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New arrangements should preserve Nairobi’s much-loved Karura Forest

Dann Okoth 4 Nov 2025
Blackchin tilapia

Thai agri giant CPF sues activist over claims linking it to invasive fish outbreak

Carolyn Cowan 4 Nov 2025
Rainforest in Vietnam. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler.

Beyond deforestation: redesigning how we protect and value tropical forests (analysis)

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Nov 2025
Wilmar Eliaser Simandjorang

One man’s mission to rewild a dying lake

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Nov 2025
Murina baletei. Image courtesy of D. Balete.

Six new tube-nosed bats described from the Philippines

Mongabay.com 31 Oct 2025

Scientists map Italy’s entire coast to guide seagrass and marine recovery

Manuela Callari 31 Oct 2025
A turkey moray in a coral reef in Mauritius.

In Mauritius, an NGO is tracking the sex life of corals to save them

Malavika Vyawahare 30 Oct 2025

Mauritius rethinks coral restoration as reefs suffer from another mass bleaching

Malavika Vyawahare 30 Oct 2025

Landmark conviction exposes Sri Lanka’s deep-rooted illegal elephant trade

Malaka Rodrigo 29 Oct 2025

In search of a real wild date (cartoon)

Rohan Chakravarty 29 Oct 2025
Missing fisheries observer Samuel Abayateye.

Two years later, no closure for family of missing Ghanaian fisheries observer

Awudu Salami Sulemana Yoda 29 Oct 2025
A Bornean orangutan. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Why facts alone won’t save the planet

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Oct 2025
Annapurna mountains.

Ousted Nepal gov’t cleared easier path for controversial cable cars, documents show

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 29 Oct 2025
Austin and his technician, Nathan Tang, searching the sand dunes for insects at Death Valley National Park

California’s grand insect census

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Oct 2025

Virus outbreak deepens rift over return of Spix’s macaw to Brazil

Miguel Monteiro 28 Oct 2025
A oceanic whitetip shark with pilot fish. Image by Johanlantz via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Mexico adopts protections for Atlantic sharks

Shreya Dasgupta 28 Oct 2025
Visitors to a safari park in Gazipur enjoy a ride on an elephant.

Bangladesh to reintroduce captive elephants to the wild

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Oct 2025
A beaver explores its new home at Tásmam Koyóm in 2023.

California learns from its beaver reintroductions

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Oct 2025
Abu Nessma at the café by the sea.

‘A very successful story’: An Egypt tribe welcomes tourists & protects its coast

Victoria Schneider 27 Oct 2025
Christmas Island shrew

In memory of the Christmas Island shrew

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Oct 2025
White handed gibbon

International Gibbon Day: Spotlighting the overlooked, underprotected ‘lesser apes’

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Oct 2025
The Pujada Nickel Mining Project leaves an open-wide brown pit, sandwiched between the Mount Hamiguitan Range Wildlife Sanctuary and Pujada Bay.

Nickel mining damage near UNESCO site stirs outrage in southern Philippines

Bong S. Sarmiento 23 Oct 2025
A harp seal on ice.

Arctic seals edge closer to extinction as sea ice vanishes

Keith Anthony Fabro 23 Oct 2025

After a hiatus, an endemic plant bursts into life in Sri Lanka’s central hills

Malaka Rodrigo 23 Oct 2025
A diamond squid, which is found in both epipelagic and mesopelagic zones.

Global conservation body takes first step to protect ocean’s twilight zone

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 23 Oct 2025
A snow leopard by Ismail Shariff/Snow Leopard Trust via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0).

International Snow Leopard Day: Conservation and coexistence in India and Nepal

Shreya Dasgupta 23 Oct 2025
Christmas Island, Australia. Image by David Stanley via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0)

Christmas Island shrew officially declared extinct: IUCN

Shreya Dasgupta 23 Oct 2025
Noraeri Thungmueangthong is a village leader in Huay Ee Khang village in northern Thailand.

Forest sanctuaries and spiritual balance in the Karen highlands of Thailand

Carolyn Cowan 22 Oct 2025
One of the last nesting beaches of green sea turtles and extremely rare leatherback turtles on Misali, the most likely site for a new hotel complex. Image by Tim Caro.

Zanzibar must act to conserve its natural & cultural heritage for the future (commentary)

Tim Caro 22 Oct 2025
Members of the Nazareth Baptist (Shembe) Church in South Africa wearing both wildlife skins and synthetic Heritage Furs provided in partnership with Panthera. Image courtesy of Gareth Whittington-Jones/Panthera.

Study reveals overlooked cultural threat to wildcats across Africa

Charles Mpaka 22 Oct 2025
Birds flock in the foreground against wind turbines at the Spearville Wind Farm Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024, in Spearville, Kan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Radar study shows when offshore turbines pose greatest risks to migrating birds

Edward Carver 21 Oct 2025
A raft of sea otters off the Alaska coast.

Booming sea otters and fading shellfish spark values clash in Alaska

Justin Catanoso 21 Oct 2025

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