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

Ryan Truscott 27 Dec 2024
Bright red flowers of a miracle clivia (Clivia mirabilis), hang in front of green foliage. Image courtesy Dave Garriock.

Poachers target South Africa’s ‘miracle’ plant with near impunity

Leonie Joubert 20 Dec 2024

Armed conflict, not Batwa people, at heart of Grauer’s gorillas’ past decline in DRC park

Aimable Twahirwa, Latoya Abulu 16 Dec 2024
red shanked douc

Vietnam’s mammals need conservation within and outside their range: Study

Carolyn Cowan 13 Dec 2024
Water pollution due to the frequent movement of minerals-laden vessels and tourism-based houseboats through the sanctuaries contributes to the decline in Tanguar Haor’s fish diversity.

A Ramsar site in Bangladesh fast loses its fish diversity amid government inaction

Sadiqur Rahman 19 Nov 2024
Cuatir Conservation Area’s neighbours come to inspect the new arrivals. Image by Jim Tan for Mongabay.

26 elephants from Namibia moved to Angola’s only private conservation area

Jim Tan 7 Oct 2024
leopard ntnc Nepal

Canine distemper likely infecting & killing Nepal’s leopards, study shows

Abhaya Raj Joshi 29 Sep 2024
Photograph of the Itombwe owl captured by Tom Butynski and colleagues in 1996. Image Courtesy of Tom Butynski.

The Itombwe owl: Two birds and an identity crisis

Malavika Vyawahare 10 Sep 2024

More alarms over Indonesia rhino poaching after latest trafficking bust

Donny Iqbal, Nopri Ismi 5 Sep 2024
Red panda

Nepal’s first community-based red panda conservation area sparks hope 

Abhaya Raj Joshi 29 Aug 2024

Budget constraints limit wildlife protection in major Nepali road project

Abhaya Raj Joshi 27 Aug 2024

Nepal’s buffalo-kills-tiger story reveals deeper pains in compensation system

Abhaya Raj Joshi 24 Aug 2024
The translocation team leads a sedated rhino to a crate and its journey to a new home. Image © Michael Dexter/African Parks.

African Parks embarks on critical conservation undertaking for 2,000 rhinos

Simon Espley 22 Aug 2024
More than 95% of southern elephant seal pups (Mirounga leonina) born in 2023 perished in that year from the deadly outbreak of avian influenza.

Animal apocalypse: Deadly bird flu infects hundreds of species pole-to-pole

Sharon Guynup 6 Aug 2024
An endangered Gee's golden langur (Trachypithecus geei).

‘A harmonious human-primate society’: Interview with Whitley winner Kuenzang Dorji

Choki Wangmo 17 Jul 2024
A Spix’s macaw at São Paulo Zoo in Brazil. The species’ return to its native habitat, from which it was declared extinct, has been bittersweet: the rewilding program has been a technical success, but bureaucratic wrangling threatens to stall future releases. Image courtesy of São Paulo Zoo. Used in article 'Institutional conflict puts successful Spix’s macaw reintroduction at risk'.

Institutional conflict puts successful Spix’s macaw reintroduction at risk

Bernardo Araujo 16 Jul 2024
Unlike most other felids, the jaguarundi is active during the day.

Elusive jaguarundi inspires biologists to share data across Latin America

Ruth Kamnitzer 30 May 2024

Mysterious, at risk, understudied flat-headed cat lacks conservation focus

Sean Mowbray 29 May 2024

Innovative Nepali PSA seeks emotional connection to save red pandas

Abhaya Raj Joshi 24 May 2024
Photo of the captive bay cat in 2008.

On the trail of Borneo’s bay cat, one of the world’s most mysterious felines

Jeremy Hance 15 Apr 2024
The 2024 paper proposes Leopardus pardinoides, or the clouded tiger cat, as a new species. This small wildcat is found in the cloud forests of Costa Rica, south to Panama, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and Argentina. Image courtesy of Johanes Pfleiderer. Article title - A tiger cat gains new species designation, but conservation challenges remain

A tiger cat gains new species designation, but conservation challenges remain

Sean Mowbray 5 Apr 2024
Long-tailed macaques living in the mountains of Cambodia's Battambang province

Cambodian official acquitted in trial that exposed monkey-laundering scheme

Gerald Flynn 29 Mar 2024
A juvenile northern pig-tailed macaque (Macaca leonina) held in a cage outside a gas station in Cambodia. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Impunity for Cambodia’s exotic pet owners as trade outpaces legislation

Gerald Flynn, Nehru Pry 7 Mar 2024
A chattering lory (Lorius garrulus).

Maluku farmer turns guardian of eastern Indonesia’s threatened parrots

Mahmud Ichi 27 Feb 2024

After 50 years of the U.S. Endangered Species Act, we need new biodiversity protection laws (commentary)

Sean O'Brien 16 Feb 2024
A guina.

Conservationists aim to save South America’s super tiny wild cat, the guina

Petro Kotzé 22 Jan 2024
Western hoolock gibbon. Image credit: Scott Trageser Photography/Creative Conservation Alliance.

Western hoolock gibbon conservation in Bangladesh urgently needs funding (commentary)

Sinan Serhadli 18 Jan 2024
A wolverine. Image courtesy of MBarrueto via the Creative Commons, CC 2.0.

Let’s give the wary wolverine some space (commentary)

Gabe Schepens 12 Jan 2024
Dholes (Cuon alpinus) are wild canids that range throughout South, Central, East and Southeast Asia. They are listed as endangered, with fewer than 2,500 adults remaining in the wild. Image by Davidvraju via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

In 2023, Nepal’s ‘uncelebrated’ wildlife continued wait for attention

Abhaya Raj Joshi 28 Dec 2023
The sand cat’s exceptional hearing helps the species hunt in the desert at night. Here, a sand cat was caught on camera with a meal clutched in its mouth.

Shining a spotlight on the wide-roaming sand cat ‘king of the desert’

Petro Kotzé 11 Dec 2023
Chörtens right outside the walled city of Lo Manthang. Image by Jean-Marie Hullot via Flickr (CC BY 2.0 Deed).

Traditional healers push for recognition and licensing of age-old Himalayan practice

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 5 Dec 2023
The Iriomote cat (Prionailurus bengalensis iriomotensi).

Meet Japan’s Iriomote and Tsushima cats: Ambassadors for island conservation

Annelise Giseburt 24 Oct 2023

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