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Billions spent, biodiversity declines — GEF insists it remains fit for purpose

David Akana 18 Jul 2025
The StAR Project, which has been breeding and releasing Indo-Pacific leopard sharks in Indonesia, has now opened a nursery in Phuket.

Conservationists raise sharks to restore reefs in waters around Thailand

Claire Turrell 18 Jul 2025
Banner image: (L-R) the eastern kultarr (image by Pat Woolley), the gibber kultarr and the long-eared kultarr (images by Ken Johnson).

Small Australian carnivorous marsupial reclassified as 3 species: Study

Kristine Sabillo 17 Jul 2025

Sri Lanka’s plant messiah spreads optimism for biodiversity & conservation

Rohan Pethiyagoda 17 Jul 2025
The truncate-toed chorus frog is a tree-dwelling species endemic to the Philippines with four recognized subspecies. They have expanded toe discs, called pads, on their toes.

Deforestation in the Philippines may have caused infertile hybrids of endemic frogs, study finds

Spoorthy Raman 16 Jul 2025
Sahara mustard plants in California.

In California, an invasive mustard is destabilizing desert plant communities

Maya L. Kapoor 16 Jul 2025
Amanda L. Cordeiro (left), a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Minnesota and Daniela F. Cusack, Associate Professor in the Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability at Colorado State University at one of their research sites to investigate how root systems react to climatic changes.

Tropical forest roots show strain as changes aboveground filter below

Petro Kotzé 15 Jul 2025
Dr. Sheila Colla receiving the 2023 Education Award from Nature Ontario. Courtesy of Nature Ontari

Sheila Colla, advocate for bees, died on July 6th, aged 43

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Jul 2025
Banner image of experts using NIR technology for laboratory analyses. Image by Miguel Monteiro.

‘Revolutionary technology’ uses scanners for easier species detection in the wild

Mongabay.com 15 Jul 2025
Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha).

Canada’s Pacific Coast hit hard by trawling, with limited transparency: Report

Edward Carver 14 Jul 2025
Mark Erdmann releasing a thresher shark. Photo courtesy of Mark Erdmann.

Sharks didn’t rebound—so Mark Erdmann is putting them back

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Jul 2025
The Andean cat is a rare and endangered species highly specialized to life in the high Andes. It’s estimated that around 2,000 mature individuals, living in fragmented populations, are spread very thinly over a vast alpine expanse in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Peru.

Endangered Andean cat is imperiled by climate change and its solutions

Sean Mowbray 10 Jul 2025

Scientists describe three new frog species from Peruvian Andes

Kristine Sabillo 10 Jul 2025

The aardvark and the melon (cartoon)

Rohan Chakravarty 8 Jul 2025
Wild Frequencies

Mongabay India podcast ‘Wild Frequencies’ wins audio reporting award

Mongabay.com 4 Jul 2025
The giant otter Coco and her pups. Image courtesy of Sebastian Navajas/Rewilding Argentina.

Giant river otter returns to Argentina after almost four decades

Shanna Hanbury 3 Jul 2025
Marbled white butterflies (Melanargia galathea)

Assisted colonization could be our ally in adapting to climate change, study suggests

Spoorthy Raman 2 Jul 2025
Australia's iconic Bogong moths migrate twice a year guided by stars and the Milky Way. Image courtesy of Ajay Narendra, Macquarie University.

Bogong moths use stars and the Milky Way to make epic migration

Shreya Dasgupta 1 Jul 2025
A dhole in India.

Nepal launches plan to boost science, awareness to save dholes

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 Jun 2025

Predatory snakehead fish poses invasive threat after sighting in Sri Lanka reservoir

Malaka Rodrigo 28 Jun 2025
A family of mountain gorillas resting together, in Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda. Resting in physical contact is an indicator of close social relationships and tolerance in gorillas. Image credit: Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund.

Friendship benefits male and female mountain gorillas differently, study shows

Liz Kimbrough 27 Jun 2025
wo whales allokelping, with a small length of kelp stem visible between them. Center for Whale Research, NMFS NOAA Permit 27038

Orcas discovered making tools from seaweed to ‘massage’ each other

Liz Kimbrough 25 Jun 2025
Tyler Kartzinel’s research highlighted the gaps in DNA reference databases in tropical biodiversity hotspots.

DNA sequencing to meet global biodiversity goals: Interview with Tyler Kartzinel

Abhishyant Kidangoor 25 Jun 2025
Banner image of a longhorn crazy ant by Ajay Narendra via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Longhorn crazy ants use ‘swarm intelligence’ to clear path obstacles

Kristine Sabillo 24 Jun 2025
Vultures feeding on carrion. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

As large scavengers decline, disease risk soars, study finds

Mongabay.com 23 Jun 2025
Humpback whales in French Polynesian waters. The intensity and duration of marine heat waves could have widespread effects on marine biodiversity, increasing the likelihood of species displacement and mortality. Image by Toby Matthews / Ocean Image Bank.

Whales still aren’t ‘eating all the fish’ (commentary)

Peter Corkeron 18 Jun 2025
Clown anemonefish live symbiotically with anemone

When heat waves hit, clownfish shrink to survive, study finds

Keith Anthony Fabro 18 Jun 2025
White-bellied pangolin (Phataginus tricuspis), Gabon. Image by bureaubenjamin via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Pandemic-era slump in ivory and pangolin scale trafficking persists, report finds

Spoorthy Raman 17 Jun 2025

Artificial nests help a rare Brazilian parrot bounce back

Mongabay.com 16 Jun 2025
A sarus crane pair sings a duet. Image by Ad031259 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).

Unique notes in sarus crane duets help distinguish sexes for conservation

Mongabay.com 16 Jun 2025
Wild Frequencies

Mongabay India wins best science podcast at Publisher Podcast Awards

Mongabay.com 12 Jun 2025
jaguar

Jaguar recovery unites Brazil and Argentina in conservation effort

Sarah Brown 11 Jun 2025

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