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Western chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) Critically endangered subspecies of the common chimpanzee. Guinea Conakry

Chimpanzees vs. a mega railway

Juan Maza 3 Jun 2026
A golden-headed lion tamarin (Leontopithecus chrysomelas). Images courtesy of Flávia Zagury.

Endangered golden-headed lion tamarin: Photo of the week

Shanna Hanbury 11 May 2026
A European wildcat in Scotland, where 46 captive-bred wildcats have been released as part of an ongoing reintroduction project. The cats are repopulating former habitat in the Cairngorms mountain range in the eastern highlands.

The European wildcat hovers between recovery and local extinction

Sean Mowbray 11 May 2026

A baby boom for North Atlantic right whales, but extinction still a threat

Bobby Bascomb 6 May 2026
A Bengal tiger from Rajasthan, India. Poaching is one of the biggest threats to tigers, an endangered cat in Asia.

Facebook is a hub for illegal wildlife trade, and that’s by design, report says

Spoorthy Raman 5 May 2026

Indonesia busts wildlife trafficking ring targeting Komodo dragons

Naina Rao 1 May 2026

From protecting salamanders to seabirds, here are the 2026 Whitley Awards winners

Naina Rao 30 Apr 2026
Siamese crocodile

Saving crocodiles from extinction

Abhishyant Kidangoor 28 Apr 2026

Celebrating the ‘gardeners of the forest’ on World Tapir Day

Naina Rao 27 Apr 2026

Endangered civet faces local extinction in Cambodian sanctuary

Naina Rao 27 Apr 2026
Lula and Macron during a bilateral meeting at Guajará Bay.

Brazil FOIA confirms Lula & Macron talked before key CITES vote on endangered tree

Spoorthy Raman, Fernanda Wenzel, Emmanuelle Picaud 23 Apr 2026
A portrait of a cute Gentoo penguin during the snowfall in Antarctica with a blurry background

How much does a penguin weigh?

Abhishyant Kidangoor 22 Apr 2026
Kakapo Strigops habroptila "Sirocco" amongst renga renga lillies. Maud Island, New Zealand.

World’s fattest parrots have mating frenzy

Sam Lee 18 Apr 2026
Panorama of Mount Donna Buang in Australia

Australia declares mainland alpine ash forests endangered

Megan Strauss 16 Apr 2026

New mahogany species found in Zanzibar — but fewer than 30 trees remain

Ryan Truscott 9 Apr 2026

Camera traps take first photos of rare island antelope on Zanzibar 

Ryan Truscott 6 Apr 2026
“For mothers and young elephants, Dzanga Bai becomes something of a playground and a very safe place,” says Yvonne Kienast, project manager and head researcher of the Dzanga Forest Elephant Project. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

A unique clearing in Central Africa draws elephants from the dense forests

David Akana 6 Apr 2026

‘Extraordinary’: Second set of rare mountain gorilla twins born in DRC’s Virunga

David Akana 30 Mar 2026

Compost, racoons and sea turtle predation in Costa Rica

Bobby Bascomb 25 Mar 2026

Eastern monarch butterfly populations increase in 2025, but challenges remain

David Brown 24 Mar 2026
White rhinoceros, Khama Rhino Sanctuary, Botswana

Can this giant freezer de-extinct animals?

Izzy Sasada 23 Mar 2026

Captive-bred Panamanian golden frogs released to the wild

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Mar 2026
The endangered Hildegarde’s tomb bat (Taphozous hildegardeae) in flight near its roost in the caves of Mount Suswa, Kenya, during a conservation monitoring survey. Image courtesy of Bat Conservation International.

At dusk in Kenya’s caves, scientists study the hidden lives of bats

Sharon Muzaki 17 Mar 2026
Collage of a red-bellied toad and a bridge broken by flood

In search of the tiny toad that stopped a dam

Thamys Trindade, Felipe Rosa, Julia Lima 14 Mar 2026

Indigenous knowledge confirms what scientists observe: Large birds are disappearing

Bobby Bascomb 13 Mar 2026
Sloth on tree

The dark side of smiling sloths

Sam Lee 12 Mar 2026

Archived camera-trap images bring Thailand’s tapirs into focus

Mongabay.com 5 Mar 2026
Photos from Macron's official visit to Lula in 2024 sparked memes for their resemblance to a “pre-wedding photo shoot.”

Brazil wanted more protections for its endangered national tree. Then France called

Fernanda Wenzel, Spoorthy Raman, Emmanuelle Picaud 27 Feb 2026
A photo of Zeytin posted by the Turkish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry on Facebook in December 2024. No further updates have been provided since the country's announcement to not send Zeytin to Africa.

Baby gorilla seized from traffickers languishes in Turkish zoo

Spoorthy Raman 13 Feb 2026

Habitat destruction, illegal trade threaten Sri Lanka’s endangered agamid lizards

Kamanthi Wickramasinghe 31 Jan 2026
Moo Deng meme collage

Small hippo, big dreams: Can Moo Deng, the viral pygmy hippo, save her species? 

Sam Lee 14 Jan 2026

Ants need urgent protections from global trade, conservationists say

Spoorthy Raman 13 Jan 2026

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