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Clark Lungren. Courtesy of the Lungren family.

Clark Lungren and the case for compromise in conservation

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Dec 2025
Previously undetected in other protected areas, a tigress known as SWT001F was the first individual tiger captured on camera in Thailand's Sisawat Non-Hunting Area in 2024. Panthera, Thailand's DNP and other partners are working to monitor and protect Indochinese tigers and their prey in this region where camera traps have shown tigers are using Sisawat forest as a corridor. Currently plans exist to propose the adjoining forest area to the east as an extension of Sisawat.

Hope for tigers grows as Thailand safeguards a key link in their habitat

Gloria Dickie 16 Dec 2025
The African golden cat (Caracal aurata) is a medium-sized felid (though it’s classified as one of the world’s 33 small cat species). In Echuya Forest, it’s the largest predator remaining due to the extirpation of leopards from that forest.

Small cat conservationists hail Uganda’s new Echuya Forest National Park

Sean Mowbray 11 Dec 2025
Gray wolf: Image credits: John and Karen Hollingsworth/USFWS

Choosing coexistence over conflict: How some California ranchers are adapting to wolves

Spoorthy Raman 11 Dec 2025
Elephants in Botswana. Image by Joe Ross via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Botswana’s elephant hunting quota threatens to wipe out mature bulls: Report

Oscar Nkala 8 Dec 2025
A gray wolf in Minnesota.

First state-authorized killings mark escalation in California’s management of wolves

Spoorthy Raman 29 Nov 2025
Asian golden cat caught on camera in Nepal.

Asian golden cat range expands, but declines continue amid rising threats

Sean Mowbray 7 Nov 2025
Members of the Nazareth Baptist (Shembe) Church in South Africa wearing both wildlife skins and synthetic Heritage Furs provided in partnership with Panthera. Image courtesy of Gareth Whittington-Jones/Panthera.

Study reveals overlooked cultural threat to wildcats across Africa

Charles Mpaka 22 Oct 2025

Research aims to link Hansen’s disease & illegal armadillo hunting in Brazil

Adele Santelli 9 Oct 2025
Tracking dog

To track a unicorn: Laos team goes all out to find the last saolas

Carolyn Cowan 30 Sep 2025
A Verreaux’s sifaka dancing.

Madagascar’s dry forests need attention, and Verreaux’s sifakas could help

Mino Rakotovao 15 Sep 2025
Elephant in Madikwe, South Africa. Image by Debbi via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Elephant culling plan in South Africa faces backlash over welfare concerns

Shanna Hanbury 4 Sep 2025
Image courtesy of Burung Indonesia/Jihad.

On Java’s Mount Slamet, two former trappers find new calling as bird protectors

L. Darmawan 31 Aug 2025
A camera trap image of a southern red muntjac (Muntiacus muntjak) in Temburong.

Brunei built Southeast Asia’s longest bridge. What does this mean for wildlife?

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 29 Aug 2025
Flowers and leaves of the Vanda thwaitesii.

After 160 years, an old drawing leads scientists to a long-lost Sri Lanka orchid

Malaka Rodrigo 28 Aug 2025

New charges added in Argentina’s largest-ever wildlife case as key defendant attempts to flee the country

Ana Cristina Alvarado 14 Aug 2025
A gray wolf

Wolves’ continued spread in California brings joy, controversy & conflicts

Spoorthy Raman 11 Aug 2025
Banner image: A lion guarding its territory in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania. Image by Giles Laurent via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

World lion day: Why is the king of the savanna declining?

Kristine Sabillo 8 Aug 2025
Banner image of a white-backed vulture (Gyps africanus), which is among the Nuer peoples’ gaatkuoth birds (meaning “children of god”). Image by Charles J. Sharp via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

What we can learn from the Nuer people and their sacred birds

Mongabay.com 8 Aug 2025
A loggerhead hatchling in Boa vista. Image courtesy of The Turtle Foundation.

Former poachers guard Cabo Verde’s endangered sea turtles

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 4 Aug 2025
In Java, communities help reconnect fragmented forests to help save the endangered Javan gibbon

Indonesian farmers plant hope for isolated Javan gibbons

Mongabay.com 1 Aug 2025
A male proboscis monkey with its characteristic long nose. The species is classified as endangered and is already threatened by habitat destruction, wildfires and hunting.

Study finds worrying uptick in proboscis monkey trade in Indonesia

Spoorthy Raman 18 Jul 2025
The Andean cat is a rare and endangered species highly specialized to life in the high Andes. It’s estimated that around 2,000 mature individuals, living in fragmented populations, are spread very thinly over a vast alpine expanse in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Peru.

Endangered Andean cat is imperiled by climate change and its solutions

Sean Mowbray 10 Jul 2025
A hunter in Nagaland with a gun and barking deer. Image courtesy of Satem Longchar.

Traditional hunting shifts with access to cheap guns in India’s Nagaland: Study

Shradha Triveni 4 Jul 2025

Study urges legal protection for Sulawesi’s endangered bear cuscus amid habitat loss

Basten Gokkon 3 Jul 2025
Humpback whales in French Polynesian waters. The intensity and duration of marine heat waves could have widespread effects on marine biodiversity, increasing the likelihood of species displacement and mortality. Image by Toby Matthews / Ocean Image Bank.

Whales still aren’t ‘eating all the fish’ (commentary)

Peter Corkeron 18 Jun 2025
White-bellied pangolin (Phataginus tricuspis), Gabon. Image by bureaubenjamin via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Pandemic-era slump in ivory and pangolin scale trafficking persists, report finds

Spoorthy Raman 17 Jun 2025

Artificial nests help a rare Brazilian parrot bounce back

Mongabay.com 16 Jun 2025
A southern white rhino explores its surrounding after translocation from South Africa to Rwanda's Akagera National Park. Image © Gael Vande Weghe.

Seventy southern white rhinos arrive at their new home in Rwanda from South Africa

Graeme Green 10 Jun 2025
Group of grey-shanked douc langurs in a tree.

New population of rare douc langurs found in Vietnam’s highland forests

Carolyn Cowan 9 Jun 2025
Banner image of a Philippine eagle by Aimee Valencia via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).

Indigenous forest stewards watch over one of the world’s rarest raptors

Mongabay.com 4 Jun 2025
Banner image of tiang in South Sudan ©Marcus Westberg/African Parks.

New maps reveal Earth’s largest land mammal migration

Kristine Sabillo 3 Jun 2025

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