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Scientists have produced possibly the largest database of GPS-collared elephants containing 4 million data points.

Jumbo collaring effort reveals key elephant movement corridors

Abhishyant Kidangoor 25 Sep 2024
A saltwater crocodile basking on the bank of a pond in Karamjol Crocodile Breeding Centre.

Bangladesh uses satellite transmitters on saltwater crocodiles in Asia’s first

Rafiqul Islam 22 Apr 2024
Amazon river dolphins (Inia geoffrensis). Image courtesy of WWF Sweden.

Ancient giant river dolphin species found in the Peruvian Amazon

Liz Kimbrough 20 Mar 2024
A yellow-legged hornet "hawking," hovering in front of a honeybee hive to pick slower-moving bees out of midair.

Mini radio tags help track ‘murder hornets’ and other invasive insects

Claudia Geib 14 Mar 2024
Prairie dogs, from the same family of animals as squirrels, are considered a keystone species in grasslands.

New trackers bring prairie dogs’ little-known underground life to light

Abhishyant Kidangoor 7 Mar 2024

AI unlocks secrets of Amazon river dolphins’ behavior, no tagging required

Liz Kimbrough 1 Aug 2023
A researcher takes an ultrasound reading from a whale shark.

Uterine implants and underwater ultrasounds aim to demystify shark births

Abhishyant Kidangoor 7 Apr 2023

‘Fitbit for whales’ and other tagging tech help reshape wildlife conservation

Abhishyant Kidangoor 30 Jun 2022

Herd opportunity: Hundreds of elephants return to DRC’s Virunga

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 10 Dec 2020
A tourist boat in Donsol joins several others in search of whale sharks. Image by Nina Unlay.

What happens to an ecotourism town when the wildlife doesn’t show?

Nina Unlay 28 Jun 2019
clearing mines in Angola, a HALO Trust worker wearing blue protective gear on his knees probing grass and dirt with his hands. Credit: The HALO Trust

Angola pledges $60m to fund landmine clearance in national parks

Jim Tan 25 Jun 2019

Tiny tracking tags help decode how echolocating bats navigate

Lakshmi Supriya 30 May 2019

‘Landscape of fearlessness’: bushbuck emboldened following top-predator decline in Mozambique

Sophie Manson 6 May 2019

Creating a high-tech island to save one of the world’s rarest birds

Hannah Thomasy 25 Apr 2019

‘Judas’ snakes lead scientists on a high-tech Easter egg hunt for pythons

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 24 Apr 2019

Solving the mystery of the UK’s vanishing hen harriers

Lakshmi Supriya 12 Apr 2019

Those kicks were fast as lightning: Kangaroo rats evade deadly snake strikes

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 4 Apr 2019

Something smells fishy: Scientists uncover illegal fishing using shark tracking devices

Sophie Manson 7 Mar 2019

Blue whales remember best times and places to find prey

Mongabay.com 26 Feb 2019

As animal tagging goes cutting-edge, ethical questions abound

Jason J. Gregg 24 Jan 2019

A ‘FitBit for squid’ could help track the ocean’s squishier species

Marianne Messina 21 Jan 2019

10 ways conservation tech shifted into auto in 2018

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 28 Dec 2018

Satellite trackers help fight vultures’ extinction in southern Africa

Munyaradzi Makoni 13 Dec 2018

In pursuit of the rare bird that vanishes for half the year

Abhaya Raj Joshi 27 Nov 2018

Filling in the gaps: Managing endangered species on the high seas

Marianne Messina 23 Nov 2018

Stay or go? Understanding a partial seasonal elephant migration

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 24 Oct 2018

Tiny tags and a broad research network help track small animal movements

Jason J. Gregg 27 Sep 2018

Tagging and tracking the Tour de Turtles

Catherine Morris 13 Sep 2018

Tracking elephant movements reveals transboundary wildlife corridors

Calistus Bosaletswe 10 Sep 2018

Tracking tools identify regional hubs of whale shark activity

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 16 Aug 2018

A ‘perfect policy storm’ cuts puma numbers by almost half near Jackson, Wyoming

John Cannon 1 Aug 2018

New tagging tech for great white shark tracking in New York waters

Mongabay.com 25 Jul 2018

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