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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

Australia’s land-use squeeze

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Jan 2026
A flowering rainforest tree in the Amazon.

Drone-mounted eDNA hints at richness of life in the rainforest canopy

Abhishyant Kidangoor 29 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
Corals in Thailand

Coast-to-coast coral assessment reveals Thailand’s reefs losing complexity

Carolyn Cowan 27 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

Taboo against harming strangler fig spirits protects forests in Indonesian Borneo

Liz Kimbrough 22 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
Forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) inhabit the dense rainforests of Central Africa.

Top-down projects, exotic trees, weak tenure: Congo Basin restoration misses the mark

Amindeh Blaise Atabong 12 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
The river survey team near the Zambian border. Image courtesy of Jen Guyton / TWP/NGOWP.

Scientists chart a new source, and length, for Africa’s famous Zambezi River

Ryan Truscott 3 Dec 2025

Central America’s forests are crucial for migrating birds: Study

Bobby Bascomb 26 Nov 2025
A juvenile bonobo (Pan paniscus) gazes at an uncertain future.

DRC hit by record deforestation in 2024, satellite data show

Ruth Kamnitzer 26 Nov 2025
Collage: Elise Paietta, postdoctoral research scholar during fieldwork, with tropical forest

How do we stop the next pandemic?

Abhishyant Kidangoor 26 Nov 2025

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