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In Nepal, northernmost sighting of Eurasian otter raises hope, concerns

Abhaya Raj Joshi 7 Jun 2025
NC State PhD student Bethany Wager catching and tagging a False Albacore for The Albie Project. Image courtesy of American Saltwater Guides Association.

Angling for answers, this saltwater fishing group boosts research for better conservation

Erik Hoffner 12 May 2025

A migrating flycatcher returning to the same Sri Lankan garden sparks interest in birders

Malaka Rodrigo 11 May 2025
Red-throated bee-eaters (Merops bulocki), Pehonko, Benin. Image by Yves Bas via iNaturalist (CC BY 4.0).

Africa’s growing cities are endangering birdlife (commentary)

Bello Adamu Danmallam 16 Apr 2025

A century later, a rare mushroom with a curious shape emerges in Sri Lanka

Malaka Rodrigo 26 Mar 2025
Citizen scientist photographing a Northern Queen of Sheba Orchid in Lesueur National Park, Western Australia. Photo credit: Thomas Mesaglio

Citizen scientists can boost IUCN species assessments, but need better guidance from ecologists

Mahima Samraik 26 Nov 2024

Fishers & scientists unite to restore seaweed populations on Chilean coast

Barinia Montoya 18 Oct 2024

‘Mermaids’ dive to study and protect Mexican fishing grounds

Astrid Arellano 2 Oct 2024

Celestún refuge fights illegal fishing & helps revive species in Mexico’s Yucatán

Astrid Arellano 1 Oct 2024
A yellow oriental paper wasp (Polistes olivaceus)

Bats & bees help ni-Vanuatu predict storms — but will climate change interfere?

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 10 Sep 2024

How a fun women’s gathering led to small wildcat conservation in Peru’s Andes

James Hall 22 Aug 2024
An anemone fish in Hong Kong's coral reefs.

Hong Kong as a reef fish haven? These scientists want to get the word out

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 22 Feb 2024
A lesser black krait in West Bengal, India.

Small, secretive & highly venomous snake seen for first time in Nepal’s hills

Abhaya Raj Joshi 1 Feb 2024
The length of the newly described stick insect can reach up to 35 cm (13.7 in).

In eastern Indonesia, a child adventurer discovers a new giant stick insect

Ebed de Rosary 31 Jan 2024

Study: Women, youths can be more effective at driving sustainable farming changes

Basten Gokkon 7 Apr 2023
Sonam Tashi Lama from Red Panda Network receives the Whitley Award from Princess Anne, patron of the Whitley Fund for Nature in London.

Q&A with Whitley Award winner Sonam Tashi Lama

Abhaya Raj Joshi 2 May 2022
Trees laden with epiphytes in a Brazilian garden by Marianne North, 1873, via The Public Catalogue Foundation.

Amateur naturalists deserve more support and fewer barriers (commentary)

Rajith Dissanayake 20 Apr 2022

Bird-counting app kindles interest in Nepal’s rich avian life

Abhaya Raj Joshi 23 Mar 2022

Camera trap study shows conservation efforts ‘are working’ on Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula: Video

Liz Kimbrough 13 Dec 2021

Despite deals, plans and bans, the Mediterranean is awash in plastic

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 11 Nov 2021

Women on storm-hit Philippine island lead Indigenous effort to restore mangroves

Keith Anthony Fabro 7 Oct 2021

Scientists describe new tree frog in push to catalog Indonesia’s amphibians

Grace Dungey 2 Sep 2021

Sri Lanka’s budding biologists get their science on with iNaturalist

Malaka Rodrigo 11 Mar 2021

App harnesses citizen power to keep tabs on Philippines’ coral reefs

Jen Chan 27 Jul 2020
A plastic beverage bottle floats in the shallow waters of Sand Island in Hawaii. Image by David Slater / NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Program Marine Debris Team, 2015.

‘Our life is plasticized’: New research shows microplastics in our food, water, air

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 15 Jul 2020

Think you’ve seen a mermaid? This Sri Lankan scientist sets the record straight

Malaka Rodrigo 4 Jun 2020

Overworked, underpaid and lonely: Conservationists find a new community online

Jeremy Hance 23 Mar 2020

A celebratory kind of revolution: Peruvian villagers hold a bird festival (commentary)

Brian Landever and Fufkin Vollmayer 9 Dec 2019

Facebook and Instagram posts help locate pygmy seahorses in Taiwan

Shreya Dasgupta 6 Nov 2019

‘Fantastic grandmothers’ snorkel, help uncover large sea snake population

Mongabay.com 4 Nov 2019

“Part of something bigger”: the social movement around New Zealand’s Predator-Free 2050 goal

Monica Evans 20 Jun 2019

Volunteers find bones of new species of extinct heron at Florida fossil site

Mongabay.com 20 May 2019

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