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More alarms over Indonesia rhino poaching after latest trafficking bust

Donny Iqbal, Nopri Ismi 5 Sep 2024

Javan rhino poaching saga reveals serious security lapse

Mongabay-indonesia 2 Aug 2024

Study challenges use of charismatic wildlife as umbrella species for conservation

Basten Gokkon 20 Apr 2024
Male Javan rhino calf named Luther with his mother in 2020.

New calf, same threats: Javan rhinos continue to reproduce despite perils

Jeremy Hance 19 Apr 2024

Nepal’s release of endangered crocs into historical habitat raises concerns

Abhaya Raj Joshi 23 Mar 2024
The newly spotted female Javan rhino calf with its mother.

To help beleaguered Javan rhinos, study calls for tree felling, captive breeding

Jeremy Hance 27 Dec 2023

Boost for Sumatran rhino IVF plan as eggs extracted from Bornean specimen

Basten Gokkon 8 Nov 2023
The endangered African penguins (Spheniscus demersus)

South Africa’s penguins heading toward extinction; will no-fishing zones help?

Leonie Joubert 17 Oct 2023

Indonesia reports a new Javan rhino calf, but population doubts persist

Basten Gokkon 6 Oct 2023
Shigeatsu Hatakeyama at a tree-planting festival

Saving forests to protect coastal ecosystems: Japan sets historic example

Annelise Giseburt 27 Apr 2023

Flawed count puts ‘glorified’ Javan rhinos on path to extinction, report says

Basten Gokkon 11 Apr 2023

End of the tuna FAD? Indonesia hopes so, but EU isn’t giving up just yet

Basten Gokkon 20 Feb 2023

Will shipping noise nudge Africa’s only penguin toward extinction?

Leonie Joubert 21 Nov 2022
An African penguin standing sleepily in a patch of green. Image by Alberto Ziveri via Flickr (BY-SA 2.0)

Breeding success raises hopes for future of endangered African penguin

Ryan Truscott 15 Nov 2022

Stem cells may make ‘impossible possible’ for near-extinct Sumatran rhino

Basten Gokkon 15 Nov 2022
Scottish wildcat. Photo courtesy of Stewart Grant/Cairngorms National Park.

Scotland changes course to save its last native wildcats

James Fair 16 Jun 2022

Indonesia teams up with Germany on Sumatran rhino breeding efforts

Basten Gokkon 3 Jun 2022
Sumatran rhinos in Indonesia. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Work starts on new sanctuary for captive breeding of Sumatran rhinos

Basten Gokkon 12 Nov 2021

Indonesia investigates alleged abuse of Sumatran tigers at city zoo

Ayat S. Karokaro 5 Oct 2021
Crocodile-WWF

Snapshot of hatchlings raises hopes for Siamese crocs in northeast Cambodia

Carolyn Cowan 24 Sep 2021
Razan Khalifa Al Mubarak

Conservation needs more women, says Razan Khalifa Al Mubarak

Rhett A. Butler 30 Aug 2021

Development of third Sumatran rhino sanctuary advances to save species

Junaidi Hanafiah 25 Jun 2021

Sumatran rhinos show low inbreeding — but when it happens, collapse is quick

Carolyn Cowan 29 Apr 2021

Rarely seen Sumatran rhinos are now even more elusive as threats close in

Tri Purna Jaya 28 Jan 2021

Signs, but no sightings: The phantom rhinos of Sumatra’s Bukit Barisan Selatan

Dian Wahyu Kusuma 22 Jan 2021

Widodo Ramono, the man on a mission to save Sumatran rhinos

Rahmadi Rahmad 17 Dec 2020
Burmese roofed turtle moments after emerging from an egg collected from a sandbank along the Chindwin River and incubated at a head-starting facility in Limpha village, Sagaing region, Myanmar. Photo by Myo Min Win/WCS Myanmar (Platt et al 2020).

Back from the brink, baby Burmese roofed turtles make their debut

Liz Kimbrough 28 Aug 2020

Forest fires set by poachers threaten a refuge of the Sumatran rhino

Tri Purna Jaya 21 Aug 2020

Sumatran rhino planned for capture is another female, Indonesian officials say

Yovanda 22 Jul 2020

‘Every tool in the box’ to save Sumatran rhinos: Q&A with Nina Fascione of IRF

Jeremy Hance 20 Jul 2020

Indonesia identifies rhino to capture for breeding, but will have to wait until next year

Basten Gokkon 9 Jul 2020

COVID-19 halts matchmaking attempt for female Sumatran rhino in Borneo

Yovanda 1 Jul 2020

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