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Conservationists got delayed access to court-ordered inspection of Nairobi National Park

Lynet Otieno 24 Jul 2026
Cyananthus hookeri in flower in Chuna Valley, Tawang district, Arunachal Pradesh, India. Image courtesy of Lahiri, S. et al. (2026) via Oryx (CC BY 4.0).

Rare alpine herb confirmed in India after 158 years

Naina Rao 24 Jul 2026
avocado plantations

In Michoacán, Mexico, drying soil threatens water supplies and avocados, says study

Caitlin Cooper 23 Jul 2026

In southern India, beekeeping helps Indigenous women earn more

Mongabay.com 22 Jul 2026
White-bellied pangolins captured in southeastern Nigeria and destined for trade. Image courtesy of Alex Moore.

Pangolin DNA study links local wild meat markets to global trafficking networks

Shanna Hanbury 21 Jul 2026
A split-view image of an underwater seascape and coastline of Mussau Island, within the Manus Marine Protected Area, Papua New Guinea.

Melanesian nations announce intention to create massive ocean reserve corridor

Ashley Yeong 17 Jul 2026

The US government says habitat destruction no longer counts as ‘harm’ to endangered species

Bobby Bascomb 14 Jul 2026

Small-scale farming, logging eclipse megaprojects as top threats to Tapanuli orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Jul 2026
King vultures in Costa Rica. Image courtesy of Peter Hudson.

King vultures in Costa Rica: Photo of the week

Shanna Hanbury 6 Jul 2026

Brazil’s expanding offshore oil frontier puts biodiversity at risk: study

Daniel Shailer 6 Jul 2026

Tropical mountain wildlife are at high risk from climate change impacts, study finds

Bobby Bascomb 3 Jul 2026

New Indonesia roadmap aims to protect Indigenous knowledge for biodiversity

Hans Nicholas Jong 2 Jul 2026
Gelada monkeys engage in a group hug in Wilhelma Zoo in Germany. Image © Julie Larsen.

Gelada monkeys huddle in the cold: Photo of the week

Shanna Hanbury 30 Jun 2026

Foreign nationals attempt to fly to Europe with rare cacti from southern Brazil

Fernanda Wenzel 30 Jun 2026

Hong Kong’s urban cockatoos could be a genetic lifeline for Indonesian ancestors

Naina Rao 29 Jun 2026

As Amazon oil drilling begins, scientists warn of risks to a little-known reef

Suzana Camargo 29 Jun 2026

São Tomé declares first two of eight planned marine protected areas

Victoria Schneider 29 Jun 2026
A Himalayan wolf.

How snow leopards, wolves and leopards share the same Himalayan valley, study

Liz Kimbrough 26 Jun 2026

Rewilding Rio: Conservationists restock an ‘empty forest,’ one species at a time

Suzana Camargo 24 Jun 2026

Global pressure on ayahuasca threatens Amazonian plants and knowledge systems

Carlos Minuano 23 Jun 2026
Golden-backed squirrel monkey (Saimiri ustus) pictured in Amazonas state, Brazil. Image courtesy of Leonardo Mercon via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0).

World Rainforest Day: Deforestation must be nearly halved to meet 2030 target

Mongabay.com 22 Jun 2026
River near Penalosa in Colombia's Choco region. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

What’s at stake for the environment in Colombia’s upcoming election?

Aimee Gabay 19 Jun 2026

Climate-fueled landslides killed an estimated 58 Tapanuli orangutans, study finds

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Jun 2026
An Australian flatback sea turtle (Natator depressus). Image by Dylan Goldspink.

Karajarri celebrate Australia’s first ‘Sea Country’ Indigenous Protected Area

John Cannon 14 May 2026
A squat lobster in the deep sea.

Deep-sea wildernesses are more important than the promise of seafloor mining (analysis)

Andrew D. Thaler 14 Apr 2026
Great hammerhead (Sphyrna mokarran).

Migratory species summit adopts new marine protections amid extinction warnings

Francesco De Augustinis 8 Apr 2026

Working together, Indigenous peoples & researchers describe new Amazonian palm

Sofia Moutinho 1 Apr 2026

Indonesia plan to rezone elephant reserve for carbon trading and tourism sparks backlash

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Mar 2026
An Araucaria angustifolia, a critically endangered conifer, in Itatiaia National Park in the Atlantic Forest.

Restoration of Brazil’s Atlantic Forest may hinge on market for native plants

Sarah Derouin 6 Mar 2026
Gelada baboons (Theropithecus gelada) in Ethiopia’s Semien Mountains. Image by Alastair Rae via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Climate or biodiversity? Global study maps out forestation’s dilemma

John Cannon 6 Mar 2026
Toby Kiers co-founded the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN) where researchers are working to identify and map underground mycorrhizal fungal networks.

Mapping underground fungal networks: Interview with SPUN’s Toby Kiers

Abhishyant Kidangoor 11 Feb 2026

From south to north, Sri Lanka’s cricket dreams undermine fragile ecosystems

Malaka Rodrigo 19 Jan 2026

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