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Singapore biobank offers backup plan for pangolins

Claire Turrell 10 Apr 2025
Dugong in Thailand

Dugong numbers plummet amid seagrass decline in Thailand’s Andaman Sea

Carolyn Cowan 10 Apr 2025
Sumatran tigers are critically endangered.

Snared, skinned, sold: Brutal March for Indonesia’s Sumatran tigers

Junaidi Hanafiah, Rahmi Carolina, Vinolia 10 Apr 2025
Brown bears captured on camera at the Chilkat State Park in Alaska.

Scientists team up for Snapshot USA nationwide mammal survey

Abhishyant Kidangoor 9 Apr 2025
Snow leopard at ease in its high-mountain habitat. Image courtesy of Madhu Chetri.

How cultural and religious beliefs combine for snow leopard conservation (commentary)

Anil Adhikari 7 Apr 2025
Construction of the first section of the motorway. Image courtesy of Corrine Rahoeliarisoa.

Madagascar highway pushes on through controversy

Rivonala Razafison 31 Mar 2025

Mysterious sloth bear deaths raise alarm at Sri Lanka’s largest national park

Malaka Rodrigo 29 Mar 2025
A young orangutan grasps and hangs on to a woody liana.

As apes adapt to human disturbance, their new behaviors also put them at risk: Study

Charles Mpaka 24 Mar 2025

The vanishing trail of Sri Lanka’s iconic tuskers calls for urgent action

Malaka Rodrigo 21 Mar 2025
A northern elephant seal in Año Nuevo Island Reserve.

Seal ‘oceanographers’ reveal fish abundance in Pacific Ocean’s twilight zone

Spoorthy Raman 18 Mar 2025
North Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena glacialis).

Counting whales by eavesdropping on their chatter, with help from machine learning

Abhishyant Kidangoor 18 Mar 2025

Searching for peace, finding hope: A new film explores rural conflict in Kenya

Leonie Joubert 14 Mar 2025
Iain Douglas-Hamilton seated on the ground, writing in a notebook, two elephants in the background. Image courtesy Save the Elephants.

Lives worth living: Elephants, Iain Douglas-Hamilton and the fight for coexistence

Leonie Joubert 13 Mar 2025
A fishing cat photographed by a camera trap in Nepal. Image courtesy of Rama Mishra.

Fishing cat home range far bigger than previously thought, Nepal study suggests

Abhaya Raj Joshi 12 Mar 2025
Image of a male western chimpanzee

When a chimp community lost its males, it also lost part of its love language

Ryan Truscott 11 Mar 2025
A collared wolf from the Druid pack

How one woman’s wolf ‘moon shot’ changed Yellowstone forever: Interview with director Tom Winston

Jeremy Hance 11 Mar 2025
A Bharatpur Metropolitan City truck ferries municipal waste inside the Barandabhar forest in Chitwan. Image by Rajesh Ghimire.

Chitwan city using Indo-Nepal wildlife corridor for waste dump

Rajesh Ghimire 11 Mar 2025
Nilgai antelope (Boselaphus tragocamelus)

Farmers in Nepal and India see red as blue bulls raid their crops

Mukesh Pokhrel 7 Mar 2025
New study assesses threat to wildlife from cacao expansion in Congo Basin.

The environmental toll of the M23 conflict in eastern DRC (Analysis)

Fergus O’Leary Simpson | Lara Collart | Joel Masselink 7 Mar 2025

In a seasonally flooded Amazon forest, jaguars take to the trees

Tiago da Mota e Silva 4 Mar 2025
Black flying foxes are found in the forests of the Kimberley region of northern Australia. Image by Andrew Mercer via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

In Australia’s little-known rainforests, tradition and science collaborate for good

Nick Rodway 28 Feb 2025
Western lowland gorilla.

‘Some people will die’: Conversations with Nigeria’s gorilla hunters

Orji Sunday 27 Feb 2025

Study links African lion survival to prey availability

Charles Mpaka 21 Feb 2025
A Chinese pangolin in Guangdong, China

Pangolin burrows are biodiversity magnets in burnt forests, study shows

Spoorthy Raman 20 Feb 2025
An ocelot walks tentatively into a pre-release enclosure.

Getting rewilding right with the reintroduction of small wildcats

Sean Mowbray 18 Feb 2025
A wild Asian elephant in Nepal's plains. Image courtesy of Ashok Ram

As elephant conflict shifts, Nepal’s border village offers clues for coexistence

Deepak Adhikari 18 Feb 2025

Conservation groups look for new strategies, tech to halt vaquita decline

Maxwell Radwin 17 Feb 2025

Wave of arrests as Madagascar shuts down tortoise trafficking network

Rivonala Razafison 17 Feb 2025
Tropical botanist Andrea Bianchi examines a species of Anthocleista in Ngezi Forest Reserve. Unlike the species that grows in Tanzania’s Eastern Arc Mountains, the ones he and colleagues found in Ngezi are armed with spines, more akin to a species that grows in West Africa. Image by Ryan Truscott for Mongabay.

Forest of rare trees in Zanzibar now earmarked for ‘eco-resort’

Ryan Truscott 13 Feb 2025

Mammals, birds in Vietnam’s rare coastal forests revealed by camera traps

Carolyn Cowan 13 Feb 2025
A long-tailed macaque in Bali, Indonesia.

Sun, sand and skulls: Bali tourism trade peddles threatened primate skulls

Spoorthy Raman 12 Feb 2025
A lion in a cage

Nearly 20,000 animals seized in global wildlife trafficking crackdown

Mongabay.com 10 Feb 2025

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