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Tropical fire ants (Solenopsis geminata). Image by Francois Brassard.

Tiwi rangers eradicate invasive tropical fire ants in Australia’s Melville Island

Nick Rodway 22 Jun 2026

US moves to allow commercial fishing in Pacific marine protected areas

Bobby Bascomb 22 Jun 2026
Mona Khalil in 2002 at in Tyre. Photo by Jihad Seqlawi/AFP/Getty Images

Mona Khalil, who left safety in Europe to protect sea turtles in Lebanon, was killed by an Israeli airstrike

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Jun 2026

Museum DNA unmasks new Himalayan pit vipers, study says

Naina Rao 19 Jun 2026
At the La Trobe University campus, Ligia Pizzatto sorts through frozen turtle specimens she has collected over the course of her fieldwork. Most are very young, found dead by Pizzatto or her team of students and volunteers. Image by Ana Norman Bermudez.

Vanilla, fake eggs and nausea: How Australian scientists are training foxes to avoid turtle nests

Ana Norman Bermúdez 18 Jun 2026
A ranger measuring a turtle’s shell and collecting data at the Canto camp. Image courtesy of The Turtle Foundation.

Sea turtle hunters become their protectors in Cabo Verde

Mongabay.com 17 Jun 2026

How a tiny blue gecko became a conservation comeback story

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Jun 2026
A loggerhead turtle swimming on rocky seafloor facing the camera.

Teeming with turtles: Cabo Verde island sees 80-fold increase in nesting loggerheads

By André Habet 16 Jun 2026
Turquoise dwarf gecko (Lygodactylus williamsi). Image © Simon via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0).

How trade bans and local conservation helped save a dazzling blue gecko

Manuel Fonseca 6 Jun 2026

Tracking Lucero: Scientists follow a rare Eastern Pacific leatherback sea turtle

Bobby Bascomb 26 May 2026

World Turtle Day: Important conservation wins amid turtle extinction crisis

Mongabay.com 22 May 2026

Three Thai nationals suspected of smuggling Galápagos iguanas arrested in Ecuador

Spoorthy Raman 21 May 2026

Scientists race to study the Amazon’s frogs before they disappear

Tiago da Mota e Silva 13 May 2026

Wetland destruction blamed for rise in croc attacks on Indonesia’s Bangka Island

Mongabay.com 13 May 2026
The golden mantella, an endangered frog species found only in Madagascar. Image by Frank Vassen via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

Africa’s amphibians are overlooked in conservation planning, experts warn

David Brown 12 May 2026

In Mozambique, four isolated mountains yield four new chameleon species

Naina Rao 8 May 2026
A Bengal tiger from Rajasthan, India. Poaching is one of the biggest threats to tigers, an endangered cat in Asia.

Facebook is a hub for illegal wildlife trade, and that’s by design, report says

Spoorthy Raman 5 May 2026
A Venezuela snouted treefrog. Image by Taucce et al., 2022, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).

Study finds microplastics in tadpoles in the Amazon for the first time

David Brown 5 May 2026
Siamese crocodile

Saving crocodiles from extinction

Abhishyant Kidangoor 28 Apr 2026
A blue-nosed chameleon (Calumma linotum) in Madagascar. Image by Julie Larsen.

A blue-nosed chameleon in Madagascar: Photo of the week

Shanna Hanbury 27 Apr 2026

After nearly a century, Taiwan’s legless lizard gets its own identity

Naina Rao 27 Apr 2026
A newly described species of skink named Kungaka

Indigenous knowledge helps identify new, highly threatened skink in Australia

Megan Strauss 24 Apr 2026
An Atlantic Forest frog, Dendrophryniscus haddadi. Amphibians are susceptible to habitat split due to its negative impact on their life cycles, but the researchers note that such impacts (including microbiome changes) likely apply to numerous other species in wide-ranging ecosystems.

Linking habitats strengthens wildlife microbiomes, helps fight disease: Study

Sean Mowbray 23 Apr 2026
The saltwater crocodile — the world’s largest reptile — can exceed 6 meters (20 feet) in length

Wetland destruction for mining, oil palm tied to crocodile attacks in Indonesia

Taufik Wijaya 23 Apr 2026

Oil spill continues in Gulf of Mexico vulnerable habitats, while Pemex admits fault

Caitlin Cooper 22 Apr 2026
A mature Nile perch grows to an average 1.21 to 1.37 meters (4 to 4.5 feet).

From carp to hippos, 43% of large freshwater animal species spread far beyond native ranges

Shreya Dasgupta 16 Apr 2026

Council recommends opening US Pacific marine monuments to commercial fishing

Bobby Bascomb 13 Apr 2026
Giant Tortoise

Return of the giant tortoises

Sam Lee 2 Apr 2026
A new species of pit viper was discovered and is still in the process of being described. Image courtesy of Fauna & Flora.

New species discovered in Cambodia’s rare rocky ecosystems

Shanna Hanbury 2 Apr 2026

A 3-limbed Kemp’s ridley sea turtle is now being tracked at sea by satellite

Associated Press 26 Mar 2026

Compost, racoons and sea turtle predation in Costa Rica

Bobby Bascomb 25 Mar 2026

In Laos, ancestral spirits are helping save one of the world’s rarest crocodiles

Liz Kimbrough 25 Mar 2026

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