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A Bali starling sings with its beak wide open

Indigenous-led protections spark Bali starling’s recovery in the wild

Heather Physioc 2 Oct 2025
Free-roaming hog deer (Axis porcinus) found on Honduwa Island in southern Sri Lanka

An elusive deer species clings to survival in Sri Lanka’s south

Malaka Rodrigo 11 Sep 2025
Newly hatched Socorro doves at Chester Zoo. Image courtesy of Chester Zoo.

Lost to feral cats, saved by zoos: The story of the Socorro dove

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Sep 2025
Bengal Florican Nep

Nepal looks to Cambodia’s breeding model as Bengal florican numbers plunge

Abhaya Raj Joshi 1 Sep 2025
An adult leopard shark at the North Stradbroke Island summer aggregation site in Australia. Photo by MV Erdmann

Can we undo extinction? A growing effort to restore lost sharks

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Aug 2025
Leopard shark. Photo by Alex Kydd.

Can we undo extinction? A growing effort to restore lost sharks

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Aug 2025
An adult female kākāpō (Strigops habroptila) in a tree at night. Kākāpō are nocturnal and flightless. Image by Andrew Digby/New Zealand Department of Conservation.

World Nature Conservation Day: How a large, flightless parrot rebounded from the verge of extinction

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Jul 2025
A male pygmy hippo calf was born at Tanganyika Wildlife Park, in the U.S. state of Kansas, on June 26, 2025. Image courtesy of Tanganyika Wildlife Park.

Rare pygmy hippo born in Kansas zoo offers hope for endangered species

Shreya Dasgupta 10 Jul 2025
Banner image of a gelada by Charles J. Sharp via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Gelada monkey vocalizations offer insight into human evolution: Study

Kristine Sabillo 9 Jun 2025
Banner image of Mommy, the Western Santa Cruz Galápagos tortoise, courtesy of Philadelphia Zoo.

97-year-old Galápagos tortoise becomes a first-time mom

Kristine Sabillo 11 Apr 2025

Singapore biobank offers backup plan for pangolins

Claire Turrell 10 Apr 2025
Great Indian bustard chicks born at captive-breeding centers in Rajasthan, India. Image courtesy of the Bustard Recovery Program, WII.

Captive-raised chicks offer hope for extremely rare great Indian bustard

Shreya Dasgupta 10 Apr 2025
Conservationist Wayan Wardika in the farm.

A Bali farm lights up the night with a one-of-a-kind firefly lab

Claire Turrell 23 Dec 2024
red shanked douc

Vietnam’s mammals need conservation within and outside their range: Study

Carolyn Cowan 13 Dec 2024

China’s plans to trace wildlife trade risks inflaming trafficking, critics warn

Carolyn Cowan 31 Oct 2024

Small snails make big comeback in French Polynesia

Liz Kimbrough 27 Sep 2024

We know how many okapi live in zoos. In the wild? It’s complicated

Marlowe Starling 18 Sep 2024

Recently hatched baby skate offers hope for endangered Tasman species

Mongabay.com 19 Aug 2024

120 rhinos moved from breeding program to South African reserves

Bobby Bascomb 20 Jul 2024
A Spix’s macaw at São Paulo Zoo in Brazil. The species’ return to its native habitat, from which it was declared extinct, has been bittersweet: the rewilding program has been a technical success, but bureaucratic wrangling threatens to stall future releases. Image courtesy of São Paulo Zoo. Used in article 'Institutional conflict puts successful Spix’s macaw reintroduction at risk'.

Institutional conflict puts successful Spix’s macaw reintroduction at risk

Bernardo Araujo 16 Jul 2024
Spix’s macaws in a specially built enclosure at São Paulo Zoo in Brazil. The zoo currently holds 27 of the birds, with a maximum capacity of 44. But this on its own wouldn’t be enough to supply the rewilding target of 20 birds per year. Image courtesy of São Paulo Zoo. Used in article 'For ‘extinct’ Spix’s macaw, successful comeback is overshadowed by uncertainty'

For ‘extinct’ Spix’s macaw, successful comeback is overshadowed by uncertainty

Bernardo Araujo 15 Jul 2024

Spotted softshell turtle release boosts reptile conservation in Vietnam

Carolyn Cowan 4 Apr 2024

Gharial conservation plan leaves Nepal fishing communities searching for new jobs

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 28 Feb 2024
A male gharial guarding hatchlings.

Nepal’s gharial population rises, but threats to the crocs persist

Abhaya Raj Joshi 31 Jan 2024

New calf brings new hope, and new concerns, for embattled Sumatran rhinos

Jeremy Hance 27 Nov 2023
An elephant with her mahout at the project, which employs 58 people, 48 of them from local communities.

A sanctuary for elephants and forests in Cambodia

John Cannon 31 Oct 2023
Rock gecko

For Vietnam’s rare reptiles, lack of captive populations may spell doom

Carolyn Cowan 21 Sep 2023
An elephant in Cambodia.

A forest gave Cambodia’s captive elephants a new life. Now they’re paying it back

John Cannon 31 Aug 2023
Sanjiv is a male Sumatran tiger who has arrived at a captive breeding center in Tacoma, Washington. Photo by Katie Cotterill for Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium. Sanjiv.

Sumatran tiger arrives at Tacoma captive-breeding program

Jeremy Hance 6 Jan 2023

Rare turtles hatch from eggs rescued from flood-prone Nepal riverbank

Abhaya Raj Joshi 16 Sep 2022

Raise-and-release program keeping Nepal’s gharials alive can be improved, study says

Abhaya Raj Joshi 3 Jul 2022

Return of the king? Pakistan moves to bring gharials from Nepal to its rivers

Abhaya Raj Joshi 2 Jul 2022

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