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In Nepal, endangered tiger kills critically endangered gharial. What does it mean?

Abhaya Raj Joshi 2 Sep 2022
A woolly necked stork (Ciconia episcopus) in flight.

The stork and the farmer: A conservation parable with lessons from Nepal

Abhaya Raj Joshi 24 Aug 2022
A leopard in a tree

Snares: Low-tech, low-profile killers of rare wildlife the world over

Laurel Neme 18 Aug 2022
Scarlet tanager. Photo by Jen Goellnitz via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)

Shade-grown coffee won’t support all birds, but adding a forest helps: Study

Liz Kimbrough 26 Jul 2022
A conservationist working on a seagrass restoration project.

Sea restoration projects quilt a ‘mosaic of habitats’ with striking results

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 15 Jun 2022

Indonesian official charged, but not jailed, for trading in Sumatran tiger parts

Junaidi Hanafiah 7 Jun 2022

How Brazil is working to save the rare lion tamarins of the Atlantic Forest

Daniele Bragança, Duda Menegassi 1 Jun 2022
The spotted tody-flycatcher, native to South America and the Caribbean, hunts insects alone or in pairs, and is well-adapted to humans, happy in forest or overgrown pasture. Image courtesy of Alexander Lees.

Rachel Carson’s ‘Silent Spring’ 60 years on: Birds still fading from the skies

Sharon Guynup 23 May 2022
Fishermen on Lake Victoria.

Boom and bust on Lake Victoria: Q&A with author Mark Weston

John Cannon 10 May 2022
A giant panda, a species endemic to China, which has benefited from extensive conservation funding and efforts.

Lessons from panda conservation could help Asia’s other, overlooked, bears

Spoorthy Raman 9 May 2022
Two researchers pulling seine net through estuarine waters searching for pipefish. Image courtesy of Jason Boswell.

Saving the near-extinct estuarine pipefish means protecting estuary health

Sean Mowbray 3 May 2022
Hornbills — the so-called “farmers of the forest” in Africa and Asia — move more than 700 plant species up to 11 km (7 mi) in a day.

As animal seed dispersers go the way of the dodo, forest plants are at risk

Sharon Guynup 28 Apr 2022
A critically endangered Cao-Vit gibbon (Nomascus nasutus) swings on a tree.

Wildlife don’t recognize borders, nor does climate change. Conservation should keep up

Jim Tan 28 Apr 2022
In lab animals and humans, dysfunction of the gut microbiome has been linked to digestive diseases.

Unseen crisis: Threatened gut microbiome also offers hope for world

Claire Asher 26 Apr 2022
A lesser adjutant stork in a farm.

Study: Farmland birds in Nepal, India in dire need of conservation action

Abhaya Raj Joshi 22 Apr 2022
Leopard Cat.

Study: Most biodiversity hotspots lack formal protection in Borneo and Sumatra

Grace Dungey 12 Apr 2022
A red-eyed tree frog in Brazil.

Global biodiversity is in crisis, but how bad is it? It’s complicated

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 11 Apr 2022
Musk oxen.

‘Nature has priority’: Rewilding map showcases nature-led restoration

John Cannon 11 Apr 2022

Photos: On Colombo’s outskirts, an urban birding paradise flourishes

Chandani Kirinde 9 Mar 2022
A herd of elephants near the Linyanti River in northern Botswana. Image by Roger Borgelid for Mongabay.

In plan for African wildlife corridors, there’s more than one elephant in the room

Ryan Truscott 7 Mar 2022

The small cats nobody knows: Wild felines face intensifying planetary risks

Sean Mowbray 17 Feb 2022
Indigenous salmon fishers

Alaskan Indigenous leaders fear impacts on salmon streams by mining project

Laurel Sutherland 26 Jan 2022

Endangered chimps ‘on the brink’ as Nigerian reserve is razed for agriculture, timber

Orji Sunday 31 Dec 2021

Australia’s rainforest species gain ground through landscape linkages

Amanda Freeman 24 Dec 2021

Decline of threatened bird highlights planning importance of bison releases

John Cannon 21 Dec 2021

Young forests can help heal tropical aquatic ecosystems: Study

Aimee Gabay 19 Nov 2021

In Sumatra, a snare trap costs a baby elephant her trunk, then her life

Junaidi Hanafiah 17 Nov 2021

Starving and injured Sumatran tiger dies in captivity, Indonesian officials report

Lili Rambe 10 Nov 2021
A chainsaw cuts through timber near Afi River Forest Reserve. Image by Orji Sunday.

Deforestation soars in Nigeria’s gorilla habitat: ‘We are running out of time’

Orji Sunday 29 Oct 2021

Wildlife releases have a mixed record, and climate change complicates things

Natasha Gilbert 13 Oct 2021
Chimpanzee

Scientists look to chimps’ past to gauge their future under climate change

Carolyn Cowan 17 Sep 2021

Is it time to rethink jaguar recovery in the U.S.? (commentary)

Robert Peters, Sharon Wilcox 3 Sep 2021

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