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Museum DNA unmasks new Himalayan pit vipers, study says

Naina Rao 19 Jun 2026
Night time scene from the annual Hareed Festival in the Farasan Islands, an archipelago in the Red Sea off the coast of Saudi Arabia.

Saudi parrotfish festival stretches scientific & traditional ecological knowledge (commentary)

Laila Shaaban 18 Jun 2026
The white-necked picathartes (Picathartes gymnocephalus) near its nesting colony in the south of Taï National Park.

In search of the ‘rare and beautiful’ in an Ivorian rainforest

Ryan Truscott 18 Jun 2026

Pulp and paper giant APRIL adds major deforesters as suppliers after revising sustainability policy

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Jun 2026
A cross section of canoes after fishing in Marshall, Liberia. Image by Edward Blamo for Mongabay.

To help combat illegal fishing, 15 countries commit to sharing fisheries data

Elodie Toto 18 Jun 2026
At the La Trobe University campus, Ligia Pizzatto sorts through frozen turtle specimens she has collected over the course of her fieldwork. Most are very young, found dead by Pizzatto or her team of students and volunteers. Image by Ana Norman Bermudez.

Vanilla, fake eggs and nausea: How Australian scientists are training foxes to avoid turtle nests

Ana Norman Bermúdez 18 Jun 2026
A greater one horned rhino eats water plants from a river in Janakauli community forest bordering Chitwan National Park, 2010.

Nepal’s rhino translocation looks good in numbers, but not so much in habitat

Bibek Bhandari 18 Jun 2026
Christine Dudgeon with Dudgeon's walking shark

New walking shark discovered in Papua New Guinea

Megan Strauss 18 Jun 2026
Sharks in French Polynesia. Image courtesy of Hannes Klostermann, Ocean Image Bank.

French Polynesia expands ocean protections to 30% of its waters

David Brown 18 Jun 2026

Trump administration repeals rule that allowed bison to graze on public lands

Bobby Bascomb 17 Jun 2026

Stingless bees in Peru become the first insects with legal rights. Will it happen globally?

Liz Kimbrough 17 Jun 2026
A humpback whale fluke.

Protect Antarctic krill to preserve the health of Africa’s coastal communities (commentary)

Carmen dos Santos 17 Jun 2026
A ranger measuring a turtle’s shell and collecting data at the Canto camp. Image courtesy of The Turtle Foundation.

Sea turtle hunters become their protectors in Cabo Verde

Mongabay.com 17 Jun 2026
A mangrove-rich coastal landscape in Tanzania. Protecting and restoring mangrove ecosystems is a cornerstone of community-led marine conservation efforts across East Africa. Photo courtesy of Mwambao Coastal Community Network.

Africa’s community-led marine organizations on which 30×30 depends

David Akana 17 Jun 2026
A marbled cat captured on camera trap in Nagaland. Image by Giridhar Malla.

Community-led initiatives safeguard marbled cats in northeast India

Mongabay.com 17 Jun 2026
Baboons at the village of Rooi Els, on the outskirts of Cape Town. Image by Barry Christianson for Mongabay.

In South Africa, a village learns to live with baboons — but it may be the exception

Barry Christianson 17 Jun 2026

How one woman’s farm is a model for small-scale farmers in Malawi

Mongabay.com 17 Jun 2026

How a tiny blue gecko became a conservation comeback story

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Jun 2026
A spiny seahorse (Hippocampus histrix). Seahorses are a frequently trafficked marine species. Image by © Hamadi Mwamlavya via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC).

‘Thinking how traffickers think’: Study uses AI to detect marine wildlife smuggling

Daniel Shailer 16 Jun 2026
Purple sea urchin on the Gaiola MPA sea floor. Image courtesy of Maurizio Simeone.

How a popular spaghetti dish is threatening Italy’s marine ecosystem

Manuela Callari 16 Jun 2026
A loggerhead turtle swimming on rocky seafloor facing the camera.

Teeming with turtles: Cabo Verde island sees 80-fold increase in nesting loggerheads

André Habet 16 Jun 2026
An Indian pangolin in India

Beyond wildlife trade: Endangered pangolins are losing habitat in Pakistan

Emma Smith 16 Jun 2026
The forest of Marston Vale in Bedfordshire in the U.K. where restoration efforts have yielded positive results for biodiversity and the community.

Can a new methodology save the carbon market?

Abhishyant Kidangoor 16 Jun 2026

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

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Jun 2026

‘Lost’ parrot rediscovered on remote Indonesian peak

Naina Rao 16 Jun 2026

Himalayan rivers shifting course as climate warming thaws the ‘Water Tower of Asia’

Naina Rao 16 Jun 2026
Chinese pangolin

In Bangladesh, scientists learn what happens after rescued pangolins return to the wild

Carolyn Cowan 16 Jun 2026
Peter Klopfer. Photo by Anne Yoder

Peter Klopfer, the scientist whose civil-rights case helped bring lemurs to Duke

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Jun 2026

Global map of Earth’s mycorrhizal fungal networks could help protect them

Liz Kimbrough 15 Jun 2026
Madagascar hissing cockroaches (Gromphadorhina portentosa) are found only in the island nation of Madagascar.

Australian authorities seize 100,000 live cockroaches in crackdown on exotic insect trade

Spoorthy Raman 15 Jun 2026
Deforestation is considered the most dangerous activity driving infectious zoonotic disease outbreaks. Image by Kathas_Fotos.

We must prevent the next pandemic, not build perfect conditions for it (commentary)

Chris Walzer 15 Jun 2026
Birds like the white-throated toucan (Ramphastos tucanus), which builds its nests in the hollows of tall trees, can no longer find them for nesting. Image by Fernando Flores via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Growing appetite for açaí is damaging bird diversity in the Amazon

Suzana Camargo 15 Jun 2026

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