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Planted forest in Panama.

Why biological diversity should be at the heart of conservation

Kristine Sabillo 21 May 2025
A subadult male capuchin with a howler monkey infant. Image courtesy of Brendan Barrett/Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior.

Capuchin monkeys on Panama island seen stealing howler monkey babies

Shreya Dasgupta 21 May 2025

Study finds fast traffic noise is infuriating Galápagos warblers

Spoorthy Raman 20 May 2025
A Blyde rondawels flat gecko. Image courtesy of the Endangered Wildlife Trust.

‘Absolutely ecstatic’: Scientists confirm survival of rare South African gecko

Ryan Truscott 20 May 2025

Scat-sampling DNA tool shows potential in African carnivore conservation

Dann Okoth 19 May 2025

Study unveils mystery of monkey yodeling — and why humans can’t compete

Liz Kimbrough 16 May 2025
A Chilean flamingo feeding in shallow water. Image courtesy of Victor Ortega Jiménez/UC Berkeley.

Vortex predator: Study reveals the fluid dynamics of flamingo feeding

Shreya Dasgupta 16 May 2025
An okapi at Bronx Zoo in the United States. Image by Ryan Schwark via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).

Endangered Species Day: Three animals on the path to recovery

Shanna Hanbury 16 May 2025
Banner image of Lily-Arison René de Roland, courtesy of The Indianapolis Prize.

Malagasy wildlife champion wins top global conservation award

Kristine Sabillo 15 May 2025

Sumatran tiger protection needs more patrols, tougher penalties, study finds

Basten Gokkon 15 May 2025
With thick coats and broad paws, Canada lynx are supremely adapted to deep snow.

New research sheds light on Canada lynx-snowshoe hare cycle, human impacts

Ruth Kamnitzer 14 May 2025

Even in intact Amazon forests, climate change affects bird populations: Study

Suzana Camargo 14 May 2025

Cape vulture conservation offers hope, but challenges remain

Sean Mowbray 14 May 2025

The Great Whale Conveyor Belt (cartoon)

Rohan Chakravarty 13 May 2025

A migrating flycatcher returning to the same Sri Lankan garden sparks interest in birders

Malaka Rodrigo 11 May 2025

Hawaiʻi’s bone collector caterpillar wears spider’s victims to survive

Bobby Bascomb 9 May 2025
Chimpanzees in in Cantanhez National Park in southern Guinea-Bissau eating a fermented African breadfruit. Image by Bowland et al., 2025 (CC BY 4.0).

Chimpanzees filmed sharing alcoholic fruits for the first time

Shreya Dasgupta 9 May 2025
Smoke from a factory.

Ground-level ozone wreaks havoc on warming planet

Mongabay.com 9 May 2025
A pod of Sperm Whales move into a defense line to stop a pod of Orcas (Killer Whales) getting to their calf, off the coast of Sri Lanka. Image © Paul Hilton / Greenpeace.

Our responsibility for cetacean conservation grows with proof of their intelligence (commentary)

Avery Ancell 8 May 2025
Yao honey-hunter Seliano Rucunua holds a wild honeyguide that guided him to a bees’ nest; the bird was briefly captured for research, then released. Image courtesy of David Lloyd-Jones.

Malice or memory lapse? Why honeyguides sometimes lead hunters to danger

Ryan Truscott 6 May 2025

‘Puma detectives’ highlight wildlife where Brazil’s Cerrado meets the Atlantic Forest

Letícia Klein 5 May 2025
Jaguar siblings in Poconé, Brazil. Image by Bernard Dupont via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Study suggests there are more jaguars in the Amazon than previously thought

Shanna Hanbury 1 May 2025
A glass octopus, a nearly transparent species whose only visible features are its optic nerve, eyeballs and digestive tract.

The Metals Company applied to the U.S. for a deep-sea mining license

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 30 Apr 2025

Indris like to “move it”

Rohan Chakravarty 30 Apr 2025
Bats may comprise at least 40% of the overall mammal diversity in Rwanda. Image courtesy of Rwanda Wildlife Conservation Association – RWCA.

Discovery of critically endangered bat in Rwanda leads to conservation talks

Aimable Twahirwa 25 Apr 2025

Whales and dolphins at risk as report reveals ecological decline in Gulf of California

Astrid Arellano 25 Apr 2025
A fishing cat

Fishing cats misunderstood, misidentified in Nepal’s Kapilvastu

Mukesh Pokhrel 25 Apr 2025
A white morph of the purple-faced langur by Gaurika Wijeratne via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

‘Snow-white’ monkeys of Sri Lanka draw in tourists

Mongabay.com 25 Apr 2025
Ex-captive orangutans at Camp Leaky in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. Photos by Rhett A. Butler

An interview with orangutan conservationist and advocate Gary Shapiro

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Apr 2025
Hooded vulture, Gambia 2017. Image by Pete Richman via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)

In West Africa, hooded vultures vanish as abattoirs modernize

Ryan Truscott 24 Apr 2025
A snow leopard photographed in Nepal. Image courtesy of WWF Nepal.

Nepal announces its snow leopard population after first-of-its-kind assessment

Abhaya Raj Joshi 23 Apr 2025
A Chinese pangolin. Image by Sarita Jnawali of NTNC – Central Zoo via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

Pangolins help biodiversity recover after fires

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Apr 2025

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