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Fruit from the 70 last known adults of the endangered tree Magnolia polyhypsophylla.

Botanists decode secret life of rare plants to ensure reintroduction success

Katarina Zimmer 25 Nov 2025
Blackchin tilapia

Thai agri giant CPF sues activist over claims linking it to invasive fish outbreak

Carolyn Cowan 4 Nov 2025
Leaching ponds have been drilled into the mountains of Laos, using a mix of toxic chemicals to separate the rare earth minerals from the other materials siphoned out of the ground. Image supplied by source.

Rare earth mining expands into Laos, threatening entire Mekong River

Mongabay 27 Oct 2025
Mountain yellow-legged frogs have a wide array of color variations, ranging from yellow and brown to red and gray.

Uphill battle to save California’s endangered mountain yellow-legged frog

Sean Mowbray 10 Oct 2025

IUCN downgrades guiña threat status, prompting conservation warning

Sean Mowbray 10 Oct 2025
Artist's conception of a manumea, Samoa's 'little dodo.' Image via Samoa Conservation Society fundraising page.

Funding is needed to save Samoa’s ‘little dodo’ from extinction (commentary)

Gianluca Serra 18 Sep 2025
A male blue sheep (Pseudois nayaur). Image courtesy of Ksuryawanshi via Wikimedia Commons.

Nepal’s Himalayan biodiversity struggles with new herds and highways (commentary)

Naresh Kusi, Geraldine Werhahn 17 Sep 2025
A Verreaux’s sifaka dancing.

Madagascar’s dry forests need attention, and Verreaux’s sifakas could help

Mino Rakotovao 15 Sep 2025

Genetic rescue boosts survival of endangered Pacific pocket mice

Bobby Bascomb 8 Sep 2025

From beavers to bison: England’s rewilding revolution

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Sep 2025
A brilliant blue male Francis’s gorgeous sapphire, euthanized after being reared in captivity. Image courtesy of Jonathan Francis.

Discovery of dazzling blue butterfly underscores peril facing Angola’s forests 

Ryan Truscott 3 Sep 2025
A 1.72-meter (5.6-foot), 102-kilogram (225-pound) Mekong giant barb caught in Tonle Sap Lake in December, 2002.

Shrinking Mekong megafish underlines risks to the river, study finds

Anton L. Delgado 26 Aug 2025

Rare Javan leopard sighting renews focus on conservation, monitoring efforts

Basten Gokkon, Falahi Mubarok 22 Aug 2025
The First Gen tanker off the shores of Santa Clara, October, 2024.

Philippine fishers struggle as LNG ‘superhighway’ cuts through biodiversity hotspot

Mongabay.com 20 Aug 2025
James's flamingo (Phoenicoparrus jamesi)

Green hydrogen development threatens wildlife in Chile

Manuel Fonseca 18 Aug 2025

Seed-dispersing animals are in decline, impacting forests and the climate: Study

Kristine Sabillo 14 Aug 2025
Spoon-billed sandpiper in Tiaozini, China.

A critical stopover for shorebirds awaits protection in Malaysia

Lee Kwai Han 13 Aug 2025

Domestic cats pose interbreeding threat to little known wildcat ancestor

Mongabay.com 30 Jul 2025
Joseph Vargas and Wilma Abanil in their home

As gas giants move in, Philippine fishers fight for their seas and survival

Nick Aspinwall 29 Jul 2025
Camera-trap image of the caracal spotted in Kirthar National Park. The cat appeared only once during the span of two weeks of camera trapping.

In rare triumph, camera traps snap endangered wildcats in Pakistan

Sean Mowbray 21 Jul 2025
The Andean cat is a rare and endangered species highly specialized to life in the high Andes. It’s estimated that around 2,000 mature individuals, living in fragmented populations, are spread very thinly over a vast alpine expanse in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Peru.

Endangered Andean cat is imperiled by climate change and its solutions

Sean Mowbray 10 Jul 2025
What it's like to live with tigers

What it’s like to live with tigers

Arathi Menon 9 Jul 2025
A northern cassowary

Forest connectivity key to preserving PNG’s spectacular rainforest birds: Study

Carolyn Cowan 8 Jul 2025

Study urges legal protection for Sulawesi’s endangered bear cuscus amid habitat loss

Basten Gokkon 3 Jul 2025
bird Colombia

In Colombia, bird-watching brings tourism and a love for conservation

Charlie Cordero 23 Jun 2025
Coral reef in Vietnam.

Major coral loss in Vietnam’s first marine protected area: Study

Keith Anthony Fabro 20 Jun 2025

Mounting risks due to climate change threaten Sri Lanka’s endemic species

Malaka Rodrigo 16 Jun 2025
Wild Frequencies

Mongabay India wins best science podcast at Publisher Podcast Awards

Mongabay.com 12 Jun 2025

Critically endangered chameleon discovered outside its known habitat in Madagascar

Rivonala Razafison 3 Jun 2025
This Afro-Asiatic wildcat kitten (of the subspecies F. lybica cafra) shows the distinctive peach-pink tint to this genetically pure wildcat’s ears.

Tabby’s likely ancestor & Earth’s most widespread wildcat is an enigma

Petro Kotzé 28 May 2025
A sarus crane photographed in Lumbini. Image by Mukesh Pokhrel.

Concrete sprawl in Buddha’s birthplace in Nepal threatens sarus cranes

Mukesh Pokhrel 19 May 2025
A Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) hangs from the trees. Fewer than 100,000 orangutans remain on Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Orangutan habitat under siege as palm oil company clears forest in Borneo

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Apr 2025

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