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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 stranded whale in Germany’s Baltic Sea weakens as hopes of its return to the Atlantic fade

Associated Press 30 Mar 2026
Northern gannet (Morus bassanus) nest made largely of plastic debris. Image courtesy of Martin Brogger.

Seabird nests built with plastic waste off the coast of Germany: Photo of the week

Shanna Hanbury 25 Mar 2026
An eastern chimpanzee in Uganda. Image by Nik Borrow via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Chimpanzees and gorillas among most traded African primates, report finds

Spoorthy Raman 7 Jan 2026
Video of a brown rat catching a bat at Segeberger Kalkberg. Image courtesy of Gloza-Rausch et al., 2025 (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).

Europe’s under-pressure bats face ‘astonishing’ threat: Ambush by rats

Shreya Dasgupta 7 Nov 2025

Bird flu hits migrating cranes hard in Germany as the virus flares up

Associated Press 29 Oct 2025
Starfish on sunken World War II munitions in the Baltic Sea. Image courtesy of Vedenin et al., 2025 (CC BY 4.0).

Marine life are thriving on Nazi missile debris in the Baltic Sea: Study

Shreya Dasgupta 8 Oct 2025

The Great Insect Crisis

Jeremy Hance 15 Sep 2025
A coal miner walking barefoot through heaps of coal dust at a coal mine and processing plant, Jharkand, India. Image courtesy of Rajesh Kumar Singh / Climate Visuals Countdown.

At COP30 & beyond, the fight for climate justice must end corporate impunity (commentary)

Pablo Fajardo 17 Jun 2025
Banner image of Gianluca Grimalda on a cargo ship courtesy of Gianluca Grimalda.

Climate researcher fired for refusing air travel wins compensation

Kristine Sabillo 30 Jan 2025
Banner image of a common noctule courtesy of Kamran Safi/Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior.

Smart tags reveal migratory bats are storm-front surfers

Kristine Sabillo 15 Jan 2025
Banner image of Koru superyacht by Conmat13 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Maker of Jeff Bezos’s yacht fined for using Myanmar ‘blood timber’

Kristine Sabillo 6 Dec 2024
A European blackbird.

New study upends common belief that birds escape winter to save energy

Abhishyant Kidangoor 21 Oct 2024

Bolivia looks to opaque methods, firms to build lithium powerhouse

Ian Morse 12 Dec 2022

Stem cells may make ‘impossible possible’ for near-extinct Sumatran rhino

Basten Gokkon 15 Nov 2022

Indonesia teams up with Germany on Sumatran rhino breeding efforts

Basten Gokkon 3 Jun 2022

Reptile traffickers trawl scientific literature, target newly described species

Pavel Toropov 26 May 2021
Documentation of landcover and oil palm plantation development in PT Internusa Jaya Sejahtera (PT IJS), part of the Central Cipta Murdaya group, in April 2018. Photo credit: © Ulet Ifansasti / Greenpeace

As illegal forest conversion for industrial ag worsens, this moment is pivotal (commentary)

Sam Lawson 20 May 2021

Life and new limbs: Creative thinking, 3D printers save injured wildlife

Laurel Neme 5 Apr 2021
Blackwater oxbow lake in the Amazon. Image by Rhett Butler for Mongabay.

One Health: A necessary blend of biodiversity and human health goals (commentary)

Annie Mark 16 Nov 2020

One year on: Insects still in peril as world struggles with global pandemic

Jeremy Hance 11 Nov 2020

Europe’s ‘ruthless’ animal attractions: Q & A with filmmaker Aaron Gekoski

Mongabay.com 17 Dec 2019

Mongabay investigative series helps confirm global insect decline

Jeremy Hance 24 Jun 2019

How to save insects and ourselves

Jeremy Hance 13 Jun 2019

Vanishing act in Europe and North America

Jeremy Hance 6 Jun 2019

A global look at a deepening crisis

Jeremy Hance 3 Jun 2019

The world’s biggest reptile fair is also a hub for traffickers

Denise Hruby 30 May 2019
Extract of an aerial 360° of an informal gold mine in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. Click the image to see the full panorama.

Information-based solutions for forest conservation projects

Mongabay.com 29 Nov 2018

COP23: U.S., wealthy nations curtail climate aid for developing world

Justin Catanoso 16 Nov 2017

Should I stay, or should I go: is U.S. facing a climate scientist brain drain?

Sean Mowbray 15 Nov 2017

‘Decimated’: Germany’s birds disappear as insect abundance plummets 76%

Morgan Erickson-Davis 27 Oct 2017

New genetic analyses help scientists rethink the elephant family tree

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 3 Aug 2017

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