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A dhole in India.

Nepal launches plan to boost science, awareness to save dholes

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 Jun 2025

Broadway Mall rewilding brings native plants and wildlife to New York City

Bobby Bascomb 19 Jun 2025
Planted forest in Panama.

Why biological diversity should be at the heart of conservation

Kristine Sabillo 21 May 2025
Banner image of Max, a brown howler monkey, courtesy of Marcelo Rheingantz.

Brazil rewilds urban forest with vaccinated brown howler monkeys

Mongabay.com 20 May 2025

A rare jaguar rewilding story highlights obstacles to the big cat’s conservation in Brazil

Suzana Camargo 12 May 2025
An agamid lizard in a Chinese rainforest.

Diverse forests and forest rewilding offer resilience against climate change

Sean Mowbray 15 Apr 2025
Eurasian brown bear courtesy of Magnus Lundgren/Swedensbigfive.org.

Coexistence with Europe’s carnivores is possible (commentary)

John Linnell 10 Apr 2025
Sunset over Belize. Image courtesy of Chadwick Hagan.

Belize’s natural heritage deserves even stronger conservation strategies (commentary)

Chadwick Hagan 31 Mar 2025
A giant anteater in the Argentinian wetlands. Image courtesy of Rewilding Argentina.

World Rewilding Day: Four species bouncing back from the brink of extinction

Shanna Hanbury 19 Mar 2025
Banner image of a kākāriki karaka at Pukenui/Anchor Island, courtesy of RealNZ.

Critically endangered parakeets get a new home on New Zealand island

Kristine Sabillo 14 Mar 2025
An ocelot walks tentatively into a pre-release enclosure.

Getting rewilding right with the reintroduction of small wildcats

Sean Mowbray 18 Feb 2025
Plains Bison in the Background at the Wolakota Bison Release, Rosebud-Sioux Reservation, South Dakota, 10/30/2020

Scientists are tracking global wildlife’s contributions to humanity

John Cannon 23 Jan 2025
Banner image of one of the released elongated tortoises, courtesy of CCA.

Bangladesh sees first ever rewilding of captive-bred elongated tortoises

Kristine Sabillo 17 Jan 2025
Sharks cast aside after being finned.

No signs of slowdown in wildlife trafficking in 2024 as demand persists

Keith Anthony Fabro 25 Dec 2024

Rhino poop draws all the deer (and boars and more) to the yard, study finds

Abhaya Raj Joshi 26 Jul 2024
Results of Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration in Talensi District of Ghana. Image courtesy of World Vision.

Harnessing ‘invisible forests in plain view’ to reforest the world

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 16 Jul 2024
A Spix’s macaw at São Paulo Zoo in Brazil. The species’ return to its native habitat, from which it was declared extinct, has been bittersweet: the rewilding program has been a technical success, but bureaucratic wrangling threatens to stall future releases. Image courtesy of São Paulo Zoo. Used in article 'Institutional conflict puts successful Spix’s macaw reintroduction at risk'.

Institutional conflict puts successful Spix’s macaw reintroduction at risk

Bernardo Araujo 16 Jul 2024
Spix’s macaws in a specially built enclosure at São Paulo Zoo in Brazil. The zoo currently holds 27 of the birds, with a maximum capacity of 44. But this on its own wouldn’t be enough to supply the rewilding target of 20 birds per year. Image courtesy of São Paulo Zoo. Used in article 'For ‘extinct’ Spix’s macaw, successful comeback is overshadowed by uncertainty'

For ‘extinct’ Spix’s macaw, successful comeback is overshadowed by uncertainty

Bernardo Araujo 15 Jul 2024
oriental pied hornbill

New database unveils the role of Asian hornbills as forest seed dispersers

Carolyn Cowan 15 May 2024

Brazil takes pioneering action — and a vaccine — to rewild howler monkeys

Bernardo Araujo 10 May 2024

Rewilding program ships eggs around the world to restore Raja Ampat zebra sharks

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Apr 2024

Spotted softshell turtle release boosts reptile conservation in Vietnam

Carolyn Cowan 4 Apr 2024
A rhino in Chitwan National Park.

Nepali experts question rhino relocation within park for population balance

Abhaya Raj Joshi 28 Mar 2024

Rewilding Ireland: Healing from a history of deforestation, one tree at a time

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 27 Feb 2024
Dholes (Cuon alpinus) hunting a spotted deer in Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve, Maharashtra, India.

Dholes latest wild canids likely making comeback in Nepal, study shows

Abhaya Raj Joshi 27 Feb 2024
A car burns with two people inside, after a Russian bombardment in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Thursday, April 21, 2022. Image by AP Photo/Felipe Dana via Flickr.

Nature-based recovery needed for Ukraine’s damaged protected areas (analysis)

Hannah L. Timmins 22 Dec 2023
A ranger planting a tree.

Wild by nature: Ecological restoration brings humanity and biodiversity together

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 12 Dec 2023
Llamas moving through the harsh post-glacial landscape below the Uruashraju glacier. Photo credit: Anaïs Zimmer

Llama herding helps community in Peru recover from a melting glacier

Sierra Bouchér 27 Nov 2023
16 February, 2023 - Sal Sophea Peanich economic land concession, Stung Treng Province (Cambodia). A timber processing facility and depot within the Sal Sophea Peanich economic land concession (8,645 hectares) that was issued in August 2005 as a rubber plantation. Satellite imagery reveals that clearing of a forested section adjacent to the depot started around October 2021. Image by Andy Ball / Mongabay.

Calls grow to repurpose land squandered in Cambodia’s concession policy

Gerald Flynn 8 Nov 2023

Conservationists urge caution as Nepal to gift more rhinos to China

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 Sep 2023
Young beaver grooming itself. Image courtesy of Cheryl Reynolds via Wikimedia Commons.

NASA satellites reveal restoration power of beavers

Jeremy Hance 11 Sep 2023
An Old English Longhorn at Knepp. Disturbance from large herbivores has restored this landscape by reactivating natural processes that foster healthy ecology.

From debt to diversity: A journey of rewilding, carbon capture and hope

Elizabeth Fitt 9 Aug 2023

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