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Anti-poaching officers and Forest rangers in Pu Mat

‘A targeted, data-driven approach’: Interview with Vietnam’s antipoaching unit

Campbell Rusden 7 Jul 2026
Yellow-billed kites are found across Africa and play an important role in keeping ecosystems healthy as one of the most common scavengers.

Belief-based use increasing threat to yellow-billed kite, an important African scavenger

Sean Mowbray 7 Jul 2026
A Sumatran tiger, estimated to be 11 months old, was caught in a snare in Rao Utara district, Pasaman Regency, May 21, 2026.

Crackdown on snares in Sumatra as elephant, sun bear and tiger rescued

Jaka Hendra Baittri, Vinolia 25 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
While caracals are classified as species of least concern overall, some populations are seriously declining, with some local extinctions; rodenticides join habitat loss, hunting, conflict with humans and other threats to their survival.

Rodent-killing baits threaten small wild cats and other wildlife

Sean Mowbray 23 Jun 2026

Power lines threaten Sri Lanka’s iconic migrant flamingos

Mongabay.com 22 Jun 2026
A ranger measuring a turtle’s shell and collecting data at the Canto camp. Image courtesy of The Turtle Foundation.

Sea turtle hunters become their protectors in Cabo Verde

Mongabay.com 17 Jun 2026
A rhino mother and calf in Manas National Park. Image courtesy of Deba Kumar Dutta.

Rhinos reintroduced to Indian park are breeding, but still need support

Mongabay.com 10 Jun 2026
Elephant, Serengeti, Tanzania. Image by sama093 via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Huge ivory bust raises questions about follow-up investigations in Tanzania

Charles Mpaka 8 Jun 2026

Sri Lanka flamingo deaths raise concerns over power infrastructure in wetlands

Malaka Rodrigo 29 May 2026
Illegal sand and gold mining

Indonesia seizes mercury shipment bound for illegal mines in the Philippines

Anggita Raissa 26 May 2026
Rhino populations across their ranges in Africa and Asia are threatened by poaching for their horns, which are in demand in China and Vietnam for medicinal uses and as a luxury item.

Rhino-poaching suspect, repeatedly freed on bail, shot dead in South Africa

Spoorthy Raman 23 May 2026
White-bellied pangolin (Phataginus tricuspis) in Ondo state, Nigeria. Adedotun Ajibade via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Nigeria aims for stronger wildlife protections with sweeping new law

Valentine Benjamin 12 May 2026
Lanal Banten (Banten Navy Base) displays hundreds of kilograms of pangolin scales seized from a Vietnamese-flagged vessel.

Investigators eye organized crime links in 3-ton pangolin scale haul at Jakarta port

Anggita Raissa 24 Apr 2026
Mountain gorillas continue to face serious threats as they lose habitat and are stalked by poachers who target them for their meat and body parts, or traffic their infants for zoos and entertainment.

Amid conflict and poaching, tech helps boost mountain gorilla numbers

Aimable Twahirwa 23 Apr 2026
Black rhinos are critically endangered.

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

Spoorthy Raman 21 Apr 2026
The King River enters Macquarie Harbour, where decades of mining have contributed to contaminated sediment buildup at the river’s delta. Image by Stefan Lovgren.

In Tasmania, the mines have closed but the rivers remember

Stefan Lovgren 16 Apr 2026
Cowboy boots made from the skin of the giant Amazon pirarucu fish

Cowboy boots can save an Amazonian river giant

Julia Lima 7 Apr 2026
Rangers prepare to load a rhino into a crate at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary, Uganda. Image courtesy of UWA.

Decades after poaching drove them extinct, rhinos are back in the wild in Uganda

Benjamin Jumbe 31 Mar 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

Zambia seizes half-ton of ivory in major illegal wildlife crime operation

Charles Mpaka 28 Mar 2026
Hooded vultures are small, scruffy-faced vultures native to sub-Saharan Africa.

‘Staggering’ trade for belief-based use drives hooded vultures to near-extinction in Benin

Spoorthy Raman 25 Mar 2026
Officers display pangolin scales intended for smuggling into Cambodia.

Jakarta port authorities seize 3 tons of pangolin scales in Cambodia-bound container

Anggita Raissa 20 Mar 2026

Facebook shuts Indonesia groups after Mongabay and Bellingcat report illegal wildlife trade

Achmad Rizki Muazam, Foeke Postma 19 Mar 2026
Sea turtles, another migratory species, need safe ocean passageways to move between feeding grounds and nesting beaches.

Outlook for migratory species worsens amid habitat loss & avian flu, report finds

Gloria Dickie 12 Mar 2026
With striking orange and black streaks on their wings, painted woolly bats are one of the most colorful bats in the world.

U.S.’ hunger for Halloween trinkets is killing Vietnam’s painted woolly bats

Spoorthy Raman 9 Mar 2026
The electric current flowing through the fences not only endangers elephants but also humans and other wildlife.

Electrocution, conflict, poaching mark grim start to year for Sumatran elephants

Junaidi Hanafiah 9 Mar 2026

This bird is disappearing from Indonesia’s forests for its song

Mongabay.com 6 Mar 2026
A vulture nesting colony on Ngethelewan, an inselberg located on the Boma plateau, in South Sudan.

Satellite images identify vulture breeding colonies by their droppings

Ryan Truscott 5 Mar 2026
A pack of lions in Botswana.

DNA fingerprinting convicts Zimbabwe lion poachers in landmark case

Spoorthy Raman 5 Mar 2026
A captive sand cat in Nushi, Pakistan. Illegal trade is occurring amid a paucity of information about population sizes of small cat populations, says Sheikh. “It's going under the radar to a big extent, and hardly anything is being done to actively stop it or to mitigate this threat.”

Big cats get the press, but small wildcats are being poached and trafficked in silence

Sean Mowbray 25 Feb 2026

Migrant fishers’ deaths at sea tied to unchecked captain power, study shows

Basten Gokkon 20 Feb 2026

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