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More than a million live birds imported to Asia in 15 years, report finds

Mongabay.com 18 May 2026

In Thailand, burned sugarcane plantations become traps for leopard cat cubs

Ana Norman Bermúdez 15 May 2026

Light pollution reshapes predator-prey dynamics at California’s urban edge, study finds

Liz Kimbrough 15 May 2026
Installing an IFAW-supported temporary solar fence in Chikomeni chiefdom, within the Malawi-Zambia Transfrontier Conservation Area, to deter human-elephant conflict. Image courtesy of IFAW.

Radio and satellite alerts help Zambian farmers live with dangerous wildlife

Ryan Truscott 15 May 2026
A captive Persian leopard in a British zoo, 2005.

Endangered Persian leopards persist across borders, despite hunters and landmines

Kayleigh Long 15 May 2026

At least 65 dead in latest Ebola outbreak in eastern DR Congo

Elodie Toto 15 May 2026
Bottom trawling fishing boats in Flanders Banks conservation area in France. Image © Lorraine Turci/Greenpeace.

European bottom trawling costs billions every year in climate impacts, study finds

Shanna Hanbury 15 May 2026
Gray Koala Sitting On A Tree Branch

How AI could save koalas

Abhishyant Kidangoor 15 May 2026

Illegal wildlife trade in Himalayan countries threaten mountain ecosystem

Mongabay.com 15 May 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

After quinoa’s boom, Bolivian farmers face degraded soils and climate stress

Benjamin Swift 14 May 2026
image of Attenboroughnculus tau, courtesy of the Trustees of the Natural History Museum.

Scientists mark Attenborough’s 100th birthday with newly named wasp

Shreya Dasgupta 14 May 2026
Jaguars are native to the Americas and are found in 18 countries.

Honduran authorities seize jaguar kept as pet, put spotlight on local trafficking

Spoorthy Raman 14 May 2026
A mudskipper with turquoise spots, Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Egyptian teens use robots for ‘smarter and more responsive’ way to protect Earth

Victoria Schneider 14 May 2026
Sea pen in the South Arran MPA. Image © COAST/Howard Wood.

Seabed life triples after bottom trawling ban in Scotland protected area

Shanna Hanbury 14 May 2026

In Nepal’s capital, invasive flora crowd out native species

Mongabay.com 14 May 2026

At world’s largest shark conference, scientists warn of a grim outlook across the board

Philip Jacobson 14 May 2026
North American beaver in the Northwest Territories, Canada

‘Time stamps’ in shrubs show when beavers began invading Canadian Arctic

Megan Strauss 14 May 2026
Endangered Antarctic fur seals on South Georgia Island. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

China and Norway push to increase krill harvests around Antarctica

Francesco De Augustinis 14 May 2026
Carrion crows engage in cooperative breeding which requires intricate communication between entire families that are involved in raising chicks.

From caws to code: AI helps decrypt animal communication

Abhishyant Kidangoor 14 May 2026
Miyawai forest planting in New York, U.S.

Popular Miyawaki reforestation method lacks evidence, study finds

Annelise Giseburt 13 May 2026

Scientists race to study the Amazon’s frogs before they disappear

Tiago da Mota e Silva 13 May 2026
Kenyan President William Ruto speaks during an event at the recently-concluded Africa Forward Summit in Nairobi. Image courtesy of the Presidency of Kenya.

Kenya’s Ruto rejects “raw mineral export” future for Africa

David Akana 13 May 2026
A waddle of chinstrap penguins (Pygoscelis antarctica) on Deception Island, Antarctica. Image courtesy of Jay Williams / WWF.

The Southern Ocean is key to our planet’s future & we have a chance to protect it this year (commentary)

Zac Goldsmith 13 May 2026
Banner image: Farmers Anna Zimba and her husband Phaniso Zgambo stand in front of a cement granary. Around 30 such granaries have been built within the farming communities that are near to Kasungu National Park, offering greater protection to stored maize from hungry elephants. Image by Ryan Truscott for Mongabay.

As elephants return in eastern Zambia, communities adapt to coexistence

Ryan Truscott 13 May 2026

In eastern Indonesia, communities revive customary systems to protect the seas

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 May 2026

Sawfish in Sri Lanka may be ‘functionally extinct,’ but refuges remain

Mongabay.com 13 May 2026

Wetland destruction blamed for rise in croc attacks on Indonesia’s Bangka Island

Mongabay.com 13 May 2026

New study explores how reforestation could help Java’s leopards survive

Basten Gokkon 13 May 2026
Dove Lake beneath Cradle Mountain in Tasmania’s highlands, where cool, ocean-influenced conditions have helped slow the pace of climate change across the landscape. Image by Stefan Lovgren.

Long dubbed a ‘climate refuge,’ warming Tasmanian forests need our help

Stefan Lovgren 12 May 2026

Who are the women sustaining luxury fishing in Brazil’s Pantanal?

Mariana Rosetti, Paola Churchill 12 May 2026

New Jaguar Rivers Initiative aims to reconnect South America’s fragmented ecosystems

Maxwell Radwin 12 May 2026

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