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Mongabay India wins best science podcast at Publisher Podcast Awards

Mongabay.com 12 Jun 2025
Banner image of the waters around Maupiti Island in French Polynesia by Sophie Hurel via Wikimedia Commons (CCBY3.0).

French Polynesia creates world’s largest marine protected area

Kristine Sabillo 12 Jun 2025
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
Banner image of a gelada by Charles J. Sharp via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Gelada monkey vocalizations offer insight into human evolution: Study

Kristine Sabillo 9 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
A Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra), one of the otter species found in Nepal. Image by Alexander Leisser via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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

Abhaya Raj Joshi 7 Jun 2025
Rescuers evacuate people from a flooded hospital following landslides and flash flooding in India's northeast state of Manipur, Sunday, June 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Donald Sairem)

Heavy rains inundate northeast India

Kristine Sabillo 6 Jun 2025
Clouded leopard carrying a Bengal slow loris. Image courtesy of Digboi Forest Division.

Clouded leopard seen preying on Bengal slow loris in rare photograph

Mongabay.com 5 Jun 2025

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

Barinia Montoya 4 Jun 2025
A Bornean orangutan. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

A new report lists the world’s 25 most endangered primates. Most people have never heard of them.

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Jun 2025

Researchers identify 22 key areas for protecting struggling giant otters

Geraldine Santos 4 Jun 2025
Banner image of the Ekalakala bonobo group in the Kokolopori Bonobo Reserve in the DRC courtesy of Martin Surbeck/Kokolopori Bonobo Research Project.

Female bonobos wield power through unity: Study

Kristine Sabillo 3 Jun 2025
women working in a field in Uganda

Peril and persistence define the path of Africa’s conservationists

Orji Sunday 3 Jun 2025
Banner image of tiang in South Sudan ©Marcus Westberg/African Parks.

New maps reveal Earth’s largest land mammal migration

Kristine Sabillo 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
Banner image of a jaguar with a fish, courtesy of Andrea Reyes/Jaguares en la Selva.

How Costa Rica’s ranchers contribute to jaguar and puma conservation

Mongabay.com 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
Banner image: The Madikwe Game Reserve in South Africa captured by the Pléiades Neo satellite. Image courtesy of the Airbus Foundation and Connected Conservation Foundation.

‘Satellites for Biodiversity’ upgrades with new projects and launches insight hub

Kristine Sabillo 26 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
Planted forest in Panama.

Why biological diversity should be at the heart of conservation

Kristine Sabillo 21 May 2025
Banner image of Max, a brown howler monkey, courtesy of Marcelo Rheingantz.

Brazil rewilds urban forest with vaccinated brown howler monkeys

Mongabay.com 20 May 2025

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

Liz Kimbrough 16 May 2025
An okapi at Bronx Zoo in the United States. Image by Ryan Schwark via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).

Endangered Species Day: Three animals on the path to recovery

Shanna Hanbury 16 May 2025

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

Basten Gokkon 15 May 2025

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