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A ‘devil-like’ flower from Thailand is new to science — and critically endangered

Naina Rao 23 Sep 2026
An adult orangutan drinking from a peat river in the Tanjung Puting National Park area, Central Kalimantan.

As fires spread in Indonesia, Bornean orangutans run out of forest to flee

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Sep 2026

Photographing Sri Lanka’s human-elephant conflict — Interview with Federico Borella

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 22 Sep 2026

As drought shrinks Sri Lanka’s water holes, poisoning poses threat to wildlife

Malaka Rodrigo 17 Sep 2026

Lack of data hinders fight against environmental crimes in Angola, says environmentalist

David Tjyakala 11 Sep 2026
DO NOT REUSE A Rüppell's vulture, in Boma National Park, South Sudan. Image © Marcus Westberg.

World Heritage status for South Sudan parks will be a boon for the birds

Ryan Truscott 7 Sep 2026

Repeal of US Roadless Rule could threaten drinking water for 25 million people

Liz Kimbrough 3 Sep 2026

Women farmers in Sumatra find a gentler way to keep elephants at bay

Mongabay.com 3 Sep 2026

DNA analysis of Asiatic wild dogs scat in India reveals wild prey preference

Mongabay.com 25 Aug 2026

This tiny Thai lizard shares its name with a ‘House of the Dragon’ beast

Naina Rao 21 Aug 2026
A snow leopard photographed in Nepal. Image courtesy of WWF Nepal.

Nepal pushes for hydropower in protected areas through legal grey area

Rudra Pangeni 20 Aug 2026

Nepal’s newest national parks drive tiger recovery, but emerging concerns threaten progress

Mongabay.com 18 Aug 2026
Ernita, farmer and member of women’s group Perbani, grows citrus trees on the perimeter of her oil palm farm, on the buffer zone of Tesso Nilo National Park, to drive away elephants. Image by Suryadi/Mongabay Indonesia.

How women farmers are helping elephants and forests in a Sumatran national park

Suryadi, Yenni Kwok 14 Aug 2026

Wildfire ravages Indonesia’s Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park

Naina Rao 11 Aug 2026
Thermal imagery captured by a drone used by a ranger unit in Amboseli. Image courtesy of Big Life Foundation.

Thermal drones deployed in Kenya’s Amboseli Park to tackle human-elephant conflict

Aimable Twahirwa 7 Aug 2026
A Bengal tiger in Nepal's Terai Arc Landscape.

Nepal’s newest national parks drive tiger recovery, but new concerns arise

Abhaya Raj Joshi 5 Aug 2026

International Tiger Day: A complex landscape of recovery, conflict, and empty forests

Mongabay.com 29 Jul 2026

Conservationists got delayed access to court-ordered inspection of Nairobi National Park

Lynet Otieno 24 Jul 2026

As Sri Lanka braces for El Niño, national parks are a concern amidst encroachment

Kamanthi Wickramasinghe 21 Jul 2026
An adult cheetah spotted at a monitoring site in Limpopo Province. In the background is a still closed trap cage, which was placed there during the census to capture cheetahs for collaring. Image courtesy of the Ashia Cheetah Conservation.

South Africa’s free-roaming cheetahs in steep decline, first national census finds

Victoria Schneider 15 Jul 2026

Pangolin habitat at risk in Pakistan

Mongabay.com 13 Jul 2026
A native Yellowstone cutthroat trout. Image courtesy of Jay Fleming via National Park Service.

Like wolves, non-native lake trout have radically altered Yellowstone ecosystems (commentary)

Lyle Lewis 8 Jul 2026
A leopard in Pendjari NP, in 2022. Camera traps were placed along likely travel routes and positioned to photograph both sides of the leopards to aid with identification. The researchers were able to identify 30 individual leopards from their unique spot patterns. Image courtesy of ZSL-CCI/Panthera/APN-Pendjari National Park.

Endangered West African leopards show signs of recovery, despite odds. ‘It’s a win’

Ruth Kamnitzer 2 Jul 2026

Conservation efforts by families displaced for national park sees success in DRC

Mongabay.com 19 Jun 2026
The white-necked picathartes (Picathartes gymnocephalus) near its nesting colony in the south of Taï National Park.

In search of the ‘rare and beautiful’ in an Ivorian rainforest

Ryan Truscott 18 Jun 2026
Banner image: Rhino released into the boma, a large wildlife enclosure, inside Zinave National Park’s rhino sanctuary. Image © Peace Parks Foundation.

Mozambique completes first white rhino breeding population in decades

Shanna Hanbury 12 Jun 2026
Bonobos in Salonga National Park, the largest tropical rainforest national park in Africa. Researchers are working to habituate wild bonobos to human presence in an effort to support conservation and scientific research. Photo by Alice Péretié / Chengeta Wildlife.

Four years to earn their trust: Habituating bonobos in DRC’s Salonga National Park

David Akana 11 Jun 2026

Kenya’s former Chief Justice David Maraga arrested at protest of national park construction

Associated Press 9 Jun 2026
“For mothers and young elephants, Dzanga Bai becomes something of a playground and a very safe place,” says Ivonne Kienast, project manager and head researcher of the Dzanga Forest Elephant Project. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Mongabay Africa’s most-read stories so far in 2026

Mongabay.org 5 Jun 2026

Canadian government endorses a plan to move whales from shuttered Marineland park to US and Spain

Associated Press 4 Jun 2026
Gangala Yafali Mangusa Jr. poses for a photo after a community meeting on social cohesion within the Local Community Forest Concession (CFCL). Image by Jéremie Kyaswekera Kakule.

Descendants of people pushed out for DRC national park lead forest conservation efforts

Jérémie Kyaswekera 2 Jun 2026

Brazil has protected much of the Amazon. It now has to pay for it.

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 May 2026

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