Snow leopard in the Wakhan Corridor caught on camera trap. Photo by: Wildlife Conservation Society. Decades of war and poverty has not exterminated snow leopards (Panthera uncia) in Afghanistan according…
Forest loss along the edge of Mount Dongotomea in South Sudan is visible from Google Earth. South Sudan’s tropical montane forests are fast disappearing according to new analysis by PRINS…
Not seen for over a century, these are the first ever photos of a living red-crested tree rat. Photo by: Lizzie Noble/ProAves. The red-crested tree rat (Santamartamys rufodorsalis) had not…
The newly discovered Dalai Mountain blind lizard (Dibamus dalaiensis). Photo courtesy of Fauna & Flora International. A new species of legless lizard has been discovered in Cambodia. Herpetologist Neang Thy…
Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete has recently stated he would withdraw the application to list two Eastern Arc Mountains as UNESCO World Heritage sites: Udzungwa and Uluguru Mountains. However, ten NGOS,…
An American pika (Ochotona princeps) in Colorado. Photo in Public Domain. The last decade has not been a good one for the American pika (Ochotona princeps) according to a new…
Thousands of lesser flamingoes (Phoenicopterus minor) crowd in Lake Bogoria in Kenya. Nearly all of these flamingoes will breed in Tanzania's Lake Natron, now a proposed site for soda ash…
Terra Incognito? Venezuela's Amazon rainforest (a portion of which is viewed here by Google Earth) has been almost wholly ignored by researchers. Andean forests even less represented in research than…
The Andean cat. © Jim Sanderson, PhD/Small Wild Cat Conservation Foundation. The elusive Andean cat (Leopardus jacobita), which until the late 1990s was only known to scientists by a couple…
Classified as Critically Endangered by the IUCN Red List, listed among the Top 25 Most Endangered primates in the world, and rated number 71 on the EDGE's list of world's…
British photographer Jeremy Holden recently discovered a new species of carnivorous pitcher plant in Cambodia's Cardamom Mountains during a survey with Fauna & Flora International (FFI). "The Cardamom Mountains are…
This fruit bat has been seen prior to this expedition, but remains undescribed. Although scientists have yet to name the species, the popular media has already dubbed it the 'Yoda…
A BBC film crew has photographed Bengal tigers, including a mating pair, living far higher than the great cats have been documented before. Camera traps captured images and videos of…
An interview with Paula Kahumbu of WildlifeDirect. Rising over 2,500 meters from Kenya's northern desert, the Mathews Range is a sky island: isolated mountain forests surrounded by valleys. Long cut…