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Jaguar in a river in Mexico. Photo credit: Gerardo Ceballos

Jaguars in Mexico are growing in number, a promising sign that national conservation strategies are working

Guananí Gómez-Van Cortright 22 Nov 2021
A black bear family cautiously attempting a road crossing. Photo by Bridget Donaldson, Virginia Transportation Research Council.

Carnivores avoid rush hour by taking to roads at night

Elyse DeFranco 17 Nov 2021

Hungry like the maned wolf pup: Clips give rare glimpse of elusive canine

Mongabay.com 26 Oct 2021

The cat is back: Wild Amur tigers rebound in China, thanks to govt policies

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Sep 2021
Western spotted skunk (Spilogale gracilis). Image by Robby Heischman courtesy of the Field Museum.

Pepé Le New: Meet the acrobatic spotted skunks of North America

Liz Kimbrough 15 Sep 2021
Wild dog. Photo credit: Niassa Carnivore Project NO RE-USE PERMITTED

Reckoning with elitism and racism in conservation: Q&A with Colleen Begg

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Jun 2021

Electronic ears listen to poachers in a key Central American jaguar habitat

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 23 Feb 2021
Two babirusa fighting in Indonesia. Image by Meldy Tamenge, edited by Cart, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Southeast Asian wild pigs confront deadly African swine fever epidemic

John Cannon 12 Feb 2021

Big cat comeback: Jaguars prowl Argentina’s Iberá Wetlands after 70 years

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 20 Jan 2021
A trail camera captures a rare shot of a New Guinea singing dog in 2016. These pictures were the first solid evidence that the dogs were present around Grasberg mine. Photo credit: James McIntyre.

The New Guinea singing dog, once thought extinct, is alive in the wild

Freda Kreier 1 Dec 2020

Crimefighting NGO tracks Brazil wildlife trade on WhatsApp and Facebook

Peter Yeung 23 Nov 2020

Video: Vets hail ‘victory’ as jaguar burned in Pantanal fires returns to wild

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 5 Nov 2020
Cheetah at Zimanga private game reserve. Image by Charl Senekal

Spots of hope: Some good news for South Africa’s cheetahs

Tony Carnie 28 Sep 2020
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

Is an African wild dog actually a dog? Candid Animal Cam meets the rare canid

Romina Castagnino 25 Aug 2020

Is Chinese investment driving a sharp increase in jaguar poaching?

Rebecca Branford 11 Aug 2020

Brazilian Amazon drained of millions of wild animals by criminal networks: Report

Sharon Guynup 28 Jul 2020

What is a brown bear? Candid Animal Cam explores the lives of some of the largest bears in the world

Romina Castagnino 5 May 2020

What is a short-eared dog? Candid Animal Cam meets one of the most elusive mammals of the Amazon

Romina Castagnino 28 Apr 2020
Lion. Image by Tambako the Jaguar via Flickr (CC BY-ND-2.0)

Coronavirus is a crisis for South Africa’s captive lions, campaigners warn

James Fair 13 Apr 2020

Predators disproportionately impacted by human land use changes, study finds

Mongabay.com 2 Mar 2020

Camera trap study reveals Amazon ocelot’s survival strategies

Claire Asher 10 Sep 2019

Snow leopard population overestimated in Nepal? DNA study suggests it may be

Abhaya Raj Joshi 23 Aug 2019

‘Landscape of fearlessness’: bushbuck emboldened following top-predator decline in Mozambique

Sophie Manson 6 May 2019

New ancient, giant carnivore described from bones in museum drawer

Mongabay.com 19 Apr 2019
Camera trap image showing a jaguar on a road at San Miguelito. Courtesy of Duston Larsen.

Can jaguar tourism save Bolivia’s fast dwindling forests?

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Mar 2019

The odor side of otters: Tech reveals species’ adaptations to human activity

Visvak P. 25 Feb 2019

Camera traps find rich community of carnivores on Apostle Islands

Shreya Dasgupta 16 Jan 2019

Flashing lights ward off livestock-hunting pumas in northern Chile

John Cannon 7 Jan 2019

In the belly of the beast: journalist delves into wildlife trafficking

Gloria Dickie 4 Dec 2018
Pair of jaguar in the Peruvian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Progress on jaguar conservation in Suriname

Mark J. Plotkin 20 Nov 2018

Speed trap: Cameras help defuse human-cheetah conflict in Botswana

Calistus Bosaletswe 13 Nov 2018

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