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Lions in South Africa. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Counting kings: How annual lion surveys reveal the health of Africa’s protected areas (commentary)

Jon Ayers 29 Sep 2025
A mountain lion (Puma cancolor) caught on camera trap caching a deer for eating later.

Turning camera traps into real-time sentinels: Interview with Conservation X Lab’s Dante Wasmuht

Abhishyant Kidangoor 25 Sep 2025
A leopard caught on a camera trap in the Musekese Lumbeya section of Kafue National Park, where Musekese Conservation conducts its research into recovering carnivore populations.

Leopards and wild dogs are thriving in Zambia’s Kafue National Park

Mongabay 2 Sep 2025
A Bornean orangutan in a fruiting fig tree. Image courtesy of 1StopBorneo Wildlife.

Arboreal camera traps reveal wildlife feasting on Borneo’s fruiting fig trees

Carolyn Cowan 31 Jul 2025
A beluga whale in the Arctic Ocean near Norway.

Saving polar bears and beluga whales: Interview with Alysa McCall

Abhishyant Kidangoor 24 Jul 2025
Camera-trap image of the caracal spotted in Kirthar National Park. The cat appeared only once during the span of two weeks of camera trapping.

In rare triumph, camera traps snap endangered wildcats in Pakistan

Sean Mowbray 21 Jul 2025
An ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) in the Peruvian Amazonian rainforest (Cocha Cashu Biological Station), recorded through camera trapping. Photo credit: Fortunato Rayan.

Videos capture an unlikely alliance between ocelots and opossums in the Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Jul 2025
A Eurasian otter captured by a camera trap in Tangkulap Forest Reserve in Sabah. Image courtesy of Sabah Forestry Department/Sabah Wildlife Department/Panthera.

‘Hopeful sign’ as Eurasian otter reappears in Malaysia after a decade

Spoorthy Raman 15 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
A forest elephant, not from Senegal.

First elephant sighting in 6 years sparks hope for species’ return to a Senegal park

Spoorthy Raman 17 Jun 2025

Scientists rediscover a Mexican rabbit they hadn’t seen in 120 years

Astrid Arellano 23 May 2025
A western lowland gorilla in Cameroon.

In Cameroon’s forgotten forests, gorillas and chimps hang on

Spoorthy Raman 7 May 2025
A wild boar at Parsa National Park.

Study reveals untold, and unprotected, wildlife wealth of Nepal’s Madhesh province

Abhaya Raj Joshi 2 May 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
Brown bears captured on camera at the Chilkat State Park in Alaska.

Scientists team up for Snapshot USA nationwide mammal survey

Abhishyant Kidangoor 9 Apr 2025

First Niger Delta red colobus monkey videos reflect community conservation success

Spoorthy Raman 25 Feb 2025
A camera trap filmed two black wolves in a Polish forest. Images courtesy of SAVE Wildlife Conservation Fund Poland.

Camera trap films two rare black wolves in Poland

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Feb 2025

Mammals, birds in Vietnam’s rare coastal forests revealed by camera traps

Carolyn Cowan 13 Feb 2025

Camera traps capture first glimpse of genetically distinct chimps in southwestern Nigeria

Spoorthy Raman 31 Jan 2025
A Trimeresurus cardamomesis photographed in Cambodia’s Samlout Multiple Use Area.

Survey uncovers ‘wildlife treasure’ in Cambodian park — but also signs of threats

Anton L. Delgado 22 Jan 2025

Golden jackals thrive in mangroves of Indian megacity Mumbai: Study

Mongabay.com 27 Dec 2024

Camera traps, drones meant for wildlife can ‘spy’ on women: Study

Shreya Dasgupta 27 Nov 2024
Sumatran tiger

Camera traps reveal little-known Sumatran tiger forests need better protection

Carolyn Cowan 20 Nov 2024
Banner image of dholes recorded via camera trap in CCML in 2024, courtesy of Conservation International.

Camera trap survey in Cambodia’s Cardamom Mountains finds 108 species

Kristine Sabillo 7 Nov 2024
A captive Tibetan brown bear.

New brown bear ‘stronghold’ in Nepal redraws species’ range map

Abhaya Raj Joshi 31 Oct 2024
A snow leopard photographed in Nepal. Imagine by Sanjog Rai/WWF Nepal

As Nepal counts its snow leopards, even the best estimate is still a guess

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 Oct 2024
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Local reps should lead Nepal’s conservation education: Interview with Anil Adhikari

Abhaya Raj Joshi 29 Oct 2024
Male tiger camera trap image

Thai tiger numbers swell as prey populations stabilize in western forests

Carolyn Cowan 17 Jul 2024
A dragonfly perched on a leaf in Thailand.

Reimagining insect research: Interview with Roel van Klink and Leandro Nascimento

Abhishyant Kidangoor 24 Jun 2024
Unlike most other felids, the jaguarundi is active during the day.

Elusive jaguarundi inspires biologists to share data across Latin America

Ruth Kamnitzer 30 May 2024

‘The Javan tiger still exists’: DNA find may herald an extinct species’ comeback

Christopel Paino, Rahmadi Rahmad 4 Apr 2024
A Geoffroy's spider monkey

Tech to recover rainforest: Interview with Osa Conservation’s Carolina Pinto & Paulina Rodriguez

Abhishyant Kidangoor 21 Feb 2024

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