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Gillnetting fishers off North Sentinel- wreck coast: Fishermen from South Andaman lay gillnets around North Sentinel Island, exploiting the rich fishery. This picture in from 1999, and the exploitation has increased to skin diving lobster fishermen, hook & line fishers, trawlers, and also opportunists of various intent and origin. Image courtesy of Mandish Chandi.

India’s isolated island tribes need autonomy to survive rising threats, says scholar

Mongabay 1 Oct 2026
A black-faced lion tamarin photographed during the yellow fever vaccination project conducted by SPVS. Image by Gabriel Marchi.

A first in Brazil: Black-faced lion tamarins vaccinated

Euan Marshall 1 Oct 2026
Stéphanie Moussounda, known as Maman Djédjé, a Gabonese traditional practitioner and initiatory mother, president of the Fédération nationale des traditionalistes gabonais (FENATRAG) and second vice-president of COARITRAG, at her temple in Gabon. Image by Molly Helfend for Mongabay.

Gabon, home to the medicinal plant behind ibogaine, wants a fairer share of its global boom

Molly Helfend 1 Oct 2026
Dolphins use whistles to communicate with each other and rapid clicking sounds to locate prey. Image courtesy of NOAA.

Dolphins keep their social and hunting lives in separate waters, study finds

Abhishyant Kidangoor 1 Oct 2026
Giraffes roam Kenya’s open savannas, part of the rich wildlife that draws visitors and makes ecotourism an important source of revenue for conservation and local communities. Image by Angela Scott.

From ‘community-based’ to ‘community-led conservation’ in Kenya: Interview with Dickson Kaelo

David Akana 1 Oct 2026
Two Spix’s macaws

Vantara in talks with Brazil on ‘strategic cooperation’ on threatened species, FOIA documents reveal

Fernanda Wenzel, Spoorthy Raman 1 Oct 2026
Giraldo Alayón García

Giraldo Alayón García, Cuba’s ‘spider man,’ died on Sept. 24

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Oct 2026

Endangered dolphins survive in a Bangladesh river so polluted it’s ‘not livable’ for fish

Mongabay.com 1 Oct 2026
Baird's tapirs (Tapirus bairdii) are the largest native land mammals in Central and South America. They are endangered and habitat loss is one of its biggest threats. Image by user Rhododendrites via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

In Panama’s Darién forest, Indigenous communities test a new way to fund conservation

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Sep 2026

Isle Royale wolves inbred but likely to survive, study says

Associated Press 30 Sep 2026
Adult southern mountain yellow-legged frogs in the headstarting facility at the Los Angeles Zoo.

New releases a leap forward for endangered frog in southern California

Ruth Kamnitzer 30 Sep 2026
A mother Philippine eagle, Aya, and her young, Cabuaya, at Mount Hamiguitan in their nest in 2005.

Philippine eagle habitat study maps mining risks and conservation priorities

Keith Anthony Fabro 30 Sep 2026

Global experts gather in Sri Lanka for historic first World Congress on Snakes

30 Sep 2026

In Brazil’s Acre, calls for new roads clash with deforestation commitments

Constance Malleret 30 Sep 2026
Big Oil vs. national parks

Big Oil vs. national parks: Who wins?

Izzy Sasada 30 Sep 2026
Pratap Singh Chundawat via his Facebook page.

Pratap Singh Chundawat rescued a leopard from a well. He died in the line of duty, aged 40

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Sep 2026

Iwi and community-led effort return kiwi to Wellington for first time in over a century

Mike DiGirolamo 29 Sep 2026
Nubian (formerly Rothschild's) giraffe in Uganda. Image by Julie Larsen ©Wildlife Conservation Society.

In war-torn South Sudan, giraffes retain a surprisingly healthy gene pool

David Brown 29 Sep 2026
Jaco Muller. Image courtesy of the Rhino Momma Project.

Jaco Muller turned his 15-year-old son’s idea into 197 rhino births

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Sep 2026
A logger carries his chainsaw through the forest of the Cardamom Mountains in Cambodia. He will sell the timber to garment factories.

Despite a drop in deforestation in 2025, forest losses pile up in the Mekong

Gerald Flynn 29 Sep 2026

Reintroduced Grauer’s gorilla gives birth in DRC national park, ‘makes us happy’

Elodie Toto 28 Sep 2026

Sri Lanka’s disappearing snake charmers carry a legacy of fear and fascination

Malaka Rodrigo 28 Sep 2026
A yellow-eyed penguin.

As yellow-eyed penguins disappear, conservationists focus on deaths in fishing nets

Edward Carver 28 Sep 2026
Kurt Benirschke, founder of San Diego Zoo’s Frozen Zoo

Preserving wildlife DNA for the future: Interview with the Frozen Zoo’s Katie Heineman

Abhishyant Kidangoor 28 Sep 2026
Eastern Grey Kangaroo (Macropus giganteus) with a joey in its pouch on the beach at Trial Bay in New South Wales, Australia.

As Australia’s kangaroo numbers rise, record cull renews calls for other control methods

Cooper Williams 28 Sep 2026
A bluespotted ribbontail ray (Taeniura lymma) on a reef bed by Pulau Hantu

Singapore’s plan to merge several islands could wipe out coral reefs

Robin Hicks 28 Sep 2026
Brazil is considered the richest country in biodiversity in the world

Undiscovered Amazon drugs could be valued at $215 billion, analysis finds

Rafael Spuldar 28 Sep 2026
Thumbnail Firefly, Bali

Bringing back Bali’s lost fireflies

Rizky Maulana Yanuar, Sam Lee 27 Sep 2026
Thumbnail Firefly

A plan to save Bali’s lost fireflies

Sam Lee, Rizky Maulana Yanuar 26 Sep 2026
Anant Ambani with elephants

NGOs call on Vantara to end all wild animal imports permanently

Spoorthy Raman 25 Sep 2026

Cheetah cubs at Prague Zoo are doing well after a period of strong storms and their mother’s illness

Associated Press 25 Sep 2026
A Landscape Alliance staffer kneels beside a coppicing stump of a wild loquat tree

Scientists clone Southern Africa’s wild fruit trees as forests disappear

Ryan Truscott 25 Sep 2026

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