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Long-tailed macaques living in the mountains of Cambodia's Battambang province

Cambodia was told to clean up its monkey trade. Regulators say it still hasn’t

Gerald Flynn 15 Oct 2026

Crackdown reveals ‘industrial-scale’ wildlife and timber trafficking across Latin America

Spoorthy Raman 8 Oct 2026

Arabian Sea humpbacks may be a unique subspecies at risk of extinction

Naina Rao 7 Oct 2026
A leopard cat steps out of its cage and into the forest in Phu Pha Man National Park, northeastern Thailand, after several months in the care of the Khon Kaen wildlife rescue center. Image by Ana Norman Bermúdez for Mongabay.

‘A few are afraid of the chicks’: Preparing Thailand’s rescued leopard cats for life in the wild

Ana Norman Bermúdez 7 Oct 2026
Image: Elephant puppet created by Greg Corbino created for Carnival of the Nearly Extinct Animals by Stephanie Ann Boyd. Photo courtesy of Ocean Music Action.

‘Carnival of the Nearly Extinct Animals’ celebrates species with song

Liz Kimbrough 16 Sep 2026
A pygmy marmoset.

Indigenous knowledge x tech in the search for a tiny Amazon monkey

Abhishyant Kidangoor 11 Sep 2026

Javan rhinos survive eruption in Indonesia, but single habitat leaves species vulnerable

Basten Gokkon 11 Sep 2026
An Australian eastern quoll (Dasyurus viverrinus).

The conservation population of Australia’s endangered eastern quoll welcomes joeys

Paul Harvey 28 Aug 2026

Dolphin mother and calf observed using shells to catch fish in Australia

Bobby Bascomb 19 Aug 2026

‘Remembering Wildlife’ shines a spotlight on the species we risk losing forever

Mike DiGirolamo 18 Aug 2026
African savannah elephants, the biggest land animals on the planet, are socially advanced and highly intelligent mammals. Image by O’Connell’s & Rodwell.

On ivory, follow the trafficking networks and not the headlines (commentary)

Mary Rice 11 Aug 2026
A lion in Zambia.

World Lion Day: The communities living with lions

Mongabay.com 10 Aug 2026

On a Philippine beach, villagers are stepping up to save sea turtle nests

Mongabay.com 6 Aug 2026
Black-footed cats (Felis nigripes) in southern Namibia. Image courtesy of Alex Sliwa

Africa’s smallest wildcat found using abandoned rodent burrows to raise kittens

Mongabay.com 28 Jul 2026

Conservationists got delayed access to court-ordered inspection of Nairobi National Park

Lynet Otieno 24 Jul 2026

The US government says habitat destruction no longer counts as ‘harm’ to endangered species

Bobby Bascomb 14 Jul 2026
Pallas’s cat, also known as the manul, roam widely across Central Asia and are present in 16 countries. Image by Richard Gillin via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Meme-face Pallas’s cat traverses a complex conservation landscape

Sean Mowbray 10 Jul 2026
King vultures in Costa Rica. Image courtesy of Peter Hudson.

King vultures in Costa Rica: Photo of the week

Shanna Hanbury 6 Jul 2026

Sightings of humpback whales surge in Rio de Janeiro, fueling demand for whale-watching trips

Associated Press 2 Jul 2026
A Himalayan wolf.

How snow leopards, wolves and leopards share the same Himalayan valley, study

Liz Kimbrough 26 Jun 2026

How leopards and wolves share the same Himalayan valley: Study

Liz Kimbrough 25 Jun 2026
[DO NOT REUSE] Image by Ben Cherry. Courtesy of Netflix/Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund.

A new documentary film captures rare mountain gorilla behavior

Mike DiGirolamo 5 May 2026
Javan gibbon Lima and her mother, Belle. Image courtesy of Port Lympne.

Endangered Javan gibbon baby born in UK rare species sanctuary

Shanna Hanbury 30 Apr 2026

A chimpanzee’s rhythmic drumming with floorboards hints at origins of instruments

Liz Kimbrough 16 Apr 2026
Rangers prepare to load a rhino into a crate at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary, Uganda. Image courtesy of UWA.

Decades after poaching drove them extinct, rhinos are back in the wild in Uganda

Benjamin Jumbe 31 Mar 2026

In Laos, ancestral spirits are helping save one of the world’s rarest crocodiles

Liz Kimbrough 25 Mar 2026

A bonobo named Kanzi could play pretend, challenging ideas about animal imaginations

Liz Kimbrough 18 Mar 2026
A forest elephant near Ngounié, Gabon. Image by marcusgmeiner via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Poaching down but threats remain for forest elephants, recent population assessment finds

Spoorthy Raman 5 Jan 2026

IUCN upholds long-tailed macaques’ endangered status after complaint

Gerald Flynn 15 Oct 2025

Losing Nemo: In the Red Sea, clownfish vanish as anemones bleach

Liz Kimbrough 14 Oct 2025

Conservationists warn of targeted poaching behind Sri Lanka’s leopard killings

Malaka Rodrigo 13 Aug 2025

Domestic cats pose interbreeding threat to little known wildcat ancestor

Mongabay.com 30 Jul 2025

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