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Cuatir Conservation Area’s neighbours come to inspect the new arrivals. Image by Jim Tan for Mongabay.

26 elephants from Namibia moved to Angola’s only private conservation area

Jim Tan 7 Oct 2024
The translocation team leads a sedated rhino to a crate and its journey to a new home. Image © Michael Dexter/African Parks.

African Parks embarks on critical conservation undertaking for 2,000 rhinos

Simon Espley 22 Aug 2024

Spotted softshell turtle release boosts reptile conservation in Vietnam

Carolyn Cowan 4 Apr 2024
Nilgais are the largest antelope species in Asia.

Comeback on the cards for Asian antelope declared extinct in Bangladesh

Rafiqul Islam 20 Mar 2024
Orphanage manager Claudia Andrione with older rhino orphans at the orphanage.

African Parks to rewild 2,000 rhinos from controversial breeding program

Jim Tan 11 Sep 2023

Kordofan giraffes face local extinction in 15 years if poaching continues

Liz Kimbrough 16 Aug 2023
A rhino in the orphanage at the Platinum Rhino project site.

World’s largest private rhino herd doesn’t have a buyer — or much of a future

Jim Tan 11 Aug 2023
A heron in a tree.

Birds in Bangladesh find a new lease of life in community-run sanctuaries

Abu Siddique 13 Jan 2023
wild yaks in Nepal

Nepal’s wild yaks ‘need more conservation than research’: Q&A with Naresh Kusi

Abhaya Raj Joshi 15 Nov 2022
A black rhino recently dehorned.

Poaching surges in the birthplace of white rhino conservation

Jim Tan 14 Oct 2022

Afro-Colombian community safeguards pristine oceans with new protected area

Maxwell Radwin 21 Feb 2022

Mapping threats to land mammals, amphibians and birds: study

Liz Kimbrough 29 Sep 2021

Congo’s bongos are in danger, and curbs on trophy hunting could save them

Malavika Vyawahare 24 Sep 2021

Road construction imperils tree kangaroo recovery in PNG

John Cannon 19 Jul 2021

Reptile traffickers trawl scientific literature, target newly described species

Pavel Toropov 26 May 2021
Thylacines, male and female in the National Zoo Washington D.C.

Study suggests the Tasmanian tiger survived into the 21st century

James Fair 4 Feb 2021
A bison in the holding pen. Image © Clay Bolt/WWF.

Hope and peace: Bison return to the Rosebud reservation

John Cannon 10 Dec 2020
Juvenile sakondry on a branch. Their dusty coating is washed off before they’re cooked. Image by Brian Fisher.

Bug bites: Edible insect production ramps up quickly in Madagascar

Emilie Filou 19 Nov 2020
Man roasting bushmeat. Image by Corinne Staley via Flickr (BY-NC-2.0)

Bushmeat hunting: The greatest threat to Africa’s wildlife?

Jim Tan 26 Oct 2020

Does trophy hunting hurt giraffe populations? A planned lawsuit says it does

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 16 Oct 2020
A puma with a recent kill by Neal Wight/Panthera.

The ‘Cougar Conundrum’: Q&A with author Mark Elbroch

John Cannon 20 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

The Large-antlered muntjac — Southeast Asia’s mystery deer (Commentary)

Joel Berger and Minh Nguyen 3 Aug 2020

Brazilian Amazon drained of millions of wild animals by criminal networks: Report

Sharon Guynup 28 Jul 2020

New study quantifies impact of hunting on migratory shorebird populations

Mongabay.com 17 Jul 2020

Amazon river dolphin risks extinction if Brazil moratorium not renewed

Peter Yeung 16 Jun 2020

Spiny lobsters raise an undersea racket that can be heard miles away

Liz Kimbrough 27 May 2020
Lion. Image by Tambako the Jaguar via Flickr (CC BY-ND-2.0)

Coronavirus is a crisis for South Africa’s captive lions, campaigners warn

James Fair 13 Apr 2020
Pangolin scales seized in Cameroon. Image by Keith Cameron/USFWS via Wikicommons (CC BY 2.0)

As pangolin trade heats up, Nigeria urged to do more to crack down

Linus Unah 2 Apr 2020

The next great threat to Brazil’s golden lion tamarin: Yellow fever

Peter Yeung 26 Mar 2020

Turning the tide for an endangered crab species in the Philippines

Jen Chan 12 Mar 2020

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