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Scientists and fishers team up to protect Bolivian river dolphin

Rocío Lloret 12 Apr 2023
Captive mountain bongo. Image via Pixabay (CC 0)

Biogas project offers lifelines to Kenyan community, forest, and rare species

Shadrack Omuka 11 Apr 2023

Flawed count puts ‘glorified’ Javan rhinos on path to extinction, report says

Basten Gokkon 11 Apr 2023
A Sulawesi flying fox.

Community conservation benefits Sulawesi flying foxes, but more is needed, experts say

Sean Mowbray 11 Apr 2023
red panda

Roads, human activity take a toll on red pandas: Q&A with researcher Damber Bista

Abhaya Raj Joshi 10 Apr 2023

National corridor project aims to save Chile’s endangered huemul deer

Sean Mowbray 6 Apr 2023

Counting dead cats on Costa Rica’s highways: Q&A with Daniela Araya Gamboa

Astrid Arellano 5 Apr 2023

Wildlife trafficking gradually returns after pandemic lull, mostly by sea

Liz Kimbrough 4 Apr 2023
An Iberian lynx.

Vulture carrion potential boon and threat for endangered Iberian lynx: Studies

Sean Mowbray 4 Apr 2023
a western chimpanzee in a tree

Guinea’s crab-fishing chimps are in good health, study shows, but threats loom

Ryan Truscott 3 Apr 2023

India cheetah births spark interest in fast felines in neighboring Nepal

Abhaya Raj Joshi 3 Apr 2023
A Baird's tapir walking at night through her natural habitat.

Rewilding animals could be key for climate: Report

Liz Kimbrough 30 Mar 2023
A tiger in water.

Do tiger-dense habitats also help save carbon stock? It’s complicated

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 Mar 2023

Human migration to Nepal’s tiger capital adds to conservation challenges

Abhaya Raj Joshi 28 Mar 2023
A pair of the critically endangered Hainan gibbons.

To save Hainan gibbons, Earth’s rarest primate, experts roll out the big tech

Abhishyant Kidangoor 27 Mar 2023

Palm oil deforestation hits record high in Sumatra’s ‘orangutan capital’

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Mar 2023
A swimming cougar in British Columbia.

Island-hopping cougars redraw boundaries of big cats’ potential range

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 22 Mar 2023
Jaguar in a river in Mexico. Photo credit: Gerardo Ceballos

In Calakmul, water troughs offer possible solution to human-wildlife conflict

Sean Mowbray 22 Mar 2023
A female bonobo.

DRC’s endangered bonobos face another threat to their survival: malaria

Ryan Truscott 22 Mar 2023
rhino calves in Chitwan

For rescued rhino calves in Nepal, return to the wild is a fraught option

Abhaya Raj Joshi 22 Mar 2023

New MPA Tic-Toc Golfo Corcovado a safe haven for blue whales in Chile

Michelle Carrere 21 Mar 2023
A wildlife ranger comforts Sudan, the last living male Northern White Rhino left on the planet, moments before he passed away March 19, 2018 at Ol Pejeta Wildlife Conservancy in northern Kenya. Photo courtesy of Ami Vitale.

Five years since the death of Sudan, new film highlights hope for rhinos

Mongabay.com 20 Mar 2023
A Bornean bearded pig family.

Bearded pigs a ‘cultural keystone species’ for Borneo’s Indigenous groups: Study

John Cannon 20 Mar 2023
West African lioness Florence with one of her cubs.

Video of rare West African lion cubs sparks hope for the population

Liz Kimbrough 17 Mar 2023
A snow leopard captured by a camera trap.

As Himalayas thaw, snow leopards scramble for habitat: Q&A with Bikram Shrestha

Abhaya Raj Joshi 14 Mar 2023
Rhino tracker with their back to the camera in the foreground, looking at an alert black rhino in the middle ground. Image by Ultimate Safaris.

Namibian community protects its rhinos from poaching but could lose them to mining

Victoria Schneider 13 Mar 2023
Jake Strouf and his wife were driving in the Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge when they got the rare sighting of ocelots crossing the road. Image courtesy of Jake Strouf.

In South Texas, watch out for ocelots crossing roads (commentary)

Sharon Wilcox 13 Mar 2023

Most of ‘top ten’ hotspots for jaguar conservation are in Brazil’s Indigenous territories

Liz Kimbrough 10 Mar 2023
A humpback whale.

Indigenous funding model is a win-win for ecosystems and local economies in Canada

Spoorthy Raman 10 Mar 2023

Orangutan death in Sumatra points to human-wildlife conflict, illegal trade

Ayat S. Karokaro, Sri Wahyuni 6 Mar 2023
Nile crocodiles (Crocodylus niloticus).

Climate change is exacerbating human-wildlife conflict, but solutions await: Study

Tim Vernimmen 3 Mar 2023

In Sumatra, increased orangutan sightings point to growing threats to the apes

Hans Nicholas Jong, Tonggo Simangunsong 1 Mar 2023

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