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Likweli, a new-to-science species of colobus monkey described from the DRC. Image courtesy of Bernard Bonanga.

New colobus monkey, ‘Likweli’, confirmed in DRC

Shreya Dasgupta 15 Jul 2026

Deep sea mining identified as biggest threat to known and unknown deep-sea creatures

Victoria Schneider 15 Jul 2026
The desert rain frog. Image courtesy of Bob Steele via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Desert rain frogs threatened with extinction in southern Africa

Victoria Schneider 10 Jul 2026
A Florida panther.

Wildlife’s unpredictable movements make climate-change planning difficult

Gloria Dickie 1 Jul 2026

Telling one guiña from another: It’s all about the angle

Sean Mowbray 29 Jun 2026
A Himalayan wolf.

How snow leopards, wolves and leopards share the same Himalayan valley, study

Liz Kimbrough 26 Jun 2026
These sheep, photographed on a highway in Canada, may have been drawn to the road by deicing salt. Image by Ben Goldfarb.

The long and winding road to safe highways: Inside the global movement to reconnect habitat

Ben Goldfarb 10 Jun 2026

How much suffering do invasive species cause? Researchers are measuring that

Daniel Shailer 28 May 2026

Photos: Top new species from 2025

Liz Kimbrough 29 Dec 2025
Andean condor flying

Artificial incubation gives Colombia’s threatened Andean condor a new lifeline

Christina Noriega 2 Dec 2025

In Panama, poison dart frog move brings hope amid amphibians’ fight with fungus

Sam Meadows 8 Oct 2025
spiny lizard green

Regulation loopholes fuel illegal wildlife trade from Latin America to Europe

Spoorthy Raman 24 Mar 2025

In Peru, conservationists and archaeologists unite to save a threatened gecko

James Hall 10 Jul 2024
The sprawling Stung Meteuk hydropower dam being developed in the Cardamom Mountains appears to be illegally logging within Phnom Samkos Wildlife Sanctuary. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

History repeats as logging linked to Cambodian hydropower dam in Cardamoms

Gerald Flynn, Vutha Srey 27 Jun 2024

Elon Musk could avert global species extinction with only a portion of his wealth

Liz Kimbrough 25 Jun 2024

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