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Scientists have produced possibly the largest database of GPS-collared elephants containing 4 million data points.

Jumbo collaring effort reveals key elephant movement corridors

Abhishyant Kidangoor 25 Sep 2024
A yellow-legged hornet "hawking," hovering in front of a honeybee hive to pick slower-moving bees out of midair.

Mini radio tags help track ‘murder hornets’ and other invasive insects

Claudia Geib 14 Mar 2024
Prairie dogs, from the same family of animals as squirrels, are considered a keystone species in grasslands.

New trackers bring prairie dogs’ little-known underground life to light

Abhishyant Kidangoor 7 Mar 2024
Sun bear

Conservationists look to defy gloomy outlook for Borneo’s sun bears

Carolyn Cowan 31 Oct 2023
EarthRanger Director Jes Lefcourt testing EarthRanger Mobile in northern Kenya.

Wildlife management platform EarthRanger goes mobile with new app

Abhishyant Kidangoor 10 Aug 2023
red panda

Roads, human activity take a toll on red pandas: Q&A with researcher Damber Bista

Abhaya Raj Joshi 10 Apr 2023

Fishy business of squid vessels needs stronger regulation, study says

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 15 Mar 2023
A Bengal tiger crossing a road.

For tigers in Nepal, highways are a giant roadblock best avoided

Abhaya Raj Joshi 27 Feb 2023

‘Studying a ghost’: In Cape Town, urban caracals give researchers lots to ponder

Grace Hansen 21 Mar 2022

Tech revolution holds world of promise for conservation, but challenges persist

Caitlin Looby 2 Feb 2022

Tracking white-bellied pangolins in Nigeria, the new global trafficking hub

Gianluca Cerullo 7 Oct 2021

For Atlantic sea turtles, Sargasso Sea is home during the ‘lost years’

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 19 May 2021

Whale zone ahead: A cetacean speed trap tags ships going over the limit

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 10 Nov 2020
Newly hatched olive ridley sea turtle in Costa Rica. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

The turtle egg that pinged back: Tracing a poaching pathway in Costa Rica

Claudia Geib 22 Oct 2020

New evidence suggests China’s ‘dark’ vessels poached in Galápagos waters

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 9 Oct 2020

Sea turtles often lose their way, but always reach their destination

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Jul 2020

For tiger moms, the work-life balance struggle is real, study finds

Liz Kimbrough 13 Feb 2020

Protected areas best conserve mammalian diversity when connected with corridors, biologged weasels show

Emi Kusayanagi 4 Sep 2019

On Peru’s border, the Tikuna tribe takes on illegal coca growers

Alexa Vélez, Vanessa Romo 20 Aug 2019

‘Landscape of fearlessness’: bushbuck emboldened following top-predator decline in Mozambique

Sophie Manson 6 May 2019

Satellite trackers help fight vultures’ extinction in southern Africa

Munyaradzi Makoni 13 Dec 2018

For the birds: Innovations enable tracking of even small flying animals

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 3 Dec 2018

In pursuit of the rare bird that vanishes for half the year

Abhaya Raj Joshi 27 Nov 2018

Filling in the gaps: Managing endangered species on the high seas

Marianne Messina 23 Nov 2018

Stay or go? Understanding a partial seasonal elephant migration

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 24 Oct 2018

Tracking elephant movements reveals transboundary wildlife corridors

Calistus Bosaletswe 10 Sep 2018

An anti-poaching technology for elephants that is always listening

Marianne Messina 5 Sep 2018

Videos: spectacled bear’s home in the dry forests of Peru revealed

Yvette Sierra Praeli 26 Jul 2018

In pursuit of traceability, palm oil giant tests GPS-based solution

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Jun 2018

Borneo’s elephants prefer degraded forests, a new study finds

John Cannon 27 Mar 2018

Where one predator meets another: tracking sharks and fishing effort

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 25 Nov 2017

Location, location, location goes high-tech: Facts and FAQs about satellite-based wildlife tracking

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 20 May 2017

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