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Road to recovery: Five stories of species staging a comeback

Shreya Dasgupta 31 Dec 2025
George Teariki-Mataki Mateariki. Photo from Cook Islands Tourism

George Teariki-Mataki Mateariki, the Birdman of Atiu, has died, aged 67

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Dec 2025
A Campbell's keeled glass-snail with a number tag. Image courtesy of Junn Kitt Foon.

From ‘extinct’ to growing, a rare snail returns to the wild in Australia

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Dec 2025
A Bali starling sings with its beak wide open

How Indonesian communities rescued the Bali starling from the brink of extinction

Mongabay.com 19 Nov 2025
A green turtle. Image by Bernard DUPONT via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Green turtle rebounds, moving from ‘endangered’ to ‘least concern’

Shreya Dasgupta 17 Oct 2025
Rodrigues fody by pierrickferret via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0).

20 animal species on the road to recovery: IUCN Red List update

Shreya Dasgupta 16 Oct 2025
A Bali starling sings with its beak wide open

Indigenous-led protections spark Bali starling’s recovery in the wild

Heather Physioc 2 Oct 2025
The critically endangered western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) is found in both protected and unprotected forests in southeastern Cameroon. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

World Gorilla Day: What imperils our powerful cousins, and what brings hope

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Sep 2025
Leopard shark. Photo by Alex Kydd.

Can we undo extinction? A growing effort to restore lost sharks

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Aug 2025

How a gecko species defied extinction on a Galápagos island

Liz Kimbrough 8 Aug 2025
An adult female kākāpō (Strigops habroptila) in a tree at night. Kākāpō are nocturnal and flightless. Image by Andrew Digby/New Zealand Department of Conservation.

World Nature Conservation Day: How a large, flightless parrot rebounded from the verge of extinction

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Jul 2025

Artificial nests help a rare Brazilian parrot bounce back

Mongabay.com 16 Jun 2025
jaguar

Jaguar recovery unites Brazil and Argentina in conservation effort

Sarah Brown 11 Jun 2025
An okapi at Bronx Zoo in the United States. Image by Ryan Schwark via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).

Endangered Species Day: Three animals on the path to recovery

Shanna Hanbury 16 May 2025

Back to the skies: the unlikely comeback of one of Brazil’s rarest parrots

Xavier Bartaburu 14 Apr 2025

Road to recovery: Wild animals staging a comeback in 2024

Shreya Dasgupta 31 Dec 2024

Incredibly rare Iberian lynx making a “dramatic recovery”

Shreya Dasgupta 20 Jul 2024

Rare, critically endangered gecko making dramatic recovery in Caribbean

Maxwell Radwin 2 Dec 2022

Chile’s burrowing parrot marks 35 years of a slow but successful recovery

Alejandra Olguín 24 Nov 2021

With new protections, saiga antelope may continue to be a symbol of Central Asia (commentary)

Enkhtuvshin Shiilegdamba 30 Aug 2019

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