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White-backed vulture (Gyps africanus) adult landing composite, Etosha National Park, Namibia. Photo credit: Charles J. Sharp

Cheetah reintroduction in Malawi brings vultures back to the skies

Ryan Truscott 25 Jul 2022
Mangrove whiprays (Urogymnus granulatus)

Stingrays can ‘talk’ when they get riled up, new study suggests

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 25 Jul 2022

Where do the guitarfish go? Scientists and fishers team up to find out

Mike DiGirolamo 22 Jul 2022
A tiger in Russia. Image courtesy of Panthera.

Tigers may avoid extinction, but we must aim higher (commentary)

John Goodrich 22 Jul 2022
A Diné woman in a traditional dress, on the rim of Grand Canyon. Image courtesy of Grand Canyon National Park via via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

‘Only a tribe can speak for a tribe’: Q&A with Native conservationists on Biden’s 30 by 30 project

Evan Bourtis 22 Jul 2022

Monarch butterflies are officially endangered

Liz Kimbrough 21 Jul 2022
A bracelet with figurines carved from highly prized red coral.

New DNA test aims to help bust illegal trade in precious red coral

Kristy Hamilton 21 Jul 2022
Woman paddling a boat loaded with fruit to sell.

Farmers feel the pressure after conservation crackdown around Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake

Danielle Keeton-Olsen, Ly Vouch Long 20 Jul 2022
Franco Ivan Macedo Tafur, a member of the Amazon mangrove research team

First-of-its-kind freshwater mangroves discovered in Brazil’s Amazon Delta

Liz Kimbrough 20 Jul 2022
Danaea alansmithii Colombia, Amazonas, Río Caquetá. PHOTO: HANNA TUOMISTO

Between six ferns: New tropical fern species described by science

Liz Kimbrough 19 Jul 2022
A flycatcher is fed by a wildlife rehabber at Animals In Distress Association (AIDA) in Boise, Idaho. Image courtesy of AIDA.

Wildlife ‘rehabbers’ wage herculean fight for a noble cause

Grace Hansen 19 Jul 2022
Thuza and Kusasa the white rhinos.

White rhino conservation project attempts paradigm shift by including local community

Ryan Truscott 19 Jul 2022
elephant nepal jungle

‘Unprecedented crisis’ for Nepal’s elephants: Q&A with conservationist Ashok Ram

Abhaya Raj Joshi 19 Jul 2022

Red-hot demand for ipê wood coincides with deforestation hubs in Brazil

Aldem Bourscheit 18 Jul 2022
Bajo women canoeing from the village to a tourist beach.

Amid rising pressure, Indonesia’s sea-based communities adapt to change

Warief Djajanto Basorie, Mahmud Ichi 18 Jul 2022
Hawksbill turtle

Turtle DNA database traces illegal shell trade to poaching hotspots

Carolyn Cowan 18 Jul 2022
The heavily charismatic and endangered red panda (Ailurus fulgens) is one of the many species found in the forests of Namdapha National Park. Image in the public domain.

Authorities and Yobin communities clash as deforestation spikes in Indian national park

Spoorthy Raman 15 Jul 2022

Study: Climate impacts to disproportionately hurt tropical fishers, farmers

Basten Gokkon 15 Jul 2022

Plantations threaten Indonesia’s orangutans, but they’re not oil palm

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Jul 2022
Fishermen fishing on the Madeira rapids.

Overexploitation threatens Amazon fisheries with collapse, study warns

Peter Speetjens, Liz Kimbrough 15 Jul 2022
Diver towing a string of taramea.

Young Māori divers hunt invasive crown-of-thorns starfish to save coral reefs

Monica Evans 15 Jul 2022

$245-million initiative to create and maintain protected areas in Colombia

Maxwell Radwin 14 Jul 2022
The snow leopard (Panthera uncia)

In world convulsed by climate-driven conflict, are peace parks an answer?

Saul Elbein 14 Jul 2022
Nepal seed bank

Community-based seed banks in Nepal help conserve native species

Abhaya Raj Joshi 14 Jul 2022
Chiew Larn reservoir, Thailand

Small mammals stranded by hydropower dams die out surprisingly fast: Study

Carolyn Cowan 14 Jul 2022
Monarch butterfly feeding on non-native bull thistle at the Metropolitan Beach Metropark Nature Area, Clinton, MI. Image by Steve Burt via Creative Commons 2.0 license.

Is invasive species management doing more harm than good? (commentary)

Janae Malpas 14 Jul 2022
Leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis).

Study assesses wildlife exposure to rat poison on oil palm plantations

Sean Mowbray 13 Jul 2022

Can we save the Leuser Ecosystem? | Chasing Deforestation

Romi Castagnino 13 Jul 2022
An American black vulture in Nepal.

Sighting of an American black vulture in Nepal causes a flutter

Abhaya Raj Joshi 13 Jul 2022

In restoring polluted rivers, Indonesia looks at restocking endemic fish

Basten Gokkon, L. Darmawan 12 Jul 2022

Inside Sierra Leone’s Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary

Ashoka Mukpo 11 Jul 2022
A fisherman shows off his catch at a market in Indonesia.

Record-breaking seafood production must undergo a ‘blue transformation’: FAO

Elizabeth Fitt 11 Jul 2022

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