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Fetiya Ousman on a patrol.

Balancing elephant conservation and community needs: Q&A with award-winning ranger Fetiya Ousman

Solomon Yimer 8 Sep 2023
An elephant in Cambodia.

A forest gave Cambodia’s captive elephants a new life. Now they’re paying it back

John Cannon 31 Aug 2023
A path is cut deep into the core zone of Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary in Cambodia's Mondulkiri province following the government's approval of a new mining license in the protected forest. Photo by Gerald Flynn/Mongabay.

Cambodia approves, then suspends, marble mine in Keo Seima REDD+ project

Gerald Flynn & Meng Kroypunlok 31 Aug 2023
A group of elephants standing in mud and shallow water, pausing from digging for salt-rich mud in the Dzanga baï in the Sangha Rainforest in the Central African Republic. Image courtesy Jan Teede.

Congo Basin’s elephants boost carbon capture, but need salt-licks to survive

Leonie Joubert 15 Aug 2023
Asian elephant in Krau Wildlife Reserve, Malaysia

Asian elephants’ picky diet helps shape their forest home, study shows

Carolyn Cowan 9 Aug 2023
A Sumatran elephant in South Sumatra.

Elephant encounters rattle farmers in Indonesia’s Jambi province

Yitno Suprapto 1 Aug 2023
Tourists going on a ride on a captive elephant.

Bangladesh captive elephant death by train highlights need for conservation

Rafiqul Islam 10 Jul 2023
Elephants and humans sharing space

In north Bangladesh, human-elephant conflicts signal need for greater protection

Abu Siddique 29 May 2023
The purple frog (Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis), an ancient species that lived during the dinosaurs, calls small crevices around rocky streams home. Landslides can alter their habitats drastically. Image by David V Raju via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

As tourism booms in India’s Western Ghats, habitat loss pushes endangered frogs to the edge

Spoorthy Raman 22 May 2023

One elephant a day: Sri Lanka wildlife conflict deepens as death toll rises

Hassaan Shazuli 5 May 2023
A mahout gives his elephant a bath in Chitwan.

Mating urge adds new pressure to human-elephant conflict in Nepal

Abhaya Raj Joshi 27 Apr 2023

Wildlife trafficking gradually returns after pandemic lull, mostly by sea

Liz Kimbrough 4 Apr 2023
An elephant.

Elephants promote jumbo trees, boosting the carbon stores in Africa’s forests

Malavika Vyawahare 27 Jan 2023
Wildebeest in the savannas.

Counterintuitive: Large wild herbivores may help slow climate change

Tim Vernimmen 13 Dec 2022
A tusker in the wild.

In Nepal, officials defend detusking to reduce human-elephant conflict

Abhaya Raj Joshi 28 Nov 2022

New protections for sharks, songbirds, frogs and more at CITES trade summit

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 25 Nov 2022

If there’s an elephant in the room, that’s because it’s not in a protected area

Jim Tan 21 Nov 2022

Report unveils ties between Indonesian conglomerate Sinar Mas and Canada’s Paper Excellence

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Nov 2022
Elephant in Dong Nai Biosphere Reserve

In Vietnam, farmers show a willingness to work with the elephant in the room

Sean Mowbray 30 Sep 2022
Elephants in Zimbabwe.

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

Ryan Truscott 12 Sep 2022

Sumatran conservationist Rahmad Saleh Simbolon dies at 47

Elviza Diana, Lili Rambe 29 Aug 2022
Yasmin trails her son Junaidi on their farm.

Photos: Meet the Indonesians on the front lines of human-elephant conflict in Sumatra

Fieni Aprilia 11 Aug 2022
A herd of elephants in Cot Girek.

‘Chased from every side’: Sumatran elephants pinned down by forest loss

Dyna Rochmyaningsih 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

Saving Sumatran elephants starts with counting them. Indonesia won’t say how many are left

Dyna Rochmyaningsih 8 Aug 2022
A crane lifts an elephant into a truck.

Jumbo task as Malawi moves 263 elephants to restock a degraded national park

Charles Mpaka 5 Aug 2022
elephant nepal jungle

‘Unprecedented crisis’ for Nepal’s elephants: Q&A with conservationist Ashok Ram

Abhaya Raj Joshi 19 Jul 2022
A herd of elephants gets a drink in Botswana. Image by Roger Borgelid for Mongabay.

Twenty years since a massive ivory seizure, what lessons were learned? (commentary)

Julian Newman 27 Jun 2022

Satellites show deforestation surging in Indonesia’s Tesso Nilo National Park

Zamzami｜Morgan Erickson-Davis 9 Jun 2022
Group of elephants facing the camera, the nearest with trunk raised and ears fanned. Image by Aftab Uzzaman via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)

Cash-strapped Zimbabwe pushes to be allowed to sell its ivory stockpile

Farayi Machamire 1 Jun 2022
Forest elephants in the Congo Basin.

Ivory from at least 150 poached elephants seized in the DRC raid

Malavika Vyawahare 18 May 2022
Desert elephant with young. Damaraland, Namibia. Image by Rhett Butler for Mongabay.

Export of elephants to UAE drags Namibia wildlife policy into the spotlight

Ryan Truscott 7 Apr 2022

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