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A southern pig-tailed macaques infant.

‘Shocking’ mortality of infant macaques points to dangers of oil palm plantations

Spoorthy Raman 27 Feb 2024
A Bengal tiger in neighboring India.

UN award for Nepal’s tiger range restoration spurs euphoria amid challenges

Abhaya Raj Joshi 15 Feb 2024
Saltwater crocodile

Risks to Myanmar’s last saltwater crocs point to coastal conservation needs

Carolyn Cowan 13 Feb 2024

Rewilding in Argentina helps giant anteaters return to south Brazil

Sarah Brown 12 Feb 2024
Snow leopard found in Nepal's plains

Rare snow leopard sighting in Nepal’s ‘home of tiger’ puzzles conservationists

Abhaya Raj Joshi 25 Jan 2024
A guina.

Conservationists aim to save South America’s super tiny wild cat, the guina

Petro Kotzé 22 Jan 2024
Smooth-coated otter

Camera-traps help identify conservation needs of Thailand’s coastal otters

Carolyn Cowan 8 Jan 2024

As Sri Lanka floods swell with climate change, so does human-crocodile conflict

Malaka Rodrigo 5 Jan 2024
A group of elephants observed during the 2022 KAZA aerial survey. Photo courtesy of Dylan Blew and Ty-Mason James/KAZA Elephant Survey.

Count, connect, conserve: Southern Africa elephant survey points the way (commentary)

Russell Taylor, Robin Naidoo, Lisa Steel, Michael Knight, Steven A. Osofsky 3 Jan 2024
leopard ntnc Nepal

Leopards, Nepal’s other, other big cats, face unprecedented threats

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 Dec 2023
A mugger crocodile in India.

Could mugger crocodiles be brought back from regional extinction in Bangladesh?

Rafiqul Islam 27 Dec 2023
Nepal nearly tripled its tiger population in 12 years.

For Nepal, 2023 changed course of tiger conservation efforts

Abhaya Raj Joshi 22 Dec 2023
The sand cat’s exceptional hearing helps the species hunt in the desert at night. Here, a sand cat was caught on camera with a meal clutched in its mouth.

Shining a spotlight on the wide-roaming sand cat ‘king of the desert’

Petro Kotzé 11 Dec 2023
A pair of nilgai in Nepal.

Nepal’s Madhesh province lacks in biodiversity research & conservation

Abhaya Raj Joshi 13 Nov 2023
A herd of wild elephants in Thailand.

How wild elephants solve puzzles may help humans resolve wildlife conflicts

Malavika Vyawahare 31 Oct 2023
A domestic yak grazing in the open.

‘Predator-proof’ husbandry could help curb human-leopard conflict in Nepal: Study

Abhaya Raj Joshi 25 Oct 2023
The Iriomote cat (Prionailurus bengalensis iriomotensi).

Meet Japan’s Iriomote and Tsushima cats: Ambassadors for island conservation

Annelise Giseburt 24 Oct 2023
Leschenault's rousette (Rousettus leschenaultii) from a temple in Madurai, Tamil Nadu.

Mongabay’s What-to-Watch list for October 2023

Mongabay.com 3 Oct 2023
Snow leopards, because of their shy nature, size, and style of hunting, stand to lose the most as the wolves move in. Image by Tambako The Jaguar via Flickr (CC BY-ND 2.0).

Return of the wolf to Nepal’s Himalayas may threaten snow leopards

Abhaya Raj Joshi 29 Sep 2023

Barely making it: A conversation with ‘Eight Bears’ author Gloria Dickie

Mike DiGirolamo 27 Sep 2023
A herd of Asiatic elephants in Assam.

Video: Rice as a peace offering in India’s human-elephant conflict capital

Biswajit Das, Mongabay.com 27 Sep 2023
A sub-adult Bengal tiger on the river bank.

Sundarbans tiger and prey numbers rise amid Bangladesh conservation efforts

Mohammad Al-Masum Molla 11 Sep 2023
Fetiya Ousman on a patrol.

Balancing elephant conservation and community needs: Q&A with award-winning ranger Fetiya Ousman

Solomon Yimer 8 Sep 2023
Vulture Nepal

Nests of hope: Nepal’s vulture colonies hold on amid new threats

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 Aug 2023
A tiger (Panthera tigris) recorded on a camera trap in Bhutan during the national tiger census 2021-2022. Image courtesy of WWF-US.

As Bhutan reports big boost in tigers, coexistence strategies become necessary (commentary)

Dechen Dorji 8 Aug 2023

Oil palms may be magnet for macaques, boars, at expense of other biodiversity

Carolyn Cowan 7 Aug 2023
Nepal nearly tripled its tiger population in 12 years.

Nepal won’t set fresh tiger number goal, to focus on coexistence, connectivity

Abhaya Raj Joshi 3 Aug 2023
A Sumatran elephant in South Sumatra.

Elephant encounters rattle farmers in Indonesia’s Jambi province

Yitno Suprapto 1 Aug 2023
rhinos grazing Nepal

Wild or not? Dilemma over two human-friendly rhinos in Nepal

Abhaya Raj Joshi 29 Jul 2023
Three Bengal tigers in India.

Critics decry Nepal minister’s ‘terrible idea’ of ‘sport hunting’ tigers

Abhaya Raj Joshi 26 Jul 2023

As human-wildlife conflict simmers, Nepal revises compensation program

Abhaya Raj Joshi 25 Jul 2023
A fishing cat.

Small wildcats pose big challenges, but coexistence is very much possible

Sean Mowbray 21 Jul 2023

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