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Rafflesia flower.

Philippines research offers hope for conserving enigmatic Rafflesia plants

Mikael Angelo S. Francisco 3 Jul 2023
A park blooming with more blue camas.

Volunteers, First Nations work to bring back a disappearing oak prairie

Spoorthy Raman 19 Jun 2023
A lioness with cubs

Return of the lions: Large protected areas in Africa attract apex predator

Petro Kotzé 13 Jun 2023
An African elephant.

Global study of 71,000 animal species finds 48% are declining

Sharon Guynup 5 Jun 2023
A European eel (Anguilla anguilla) underwater.

Conservationists aim to save critically endangered European eels on Italy’s Po River

Lucrezia Lozza 26 May 2023
A Sumatran rhinoceros in Indonesia. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

‘I’m not distressed, I’m just pissed off’: Q&A with Sumatran rhino expert John Payne

Jeremy Hance 11 May 2023
A Himalayan griffon (Gyps himalayensis).

Bangladesh’s vultures still threatened by poison despite conservation actions

Abu Siddique 28 Apr 2023

Bankrolling biodiversity: How are private philanthropists investing in nature?

Daniel Pye 14 Apr 2023

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

Basten Gokkon 11 Apr 2023
West African lioness Florence with one of her cubs.

Video of rare West African lion cubs sparks hope for the population

Liz Kimbrough 17 Mar 2023
A Philippine eagle with its solar powered GPS tracker harnessed on its back.

New map boosts Philippine eagle population estimate, but highlights threats

Keith Anthony Fabro 14 Mar 2023
Przewalski horses and foal at ZSL's conservation Zoo at Whipsnade.

Last chance: Study highlights perilous state of ‘extinct in the wild’ species

Liz Kimbrough 14 Mar 2023

Goodbye to blue skies? The trouble with engineered solutions

Mike DiGirolamo 21 Feb 2023
Two researchers measuring a Victoria boliviana leaf.

Kew Gardens joins local partners to save tropical plants from extinction

Sue Branford 15 Feb 2023
Blacktip sharks and remoras.

Study: Paying fishers to ease off sharks and rays is cost-effective conservation

Cassie Freund 6 Feb 2023
A crab-eating frog.

EU demand for frogs’ legs raises risks of local extinctions, experts warn

Sean Mowbray 23 Jan 2023

At COP 15, biodiversity finance, Indigenous rights, and corporate influence

Mike DiGirolamo 11 Jan 2023

Top 15 species discoveries from 2022 (Photos)

Liz Kimbrough 29 Dec 2022
A harpy eagle.

Bird declines boost case for transformative biodiversity agreement in Montreal

John Cannon 29 Nov 2022

New protections for sharks, songbirds, frogs and more at CITES trade summit

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 25 Nov 2022

Conservationists play matchmaker to boost Argentina’s jaguar gene pool

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 23 Nov 2022

Will shipping noise nudge Africa’s only penguin toward extinction?

Leonie Joubert 21 Nov 2022
Long-tailed macaques roam free across the Angkor Wat temple complex

Alleged macaque-smuggling ring exposed as U.S. indicts Cambodian officials

Gerald Flynn 18 Nov 2022
An African penguin standing sleepily in a patch of green. Image by Alberto Ziveri via Flickr (BY-SA 2.0)

Breeding success raises hopes for future of endangered African penguin

Ryan Truscott 15 Nov 2022

Stem cells may make ‘impossible possible’ for near-extinct Sumatran rhino

Basten Gokkon 15 Nov 2022

Amid Mexico’s Day of the Dead, a fish declared extinct comes back to life

Liz Kimbrough 8 Nov 2022
A family clears overgrown aquatic weeds in a wetland.

Habitat loss, climate change threaten Bangladesh’s native freshwater fishes with extinction

Rafiqul Islam 20 Oct 2022
A black rhino recently dehorned.

Poaching surges in the birthplace of white rhino conservation

Jim Tan 14 Oct 2022

Eight new-to-science geckos described from biodiversity haven Madagascar

Liz Kimbrough 15 Sep 2022
Children fishing in Thailand.

‘It sustains us all’: IPBES report calls for accounting of nature’s diverse values

John Cannon 4 Aug 2022
A young birder from the United States, Heather Levy, scanning for imperial parrots at a viewpoint in Dominica’s Morne Diablotin National Park. Image by Peter Kleinhenz for Mongabay.

Parrots of the Caribbean: Birding tourism offers hope for threatened species

Peter Kleinhenz 29 Jun 2022
African buffalo in Kenya. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Latest ‘plan for the planet’ calls for protecting 44% of land, home to 1.8b humans

Malavika Vyawahare 14 Jun 2022

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