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A snow leopard in Nepal

Snow leopards frequently cross Nepal, India, China borders, study finds

Bibek Bhandari 12 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
Pangolin at the Lilongwe Wildlife Centre in 2022

High-profile wildlife trafficking case tests Malawi’s conservation commitment

Madalitso Wills Kateta 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

In Nepal, northernmost sighting of Eurasian otter raises hope, concerns

Abhaya Raj Joshi 7 Jun 2025

Signs of hope as elephant seals rebound from avian flu in remote Chilean fjord

Barinia Montoya 4 Jun 2025

Researchers identify 22 key areas for protecting struggling giant otters

Geraldine Santos 4 Jun 2025
women working in a field in Uganda

Peril and persistence define the path of Africa’s conservationists

Orji Sunday 3 Jun 2025
A Javan gibbons (Hylobates moloch)

After years of silence, Indonesia moves to assess its iconic wildlife

Dyna Rochmyaningsih 29 May 2025
Polar bears near Churchill. Image by Kt Miller / polarbearsinternational.org.

Manage people more and bears less, say Indigenous elders in world’s ‘polar bear capital’

Gabe Allen 29 May 2025

US funding shortfall halts Nepal’s rhino census, sparks debate over methods

Deepak Adhikari 29 May 2025
This Afro-Asiatic wildcat kitten (of the subspecies F. lybica cafra) shows the distinctive peach-pink tint to this genetically pure wildcat’s ears.

Tabby’s likely ancestor & Earth’s most widespread wildcat is an enigma

Petro Kotzé 28 May 2025

Indonesia convicts trafficking accomplice in a Javan rhino poaching scandal

Donny Iqbal 28 May 2025
Javan gibbon (Hylobates moloch), also known as the silvery gibbon

Silvery lining for Java’s endangered gibbon as Rahayu Oktaviani wins Whitley prize

Nuswantoro 27 May 2025

Sri Lanka’s golden jackals reveal importance of urban wetlands for wildlife

Malaka Rodrigo 26 May 2025
Asian small-clawed otter

DNA probe links Japan’s otter-themed cafes to poaching hotspots in Thailand

Carolyn Cowan 26 May 2025

Scientists rediscover a Mexican rabbit they hadn’t seen in 120 years

Astrid Arellano 23 May 2025

Study unveils mystery of monkey yodeling — and why humans can’t compete

Liz Kimbrough 16 May 2025

Sumatran tiger protection needs more patrols, tougher penalties, study finds

Basten Gokkon 15 May 2025
An okapi at Bronx Zoo in the United States. Image by Ryan Schwark via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).

13 years after deadly attack, an okapi returns to Epulu in DRC reserve

Saïbe Kabila 14 May 2025
With thick coats and broad paws, Canada lynx are supremely adapted to deep snow.

New research sheds light on Canada lynx-snowshoe hare cycle, human impacts

Ruth Kamnitzer 14 May 2025
Sunda pangolin (Manis javanica

Indonesian pangolin trafficking prosecution reveals police involvement — and impunity

Ayat S. Karokaro 14 May 2025

A rare jaguar rewilding story highlights obstacles to the big cat’s conservation in Brazil

Suzana Camargo 12 May 2025
A pod of Sperm Whales move into a defense line to stop a pod of Orcas (Killer Whales) getting to their calf, off the coast of Sri Lanka. Image © Paul Hilton / Greenpeace.

Our responsibility for cetacean conservation grows with proof of their intelligence (commentary)

Avery Ancell 8 May 2025
A western lowland gorilla in Cameroon.

In Cameroon’s forgotten forests, gorillas and chimps hang on

Spoorthy Raman 7 May 2025

Kumana, a historic national park in eastern Sri Lanka, emerges as leopard stronghold

Malaka Rodrigo 5 May 2025
A wild boar at Parsa National Park.

Study reveals untold, and unprotected, wildlife wealth of Nepal’s Madhesh province

Abhaya Raj Joshi 2 May 2025
Bats may comprise at least 40% of the overall mammal diversity in Rwanda. Image courtesy of Rwanda Wildlife Conservation Association – RWCA.

Discovery of critically endangered bat in Rwanda leads to conservation talks

Aimable Twahirwa 25 Apr 2025
A fishing cat

Fishing cats misunderstood, misidentified in Nepal’s Kapilvastu

Mukesh Pokhrel 25 Apr 2025
A snow leopard photographed in Nepal. Image courtesy of WWF Nepal.

Nepal announces its snow leopard population after first-of-its-kind assessment

Abhaya Raj Joshi 23 Apr 2025

15 years after the BP oil spill disaster, how is the Gulf of Mexico faring?

Liz Kimbrough 21 Apr 2025
A siamang gibbon seized in Chennai, India in August 2024, along with turtles and pythons. It was being carried in the baggage of a passenger travelling from Bangkok.

Illegal trafficking of siamang gibbons is a concerning and underreported crisis (commentary)

Sinan Serhadli 18 Apr 2025

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