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Investigators with Agent C Wildlife Initiative documented a baby pangolin available for sale in Vientiane's Dongmakkhay Market. Pangolins are repeatedly sold for their meat, scales and sometimes for making wine. Image supplied by Agent C Wildlife Initiative.

Laos’s illegal wildlife shops keep growing despite enforcement, investigators find

Gerald Flynn 15 Jul 2026
A male Walia ibex in Ethiopia. Image courtesy of Paul Scholte.

Ethiopia’s iconic Walia ibex is critically endangered once again

Shreya Dasgupta 9 Jul 2026
48758842257_1f2ee7e507_k.jpg Drug-resistant infections remain a top global public health threat, leading to around 5 million deaths worldwide each year. Recent research suggests that microplastic pollution is accelerating the development of resistant bacteria. Image by DFID – UK Department for International Development via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

Microplastic pollution can fuel rise in antibiotic resistance, studies find

Claire Asher 8 Jul 2026
Researcher Ricardo Marques visiting a forest seedling nursery in the Amazon. Image courtesy of Hylaea.

Secret Amazon species may be new source of ibogaine for addiction treatment

Jenny Gonzales 30 Jun 2026
A jimbu (Allium przewalskianum) in the Tibetan Plateau.

What’s jimbu? The herb that bolsters an iconic Nepali dish could also help save snow leopards

Bibek Bhandari 30 Jun 2026

France confirms its first Ebola case as DRC outbreak continues to grow

Elodie Toto 26 Jun 2026
A hooded vulture. Image by Mibby23 via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

Hope for vultures in Nigeria as some belief-based users adopt plant alternatives

Sean Mowbray 24 Jun 2026

Global pressure on ayahuasca threatens Amazonian plants and knowledge systems

Carlos Minuano 23 Jun 2026
A West African seahorse (Hippocampus algiris) is a vulnerable species found in West Africa

Four alleged wildlife traffickers arrested in Guinea, dried seahorses and shark fins seized

Spoorthy Raman 10 Jun 2026
An orange-footed sea cucumber (Cucumaria frondosa). Image courtesy of Sara Jobson/Mercier Lab.

Global trade in sea cucumbers ‘alarming’ with many species at risk: Study

Edward Carver 30 Apr 2026
Black rhinos are critically endangered.

Chinese court cases reveal most trafficked rhino horns come from Southern Africa

Spoorthy Raman 21 Apr 2026
This plant is classified as a halophyte, or capable of surviving in high-salinity environments. Image by Vengolis via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

In Indonesia, a coastal vine used as medicine now signals ecological decline

Christopel Paino 9 Apr 2026
A forest elephant near Ngounié, Gabon. Image by marcusgmeiner via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0)

A Congo Basin-led bioeconomy could boost Central Africa’s green transition (analysis)

Metolo Foyet 6 Apr 2026
Pangolins are one of the most in-demand wildlife in Asia, used in traditional chinese medicine preparations. After Chinese pangolins plummeted by about 90% in the 2000s, traffickers shifted to African species.

Asia now hub of growing illegal wildlife trade across 100+ countries, study shows

Spoorthy Raman 30 Mar 2026
Research shows that a koala’s gut microbiome directly influences its diet limitations, determining the species of eucalyptus it can eat. Translocations and reintroductions should take this relationship into account, says Michaela Blyton. Image by Mathias Appel via Flickr (CC0 1.0).

Poop pills and gut microbes: Wildlife microbiome studies aid conservation

Sean Mowbray 26 Mar 2026

Pharmaceutical companies move away from horseshoe crab biomedical testing

David Brown 16 Mar 2026
Pranisha Pun harvests a cordyceps mushroom in western Nepal. Image by Sushil Mainali / ANSAB.

Sustainable trade in wild plants benefits people and planet (commentary)

Richard Scobey 2 Mar 2026
a newly hatched Rote Island snake-necked turtles (Chelodina mccordi) at the turtle survival center in South Carolina USA. Photo by Liz Kimbrough

The Turtle Bank: The last of these Asian turtle species find refuge in the Carolina pines

Liz Kimbrough 28 Jan 2026
Herders cross the Lungasamba pass with their yaks. Image by Chyamtang-Kathmandu Welfare Society.

Nepal Indigenous leaders refile writ petition against hydropower project

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 12 Dec 2025
Rainforest in northern Borneo. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Endangered knowledge and endangered plants: Threats to Indigenous medicinal traditions in Borneo

Cassidy Beach 1 Dec 2025

Protecting pangolins IRL, not just on paper: Interview with conservationist Kumar Paudel

Abhaya Raj Joshi 24 Nov 2025

IDB financed meat & poultry company that polluted Indigenous Ecuador lands: Report

Ana Cristina Alvarado 21 Nov 2025
Tropical forest and river in Suriname. Image courtesy of Mark J. Plotkin.

Top ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin’s COP30 reflections on Amazon conservation (analysis)

Mark J. Plotkin 17 Nov 2025

The uncertain future of DRC’s traditional medicine, a heritage to save (commentary)

Blaise Kasereka Makuta 6 Nov 2025
Noraeri Thungmueangthong is a village leader in Huay Ee Khang village in northern Thailand.

Forest sanctuaries and spiritual balance in the Karen highlands of Thailand

Carolyn Cowan 22 Oct 2025
Community people in Jhumlabang gathered in a community meeting in July. Image courtesy of Jhumlabang Village Foundation (JVF).

In Nepal’s hills, a fight brews over the country’s biggest iron deposit

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 17 Oct 2025
Giant monkey frog in the Western Amazon. Image by Rhett Ayers Butler

The hidden environmental cost of psychedelics

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Oct 2025
A flower of the Moringa oleifera tree, which is valued for its medicinal properties.

In DRC’s Kivu region, the moringa tree offers valuable health benefits

Blaise Kasereka Makuta 9 Oct 2025
White-bellied pangolin on a tree.

In southeast Nigeria, pangolins hunted for meat, not scales, study finds

Spoorthy Raman 10 Sep 2025
A flowering shoot of jambu.

Amazon jambu blends tradition and science for numbing flavors and healthcare

Sarah Brown 18 Aug 2025
Ampalaya, or bitter gourd (Momordica charantia)

Filipino communities use vast variety of endemic plants for health: Study

Keith Anthony Fabro 12 Aug 2025
Thai authorities seized more than 200 kilograms (440 pounds) of ivory hidden in luggage shipped out from Congo to Laos via Bangkok in 2015.

Large-scale illegal wildlife shops in Laos found scamming Chinese tourists

Mongabay.com 22 Jul 2025

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