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Wildlife rangers in Cambodia, Rhett Butler for Mongabay.

As COP15 approaches, ’30 by 30’ becomes a conservation battleground

Ashoka Mukpo 26 Aug 2021

New study finds that minority of animals host majority of zoonotic viruses

Michael Tatarski 5 Aug 2021

Address risky human activities now or face new pandemics, scientists warn

Sharon Guynup 3 Aug 2021

‘Stubborn optimism’ for elephants fuels Indigenous conservation effort

Mike Gaworecki 28 Jul 2021

Trafficking for traditional medicine threatens the Philippine porcupine

Keith Anthony Fabro 28 Jul 2021

Javan leopards, the dwindling ‘guardians’ of Java’s forests

Erik Hoffner 19 Jul 2021

Development of third Sumatran rhino sanctuary advances to save species

Junaidi Hanafiah 25 Jun 2021
Tourists in South Africa's Kruger National Park photograph wildlife. Image by Rhett Butler for Mongabay.

Private investors look to high-end tourism to fund conservation in Mozambique

Marlowe Starling 24 Jun 2021
Philippine tarsier

Researchers look to locals to fill knowledge gap on Philippine tarsier

Carolyn Cowan 21 Jun 2021

Tanzania’s “Ivory Queen” denied release after appeal

Lucy Taylor 17 Jun 2021
Elephants, Tanzania. Image by Consuelo Puchades via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND-2.0)

Poaching declines in Tanzania following prosecution of ivory trafficking ringleaders

Lucy Taylor 17 Jun 2021

After two collapses, a third Vale dam at ‘imminent risk of rupture’

Juliana Ennes 14 Jun 2021

Unregulated by U.S. at home, Facebook boosts wildlife trafficking abroad

Ian Morse 8 Jun 2021

CSI, but for parrots: Study applies criminological tool CRAAVED to wildlife trade

Grace Dungey, Nick Rodway 7 Jun 2021
Poached elephant in Garamba National Park, DRC. Image by Nuria Ortega/African Parks via Flickr

Tale of two traffickers is a rare spell of Congolese conservation convictions

Soraya Kishtwari 28 May 2021

South African dehorning initiative aims for ‘zero poached’ white rhinos

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 30 Apr 2021
A black rhino in Etosha National Park, Namibia. Image by Sonse, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

Saving our ‘Beloved Beasts’: Q&A with environmental journalist Michelle Nijhuis

John Cannon 22 Apr 2021

Life and new limbs: Creative thinking, 3D printers save injured wildlife

Laurel Neme 5 Apr 2021
Men sitting under roofed shelter in the Gabonese village of Massaha. Image courtesy Graden Froese.

Logging company moves into intact Gabon forest as village fights to save it

Benjamin Evine-Binet 31 Mar 2021

In Sumatra, a vulnerable, ‘mythical’ wild goat lives an unknown life

Ian Morse 31 Mar 2021

In Indonesia, an illegal leopard trade thrives out of sight, new study shows

Claudia Geib 24 Mar 2021

Thriving population of endangered monkeys gives hope to conservationists

Veronika Perkova 23 Mar 2021

The Covid-19 question: How do we prevent future pandemics?

Jeremy Hance 9 Mar 2021

The singing apes of Sumatra need rescuing, too (commentary)

Sinan Serhadli 3 Mar 2021

Chinese triads target Bolivia’s jaguars in search of ‘American tiger’ parts

Vanessa Romo 2 Mar 2021

Organizations aim to block funds for East African oil pipeline

Mongabay.com 1 Mar 2021

Jaguars in Suriname’s protected parks remain vulnerable to poaching

Vanessa Romo 26 Feb 2021
A Bornean orangutan. Image by John C. Cannon/Mongabay.

Forest patches amid agriculture are key to orangutan survival: Study

John Cannon 26 Feb 2021
A lemur tree frog (Hylomantis lemur) in Costa Rica. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

U.N. report lays out blueprint to end ‘suicidal war on nature’

John Cannon 19 Feb 2021

Fake it till you save it? Synthetic animal parts pose a conservation conundrum

Claudia Geib 19 Feb 2021

Where oh where are the Sumatran rhinos?

Mongabay.com 18 Feb 2021
A Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus). Image by John C. Cannon/Mongabay.

Timber organization’s backing ‘one step’ toward ‘peace park’ in Borneo

John Cannon 26 Jan 2021

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