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A controlled burn in north east Victoria over the autumn period to reduce fuel load for summer fires. Photo: Michael Reid

Australia’s declining tree health is a slow-burning crisis (commentary)

Michael Reid, Ted Alter 5 May 2026

Inside the fight to save the little-known Galápagos petrel

Sean Mowbray 30 Apr 2026
Philidris nagasau, an ant species endemic to Fiji that farms Squamellaria plants. Image by Eli M. Sarnat via AntWeb (CC BY 4.0).

Novel DNA research shows massive native ant decline over hundreds of years in Fiji

Shanna Hanbury 28 Apr 2026
Tufted-tailed rat (Eliurus sp) in Madagascar. Photo by Elise Paietta

Why forest conservation is also public health

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Apr 2026
A yellow-fronted canary from South Africa. The songbird tops the list of wild birds exported from Africa to Asia.

Nearly a million birds shipped from Africa to Asia in 15 years; canaries top the list

Spoorthy Raman 15 Apr 2026
a ferret by Alfredo Gutiérrez via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Invasive ferrets removed from an island in a world-first

Shreya Dasgupta 15 Apr 2026
Little Rock Creek Lake, with El Capitan in the distance, in the Bitterroot Range, Montana. Image courtesy of Magicpiano via Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.

Invasive plant drives ecological change in America’s gigantic Selway–Bitterroot Wilderness (commentary)

Lyle Lewis 9 Apr 2026
Flowers of the lue billy goat weed (Ageratum houstonianum), locally called neelo gandhe. Image by The Cosmonaut via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.5 CA).

Invasives take over native plant spaces in Nepal’s cities

Bibek Bhandari 9 Apr 2026

Malawi says there’s been no illegal crayfish smuggling for a year

Charles Mpaka 8 Apr 2026

Argentina updates national IUCN mammal list with new focus on non-native species

Maxwell Radwin 24 Mar 2026

From endangered to invasive: Rare ocelot spotted on Mexico’s Cozumel Island

David Brown 18 Mar 2026

Ants need urgent protections from global trade, conservationists say

Spoorthy Raman 13 Jan 2026

Measuring biodiversity in a world of tree-planting pledges

Ruth Kamnitzer 12 Jan 2026
The fish-eating bat has been recorded on more than 45 islands in the Gulf of California. Isla Partida Norte is home to the largest known colony of the species. Image courtesy of José Juan Flores Martínez.

Up close with Mexico’s fish-eating bats: Interview with researcher José Juan Flores Martínez

Astrid Arellano 31 Dec 2025
Screenshot of Gramma. Courtesy of the San Diego Zoo.

The long life of a Galápagos tortoise

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Nov 2025
Dodo bird icon.

A slowdown, not salvation: what new extinction data reveal about the state of life on Earth

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Nov 2025
Spiny-tailed Iguana from Clarion Island. Image courtesy of D.G. Mulcahy.

Iguanas on Mexico’s Clarion Island likely native, not introduced by people: Study

Mongabay.com 12 Nov 2025
Video of a brown rat catching a bat at Segeberger Kalkberg. Image courtesy of Gloza-Rausch et al., 2025 (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).

Europe’s under-pressure bats face ‘astonishing’ threat: Ambush by rats

Shreya Dasgupta 7 Nov 2025
Blackchin tilapia

Thai agri giant CPF sues activist over claims linking it to invasive fish outbreak

Carolyn Cowan 4 Nov 2025
Christmas Island shrew

In memory of the Christmas Island shrew

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Oct 2025
Christmas Island, Australia. Image by David Stanley via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0)

Christmas Island shrew officially declared extinct: IUCN

Shreya Dasgupta 23 Oct 2025

Removing rats helps revive forests, birds & coral in the Marshall Islands

Bobby Bascomb 3 Oct 2025

An indestructible invasive anemone threatens Chilean Patagonia’s seas

Ana Cristina Alvarado 11 Sep 2025
Argentine ant. Image by Pedro Caetano de Moura Pinheiro via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

Invasive ants get a warm welcome as global temperatures rise: Study

Mongabay.com 21 Aug 2025
Kavantissa, a regal tusker considered Sri Lanka’s largest elephant, stands more than 3 meters (10 feet) in height. He faces the risk of being killed due to his habit of roaming close to human settlements. Image courtesy of Gimantha.

It’s time to update the language of human-wildlife interactions (commentary)

Tracie McKinney 14 Aug 2025
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More than 10,000 species on brink of extinction need urgent action: Study

Liz Kimbrough 30 Jul 2025

Killing barred owls to save spotted owls

Bobby Bascomb 29 Jul 2025
Golden oyster mushrooms. Image by Jordan Cook via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

Golden oyster mushrooms are crowding out native fungi in North America

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Jul 2025
An adult female kākāpō (Strigops habroptila) in a tree at night. Kākāpō are nocturnal and flightless. Image by Andrew Digby/New Zealand Department of Conservation.

World Nature Conservation Day: How a large, flightless parrot rebounded from the verge of extinction

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Jul 2025

Uruguay confronts a powerful new threat to its palm trees: A tiny red bug

Associated Press 24 Jul 2025
Sahara mustard plants in California.

In California, an invasive mustard is destabilizing desert plant communities

Maya L. Kapoor 16 Jul 2025

Predatory snakehead fish poses invasive threat after sighting in Sri Lanka reservoir

Malaka Rodrigo 28 Jun 2025

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