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This bird is disappearing from Indonesia’s forests for its song

Mongabay.com 6 Mar 2026

Colombia’s coffee industry well placed but wary as EU deforestation rule looms

Mie Hoejris Dahl 4 Mar 2026
A radio-collared slow loris in Bangladesh.

Out of captivity, into conflict: slow lorises struggle to survive after release

Carolyn Cowan 26 Feb 2026
A pair of hyacinth macaws (Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus), listed as vulnerable by the IUCN.

Big biodiversity goals run up against small funding realities

John Cannon 25 Feb 2026
Asian tapir adult

In Thailand, old camera-trap photos shed new light on Asian tapirs

Carolyn Cowan 24 Feb 2026
Banteng

Helicopter translocation brings isolated banteng to safer grounds in Cambodia

Carolyn Cowan 17 Feb 2026
Across Kep province, fishing communities fear the Funan Techo Canal will see them lose their homes on land and their livelihoods at sea. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Cambodia’s canal mega-project threatens coastal communities and marine life

Gerald Flynn, Phoung Vantha 10 Feb 2026
Mulkharka residents who oppose the Nagmati Dam project and are campaigning to stop construction.

A dam threatens Nepal’s Indigenous community; they want it on the ballot

Bibek Bhandari 4 Feb 2026
Seagrass in Malaysia

Seagrass restoration in Malaysia finds multi-species approach boosts recovery

Carolyn Cowan 4 Feb 2026

Habitat destruction, illegal trade threaten Sri Lanka’s endangered agamid lizards

Kamanthi Wickramasinghe 31 Jan 2026
A woman uses a new cookstove in the village of Bang in the North region of Cameroon.

Cameroon cookstove project looks to slow forest loss

Leocadia Bongben 30 Jan 2026

Five detained over alleged hunting in Javan leopard habitat

Basten Gokkon 29 Jan 2026
a newly hatched Rote Island snake-necked turtles (Chelodina mccordi) at the turtle survival center in South Carolina USA. Photo by Liz Kimbrough

The Turtle Bank: The last of these Asian turtle species find refuge in the Carolina pines

Liz Kimbrough 28 Jan 2026

Patagonia fires reignite debate over Argentina’s underfunded environmental agencies

Maxwell Radwin 26 Jan 2026
Soil microbes. Invisible to the naked eye, microbial communities play a huge role in planetary processes, such as nutrient cycling, and are vital to ecosystem and human health.

IUCN launches group to conserve at-risk microbes vital to life on Earth

Sean Mowbray 21 Jan 2026
Fishermen and birds coexist in harmony on almost all mudflats of coastal Bangladesh.

Is South Asia becoming inhospitable for migratory birds?

Sadiqur Rahman 21 Jan 2026
A Bangka slow loris (Nycticebus bancanus).

For two of the world’s most at-risk primates, threats abound and the future looks grim

Mino Rakotovao 20 Jan 2026

From south to north, Sri Lanka’s cricket dreams undermine fragile ecosystems

Malaka Rodrigo 19 Jan 2026

Mosquitoes in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest prefer human blood

Bobby Bascomb 16 Jan 2026
Orchid

Myanmar’s botanical data gaps risk its unique flora, collaborations could help, study says

Carolyn Cowan 13 Jan 2026
Cathy Kuttle drive slowly through the Cape Town suburb of Noordhoek on a rainy winter evening.

Helping Cape Town’s toads cross the road: Interview with Andrew Turner

Barry Christianson 8 Jan 2026
A baird's tapir goes for dip. Image by Bernard Dupont via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Deforestation climbs in Central America’s largest biosphere reserve

Morgan Erickson-Davis 31 Dec 2025
O. shunkusacha

A new frog species emerges from Peru’s cloud forests — and it’s already at risk

Astrid Arellano 30 Dec 2025

Satellite data show forest loss persists in Brazilian Amazon’s most deforested reserve

Morgan Erickson-Davis 30 Dec 2025

Photos: Top new species from 2025

Liz Kimbrough 29 Dec 2025
A bull elephant strolls past a fenced rural homestead in Namibia that is on high alert. Risk of confrontation between elephant and people is high if people don't know how to handle the situation safely. Image courtesy of Abi Best.

How Southern African farmers & elephants can both adapt to coexist

Ryan Truscott 19 Dec 2025
Cattle grazing in the Amazon.

In Brazil, a new label gives more visibility to deforestation-free beef

Constance Malleret 18 Dec 2025
A spectacled cobra in India.

Rapid urbanization, habitat loss are forcing the snakes out in Dhaka

Tasmin Era 17 Dec 2025
Previously undetected in other protected areas, a tigress known as SWT001F was the first individual tiger captured on camera in Thailand's Sisawat Non-Hunting Area in 2024. Panthera, Thailand's DNP and other partners are working to monitor and protect Indochinese tigers and their prey in this region where camera traps have shown tigers are using Sisawat forest as a corridor. Currently plans exist to propose the adjoining forest area to the east as an extension of Sisawat.

Hope for tigers grows as Thailand safeguards a key link in their habitat

Gloria Dickie 16 Dec 2025
The African golden cat (Caracal aurata) is a medium-sized felid (though it’s classified as one of the world’s 33 small cat species). In Echuya Forest, it’s the largest predator remaining due to the extirpation of leopards from that forest.

Small cat conservationists hail Uganda’s new Echuya Forest National Park

Sean Mowbray 11 Dec 2025
A herd of elephants crosses the M10 highway en route to the Zambezi River, Zambia.

Corridors, not culls, offer solution to Southern Africa’s growing elephant population

Ryan Truscott 11 Dec 2025

Stricter rules adopted to protect sloths from pet trade and selfie tourism

Fernanda Wenzel 9 Dec 2025

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