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Winners of the annual Mangrove Photography Awards: See the photos

Bobby Bascomb 24 Jul 2026
Sand barges bearing the logo of Catalyst Marine and Resources documented in Trapeang Roung commune, Koh Kong province, Cambodia, by Mother Nature Cambodia activists in July 2026. Image supplied by Mother Nature Cambodia.

Activists allege Cambodia has resumed sea sand exports to Singapore

Gerald Flynn 21 Jul 2026
Félix Guillermo Moncada Gavilán

Félix Guillermo Moncada Gavilán helped move Cuba from sea turtle fishing to protection

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Jul 2026
Olive ridley sea turtle hatchlings walk to the sea in Mexico.

How a community is helping sea turtles hatch in the Philippines

Rachel Duckett 17 Jul 2026
Six-tubercled Amazon River turtle (Podocnemis sextoberculata). Image by © Andrés Camilo Montes-Correa via iNaturalist.

Brazil lists the Amazon river turtle as endangered for the first time

Karla Mendes 15 Jul 2026

The US government says habitat destruction no longer counts as ‘harm’ to endangered species

Bobby Bascomb 14 Jul 2026
Linda Ingham with Pacific white-sided dolphin caught in Japanese driftnet, north Pacific. Photo © Greenpeace / Roger Grace

A marine protected area can ban fishing boats. It cannot stop drifting gear

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Jul 2026
A red ruffed lemur in Madagascar.

Official tied to commercial breeding to represent US at global wildlife trade meeting

Spoorthy Raman 11 Jul 2026

Fossils reveal a prehistoric crocodile relative that walked on two legs

David Brown 30 Jun 2026
Tropical fire ants (Solenopsis geminata). Image by Francois Brassard.

Tiwi rangers eradicate invasive tropical fire ants in Australia’s Melville Island

Nick Rodway 22 Jun 2026

US moves to allow commercial fishing in Pacific marine protected areas

Bobby Bascomb 22 Jun 2026
Mona Khalil in 2002 at in Tyre. Photo by Jihad Seqlawi/AFP/Getty Images

Mona Khalil, who left safety in Europe to protect sea turtles in Lebanon, was killed by an Israeli airstrike

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Jun 2026

Museum DNA unmasks new Himalayan pit vipers, study says

Naina Rao 19 Jun 2026
At the La Trobe University campus, Ligia Pizzatto sorts through frozen turtle specimens she has collected over the course of her fieldwork. Most are very young, found dead by Pizzatto or her team of students and volunteers. Image by Ana Norman Bermudez.

Vanilla, fake eggs and nausea: How Australian scientists are training foxes to avoid turtle nests

Ana Norman Bermúdez 18 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

How a tiny blue gecko became a conservation comeback story

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Jun 2026
A loggerhead turtle swimming on rocky seafloor facing the camera.

Teeming with turtles: Cabo Verde island sees 80-fold increase in nesting loggerheads

André Habet 16 Jun 2026
Turquoise dwarf gecko (Lygodactylus williamsi). Image © Simon via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0).

How trade bans and local conservation helped save a dazzling blue gecko

Manuel Fonseca 6 Jun 2026

Tracking Lucero: Scientists follow a rare Eastern Pacific leatherback sea turtle

Bobby Bascomb 26 May 2026

World Turtle Day: Important conservation wins amid turtle extinction crisis

Mongabay.com 22 May 2026

Three Thai nationals suspected of smuggling Galápagos iguanas arrested in Ecuador

Spoorthy Raman 21 May 2026

Wetland destruction blamed for rise in croc attacks on Indonesia’s Bangka Island

Mongabay.com 13 May 2026

In Mozambique, four isolated mountains yield four new chameleon species

Naina Rao 8 May 2026
A Bengal tiger from Rajasthan, India. Poaching is one of the biggest threats to tigers, an endangered cat in Asia.

Facebook is a hub for illegal wildlife trade, and that’s by design, report says

Spoorthy Raman 5 May 2026
Siamese crocodile

Saving crocodiles from extinction

Abhishyant Kidangoor 28 Apr 2026
A blue-nosed chameleon (Calumma linotum) in Madagascar. Image by Julie Larsen.

A blue-nosed chameleon in Madagascar: Photo of the week

Shanna Hanbury 27 Apr 2026

After nearly a century, Taiwan’s legless lizard gets its own identity

Naina Rao 27 Apr 2026
A newly described species of skink named Kungaka

Indigenous knowledge helps identify new, highly threatened skink in Australia

Megan Strauss 24 Apr 2026
The saltwater crocodile — the world’s largest reptile — can exceed 6 meters (20 feet) in length

Wetland destruction for mining, oil palm tied to crocodile attacks in Indonesia

Taufik Wijaya 23 Apr 2026

Oil spill continues in Gulf of Mexico vulnerable habitats, while Pemex admits fault

Caitlin Cooper 22 Apr 2026
A mature Nile perch grows to an average 1.21 to 1.37 meters (4 to 4.5 feet).

From carp to hippos, 43% of large freshwater animal species spread far beyond native ranges

Shreya Dasgupta 16 Apr 2026

Council recommends opening US Pacific marine monuments to commercial fishing

Bobby Bascomb 13 Apr 2026

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