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Sumatran rhinos

New estimate of less than 50 Sumatran rhinos shows perilous population drop

Jeremy Hance 29 Sep 2022
A Madame Berthe's mouse lemur. Image courtesy of Matthias Markolf.

World’s smallest primate is fading into extinction, scientists fear

Malavika Vyawahare 29 Sep 2022

Rare turtles hatch from eggs rescued from flood-prone Nepal riverbank

Abhaya Raj Joshi 16 Sep 2022
A soft coral garden in west Greenland.

Greenland’s sustainable halibut fishery may threaten newfound corals, sponges

Amandas Ong 6 Sep 2022

In Nepal, endangered tiger kills critically endangered gharial. What does it mean?

Abhaya Raj Joshi 2 Sep 2022
A monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus).

Biodiversity underpins all, as California is finding out the hard way

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 24 Aug 2022
Northern muriqui (Brachyteles hypoxanthus), found in the Neotropics. Image courtesy of Priscila Pereira.

Indigenous lands, knowledge are essential for saving primates from extinction, says new study

Kimberley Brown 11 Aug 2022
Nepal Beni jomsom road construction

No critical examination of flawed environmental assessments in Nepal, experts say

Abhaya Raj Joshi 11 Aug 2022
Thuza and Kusasa the white rhinos.

White rhino conservation project attempts paradigm shift by including local community

Ryan Truscott 19 Jul 2022
A dead vaquita floats in the ocean. Image by Robbie Newby for Sea Shepherd.

Experts fear end of vaquitas after green light for export of captive-bred totoaba fish

Michelle Carrere 28 Jun 2022
The Talaud bear cuscus.

To win island-wide conservation, Indonesia’s Talaud bear cuscus needs to win hearts

Sean Mowbray 22 Jun 2022
A northern cassowary (Casuarius unappendiculatus).

Proposed copper and gold mine threatens the world’s ‘second Amazon’ in PNG

John Cannon 13 Jun 2022

Ray care center: Indonesia’s Raja Ampat a key nursery for young reef mantas

Basten Gokkon 9 Jun 2022
Mohéli hosts one of the largest nesting sites for green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) in the Indian Ocean.

For 20 years, Comoros had only 1 national park. It’s now creating 5 more

Malavika Vyawahare 31 May 2022
A Bengal tiger sits on a road in neighboring India.

Nepal’s key habitat could lose 39% of its tigers in 20 years, study says

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 May 2022
Spiky yellow woodlouse. Image courtesy of www.sainthelenaisland.info

Can we save the spiky yellow woodlouse, one of the most endangered isopods? (commentary)

Nick D’Onofrio 27 May 2022
The endangered manta ray

For reef mantas, Indonesia’s Komodo National Park is a ray of hope

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 24 May 2022
The spotted tody-flycatcher, native to South America and the Caribbean, hunts insects alone or in pairs, and is well-adapted to humans, happy in forest or overgrown pasture. Image courtesy of Alexander Lees.

Rachel Carson’s ‘Silent Spring’ 60 years on: Birds still fading from the skies

Sharon Guynup 23 May 2022
Two male proboscis monkeys in Malaysian Borneo.

Ecotours aimed at saving monkeys are likely stressing them out, study finds

John Cannon 23 May 2022

As tiger numbers in Nepal and India grow, their freedom to roam shrinks

Abhaya Raj Joshi, Sahana Ghosh 13 May 2022
Himalayan musk deer

Himalayan musk deer talk to each other through poop, but poachers are also listening

Abhaya Raj Joshi 10 May 2022
A Geoffroy's spider monkey.

Can celebrities and social media influencers really ‘rewrite extinction’?

James Fair 9 May 2022
Sonam Tashi Lama from Red Panda Network receives the Whitley Award from Princess Anne, patron of the Whitley Fund for Nature in London.

Q&A with Whitley Award winner Sonam Tashi Lama

Abhaya Raj Joshi 2 May 2022
A critically endangered Cao-Vit gibbon (Nomascus nasutus) swings on a tree.

Wildlife don’t recognize borders, nor does climate change. Conservation should keep up

Jim Tan 28 Apr 2022
A Western chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus).

Côte d’Ivoire’s chimp habitats are shrinking, but there’s hope in their numbers

Manon Verchot 25 Apr 2022

Shining a light on Sri Lanka’s little-studied pangolins: Q&A with Priyan Perera

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 24 Apr 2022
The silvery pigeon is one of the most threatened pigeon species in the world. As a seed disperser, this species helps contribute to the overall biodiversity of the small islands it inhabits, according to researcher Simon Bruslund.

Online trade in rare silvery pigeon is cause for concern, researchers say

Sean Mowbray 30 Mar 2022

Indigenous Comcáac turtle group saves sea turtles in Mexico’s Gulf of California

Astrid Arellano 17 Feb 2022

The small cats nobody knows: Wild felines face intensifying planetary risks

Sean Mowbray 17 Feb 2022

Technology and tradition team up to watch over a sacred island’s sea turtles

Ricci Shryock 19 Nov 2021

In Sumatra, a snare trap costs a baby elephant her trunk, then her life

Junaidi Hanafiah 17 Nov 2021

Starving and injured Sumatran tiger dies in captivity, Indonesian officials report

Lili Rambe 10 Nov 2021

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