lipped peccary into Piedras Blancas National Park. Photo by Ian Rock

13 peccaries sail home to heal a Costa Rican forest

Liz Kimbrough 27 Aug 2026

US environmental groups plan to sue to relist gray whales under Endangered Species Act

David Brown 27 Aug 2026
The colorful Javan blue flycatcher (Cyornis banyumas)

In Java’s hills, former bird hunters are rebuilding a songbird haven

Triyo Handoko 27 Aug 2026
Researcher Ben Williams deploys a hydrophone on a degraded coral reef in the Spermonde Archipelago, Indonesia. Image courtesy of Tim Lamont.

Blast fishing destroys reefs. Underwater microphones can help detect it

Syris Valentine 26 Aug 2026
A sponge crab (Sphaerodromia brizops) collected at the Muirfield Seamount, southwest of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands.

Scientists discover 149 new deep-sea species at remote Indian Ocean seamounts

Emma Smith 26 Aug 2026
A Kenya Wildlife Service team rescued this elephant that was stuck in the mud in Muchuro, Isiolo County, on Aug. 22, 2026. Image courtesy of KWS.

Kenyan investigators arrest 4 people linked to 18 Amboseli elephant deaths

Lynet Otieno 26 Aug 2026

El Niño is disrupting the Pacific’s marine food web from the bottom up

Naina Rao 26 Aug 2026
A team from the nonprofit ASD Monde responding to the Ebola outbreak in the DRC. Image courtesy of ASD Monde.

Polluted waterways and water shortages complicate the fight against Ebola in the DRC

Elodie Toto 26 Aug 2026

Indonesia charges 72 over fires as haze chokes Borneo and Sumatra

Naina Rao 25 Aug 2026
Ayu Rosalina, a 2-day old baby Sumatran elephant, stands near her mother at Conservation Response Unit (CRU) in Ulu Masen, Aceh Jaya, Aceh, 2012.

Only 1,325-1,648 wild elephants left in Indonesia, government says

Dyna Rochmyaningsih 25 Aug 2026

Inspiring young herpetologists in Sri Lanka: Interview with Anslem de Silva

Malaka Rodrigo 25 Aug 2026
An elephant tusk offered for sale to undercover ELI investigators in Cambodia. Image courtesy of Earth League International.

Cambodia targets online wildlife trade on social media, but experts say it’s not enough

Spoorthy Raman 25 Aug 2026

DNA analysis of Asiatic wild dogs scat in India reveals wild prey preference

Mongabay.com 25 Aug 2026
A bogong moth (Agrotis infusa) in Albert Park, Victoria.

Bogong moths support Australia’s alpine ecosystems, but face uncertain future

Hannah Thomasy 25 Aug 2026

In Raja Ampat, children learn that their knowledge can help protect their islands

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Aug 2026
A red siskin (Spinus cucullatus)

How a rare bird sparked a wildlife movement across 16 villages in Guyana

Gentry Hale 24 Aug 2026
Koalas typically climb into the upper reaches of trees to escape fire

Rescue networks built by fire: Saving animals from Australia’s bushfires

Starre Vartan 24 Aug 2026
Spinach pipefish is an endemic species found in Papua New Guinea's Sepik River. It was not seen by scientists for more than four decades. Image Courtesy of New Guinea Binatang Research Centre.

Local knowledge guides rediscovery of spinach pipefish, not seen in four decades

Spoorthy Raman 24 Aug 2026

Daniel Janzen and the long work of bringing back a forest

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Aug 2026
A gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis papua) and chick. Penguins in Antarctica face converging threats from krill fishing and climate change. Image courtesy of Shawn Heinrichs.

Antarctic krill fishery closes months early amid increasing fishing pressure

Francesco De Augustinis 24 Aug 2026
A colony of Cape Fur seals during a euthanasia attempt of a Cape Fur seal suspected of having rabies at Seal Island in False Bay in Cape Town, South Africa on August 07, 2024. Image by Matrix Images / Nic Bothma.

A deadly cross over: In South Africa, rabies moves from land animals to seals

Nic Bothma 24 Aug 2026
dragonfly Colombia

Dragonflies help protect water and ancestral Indigenous languages in Colombia

Manuel Fonseca 24 Aug 2026

Culture, welfare and politics clash over Sri Lanka’s long-delayed animal welfare law

Malaka Rodrigo 24 Aug 2026

Move over bears. Fat Marmot Week puts a spotlight on the alpine rodents

Associated Press 21 Aug 2026
Found across the Canary Islands, the scarlet sea fan (Leptogorgia ruberrima) is a soft octocoral that provides shelter and food for many fish and other marine organisms. Image by thorsten72 via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Spain proposes 23 new marine protected areas in the Canary Islands and Mediterranean

Francesco De Augustinis 21 Aug 2026
Many think of wildlife corridors as connected landscapes, but across the globe, animals on land, in freshwater, in the sea and in the skies need to be able to safely move to find food, water, to find a mate and reproduce. Flyways are aerial avian corridors. Image by AP Photos/Jae C. Hong.

Reconnecting the skies: Linking flyways for migratory seabirds across continents

Ruth Kamnitzer 21 Aug 2026

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