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Indonesia forest and ocean

Forest diversity is key to Southeast Asia’s climate adaptability, study shows

Carolyn Cowan 31 Jan 2024
A guina.

Conservationists aim to save South America’s super tiny wild cat, the guina

Petro Kotzé 22 Jan 2024
Western hoolock gibbon. Image credit: Scott Trageser Photography/Creative Conservation Alliance.

Western hoolock gibbon conservation in Bangladesh urgently needs funding (commentary)

Sinan Serhadli 18 Jan 2024
A wolverine. Image courtesy of MBarrueto via the Creative Commons, CC 2.0.

Let’s give the wary wolverine some space (commentary)

Gabe Schepens 12 Jan 2024
Unregulated gold mining on a river in, Nowshera, Pakistan. Image courtesy of Sabir Hussain.

Illegal gold mining threatens Indus River water and biodiversity in Pakistan (commentary)

Sabir Hussain 9 Jan 2024
A group of elephants observed during the 2022 KAZA aerial survey. Photo courtesy of Dylan Blew and Ty-Mason James/KAZA Elephant Survey.

Count, connect, conserve: Southern Africa elephant survey points the way (commentary)

Russell Taylor / Robin Naidoo / Lisa Steel / Michael Knight / Steven A. Osofsky 3 Jan 2024
A mugger crocodile in India.

Could mugger crocodiles be brought back from regional extinction in Bangladesh?

Rafiqul Islam 27 Dec 2023
A summer tanager (Piranga rubra).

Cocopah Tribe aims to restore Colorado River habitat — and tribal culture

Evan Bourtis 22 Dec 2023
A car burns with two people inside, after a Russian bombardment in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Thursday, April 21, 2022. Image by AP Photo/Felipe Dana via Flickr.

Nature-based recovery needed for Ukraine’s damaged protected areas (analysis)

Hannah L. Timmins 22 Dec 2023

Coordinated community response saves manatees stranded in Colombia

Antonio José Paz Cardona 18 Dec 2023

To protect its iconic condors, an entire Bolivian town declared itself a reserve

Yvette Sierra Praeli 13 Dec 2023
The sand cat’s exceptional hearing helps the species hunt in the desert at night. Here, a sand cat was caught on camera with a meal clutched in its mouth.

Shining a spotlight on the wide-roaming sand cat ‘king of the desert’

Petro Kotzé 11 Dec 2023

Keeping herbivores at bay helps in early stages of restoration, studies show

Tim Vernimmen 28 Nov 2023
An endangered Texas ocelot (Leopardus pardalis)

Texas ocelot breeding and reintroduction may offer new route to recovery

Erik Iverson 21 Nov 2023
Prescribed burns conducted by government organizations don’t face the same high cost of fire insurance as private organizations do. Image courtesy of the Virginia Department of Forestry.

As U.S. insurers stop covering prescribed burns, states and communities step up

Ashli Blow 15 Nov 2023
A bronze-winged jacana amidst overgrown water hyacinth.

Nepal’s water hyacinth helps exotic fish invade, harming native species: Study

Abhaya Raj Joshi 7 Nov 2023
Cattle and zebras share grazing land inside the Enonkishu Conservancy, southern Kenya. Image by David Njagi for Mongabay.

A mobile solution for Kenyan pastoralists’ livestock is a plus for wildlife, too

David Njagi 6 Nov 2023
The clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa) is called dhwase chituwa in Nepali (which translates to smoky leopard) for its unique pelt.

Nepal’s clouded leopard research needs more attention: Q&A with Yadav Ghimirey

Abhaya Raj Joshi 6 Nov 2023

Report alleges APP continues deforestation 10 years after pledge to stop

Hans Nicholas Jong 31 Oct 2023
The Iriomote cat (Prionailurus bengalensis iriomotensi).

Meet Japan’s Iriomote and Tsushima cats: Ambassadors for island conservation

Annelise Giseburt 24 Oct 2023
Chittal, as spotted deer are known in Nepali

Nepal’s tiger conservation gets tech boost with AI-powered deer tracking

Abhaya Raj Joshi 23 Oct 2023
Mushrooms

Gone before we know them? Kew’s ‘State of the World’s Plants and Fungi’ report warns of extinctions

Liz Kimbrough 10 Oct 2023

Frogs in the pot: Two in five amphibian species at risk amid climate crisis

Liz Kimbrough 5 Oct 2023
Snow leopards, because of their shy nature, size, and style of hunting, stand to lose the most as the wolves move in. Image by Tambako The Jaguar via Flickr (CC BY-ND 2.0).

Return of the wolf to Nepal’s Himalayas may threaten snow leopards

Abhaya Raj Joshi 29 Sep 2023
Seabirds on Redonda Island cliffs.

From rat-ridden to reserve, Redonda is an island restoration role model

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 27 Sep 2023

Taking up the cause of red pandas: Q&A with actor and activist Dayahang Rai

Abhaya Raj Joshi 15 Sep 2023
A sub-adult Bengal tiger on the river bank.

Sundarbans tiger and prey numbers rise amid Bangladesh conservation efforts

Mohammad Al-Masum Molla 11 Sep 2023
A Luzon tarictic hornbill.

Online trade in Philippine hornbills threatens birds and forests

Jhesset O. Enano 29 Aug 2023

Elephants invade as habitat loss soars in Nigerian forest reserve

Orji Sunday 21 Aug 2023
A sarus crane flies over an agricultural field.

Has the Buddha’s legacy in Nepal helped save sarus cranes?

Abhaya Raj Joshi 17 Aug 2023
Brazil’s thin-spined porcupine (Chaetomys subspinosus).

Translocation is a viable option for Brazil’s threatened porcupines: Study

Vitor Alexandre Araujo Prado dos Anjos 9 Aug 2023
Swamp deer prefer grassland habitats.

Translocation hurdles prompt new efforts to save rare swamp deer in Nepal

Abhaya Raj Joshi 27 Jul 2023

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