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Conservation Response Unit team in Cot Girek pose while also trying to control Marni the elephant.

Life in the awe-and-terror-inspiring vicinity of the Sumatran elephant

Philip Jacobson 20 Oct 2022
Jaguar skin for sale at the Belen market

A fast-growing pipeline: The Amazon-to-Southeast Asia wildlife trade

Sharon Guynup 18 Oct 2022

Heat-sensing drone cameras spy threats to sea turtle nests

Liz Kimbrough 17 Oct 2022
A black rhino recently dehorned.

Poaching surges in the birthplace of white rhino conservation

Jim Tan 14 Oct 2022
A jaguar swims across a river.

Community study sheds light on wild cat killings in Brazil’s central Amazon

Sean Mowbray 14 Oct 2022
People wait on the Kasai bank to cross the river.

The mine leak was bad. The DRC and Angola’s response are no better, report says

Anna Weekes 4 Oct 2022
A veriety of drugs in vials and an IV bottle.

Humans are dosing Earth’s waterways with medicines. It isn’t healthy.

Malavika Vyawahare 22 Sep 2022
Two chimpanzees in the wild

Trafficked: Kidnapped chimps, jailed rhino horn traffickers, and seized donkey parts

Mongabay.com 21 Sep 2022
A mona monkey (Cercopithecus mona), one of the many species that inhabit Stubbs Creek Forest Reserve. Image by AlexisENVN via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

New oil refinery ‘a huge disaster’ for Nigerian forest reserve

Orji Sunday 20 Sep 2022

Indonesia urged to update fisher training program to international standards

Basten Gokkon 13 Sep 2022
Elephants in Zimbabwe.

As poachers poison wildlife, Zimbabwe finds an antidote in tougher laws

Ryan Truscott 12 Sep 2022
A turtle hatchling

In Indonesia’s West Sumbawa, tide turns on taste for turtle eggs

Fathul Rakhman 7 Sep 2022
Migrant fishers haul a shark aboard DOF’s Long Xing 621 vessel in the mid-Atlantic in September 2021. Image by Tommy Trenchard for Greenpeace.

Indonesia pursues agreements to protect its fishers on foreign vessels

Basten Gokkon 6 Sep 2022
Clouded leopard

Southeast Asia’s big cats like their prey rare — as in really elusive

Carolyn Cowan 6 Sep 2022
A miner panning for gold in a gold-bearing basin using mercury

Chinese companies criticized for mercury pollution in Cameroon

Christophe Nyemeck Beat 5 Sep 2022
A boy sorts through the waste in a landfill

Weak waste management leaves Dhaka communities at risk from landfill sites

S.M. Najmus Sakib 2 Sep 2022
Residents paddle a boat down a flooded street in Bojongasih village.

Java communities rally as clock ticks on cleanup of ‘world’s dirtiest river’

Donny Iqbal 31 Aug 2022
A leopard in a tree

Snares: Low-tech, low-profile killers of rare wildlife the world over

Laurel Neme 18 Aug 2022
Gorillas in Cameroon.

Private road sparks fears for Cameroon’s Ebo Forest

Amindeh Blaise Atabong 10 Aug 2022

Study warns of increased poaching if road through Brazil’s Iguaçu is reopened

Suzana Camargo 8 Aug 2022
A crane lifts an elephant into a truck.

Jumbo task as Malawi moves 263 elephants to restock a degraded national park

Charles Mpaka 5 Aug 2022
A white rhino browsing grass. Image by Brook Ward via Flickr (CC BY-NC-2.0)

Mozambique busts notorious rhino poacher

Estacio Valoi 1 Aug 2022
White-backed vulture (Gyps africanus) adult landing composite, Etosha National Park, Namibia. Photo credit: Charles J. Sharp

Cheetah reintroduction in Malawi brings vultures back to the skies

Ryan Truscott 25 Jul 2022
A tiger in Russia. Image courtesy of Panthera.

Tigers may avoid extinction, but we must aim higher (commentary)

John Goodrich 22 Jul 2022
Thuza and Kusasa the white rhinos.

White rhino conservation project attempts paradigm shift by including local community

Ryan Truscott 19 Jul 2022
Leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis).

Study assesses wildlife exposure to rat poison on oil palm plantations

Sean Mowbray 13 Jul 2022
Slow loris in cage

Myanmar wildlife trade remains opaque, despite focus on border hubs

Carolyn Cowan 7 Jul 2022
Fish killed by a mine tailings dam breach. Photo courtesy of Andrew Lees Trust.

On hazardous mine tailings dams, ‘safety first’ should be the rule (commentary)

Jan Morrill 6 Jul 2022
The Talaud bear cuscus.

To win island-wide conservation, Indonesia’s Talaud bear cuscus needs to win hearts

Sean Mowbray 22 Jun 2022
Christina Haverkamp (center), founder of the German NGO Hilfe Yanomami, with Indigenous children. The activist has been going to Brazil since the 1990s and says wildcat miners are disrupting the life of the Yanomami people. Image courtesy of Hilfe Yanomami.

At 30, Brazil’s Yanomami reserve is beset by mining, malaria and mercury

Peter Speetjens 9 Jun 2022

Indonesian official charged, but not jailed, for trading in Sumatran tiger parts

Junaidi Hanafiah 7 Jun 2022

Indonesia teams up with Germany on Sumatran rhino breeding efforts

Basten Gokkon 3 Jun 2022

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