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Mama ring-tailed lemur with baby in Anja, Madagascar. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

A Mother’s Day lesson from a digger wasp

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 May 2026
Merlin Van Lawick at the Change Now conference in Paris to celebrate Dr. Jane Goodall’s lifetime achievements and bring together figures closely connected to her work and life. Image by Mary Lou Mauricio / Hans Lucas.

‘Hope is rooted in action’: Interview with Jane Goodall’s grandson Merlin Van Lawick

Juliette Chapalain 8 May 2026
Filmmaker and workshop facilitator Natália Tupi guiding student Maicon Santos in audiovisual techniques during the workshop in the Tukum village, Tupinambá de Olivença Territory (Bahia, Brazil). Image courtesy of Emma Latham Phillips.

What Indigenous youth filmmaking reveals about environmental communication (commentary)

Jamille Pinheiro Dias 7 May 2026
Tierney Thys with sunfish. Photo by Mike Johnson / Earth Window

Tierney Thys, marine biologist and interpreter of the sunfish

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 May 2026

Inside the fight to save the little-known Galápagos petrel

Sean Mowbray 30 Apr 2026
Austin Lewis

Chesapeake Bay conservation bolstered by the power of business & viral videos

Erik Hoffner 29 Apr 2026
A young ring-tailed glider (Tous ayamaruensis). Image courtesy of Arman Muharmansyah.

Species thought extinct for thousands of years ‘rediscovered’ thanks to Indigenous knowledge

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Apr 2026
Kanjonde village, basking in the late afternoon light at the foot of Mount Moco, in January 2024. Image by Ryan Truscott.

Angola’s highest mountain and its unique wildlife are now protected

Ryan Truscott 29 Apr 2026
Some of the Conservation Optimism team at their summit last year. Image courtesy of Conservation Optimism.

Young conservationists are building hope & optimism despite challenging times (commentary)

Qazi Hammad Mueen, Taras Bains, Maria Hashmi, Erfan Firouzi 28 Apr 2026
monkey in tree

Peru bets on bamboo to restore nature in its main coca-growing region

Anastasia Austin, Douwe den Held 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

Sweden’s secondhand clothing swaps offer a trendy way to cut environmental waste

Associated Press 23 Apr 2026
Just as the resilient redwoods have evolved to survive repeated fires, the conservation workforce is equipping ourselves to withstand repeated hardships. Photo courtesy of Jen Miller.

We can navigate conservation’s ‘epidemic of suffering’ by building a culture of care (commentary)

Jen Miller, Kelly Guilbeau 21 Apr 2026

Chernobyl’s radioactive landscape is a testament to nature’s resilience and survival spirit

Associated Press 20 Apr 2026
2026 winner of the Goldman Environmental Prize. Image courtesy of Goldman Environmental Prize.

Meet the 2026 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners

Liz Kimbrough 20 Apr 2026

A chimpanzee’s rhythmic drumming with floorboards hints at origins of instruments

Liz Kimbrough 16 Apr 2026
a ferret by Alfredo Gutiérrez via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Invasive ferrets removed from an island in a world-first

Shreya Dasgupta 15 Apr 2026
Schaller with a peccary. Courtesy of the George B. Schaller Archive.

George Schaller: The field biologist who helped redefine conservation

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Apr 2026
Of the 500 timber species growing in Bangladesh, boilam is one of the tallest. Image by Mohammad Minhaj Uddin.

Conservation efforts help an endangered dipterocarp spread roots in Bangladesh

Sadiqur Rahman 14 Apr 2026
Coffee and cocoa production around Virunga National Park are seen by some proponents of the Green Corridor as activities that can help reduce pressure on forest resources. In Salonga National Park, officials are already encouraging cocoa and coffee cultivation as alternative livelihoods for surrounding communities. Photo: Virunga National Park.

From Virunga to Kinshasa, the DRC embarks on a bold conservation gamble

David Akana 9 Apr 2026
An American oystercatcher on the beach in Stone Harbor, New Jersey. Image via Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.

How saving birds protects the planet: Interview with author Scott Weidensaul

Erik Hoffner 7 Apr 2026
Silverback gorilla in Dzanga-Sangha, Central African Republic. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Why conservation needs stories of progress

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Apr 2026

After harsh winter, Ukrainians find joy in releasing bats rescued from war

Associated Press 6 Apr 2026
Mitchell Byrd. Photo by Linda Richardson

Mitchell Byrd, ornithologist who helped bring bald eagles back from the brink in the Chesapeake area

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Apr 2026
Jane Goodall planting a tree. Photo courtesy of the Jane Goodall Institute.

Today is Jane Goodall Day. Her movement continues.

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Apr 2026
Rangers prepare to load a rhino into a crate at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary, Uganda. Image courtesy of UWA.

Decades after poaching drove them extinct, rhinos are back in the wild in Uganda

Benjamin Jumbe 31 Mar 2026

‘Extraordinary’: Second set of rare mountain gorilla twins born in DRC’s Virunga

David Akana 30 Mar 2026

Brazilian settlers turn to reforestation in ambitious land recovery plan

Sibélia Zanon 30 Mar 2026

Family and friends help sperm whale mother and newborn during birth

Bobby Bascomb 26 Mar 2026

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

Liz Kimbrough 25 Mar 2026
A palm cockatoo in a tree

Conservation win as first palm cockatoo chick fledges from artificial hollow in Australia

Megan Strauss 24 Mar 2026

California condors nesting in Pacific Northwest for first time in a century, on Yurok territory

Liz Kimbrough 20 Mar 2026

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