Canids News

RSS
22 stories
A dhole in India.

Nepal launches plan to boost science, awareness to save dholes

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 Jun 2025

Sri Lanka’s golden jackals reveal importance of urban wetlands for wildlife

Malaka Rodrigo 26 May 2025
Camera trap image of snow leopards feeding on a domestic yak in Limi Valley, northwestern Nepal. Photo: Himalayan Wolves Project.

The paradox of balancing conservation efforts for Himalayan wolves and snow leopards (commentary)

Naresh Kusi 15 Jan 2025
leopard ntnc Nepal

Canine distemper likely infecting & killing Nepal’s leopards, study shows

Abhaya Raj Joshi 29 Sep 2024
Dholes (Cuon alpinus) hunting a spotted deer in Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve, Maharashtra, India.

Dholes latest wild canids likely making comeback in Nepal, study shows

Abhaya Raj Joshi 27 Feb 2024
Dholes (Cuon alpinus) are wild canids that range throughout South, Central, East and Southeast Asia. They are listed as endangered, with fewer than 2,500 adults remaining in the wild. Image by Davidvraju via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

In 2023, Nepal’s ‘uncelebrated’ wildlife continued wait for attention

Abhaya Raj Joshi 28 Dec 2023
Forensic reconstruction of a woolly dog based on Mutton’s pelt measurements and archaeological remains. Image courtesy of Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

How a 160-year-old pelt piqued new findings on Indigenous ‘woolly dog’ breed

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 22 Dec 2023

On Nepal’s day to honor dogs, wild canines face mounting threats

Abhaya Raj Joshi 10 Nov 2023
A leopard.

In Nepal, conservationists suspect link between canine distemper and human-leopard conflict

Abhaya Raj Joshi 10 Feb 2023
An Arctic fox.

Protecting canids from planet-wide threats offers ecological opportunities

Sean Mowbray 10 Jan 2023
A man carries a feral dog.

Himalayan community takes initiative to help dogs, wildlife and itself

Abhaya Raj Joshi 27 Dec 2022

Who let the dogs out? Feral canines pose a threat to Nepal’s wildlife

Abhaya Raj Joshi 31 Oct 2022
A gray wolf in Yellowstone National Park.

Yellowstone’s wolves defied extinction, but face new threats beyond park’s borders

Grace Hansen 31 May 2022
Liz Campbell plays wolf howls into the night. Image by John Wendle for Mongabay.

Howling in the dark: Shining a light on a newly remembered wolf

John Wendle 10 Sep 2020

Photos: Here are the winners of the 2018 British Ecological Society photo contest

Mongabay.com 3 Dec 2018

Shifting attitudes may help endangered wild dogs in Thailand

Alexander Montoro 22 Dec 2014

Obama Administration to propose stripping protection from all gray wolves

Jeremy Hance 29 Apr 2013

A new method to monitor stray dog abundance

Dr Liz Kimbrough 10 Dec 2012

New Guinea singing dog photographed in the wild for the first time

Jeremy Hance 3 Dec 2012

Illegal hunting threatens iconic animals across Africa’s great savannas, especially predators

Jeremy Hance 25 Oct 2012

After seven year search, scientists film cryptic predator in Minas Gerais

Jeremy Hance 25 Oct 2012

Buffer zones key to survival of maned wolf

Jeremy Hance 17 Sep 2012

you're currently offline