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A Bengal tiger from Rajasthan, India. Poaching is one of the biggest threats to tigers, an endangered cat in Asia.

Facebook is a hub for illegal wildlife trade, and that’s by design, report says

Spoorthy Raman 5 May 2026
Philidris nagasau, an ant species endemic to Fiji that farms Squamellaria plants. Image by Eli M. Sarnat via AntWeb (CC BY 4.0).

Novel DNA research shows massive native ant decline over hundreds of years in Fiji

Shanna Hanbury 28 Apr 2026
Peter H. Raven at the Missouri Botanical Garden. Photo by M. Jacob.

Peter Raven, botanist and advocate for biodiversity, has died, aged 89

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Apr 2026
Dodo bird icon.

A slowdown, not salvation: what new extinction data reveal about the state of life on Earth

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Nov 2025

“The Birds,” Revisited (cartoon)

Rohan Chakravarty 12 Jun 2025
A Schrenck’s bumblebee (Bombus schrencki) in Estonia.

Climate change now threatens thousands of species on Earth

Spoorthy Raman 22 May 2025
A giant anteater in an agricultural land in the Cerrado.

‘LIFE’ scores map out where habitat loss for crops drives extinction

John Cannon 15 Jan 2025

Last wild hurricane palm of its kind falls, marking extinction

Shanna Hanbury 20 Nov 2024

Haunting song pays tribute to Toughie, the frog whose extinction went unnoticed

Liz Kimbrough 10 Apr 2024
PFAS and other chemical pollution are posing a growing threat to the little auk (Alle alle) and other Arctic seabirds.

PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ harming wildlife the world over: Study

Sharon Guynup 26 Sep 2023
An African elephant.

Global study of 71,000 animal species finds 48% are declining

Sharon Guynup 5 Jun 2023
Two researchers measuring a Victoria boliviana leaf.

Kew Gardens joins local partners to save tropical plants from extinction

Sue Branford 15 Feb 2023
Caribou, a vital food source for Indigenous peoples in Canada, is already a threatened species. Climate change is predicted to drive a further decline in their numbers and range. The peatlands are a favored habitat for these animals and help them escape from wolves, which find it hard to navigate in the swampy peatlands. Image by Bauer, Erwin and Peggy, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).

Will the world join Indigenous peoples in relationship with nature at COP-15? (commentary)

Jennifer Tauli Corpuz, Valérie Courtois 9 Dec 2022

In search of Taiwan’s lost clouded leopards, anthropology uncovers more than camera traps (commentary)

Yu Shih-Hsuan 23 Nov 2021

Cats, charisma and climate change (commentary)

Jonathan Ayers 26 Oct 2021

Seed dispersal is just as important as pollination (commentary)

Ariek Norford 10 Aug 2021

Study shows it took the Amazon as we know it over 6 million years to form

Claire Asher 7 Jun 2021

Reptile traffickers trawl scientific literature, target newly described species

Pavel Toropov 26 May 2021
Rainforest in Malaysian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

The Pope, a prince and a judge walk into a bar…to argue for nature’s rights (commentary)

Mari Margil 19 May 2021

New paper urges shift to ‘nature positivity’ to restore Earth

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 7 May 2021

Two tunas and a tale of managed extinction

Mike Gaworecki 23 Apr 2021

‘Race against time’: Saving the snakes and lizards of Brazil’s Cerrado

Sharon Guynup 2 Feb 2021

Study warns of ‘biotic annihilation’ driven by hunting, habitat destruction

Malavika Vyawahare 5 Jan 2021

Crimefighting NGO tracks Brazil wildlife trade on WhatsApp and Facebook

Peter Yeung 23 Nov 2020

The riddle of Madagascar’s megafauna extinction just got trickier

Malavika Vyawahare 17 Nov 2020

One year on: Insects still in peril as world struggles with global pandemic

Jeremy Hance 11 Nov 2020
Mycena haematopus (Burgundydrop Bonnet)

World’s plants and fungi a frontier of discovery, if we can protect them: Report

Liz Kimbrough 1 Oct 2020

Biologists warn ‘extinction denial’ is the latest anti-science conspiracy theory

Mike Shanahan 14 Sep 2020

Rescuing Achilles: Southern pig-tailed macaques listed as endangered but still persecuted (commentary)

Sinan Serhadli 24 Aug 2020

Is Chinese investment driving a sharp increase in jaguar poaching?

Rebecca Branford 11 Aug 2020

Traversing Russia’s remote taiga in pursuit of the Blakiston’s fish owl

Gloria Dickie 6 Aug 2020

New land snail species discovered in Hawaii offers ‘gem of hope’

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 5 Aug 2020

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