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Sea otters eating clams in California.

Where sea otters play, salt marshes stay, new study shows

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 7 Feb 2024
Confiscated illegal wildlife parts.

Elite appetite turns Bangladesh from source to consumer of tiger parts

Mahadi Al Hasnat 9 Jan 2024
A group of elephants observed during the 2022 KAZA aerial survey. Photo courtesy of Dylan Blew and Ty-Mason James/KAZA Elephant Survey.

Count, connect, conserve: Southern Africa elephant survey points the way (commentary)

Russell Taylor, Robin Naidoo, Lisa Steel, Michael Knight, Steven A. Osofsky 3 Jan 2024
One of the six newly described chameleons from Tanzania

Photos: Top species discoveries from 2023

Liz Kimbrough 27 Dec 2023

Track-a-mole: Sniffer dog and eDNA help ‘rediscover’ South African golden mole

Liz Kimbrough 29 Nov 2023

Forest elephants are the ‘glue’ holding Congo rainforests together

Mike DiGirolamo 7 Nov 2023
A mountain gorilla encountered during a gorilla tourism trek in Uganda.

Gorilla permit fraud dents community-led conservation efforts in Uganda

Malavika Vyawahare, Nangayi Guyson 27 Oct 2023
The Iriomote cat (Prionailurus bengalensis iriomotensi).

Meet Japan’s Iriomote and Tsushima cats: Ambassadors for island conservation

Annelise Giseburt 24 Oct 2023
By Aqqa Rosing-Asvid - Visit Greenland - File:Finhval.jpg, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=47954017. Image courtesy of Aqqa Rosing-Asvid via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.

Iceland’s whaling paradox (commentary)

Micah Garen 13 Oct 2023

Barely making it: A conversation with ‘Eight Bears’ author Gloria Dickie

Mike DiGirolamo 27 Sep 2023
Two fin whales hunted in Iceland in 2009.

International outcry as Iceland lifts ban on what could be last whale hunt

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 1 Sep 2023

‘Catastrophic breeding failure’ for penguins as Antarctic sea ice vanishes

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 25 Aug 2023
Sumatran rhino calf in Way Kambas, Indonesia. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Amid government inaction, Indonesia’s rhinos head toward extinction (analysis)

Jeremy Hance 27 Jul 2023
Three Bengal tigers in India.

Critics decry Nepal minister’s ‘terrible idea’ of ‘sport hunting’ tigers

Abhaya Raj Joshi 26 Jul 2023

Rattlesnakes can calm down their friends, study shows

Liz Kimbrough 12 Jul 2023
Newly found deep-sea octopus nursery

Deep-sea expedition reveals rare octo-nurseries off Costa Rica

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 4 Jul 2023
The harpoon or catcher ship Hvalur 8 arrives at the whaling station in Hvalfjörður, West Iceland. Two fin whales are tied to the starboard side of the ship. Image by Arne Feuerhahn / Hard to Port.

‘No future’: Iceland cancels whale hunt over animal welfare concerns

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Jun 2023
A domestic cat out in the wild.

Mating game: Survival of some small wildcats at risk due to housecat hybrids

Elizabeth Devitt 25 May 2023
A black-footed cat.

‘Anthill tiger’: Putting one of Africa’s rarest wildcats on the radar

Petro Kotzé 18 May 2023
Partula snail reintroductions organized by London Zoo

‘Extinct’ snails return to Tahiti in largest wildlife reintroduction ever

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 28 Apr 2023
An eastern chimpanzee

Ground-nesting chimps hold lessons for conservation — and for human evolution

Ini Ekott 27 Apr 2023
A small cat.

Small cats face big threats: Reasons to save these elusive endangered species

Sean Mowbray 19 Apr 2023
North Atlantic right whale mother and calf.

U.S. refuses calls for immediate protection of North Atlantic right whales

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 25 Jan 2023

Top 15 species discoveries from 2022 (Photos)

Liz Kimbrough 29 Dec 2022

Conservationists play matchmaker to boost Argentina’s jaguar gene pool

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 23 Nov 2022
A guigna.

Wild cats threatened by ‘underrecognized’ risk of spillover disease

Sean Mowbray 13 Oct 2022

Greenland shark, world’s longest-living vertebrate, gets long-awaited protection

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 6 Oct 2022
Tigers on a forest path.

‘South Asia needs its own tiger plan’: Q&A with Nepal’s Maheshwar Dhakal

Abhaya Raj Joshi 14 Sep 2022
Elephants in Zimbabwe.

As poachers poison wildlife, Zimbabwe finds an antidote in tougher laws

Ryan Truscott 12 Sep 2022
Camera trap image of an adult male and a baby gorilla in Ebo Forest.

Study highlights elusive Cameroonian gorillas, and the threats encircling them

Ryan Truscott 10 Aug 2022
An Asian elephant in a forest in Bangladesh

Bangladesh struggles to protect the last of its last wild elephants

Rafiqul Islam 9 Aug 2022
A chimpanzee digs a well as another adult chimpanzee with an infant watches.

Chimps digging wells shows learned behavior that may help amid climate change

Manon Verchot, Sanshey Biswas 28 Jul 2022

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