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Singapore biobank offers backup plan for pangolins

Claire Turrell 10 Apr 2025
Dugong in Thailand

Dugong numbers plummet amid seagrass decline in Thailand’s Andaman Sea

Carolyn Cowan 10 Apr 2025
Great Indian bustard chicks born at captive-breeding centers in Rajasthan, India. Image courtesy of the Bustard Recovery Program, WII.

Captive-raised chicks offer hope for extremely rare great Indian bustard

Shreya Dasgupta 10 Apr 2025
An Indochinese tiger. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Thailand’s ‘second’ tiger population stable, but barriers to expansion persist

Carolyn Cowan 9 Apr 2025
A Boswellia tree on Socotra Island. Image by Alexandre Baron via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

Iconic frankincense trees of Yemen’s Socotra Island have become rarer

Shreya Dasgupta 9 Apr 2025
Jaguar siblings in Porto Jofre in the Brazilian Pantanal. Image by Bernard Dupont via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Jaguar tourism in Brazil’s Pantanal needs new rules to avoid collapse: Study

Shanna Hanbury 8 Apr 2025
Bonobos in the DRC’s Kokolopori Bonobo Reserve. Image courtesy of Maud Mouginot.

Bonobos combine calls in ways that resemble human language, study finds

Shanna Hanbury 8 Apr 2025
Fishing cat. Image by Kelinahandbasket via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

Fishing cats in India struggle to survive outside protected areas

Mongabay.com 4 Apr 2025
Kanzi, the bonobo, died aged 44 in March 2025. Image ©️Ape Initiative.

Kanzi the bonobo redefined what it means to be human

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Apr 2025
A tokay gecko in Indonesia. Indonesia is the world's largest exporter of these geckos, with more than 8 million harvest quotas issued in 2022.

Amid fuzzy data, scientists urge monitoring of Hong Kong’s tokay gecko trade

Spoorthy Raman 3 Apr 2025
Maltese Falcon Poachers: European hunters endanger Egypt's birds

Maltese Falcon Poachers: European hunters endanger Egypt’s birds

Mahmoud Elsobky, Wael El-Sayegh 2 Apr 2025
Banner image of deep-sea corals on the ocean floor via NOAA (Public domain).

Global seabed regulator concerned by mining company’s unilateral actions

Kristine Sabillo 2 Apr 2025

Longer periods of drought threaten Brazilian amphibians

Suzana Camargo 2 Apr 2025
A young orange-spined hairy dwarf porcupine (Sphiggurus villosus) rescued by the Vida Livre institute. Image by Rafael Bacelar for Mongabay.

Brazilian rescue center returns trafficked animals to the wild

Mongabay.com 2 Apr 2025
The Cross River gorilla (Gorilla gorilla diehli) is considered one of the most threatened primate species on the planet. Image by Julie Langford via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Mongabay investigation finds gorilla trade more widespread than previously thought

Mongabay.com 1 Apr 2025
Gray parrot. Image by L.Miguel Bugallo Sánchez via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Key transit province in DRC bans gray parrot capture and trade

Shreya Dasgupta 1 Apr 2025
A grizzled tree kangaroo (Dendrolagus inustus)

PNG’s Torricelli Mountains teem with life — and the risk of extinction

John Cannon 31 Mar 2025
Banner image of a pair of Baudin's black-cockatoo by dbmcc09 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).

Australia’s environment minister sued for failure to act on threatened species

Kristine Sabillo 31 Mar 2025
Construction of the first section of the motorway. Image courtesy of Corrine Rahoeliarisoa.

Madagascar highway pushes on through controversy

Rivonala Razafison 31 Mar 2025
Elephants Crossing Ewaso Ewaso Ng'iro river, Samburu, Kenya. Image courtesy of Fritz Vollrath

For wandering elephants, path of least resistance could help map out safe corridors

Ryan Truscott 31 Mar 2025
Two Sumatran rhinos. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Life on Earth is changing — not just in numbers, but in essence

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Mar 2025

Mysterious sloth bear deaths raise alarm at Sri Lanka’s largest national park

Malaka Rodrigo 29 Mar 2025
Two pairs of N. Bald Ibis photographed at the wintering grounds on the Ethiopian highlands in November 2006 (© G. Serra).

The effort to save Syria’s northern bald ibis population failed, but much can be learned (analysis)

Gianluca Serra 28 Mar 2025
A recently release juvenile Siamese crocodile in Cambodia.

Siamese crocodile release into the wild marks conservation milestone in Cambodia

Anton L. Delgado 28 Mar 2025
A mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei) in Virunga National Park. Image by John Cannon/Mongabay.

The untold environmental toll of the DRC’s conflict

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Mar 2025
Banner image of Kanzi by William H. Calvin via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Famous bonobo Kanzi, known for smarts & gaming, dies at age 44

Kristine Sabillo 27 Mar 2025
Zeeshan Mirza with one of the new tarantula species from the Western Ghats. Mirza has discovered several species of reptiles in India as well. Photo courtesy of Mirza.

Exploring India, finding new species: Interview with biologist Zeeshan Mirza

Liz Kimbrough 27 Mar 2025
Why is this endangered dolphin being killed to make "love perfumes"?

Locals debunk myths linking endangered pink river dolphins to ‘love perfumes’

Mongabay.com 27 Mar 2025
Rescue operation at the Lavavolo Tortoise Center.

Devastating flood forces relocation of 10,000 tortoises at Madagascar sanctuary

Rivonala Razafison 26 Mar 2025

Vincent van der Merwe (1983-2025), champion of the cheetah

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Mar 2025

Nepal collaborates with neighbors to gain wildlife crime intel but struggles with enforcement

Kosh Raj Koirala 26 Mar 2025

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

Malaka Rodrigo 26 Mar 2025

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