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A diver applies an amoxicillin paste to stony coral tissue loss disease-affected corals in Roatan, Honduras. The antibiotic paste can slow or halt lesion progression. Image by Antonio Busiello.

Researchers race to understand disease killing Caribbean corals at unprecedented rates

Ruth Kamnitzer 6 Jun 2025
Blackwater oxbow lake in the Amazon. Image by Rhett Butler for Mongabay.

Why WHO’s pandemic prevention draft agreement takes a nature-centric, One Health approach (commentary)

Chris Walzer / Susan Lieberman / Christine Franklin 13 May 2025
An endangered long-tailed macaque peeks out from a cage having been exported from Vietnam to Europe. Image supplied by Animal Rights BE.

Report alleges criminality in Cambodian, Vietnamese monkey trade

Gerald Flynn 21 Apr 2025

In Colombia, a simple fencing fix offers a win-win for wildlife and ranchers

Marlowe Starling 28 Nov 2024
A bobcat navigates a snow-covered branch along the Madison River in Yellowstone National Park.

Bobcats are back, and they’re helping protect people from zoonotic disease

Christine Woodside 12 Nov 2024
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Canine distemper likely infecting & killing Nepal’s leopards, study shows

Abhaya Raj Joshi 29 Sep 2024
More than 95% of southern elephant seal pups (Mirounga leonina) born in 2023 perished in that year from the deadly outbreak of avian influenza.

Animal apocalypse: Deadly bird flu infects hundreds of species pole-to-pole

Sharon Guynup 6 Aug 2024
Pneumonia in bighorn sheep induces coughing which can be detected acoustically. Image by Noah Israel/Wikimedia Commons.

The potential for tracking wildlife health & disease via bioacoustics is great (commentary)

Jesse Turner 10 Apr 2024

Peru’s illegal pet monkey trade is also an infection superhighway

Carla Ruas 14 Mar 2024
A juvenile northern pig-tailed macaque (Macaca leonina) held in a cage outside a gas station in Cambodia. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Impunity for Cambodia’s exotic pet owners as trade outpaces legislation

Gerald Flynn, Nehru Pry 7 Mar 2024
Dholes (Cuon alpinus) hunting a spotted deer in Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve, Maharashtra, India.

Dholes latest wild canids likely making comeback in Nepal, study shows

Abhaya Raj Joshi 27 Feb 2024
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Cornell receives $35m gift for research at nexus of wildlife and health

Carolyn Cowan 9 Feb 2024

In Argentina, scientists scramble to study seal colonies hit hard by avian flu

Maxwell Radwin 31 Jan 2024
Katana Ngala in a boat during a coral restoration project.

‘All will be well’: Q&A with Kenyan fisher turned coral gardener Katana Ngala

Anthony Langat 17 Aug 2023
Ali Garama, the Kuruwitu BMU chairman.

Kenyan fishers put new twists on an age-old marine conservation system

Anthony Langat 9 Aug 2023
Ponkar Lake is a moraine-dammed glacial lake in Bimthang Valley in Manang, Nepal. Image courtesy of Sudan Bikash Maharjan/ICIMOD.

Nepal’s climate change adaptation strategy needs One Health approach (commentary)

Krishna Prasad Acharya, Shamsudeen Fagbo 4 Aug 2023

Prickly babies: A Jamaican nursery aims to restore sea urchins felled by disease

Gladstone Taylor 3 Aug 2023

Parasites of the Caribbean: Study pinpoints cause of sea urchin die-off

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Apr 2023

Conservationists unite to tackle Latin America’s dog threat to wild cats

Sean Mowbray 19 Apr 2023
An Iberian lynx.

Vulture carrion potential boon and threat for endangered Iberian lynx: Studies

Sean Mowbray 4 Apr 2023
A female bonobo.

DRC’s endangered bonobos face another threat to their survival: malaria

Ryan Truscott 22 Mar 2023
A Bornean bearded pig family.

Bearded pigs a ‘cultural keystone species’ for Borneo’s Indigenous groups: Study

John Cannon 20 Mar 2023
A white-lipped peccary.

Deforestation could pose disease threat to Amazon’s white-lipped peccaries

Sean Mowbray 22 Feb 2023
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Avian flu hits Peru, killing thousands of sea birds and infecting some marine mammals

Tim Vernimmen 16 Feb 2023
A leopard.

In Nepal, conservationists suspect link between canine distemper and human-leopard conflict

Abhaya Raj Joshi 10 Feb 2023
A mother and baby macaque.

Ebola-like African primate viruses ‘poised for spillover’ to humans, study finds

Mactilda Mbenywe 21 Dec 2022
An orangutan under treatment.

Severe malaria cases in rescued orangutans raises concerns for wild populations

Sean Mowbray 20 Oct 2022

Study warns of risk from feline viruses to wild cats on the palm oil frontier

Sean Mowbray 26 May 2022
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‘A risky business’: Online illegal wildlife trade continues to soar in Myanmar

Carolyn Cowan 4 Apr 2022

Call for COVID rules that reduced infections in gorilla parks to remain

Ryan Truscott 24 Feb 2022

Preventing the next pandemic is vastly cheaper than reacting to it: Study

Sharon Guynup 4 Feb 2022

Lockdown underscores Uganda’s overreliance on tourism to fund conservation

Nangayi Guyson 21 Dec 2021

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