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Bouba Ndjida is one of the only sites in Central Africa where we are seeing the early signs of recovery in the population.

Northern Cameroon’s lions are reproducing, but concerns remain

Leocadia Bongben 30 Sep 2025

Rewilding project aims to restore resilience to fire-prone Spain via wildlife

Jeremy Hance 28 Aug 2025
Flowers and leaves of the Vanda thwaitesii.

After 160 years, an old drawing leads scientists to a long-lost Sri Lanka orchid

Malaka Rodrigo 28 Aug 2025

New report warns 54% of turtles and tortoises are at risk of extinction

Liz Kimbrough 15 Aug 2025
Banner image: A lion guarding its territory in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania. Image by Giles Laurent via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

World lion day: Why is the king of the savanna declining?

Kristine Sabillo 8 Aug 2025

Eurasian otter sighting in Nepal’s Karnali River cause for hope and concern

Mongabay.com 21 Jul 2025
Banner image of the black dwarfgoby courtesy of M.V. Erdmann.

Darkest-ever dwarfgoby fish gets named after Darth Vader

Kristine Sabillo 21 Jul 2025
Banner image: (L-R) the eastern kultarr (image by Pat Woolley), the gibber kultarr and the long-eared kultarr (images by Ken Johnson).

Small Australian carnivorous marsupial reclassified as 3 species: Study

Kristine Sabillo 17 Jul 2025

Sri Lanka’s plant messiah spreads optimism for biodiversity & conservation

Rohan Pethiyagoda 17 Jul 2025
Banner image of experts using NIR technology for laboratory analyses. Image by Miguel Monteiro.

‘Revolutionary technology’ uses scanners for easier species detection in the wild

Mongabay.com 15 Jul 2025
The Andean cat is a rare and endangered species highly specialized to life in the high Andes. It’s estimated that around 2,000 mature individuals, living in fragmented populations, are spread very thinly over a vast alpine expanse in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Peru.

Endangered Andean cat is imperiled by climate change and its solutions

Sean Mowbray 10 Jul 2025
Tyler Kartzinel’s research highlighted the gaps in DNA reference databases in tropical biodiversity hotspots.

DNA sequencing to meet global biodiversity goals: Interview with Tyler Kartzinel

Abhishyant Kidangoor 25 Jun 2025
Banner image of a jaguar with a fish, courtesy of Andrea Reyes/Jaguares en la Selva.

How Costa Rica’s ranchers contribute to jaguar and puma conservation

Mongabay.com 28 May 2025
Planted forest in Panama.

Why biological diversity should be at the heart of conservation

Kristine Sabillo 21 May 2025
Banner image of Lily-Arison René de Roland, courtesy of The Indianapolis Prize.

Malagasy wildlife champion wins top global conservation award

Kristine Sabillo 15 May 2025

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

Basten Gokkon 15 May 2025

A migrating flycatcher returning to the same Sri Lankan garden sparks interest in birders

Malaka Rodrigo 11 May 2025
Banner image of a pair of Baudin's black-cockatoo by dbmcc09 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).

Australia’s environment minister sued for failure to act on threatened species

Kristine Sabillo 31 Mar 2025
Two Sumatran rhinos. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Life on Earth is changing — not just in numbers, but in essence

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Mar 2025
Researchers find a new killifish species, Nothobranchius sylvaticus, in an an ephemeral swamp in the Gongoni Forest Reserve in Kenya. Image by Dirk Bellstedt.

Researchers find new killifish species in Kenya

Gilbert Nakweya 27 Mar 2025

A century later, a rare mushroom with a curious shape emerges in Sri Lanka

Malaka Rodrigo 26 Mar 2025
INQUIRE, a dataset and evaluation tool, gauges how AI models perform when asked to extract extra information from wildlife photos captured by citizen scientists. The three images (above), showing hermit frogs caught in plastic trash, were clicked by citizen scientists and were used to train the dataset. Images by mferrla (left), anacarohdez (middle) and lexthelearner (right)/iNaturalist.

AI can already identify species in photos. Can it extract even more data?

Abhishyant Kidangoor 5 Feb 2025
A golden shrimp plant (Pachystachys lutea) in Missouri Botanical Garden.

Digitizing 6 million plant specimens: Interview with Gunter Fischer & Jordan Teisher

Abhishyant Kidangoor 24 Jan 2025
Banner image of a Palau nautilus, courtesy of the Ocean Exploration Trust.

Research vessel E/V Nautilus spots multiple nautiluses for the first time

Kristine Sabillo 12 Dec 2024

Slender-billed curlew, a bird last photographed in 1995, is likely extinct

Shreya Dasgupta 21 Nov 2024
The genetically confirmed hybrid (right) with its capped langur mother at Satchari National Park.

Langurs in Bangladesh face extinction as hybridization between species escalates

Mohammad Al-Masum Molla 25 Oct 2024

Study challenges use of charismatic wildlife as umbrella species for conservation

Basten Gokkon 20 Apr 2024
The 2024 paper proposes Leopardus pardinoides, or the clouded tiger cat, as a new species. This small wildcat is found in the cloud forests of Costa Rica, south to Panama, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and Argentina. Image courtesy of Johanes Pfleiderer. Article title - A tiger cat gains new species designation, but conservation challenges remain

A tiger cat gains new species designation, but conservation challenges remain

Sean Mowbray 5 Apr 2024
A whale shark with remoras.

Summit on migratory species sides with science, throws shade on deep-sea mining

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 23 Feb 2024

Bid to mitigate gold mine’s impact on orangutans hit by stonewalling, data secrecy

Hans Nicholas Jong 2 Feb 2024
A captive-bred Karoo dwarf tortoise hatchling. Image courtesy Victor Loehr.

Study: Tiny tortoise may play large role in South Africa’s Karoo landscape

Sean Mowbray 3 Jan 2024

Track-a-mole: Sniffer dog and eDNA help ‘rediscover’ South African golden mole

Liz Kimbrough 29 Nov 2023

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