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‘Biological passports’ show whale sharks travel less than we thought

Millipedes might soothe itchy lemurs, research finds

Cross-border camera trap research puts wild Amur leopard number at 84

Fingerprinting technology gives investigators an edge against pangolin traffickers

One tortoise at a time: Q&A with zoo veterinarian Justin Rosenberg

Hunters are wiping out hornbills in Ghana’s forests

Fishing gear poses the greatest danger to young great whites off the West Coast of the U.S.

Longest recorded whale shark migration eclipses 20,000 kilometers

Black rhinos return to Zakouma National Park in Chad

More than 800 totoaba swim bladders confiscated by Mexican authorities in smuggling busts

More gorillas and chimpanzees living in Central Africa’s forests than thought

‘Monumental’ bust in Madagascar triggers effort to save thousands of endangered tortoises

Suspected poisoning takes down 11 lions in Uganda park

‘IUCN Green List of species’: A new way to measure conservation success

More than 40 percent of Madagascar’s freshwater life sliding toward extinction, IUCN finds

Conservationists rush to save Bolivian turtles threatened by egg trafficking

Europe’s beetle species plummet as trees disappear

Seychelles home to new species of caecilian, a legless amphibian

Study maps out reptiles’ ranges, completing the ‘atlas of life’

Five promising stories for Global Tiger Day

First ‘intrusions’ into unbroken forests drive pulses of biodiversity loss

How the World Heritage Convention could save more wilderness: Q&A with World Heritage expert Cyril Kormos

‘Crunch time for biodiversity’: Farming, hunting push thousands of species toward extinction

Jane Goodall on zoos and tech as conservation tools

Voluntary certification standards have far to go, say experts

Good news for Giant Panda, Tibetan Antelope in updated IUCN Red List

More than half of the Amazon’s tree species may be threatened with extinction

ASAP: reversing decline of critically endangered species in Southeast Asia

New study re-assesses conservation status of Peruvian amphibians

World Rhino Day arrives this year with a new cause for celebration

Does conservation work? Using the IUCN Red List to evaluate groups’ performance

Chameleon crisis: extinction threatens 36% of world’s chameleons

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