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Checkout counter tech eases wildlife identification in the field

Miguel Monteiro 23 Jun 2025
Top tools to protect rainforests | Against All Odds

Top tools to protect rainforests | Against All Odds

Lucia Torres 12 Jun 2025
Banner image of tiang in South Sudan ©Marcus Westberg/African Parks.

New maps reveal Earth’s largest land mammal migration

Kristine Sabillo 3 Jun 2025
Image courtesy of Lucy Calderón/EcoLogic Development Fund.

Conservation tech without Indigenous knowledge and local context has limits (commentary)

Marco Acevedo 28 May 2025
Albatrosses with a rainbow in Ka'ena Point State Park, Hawaiʻi.

New map highlights complex web of marine migrations

Abhishyant Kidangoor 28 May 2025

Young Rwandans support bird conservation through mobile app recordings

Mongabay.com 27 May 2025
Banner image: The Madikwe Game Reserve in South Africa captured by the Pléiades Neo satellite. Image courtesy of the Airbus Foundation and Connected Conservation Foundation.

‘Satellites for Biodiversity’ upgrades with new projects and launches insight hub

Kristine Sabillo 26 May 2025

Scat-sampling DNA tool shows potential in African carnivore conservation

Dann Okoth 19 May 2025
Tiger salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum)

Radio tags help reveal the secret lives of tiger salamanders

Abhishyant Kidangoor 16 May 2025
Sunda pangolin (Manis javanica

Indonesian pangolin trafficking prosecution reveals police involvement — and impunity

Ayat S. Karokaro 14 May 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 model of a woolly mammoth at the Royal Victoria Museum, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, 2018. Photo by Thomas Quine, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

‘De-extinction’ isn’t just misleading — it’s dangerous, ecologist says

Mike DiGirolamo 6 May 2025
A tiger-legged monkey tree frog in Peruvian Amazon.

New report reinforces critical role of Amazonian protected areas in climate fight

Abhishyant Kidangoor 1 May 2025
A great tit (Parus major)

AI uncovers how birds remix their songs over time

Abhishyant Kidangoor 17 Apr 2025
Banner image of Nandera, a crime-fighting African giant pouched rat. Image by Lucia Torres/Mongabay.

Giant rats trained to sniff out illegal wildlife trade

Mongabay.com 15 Apr 2025
A lesser woolly horseshoe bat in Maharashtra. Image by Everestsh via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

New bat detection system in India promises more efficient data collection

Mongabay.com 11 Apr 2025

Singapore biobank offers backup plan for pangolins

Claire Turrell 10 Apr 2025
Banner image of a painted swellshark courtesy of the National Geographic Exploration Technology Lab.

Deep-sea shark recorded on video for first time using low-cost camera

Kristine Sabillo 10 Apr 2025
Elephant Solar Fence, India.

Can solar fences stop human-elephant conflict in India?

Gowthami Subramaniam 9 Apr 2025
Brown bears captured on camera at the Chilkat State Park in Alaska.

Scientists team up for Snapshot USA nationwide mammal survey

Abhishyant Kidangoor 9 Apr 2025
Fire in an area newly deforested in Brazil.

Brazil is speeding-up forest fire prevention to avoid dangerous tipping points in the Amazon (commentary)

Robert Muggah, Ilona Szabo 6 Apr 2025
Banner image of a wildfire in Umatilla National Forest, by Brendan O’Reilly/U.S. Forest Service–Pacific Northwest Region via Flickr (Public domain).

Innovators battling wildfires with AI, drones & fungi get $50k grants to scale up

Kristine Sabillo 2 Apr 2025
Polar bears give birth in dens beneath the snow where the cubs remain for many months; their emergence from dens marks a crucial period during which the cubs acclimatize to the harsh environment in the Arctic. Image by K T Miller/Polar Bears International.

Rare polar bear cub footage offers crucial conservation insights

Abhishyant Kidangoor 2 Apr 2025
Banner image of a loggerhead sea turtle released in 2021, courtesy of Vanessa Kahn/New England Aquarium.

Surgically implanted tags offer rare insight into rehabilitated sea turtles

Kristine Sabillo 25 Mar 2025
Artisans fix nets at Chikombe Beach ahead of their trip to Mbenje Island – . Image by Charles Mpaka for Mongabay.

Fish-tracking robot aims to make fishing more sustainable in developing nations

Charles Mpaka 20 Mar 2025
North Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena glacialis).

Counting whales by eavesdropping on their chatter, with help from machine learning

Abhishyant Kidangoor 18 Mar 2025

Whale songs rise and fall with food supply, study finds.

Bobby Bascomb 12 Mar 2025
An African golden cat caught in a snare.

Ugandan researcher wins ‘Emerging Conservationist’ award for work on golden cats

Abhishyant Kidangoor 6 Mar 2025

Thermal drones detect rare tree kangaroos in Australia

Shreya Dasgupta 20 Feb 2025

Bangladeshi researchers pin hopes on irrigation method with real-time methane monitoring

Sadiqur Rahman 20 Feb 2025

Researchers eye marsupial recovery with first IVF kangaroo embryo

Bobby Bascomb 19 Feb 2025
The team that developed the kit has put it into the hands of conservationists to collect samples from lakes across Vietnam.

Can a new DNA test save the world’s rarest turtle?

Abhishyant Kidangoor 19 Feb 2025

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