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A Borneo orangutan.

See an orangutan, take a photo, earn some money: A viable conservation model?

Linnea Hoover 15 Apr 2026
A yellow-fronted canary from South Africa. The songbird tops the list of wild birds exported from Africa to Asia.

Nearly a million birds shipped from Africa to Asia in 15 years; canaries top the list

Spoorthy Raman 15 Apr 2026
A mountain gorilla in Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda. Photo by Alejandro Prescott-Cornejo.

Primate Planet

Alejandro Prescott-Cornejo 15 Apr 2026
a ferret by Alfredo Gutiérrez via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Invasive ferrets removed from an island in a world-first

Shreya Dasgupta 15 Apr 2026
A pygmy long-fingered possum (Dactylonax kambuayai), photographed in 2023. Image courtesy of Jon Hall/mammalwatching.com.

‘Rediscovered’ species in Papua spotlight importance of Indigenous knowledge

John Cannon 15 Apr 2026
A coyote in Chicago. Image courtesy of Cook County Coyote Project.

Coexisting with America’s growing urban coyote population is easier than you think

Mike DiGirolamo 14 Apr 2026

Exploring giraffe-human conflict in Kenya

David Brown 14 Apr 2026
View of the landscape where the reforestation corridor project is located in eastern Madagascar.

A reforestation corridor in Madagascar offers a future for lemurs and locals

Marina Martinez 14 Apr 2026
Phil Lyver (second from left) and Tuawhenua kaumatua (elders). Image by Manaaki Whenua/Landcare Research.

Māori knowledge shows climate change domino effects on forest food chains

Monica Evans 14 Apr 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
Cape Three Points village, Ghana. Image by Tini Maier via Flickr. CC BY 2.0.

Ghana declares its first marine protected area

Victoria Schneider 14 Apr 2026
Casper octopus

This ghost octopus is facing a new threat

Juan Maza 14 Apr 2026
Schaller with a peccary. Courtesy of the George B. Schaller Archive.

George Schaller: The field biologist who helped redefine conservation

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Apr 2026
Kute Hero (right) abandoned his traditional pastoralist livelihood for fishing after most of his livestock perished during a severe drought. Image by Christopher Clark for Mongabay.

In northern Kenya, a shifting Lake Turkana reshapes traditional livelihoods

Christopher Clark 14 Apr 2026
Of the 500 timber species growing in Bangladesh, boilam is one of the tallest. Image by Mohammad Minhaj Uddin.

Conservation efforts help an endangered dipterocarp spread roots in Bangladesh

Sadiqur Rahman 14 Apr 2026

Two-month-old bear cubs rescued from Facebook sale in Laos

Naina Rao 14 Apr 2026
Emmanuel de Merode at an airstrip near Salonga National Park in DRC in March 2026. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Can nature outcompete war in Eastern Congo?

Rhett Ayers Butler, David Akana 13 Apr 2026
Visitors report seeing kalij pheasants (Lophura leucomelanos), a forest-dependent native species, around the reforestation site. Image by Mprasannak via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

30-year Himalayan project shows power of community-led forest restoration

Shradha Triveni 13 Apr 2026

Council recommends opening US Pacific marine monuments to commercial fishing

Bobby Bascomb 13 Apr 2026
Rangers at Gashaka Gumti National Park, Nigeria

Defying conflict to track the world’s rarest chimpanzees

Leo Plunkett, Tom Richards, Sandy Watt 13 Apr 2026
Hot pink individual of Arota festae. Image courtesy of Benito Wainwrig

Researchers find ‘remarkable’ hot-pink insect in Panama rainforest

David Brown 13 Apr 2026

Colombia’s main river redraws the map of little-known night monkeys

Manuel Fonseca 13 Apr 2026

A new bird species has been discovered in Japan after 45 years

Naina Rao 13 Apr 2026
African elephant. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Living with wildlife, bearing the cost

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Apr 2026
Doug Allan. Royal Scottish Geographical Society

Doug Allan, wildlife cameraman who filmed animals in extreme environments

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Apr 2026

The mother of orangutans

Izzy Sasada 11 Apr 2026

Venezuela’s new mining law could spell disaster for the Amazon, critics warn

Maxwell Radwin 10 Apr 2026
Siblings Tīwhiri-A3 and Tīwhiri-A4 on Pukenui Anchor Island, New Zealand. Image courtesy of Sarah Manktelow/New Zealand Department of Conservation (DOC).

Record kākāpō breeding season with 95 rare parrot hatchlings: Photo of the week

Shanna Hanbury 10 Apr 2026
Palm trees, which make up 20% of the trees in the Amazon, grow mixed among various tree and grass species in the southern Peruvian Amazon lowlands of Manu National Park.

Novel research finds unexpected climate resilience in up to 36% of Amazon forest

Justin Catanoso 10 Apr 2026
Waved albatross (Phoebastria irrorata). Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Half of seabirds are declining. Protecting marine flyways could help save them

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Apr 2026
Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella). Image courtesy of Kit Kovacs & Christian Lydersen/Norwegian Polar Institute.

Antarctic fur seals now endangered as climate change reduces krill for pups

Shanna Hanbury 9 Apr 2026
Emperor penguin chicks on Antarctica’s Rothschild Island. Image courtesy of Philip Trathan.

Emperor penguins are now endangered amid climate change and melting ice

Shanna Hanbury 9 Apr 2026

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