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The African golden cat (Caracal aurata) is a medium-sized felid (though it’s classified as one of the world’s 33 small cat species). In Echuya Forest, it’s the largest predator remaining due to the extirpation of leopards from that forest.

Small cat conservationists hail Uganda’s new Echuya Forest National Park

Sean Mowbray 11 Dec 2025

Lemurs are being eaten as an urban delicacy in Madagascar

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Nov 2025
Coquerel's sifaka (Propithecus coquereli) in a tree.

Urban appetite for lemur meat piles pressure on iconic primates

Mino Rakotovao 1 Oct 2025

Conservationists warn of targeted poaching behind Sri Lanka’s leopard killings

Malaka Rodrigo 13 Aug 2025
A male proboscis monkey with its characteristic long nose. The species is classified as endangered and is already threatened by habitat destruction, wildfires and hunting.

Study finds worrying uptick in proboscis monkey trade in Indonesia

Spoorthy Raman 18 Jul 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
Raffles' banded langur

Action plan aims to save Asia’s leaf-eating monkeys amid ‘alarming’ declines

Carolyn Cowan 15 Apr 2025
The Bioko Drill (Mandrillus leucophaeus poensis), an endangered primate endemic to Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea, is highly valued for its taste, making it the most expensive wild meat on the market. Image by Ian Nichols.

An oil-rich West African island offers decades of insight into the wild meat trade

Spoorthy Raman 2 Apr 2025
Western lowland gorilla.

‘Some people will die’: Conversations with Nigeria’s gorilla hunters

Orji Sunday 27 Feb 2025

Study links African lion survival to prey availability

Charles Mpaka 21 Feb 2025

As Africa eyes protected areas expansion of 1 million square miles, concerns over enforcement persist

Mike DiGirolamo 4 Feb 2025

Illegal gold mining drives deforestation in DRC reserve home to ‘African unicorn’

Ruth Kamnitzer 26 Nov 2024
A group of young people in the forest in Kenema district, Sierra Leone. Image courtesy Sierra Leone Environment Matters.

Sierra Leone group helps farmers adapt to changing climate, protect forest

Emma Black 18 Sep 2024

Luxury hunting firm linked to decades of poaching in Tanzania, whistleblowers say

Mongabay.com 22 Aug 2024
Man in the forest near village of Ngon, Ebolowa District, Cameroon. Ollivier Girard via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Incentivizing conservation shows success against wildlife hunting in Cameroon

Sean Mowbray 19 Dec 2023

Poverty and plantations: Nigerian reserve struggles against the odds

Orji Sunday 1 Dec 2023

‘It’s a real mess’: Mining and deforestation threaten unparalleled DRC wildlife haven

Ruth Kamnitzer 13 Oct 2023
A deer catptured for bushmeat in the DRC.

Study: Wild meat trade from Africa into Belgium a health and conservation risk

Sean Mowbray 12 Sep 2023

In Nepal, Chepang take up the challenge to revive their cultural keystone tree

Abhaya Raj Joshi 31 May 2023

Survival and economics complicate the DRC’s bushmeat and wild animal trade

John Cannon, Didier Makal 30 May 2023
Neddy Mulimo. Image courtesy of Sarah Marshall.

Support rangers to protect wildlife & habitats for the future (commentary)

Neddy Mulimo 14 Nov 2022

Shining a light on Sri Lanka’s little-studied pangolins: Q&A with Priyan Perera

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 24 Apr 2022
An infant bonobo photographed a few days after being released in the Ekolo ya Bonobo Community Reserve. Image courtesy by Cinita Garai/ Friends of Bonobos.

Bonobos torn from the wild make their return, with a helping hand

Malavika Vyawahare 7 Apr 2022
Chimpanzee

Patrols work, but community-based conservation needs a rethink, study shows

Malavika Vyawahare 11 Mar 2022
An okapi. Image by Steve Wilson via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Refuge of endangered ‘African unicorn’ threatened by mining, poaching, deforestation

Morgan Erickson-Davis 25 Feb 2022
The forests of the Torricelli Mountain Range. Image courtesy of the Tenkile Conservation Alliance.

Deforestation threatens tree kangaroo habitat in Papua New Guinea

John Cannon 14 Oct 2021

Biosurveillance of markets and legal wildlife trade needed to curb pandemic risk: Experts

Gloria Dickie 14 Oct 2021
gorilla

Domestic bushmeat consumption an “urgent” threat to migratory mammals, U.N. says

Carolyn Cowan 20 Sep 2021
An indri lemur (Indri indri). Image by Rhett A. Butler.

For Malagasy trapped in poverty, threatened lemurs and fossas are fair game

Malavika Vyawahare 4 Aug 2021
Juvenile sakondry on a branch. Their dusty coating is washed off before they’re cooked. Image by Brian Fisher.

Bug bites: Edible insect production ramps up quickly in Madagascar

Emilie Filou 19 Nov 2020

Podcast: Lemur love and award-winning plant passion in Madagascar

Mike Gaworecki 11 Nov 2020
Man roasting bushmeat. Image by Corinne Staley via Flickr (BY-NC-2.0)

Bushmeat hunting: The greatest threat to Africa’s wildlife?

Jim Tan 26 Oct 2020

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