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Rising temperatures further threaten already endangered African wild dogs

Jansen Baier 20 Jul 2021

As humans close in on their habitat, crocodiles in the Philippines snap back

Chelsy Mae Abdulmuti 20 Jul 2021

Javan leopards, the dwindling ‘guardians’ of Java’s forests

Erik Hoffner 19 Jul 2021
Green peafowl

Green peafowl flourish in Thailand’s northern forests, but conflict looms

Carolyn Cowan 9 Jul 2021

Humans are biggest factor defining elephant ranges across Africa, study finds

Jim Tan 28 Jun 2021
Wild dog. Photo credit: Niassa Carnivore Project NO RE-USE PERMITTED

Reckoning with elitism and racism in conservation: Q&A with Colleen Begg

Rhett A. Butler 28 Jun 2021
China’s ‘wandering elephants’. Credit: Yunnan Forest Fire Brigade via AP.

China’s efforts to accommodate ‘wandering elephants’ is overshadowed by its conflict with elephants elsewhere (commentary)

William F. Laurance 21 Jun 2021

A buffer zone for Thailand, last great hope for wildlife in Southeast Asia (commentary)

Gregory McCann 7 Jun 2021

In Colombia, a successful jaguar conservation program has a whiff of coffee

Antonio José Paz Cardona 20 May 2021
Lioness in Tanzania. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Keeping animals wild vs ‘safe’ should be prioritized, lion biologists argue (commentary)

Pride Lion Conservation Alliance 14 May 2021

South African dehorning initiative aims for ‘zero poached’ white rhinos

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 30 Apr 2021

Fear not the bobcat (Commentary)

Mark Elbroch 23 Apr 2021

Farmers move to occupy a critical elephant corridor in Sri Lanka

Malaka Rodrigo 13 Apr 2021

Conservation actions see Iberian lynx claw back from brink of extinction

Johan Augustin 12 Mar 2021

The singing apes of Sumatra need rescuing, too (commentary)

Sinan Serhadli 3 Mar 2021
Namibian Elephants in Etosha. Photo credit: Stephan Scholvin

Namibia to sell off wild elephants in controversial auction

Michael Schwartz 29 Jan 2021

Big cat comeback: Jaguars prowl Argentina’s Iberá Wetlands after 70 years

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 20 Jan 2021

For Sumatran elephant conservation, involvement of local people is key (commentary)

Roderick T.J. Buiskool 5 Jan 2021

Songbird trade in Indonesia threatens wild Sunda laughingthrush

Basten Gokkon 22 Dec 2020

Sri Lanka activists decry downgrade of non-protected ‘other’ forests by government

Malaka Rodrigo 11 Dec 2020

11 workers killed in landslide at illegal coal mining site in Indonesia

Taufik Wijaya 3 Nov 2020

In Uganda, safeguarding chimpanzees against the scourge of snaring

Alex Dudley 20 Oct 2020

Does trophy hunting hurt giraffe populations? A planned lawsuit says it does

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 16 Oct 2020

Gorongosa National Park is being reforested via coffee and agroforestry

Erik Hoffner 15 Oct 2020

Deaths and media-driven panic threaten human-jackal coexistence in Sri Lanka

Malaka Rodrigo 8 Oct 2020

In the Horn of Africa, conflict and illegal trade create a ‘cheetah hell’

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 7 Oct 2020

As predators return to Sweden’s wild, ecotourism looks to change mindsets

Johan Augustin 2 Oct 2020

In Sumatra, forest edge communities must be at the center of conservation efforts (commentary)

Roderick T.J. Buiskool 30 Sep 2020
Cheetah at Zimanga private game reserve. Image by Charl Senekal

Spots of hope: Some good news for South Africa’s cheetahs

Tony Carnie 28 Sep 2020

For the Pantanal’s jaguars, fires bring ‘death by a thousand needle wounds’

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 24 Sep 2020

New artificial intelligence could save both elephant and human lives

Claudia Geib 17 Sep 2020

500 years of species loss: Humans drive defaunation across Neotropics

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 15 Sep 2020

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