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What conservation isn’t: Eating endangered lemurs to save them

Kim Reuter, Marni Lafleur, Tara Clarke 23 Aug 2016

Dams inevitably result in species decline, losses on reservoir islands

Claire Salisbury 23 Aug 2016

Atauro island has highest average reef fish diversity in the world

Shreya Dasgupta 23 Aug 2016

Scientists have just discovered the first endemic bird species to go extinct on the Galápagos Islands

Mike Gaworecki 22 Aug 2016

Two new species of glowing spook fish discovered

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Aug 2016

Watch how corals ‘violently’ bleach as sea temperatures rise

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Aug 2016

Sarawak establishes 2.2M acres of protected areas, may add 1.1M more

Mike Gaworecki 19 Aug 2016

New species of extinct dolphin discovered in museum collection

Shreya Dasgupta 19 Aug 2016
Lar National Park in northern Iran, about 100 kilometers from Tehran. Photo by Mahdi Kalhor via Panoramio

Three murders highlight troubles of Iran’s park rangers

Jennifer Huizen 18 Aug 2016

Here’s where tropical forests have been destroyed for palm oil over the past 25 years

Mike Gaworecki 18 Aug 2016

China jails 7 people, including airport employee, for smuggling rare tortoises

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Aug 2016

Pulling the stunningly unique painted terrapin back from the brink

Diane Toomey 17 Aug 2016

In search of a lost species: the Santa Marta Toro

Shreya Dasgupta 17 Aug 2016

‘All they need is a head start’: reforesting India’s Western Ghats

Sibi Arasu 16 Aug 2016
Rainstorm approaching across the Mara savanna (East Africa). Photo by Rhett Butler.

Savannas and grasslands are more biodiverse than you might think — and we’re not doing enough to conserve them

Mike Gaworecki 16 Aug 2016

Climate change pledges not nearly enough to save tropical ecosystems

Jeremy Hance 16 Aug 2016

New orange-black snake discovered in Mexico

Shreya Dasgupta 16 Aug 2016

400-year-old Greenland shark might be oldest vertebrate on Earth

Shreya Dasgupta 16 Aug 2016

PHOTOS: ‘A Visual Celebration of Borneo’s Wildlife’

Mike Gaworecki 15 Aug 2016

Field Notes: Saving America’s last wild meat-eating Venus flytraps

Elizabeth Devitt 15 Aug 2016
A family of Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) in Tanjung Puting National Park, Borneo. The mother was rescued from a palm oil development and re-released as a juvenile here, but unable to survive in the wild because she lacked the careful upbringing required to find food throughout the year. Photo by Matthew Luskin / NGS.

10 orangutans released into the wild in Borneo

Indra Nugraha 15 Aug 2016
Kelp and sardines in the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary in California. Photo courtesy of NOAA's National Ocean Service

Could kelp forests keep ocean acidification at bay?

Jeremy Hance 12 Aug 2016

Can camera traps help stop wildlife crime?

Mike Gaworecki 12 Aug 2016

Mountain streams in the U.S. show surprising resilience to climate change

Meghan Gilbert 12 Aug 2016

Promised US$1 billion in Belo Monte dam compensation largely unpaid?

Carolina Torres 12 Aug 2016

World Elephant Day: Poaching remains ‘unacceptably high’ for African elephants

Shreya Dasgupta 12 Aug 2016

Does prohibiting local access to nature hurt African wildlife conservation?

Michael Schwartz 11 Aug 2016

Indonesia mulls revision of orangutan conservation plan

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 11 Aug 2016

Out of sight, out of mind: Asia’s elusive Fishing Cat in trouble

Sean Mowbray 11 Aug 2016

Tens of thousands of birds being sold illegally in Javan bird markets

Shreya Dasgupta 11 Aug 2016
An atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), at the Atlanterhavsparken aquarium in Ålesund, Norway. Photo by Hans-Petter Fjeld via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA).

Fish-farm escapees are weakening Norwegian wild salmon genetics

Melati Kaye 10 Aug 2016

Deforestation: a lingering legacy

John Cannon 10 Aug 2016

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