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An Arctic fox.

Protecting canids from planet-wide threats offers ecological opportunities

Sean Mowbray 10 Jan 2023
Andean bear captured in a camera trap a the Qeros-Wachiperi Conservation Concession, part of study to determine the bear’s habitat preferences. The bears altitudinal range goes from 200 to 4000 meters above sea level. Photo: Conservación Amazónica ACCA.

How bears “make” a forest (commentary)

Enrique Ortiz 30 Sep 2022
Clouded leopard

Southeast Asia’s big cats like their prey rare — as in really elusive

Carolyn Cowan 6 Sep 2022

In Nepal, endangered tiger kills critically endangered gharial. What does it mean?

Abhaya Raj Joshi 2 Sep 2022

As tiger numbers in Nepal and India grow, their freedom to roam shrinks

Abhaya Raj Joshi, Sahana Ghosh 13 May 2022
Traffic on Nepal's highway

Road project threatens to derail Nepal’s conservation gains, study says

Abhaya Raj Joshi 18 Mar 2022

‘We scientists engage in soft diplomacy’: Q&A with Christine Wilkinson

Caitlin Looby 23 Dec 2021

Top 15 species discoveries from 2021 (Photos)

Liz Kimbrough 21 Dec 2021

Meet the fishing jaguars that have made this patch of the Pantanal their own

Dimas Marques 20 Dec 2021
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

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