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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
jaguar

Jaguar recovery unites Brazil and Argentina in conservation effort

Sarah Brown 11 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
A herd of female and young Borneo elephants eat chipped palms in a plantation.

Uniting plantations to save Bornean elephants: Interview with Farina Othman

Lee Kwai Han 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
Dami Tateburuk sits in the Malinggai Uma Tradisional Mentawai house.

Mentawai’s primates are vanishing. One hunter is trying to save them.

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Jun 2025

The curse of river dolphin ‘love perfumes’ (cartoon)

Rohan Chakravarty 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
Dr. Mark Ofua with a pangolin

How trafficking & misconceptions threaten Nigeria’s wildlife: Q&A with Dr. Mark Ofua

Samuel Ogunsona 6 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

Climate change and shrinking Arctic sea ice threaten bowhead whales

Bobby Bascomb 6 Jun 2025
Humpback whales in Western Australia. Image courtesy of Emilie Ledwidge/Ocean Image Bank.

World Oceans Day: Scientists find new clues about frontiers of ocean life

Mongabay.com 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
Fish in Samoa.

Samoa’s new marine spatial plan protects 30% of the country’s ocean

Claire Turrell 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

Ecological crisis in Brazil’s Pantanal fuels human-jaguar conflict

Júlia Moa 2 Jun 2025
Valmik Thapar. Photograph: Adnan Abidi/Reuters

Valmik Thapar, India’s tiger man, died on May 31st, aged 73

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 May 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

Fighting back against Guinea-Bissau’s illegal chimpanzee trade

Yannick Kenné 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

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