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What’s at stake for the environment in Ecuador’s upcoming election?

Maxwell Radwin 5 Feb 2025

Vietnam faces scrutiny for not sharing enough data on rhino horn trade

Victoria Schneider 5 Feb 2025

As Africa eyes protected areas expansion of 1 million square miles, concerns over enforcement persist

Mike DiGirolamo 4 Feb 2025
Babu Krishna Karki with his camera photographing wildlife.

Military-backed conservation ‘without firing a single shot’: Interview with Nepal’s Babu Krishna Karki

Abhaya Raj Joshi 4 Feb 2025

No justice in sight for World Bank project-affected communities in Liberia

Victoria Schneider 3 Feb 2025
Seized live turtles belonging to Pangshura tecta, Morenia petersi and Lissemys punctata species temporarily sheltered at the Forest Department enclosures before releasing them into the wild again.

Illegal trade is pushing Bangladesh’s freshwater turtles to the brink

Sadiqur Rahman 3 Feb 2025

Over 1,100 dead olive ridley turtles wash ashore in southern India

Shreya Dasgupta 31 Jan 2025

To conserve chimps, understand their genetic traits and local adaptations, says study

Gilbert Nakweya 29 Jan 2025
Why is this snake one of the most trafficked species in India? | Wild Targets

Why is this snake one of the most trafficked species in the world? | Wild Targets

Shatabdi Chakrabarti 29 Jan 2025
An agile gibbon in Berlin Zoo.

Increase in gibbon trafficking into India has conservationists worried

Spoorthy Raman 29 Jan 2025

Introducing wildlife crime to Nepal’s law enforcement: Interview with Prasanna Yonzon

Abhaya Raj Joshi 28 Jan 2025
Banner image of a white rhino at Kruger National Park in South Africa, by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Rhino horn trafficker jailed in legal first on financial charges in S. Africa

Kristine Sabillo 27 Jan 2025

Vietnam grapples with ‘alarming popularity’ of online illegal wildlife trade

Carolyn Cowan 27 Jan 2025

Scientists unveil potential new pangolin species, highlighting conservation challenges

Keith Anthony Fabro 27 Jan 2025
Philippine pangolin mother and baby.

China’s new pangolin quota for TCM sparks conservation concerns

Keith Anthony Fabro 24 Jan 2025

Record seizure highlights scale of wild bird egg theft in UK

Spoorthy Raman 23 Jan 2025

Floods devastate tortoise sanctuary in southern Madagascar

Shanna Hanbury 23 Jan 2025
A Trimeresurus cardamomesis photographed in Cambodia’s Samlout Multiple Use Area.

Survey uncovers ‘wildlife treasure’ in Cambodian park — but also signs of threats

Anton L. Delgado 22 Jan 2025

Five-month-old male gorilla, victim of illegal wildlife trade, seized in Istanbul

Spoorthy Raman 22 Jan 2025
This rescue center saves Rio's wildlife from poachers

This rescue center saves Rio’s wildlife from poachers | Wild Targets

Julia Lima 22 Jan 2025
Cattle grazing in the Amazon.

Probe details the playbook of one of Amazon’s top land grabbers

Fernanda Wenzel 20 Jan 2025
Banner image of discus fish by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

1 in 4 freshwater species worldwide at risk of extinction: Study

Kristine Sabillo 14 Jan 2025

Indonesian scientist under fire for revealing extent of illegal tin mining

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Jan 2025
A Hooded Pitohui (Pitohui dichrous) from Papua New Guinea.

Indonesia’s voracious songbird trade laps up rare and poisonous pitohuis

Spoorthy Raman 10 Jan 2025
radiated tortoise

How tortoise conservationist Hery Razafimamonjiraibe manages risks to antipoaching teams

Carolyn Cowan 10 Jan 2025
Mist rising from the Amazon rainforest at dawn. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Latin America in 2024: politics, turmoil and hope

Alexandra Popescu 3 Jan 2025
A bottlenose wedgefish (Rhynchobatus australiae).

New evidence spells massive trouble for world’s sharks, rays and chimaeras

Spoorthy Raman 2 Jan 2025

An underground gold war in Colombia is ‘a ticking ecological time bomb’

Joshua Collins 31 Dec 2024
A chestnut-tailed starling in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh adopts new technology to fight wildlife crimes

Sadiqur Rahman 31 Dec 2024

Rare new Guinean flower is ‘canary in a coal mine’ — but in an actual iron mine

Ryan Truscott 27 Dec 2024
An adult radiated tortoise

Massive tortoise rewilding in Madagascar’s spiny forest strives to save fraught species

Carolyn Cowan 26 Dec 2024
Sharks cast aside after being finned.

No signs of slowdown in wildlife trafficking in 2024 as demand persists

Keith Anthony Fabro 25 Dec 2024

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