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A captive Sumatran tiger.

International Tiger Day: 3 stories of hope

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Jul 2025
A critically endangered Philippine pangolin and its pup. The demand for their scales has resulted in Pangolins being the most trafficked mammals.

To save pangolins, we need to change the narrative (commentary)

Araluen Schunmann 28 Jul 2025
A beluga whale in the Arctic Ocean near Norway.

Saving polar bears and beluga whales: Interview with Alysa McCall

Abhishyant Kidangoor 24 Jul 2025
Sharon Haussmann,. Image courtesy of Greater Kruger Environmental Protection Foundation.

Sharon Haussmann, guardian of rhinos, died on May 31, aged 51

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Jul 2025
The endangered dhole is also known as the Asiatic wild dog.

Nepal launches action plan to boost endangered dhole conservation

Mongabay.com 23 Jul 2025
Banner image of a cattle ranch in the Paraguayan Chaco by Peer V via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Pasture and agricultural expansion in Gran Chaco drive biodiversity loss: Study

Kristine Sabillo 23 Jul 2025

An aging leopard’s suffering sparks ethical debate in Sri Lanka

Mongabay.com 23 Jul 2025
Camera-trap image of the caracal spotted in Kirthar National Park. The cat appeared only once during the span of two weeks of camera trapping.

In rare triumph, camera traps snap endangered wildcats in Pakistan

Sean Mowbray 21 Jul 2025

Sri Lanka tusker death sparks euthanasia debate & calls for conservation solutions

Malaka Rodrigo 19 Jul 2025
An ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) in the Peruvian Amazonian rainforest (Cocha Cashu Biological Station), recorded through camera trapping. Photo credit: Fortunato Rayan.

Videos capture an unlikely alliance between ocelots and opossums in the Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Jul 2025
A male proboscis monkey with its characteristic long nose. The species is classified as endangered and is already threatened by habitat destruction, wildfires and hunting.

Study finds worrying uptick in proboscis monkey trade in Indonesia

Spoorthy Raman 18 Jul 2025
Banner image: (L-R) the eastern kultarr (image by Pat Woolley), the gibber kultarr and the long-eared kultarr (images by Ken Johnson).

Small Australian carnivorous marsupial reclassified as 3 species: Study

Kristine Sabillo 17 Jul 2025
A snow leopard by Ismail Shariff/Snow Leopard Trust via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0).

Study finds two-thirds of India’s snow leopards are in Ladakh region

Mongabay.com 17 Jul 2025
A Eurasian otter captured by a camera trap in Tangkulap Forest Reserve in Sabah. Image courtesy of Sabah Forestry Department/Sabah Wildlife Department/Panthera.

‘Hopeful sign’ as Eurasian otter reappears in Malaysia after a decade

Spoorthy Raman 15 Jul 2025

Vatsala, Asia’s oldest known elephant, died on July 8th, 2025, aged around 100

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Jul 2025
The Andean cat is a rare and endangered species highly specialized to life in the high Andes. It’s estimated that around 2,000 mature individuals, living in fragmented populations, are spread very thinly over a vast alpine expanse in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Peru.

Endangered Andean cat is imperiled by climate change and its solutions

Sean Mowbray 10 Jul 2025
Wild Frequencies

Mongabay India podcast ‘Wild Frequencies’ wins audio reporting award

Mongabay.com 4 Jul 2025
Red panda photographed in Nepal

The forest guardians along Nepal-India border leading red panda conservation

Deepak Adhikari 4 Jul 2025
The giant otter Coco and her pups. Image courtesy of Sebastian Navajas/Rewilding Argentina.

Giant river otter returns to Argentina after almost four decades

Shanna Hanbury 3 Jul 2025

Study urges legal protection for Sulawesi’s endangered bear cuscus amid habitat loss

Basten Gokkon 3 Jul 2025

As Thailand’s fishing cats face habitat loss & conflict, experts seek resolution

Carolyn Cowan 3 Jul 2025
A saiga antelope at the Stepnoi Sanctuary in Russia. Image by Andrey Giljov via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Kazakhstan to donate 1,500 wild saiga to China after 75 years of local extinction

Shanna Hanbury 2 Jul 2025
jaguar

Jaguar population doubles around Brazil’s Iguaçu Falls 

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Jul 2025
A dhole in India.

Nepal launches plan to boost science, awareness to save dholes

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 Jun 2025
An elephant in Queen Elizabeth National Park. Image by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

Balancing wildlife and human needs at Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth park

Mongabay.com 26 Jun 2025

As iconic wild leopard ages in Sri Lanka, debate about human intervention ensues

Malaka Rodrigo 26 Jun 2025
Pangolins curl into a ball as part of their self-defense, with scales acting as armor to protect their body. The WJC report estimates that the 370 tons of pangolin scales seized between 2015 and 2024 represent between 100,000 and a million pangolins.

The illegal trade in ivory and pangolin scales has fallen sharply since COVID-19. But for how long?

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Jun 2025
wo whales allokelping, with a small length of kelp stem visible between them. Center for Whale Research, NMFS NOAA Permit 27038

Orcas discovered making tools from seaweed to ‘massage’ each other

Liz Kimbrough 25 Jun 2025
Vultures feeding on carrion. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

As large scavengers decline, disease risk soars, study finds

Mongabay.com 23 Jun 2025
How manatees won over an entire village. Manatee Brazil

Brazil manatee hunters become advocates as village turns to ecotourism

Mongabay.com 20 Jun 2025
A relaxed leopard family in Kumana. Sightings like this have boosted the popularity of Kumana National Park in eastern Sri Lanka among wildlife tourists seeking leopard encounters. Image courtesy of Shanaka Kalubowila.

Sri Lanka’s Kumana National Park emerges as a leopard hotspot

Mongabay.com 20 Jun 2025
Pelicans have rebounded on the restored Queen Bess Island off the coast of Louisiana. Photo courtesy of Alisha Renfro

Pelicans recover, but dolphins and other species struggle 15 years after BP oil spill

Mongabay.com 18 Jun 2025

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