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White-bellied pangolin (Phataginus tricuspis), Gabon. Image by bureaubenjamin via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Pandemic-era slump in ivory and pangolin scale trafficking persists, report finds

Spoorthy Raman 17 Jun 2025

Indonesia convicts trafficking accomplice in a Javan rhino poaching scandal

Donny Iqbal 28 May 2025

Sumatran tiger protection needs more patrols, tougher penalties, study finds

Basten Gokkon 15 May 2025
A chimpanzee of Mikeno Lodge in Virunga National Park, DRC. Image by Joseph King via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Poaching intensifies in M23-occupied areas of Virunga National Park

Mongabay.com 30 Apr 2025
The Bioko Drill (Mandrillus leucophaeus poensis), an endangered primate endemic to Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea, is highly valued for its taste, making it the most expensive wild meat on the market. Image by Ian Nichols.

An oil-rich West African island offers decades of insight into the wild meat trade

Spoorthy Raman 2 Apr 2025
A stocky man in a white cap and grey and white dashiki holds up a thick manila envelope of documents of his demolished property, red marker announcing its contents. Image courtesy Kemi Adelagun.

Nigeria’s new coastal highway runs over communities & biodiversity hotspots

Ini Ekott 30 Jan 2025
Sumatran tiger

Camera traps reveal little-known Sumatran tiger forests need better protection

Carolyn Cowan 20 Nov 2024
Loxodonta africana cyclotis. Forest elephant bull Gamba, Gabon. Image by WWF / Hervé MORAND with courtesy.

WWF report offers glimmer of conservation hope — yet warns of a planet in peril

Anne Nzouankeu, David Akana 10 Oct 2024

More alarms over Indonesia rhino poaching after latest trafficking bust

Donny Iqbal, Nopri Ismi 5 Sep 2024

Javan rhino poaching saga reveals serious security lapse

Mongabay-indonesia 2 Aug 2024
Male tiger camera trap image

Thai tiger numbers swell as prey populations stabilize in western forests

Carolyn Cowan 17 Jul 2024

Study challenges use of charismatic wildlife as umbrella species for conservation

Basten Gokkon 20 Apr 2024
Male Javan rhino calf named Luther with his mother in 2020.

New calf, same threats: Javan rhinos continue to reproduce despite perils

Jeremy Hance 19 Apr 2024
Photo of the captive bay cat in 2008.

On the trail of Borneo’s bay cat, one of the world’s most mysterious felines

Jeremy Hance 15 Apr 2024

Skywalker gibbons confirmed in Myanmar for the first time

Carolyn Cowan 26 Feb 2024

Colombia adds hundreds of species to list of threatened flora and fauna

Maxwell Radwin 22 Feb 2024
A Geoffroy's spider monkey

Tech to recover rainforest: Interview with Osa Conservation’s Carolina Pinto & Paulina Rodriguez

Abhishyant Kidangoor 21 Feb 2024
A female western hoolock gibbon with its baby.

Herbicide used in Bangladesh tea production threatens biodiversity & health

Farhana Parvin 19 Feb 2024

In PNG, researchers record 9 new species of predatory hermaphroditic land snails

Spoorthy Raman 24 Jan 2024
The newly spotted female Javan rhino calf with its mother.

To help beleaguered Javan rhinos, study calls for tree felling, captive breeding

Jeremy Hance 27 Dec 2023
Anoriental pied hornbill (Anthracoceros albirostris)

Study: Singapore biodiversity loss is bad — but not as bad as previous estimate

Spoorthy Raman 22 Dec 2023

Iconic Indonesian raptor still threatened by habitat degradation, isolation

Basten Gokkon 12 Dec 2023

Collaboration key to rediscovery of egg-laying mammal in Papua’s Cyclops Mountains

Basten Gokkon 28 Nov 2023

Boost for Sumatran rhino IVF plan as eggs extracted from Bornean specimen

Basten Gokkon 8 Nov 2023
Skywalker hoolock gibbon

Myanmar’s primates and their guardians need more support, study says

Carolyn Cowan 30 Oct 2023

Indonesia reports a new Javan rhino calf, but population doubts persist

Basten Gokkon 6 Oct 2023
A red-breasted parakeet.

When it rains, it pours: Bangladesh wildlife trade booms during monsoon

Mahadi Al Hasnat 21 Aug 2023
A rescued falcon, likely a peregrine

Falcon trafficking soars in Middle East, fueled by conflict and poverty

Lyse Mauvais 10 Aug 2023

Trapping holds back speed of bird recovery in a Sumatran forest, study shows

Basten Gokkon 11 May 2023
An eastern chimpanzee

Ground-nesting chimps hold lessons for conservation — and for human evolution

Ini Ekott 27 Apr 2023

New ‘snug,’ a snail with a too-small shell, described from Brunei rainforest

Basten Gokkon 27 Apr 2023

Flawed count puts ‘glorified’ Javan rhinos on path to extinction, report says

Basten Gokkon 11 Apr 2023

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