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Long-tailed macaques being held at Sookvannaseng Integrated's breeding farm in Bolikhamsai province, Laos. Image supplied by source.

Wildlife trade regulator CITES lifts sanctions against Laos, prompting conservation concerns

Gerald Flynn 12 Nov 2026
One of the Watchers, or Tunyiungi va Lisima, poling a dugout on one of the region’s freshwater lakes, which local tradition considers the lakes to be sacred. Image courtesy of Kostadin Luchansky/AIB/NGOWP.

Angolan hunters protect Southern Africa’s internationally important wetland

Ryan Truscott 11 Nov 2026
Pangolin scales totaling 57 kilograms (123 pounds) seized from a perpetrator in South Kalimantan.

Investigation continues in Indonesia after first conviction in 3-ton pangolin trafficking case

Anggita Raissa 11 Nov 2026

Peruvian authorities seize more than 3,000 tarantulas from suspected European traffickers

Spoorthy Raman 9 Nov 2026

India repatriates seized orangutan, raising hopes for five more

Mongabay.com 6 Nov 2026
Forestry Commission officials and European trade representatives in Sefwi Wiawso, Ghana. Image courtesy of European Forest Institute via Flickr.

How Ghana’s new license to sell sustainable timber improves institutions & cooperation (analysis) 

Chris Beeko 5 Nov 2026
Two Malagasy flying fox specimens from the Field Museum's collections. The smaller specimen on the left is from 1995; the larger specimen is from 1948. Image © Field Museum.

Selective hunting may be making Madagascar’s largest bats smaller, study says

Shreya Dasgupta 5 Nov 2026
marine iguana

Scientists call on Ecuador to stop the rising trafficking of Galápagos iguanas

Spoorthy Raman 4 Nov 2026

US couple sentenced for helping finance trade in rhino horn, puma bones, other wildlife parts

Naina Rao 3 Nov 2026
Graphic by Emilie Languedoc/Mongabay with images courtesy of Josh van der Meulen via iNaturalist, David Chamberlin; Cornell Lab of Ornithology | Macaulay Library, Jonathan Casanova; Cornell Lab of Ornithology | Macaulay Library. These show falcons and the United Kingdom's Westminister halls of government.

Do not ‘engage formally’: UK officials advised against billionaire-run zoo ahead of CITES meeting

Elisângela Mendonça, Spoorthy Raman 3 Nov 2026
The “Mwani Mamas” of Mwani Zanzibar work in the shallow coastal waters, where seaweed farming provides an important source of income for women and their families. These farmers are at the heart of Zanzibar’s seaweed economy. Image courtesy of Kevin Gaines/Kelp Ark.

Zanzibar’s seaweed farmers seek better future through science and partnership (commentary)

Mariam Mwinyi, Jenny Krusoe, Lisa Kurbiel 2 Nov 2026
Asian black bears

Ecotourism may deter hunters, but also keeps wildlife away, Laos study suggests

Carolyn Cowan 2 Nov 2026
Black kites with heads shaved to appear like vultures on sale at the Akodessewa Fetish Market. Image by Nico Arcilla.

Togo’s growing belief-based use trade sweeping up avian biodiversity, says study

Sean Mowbray 2 Nov 2026
A Verreaux’s sifaka dancing.

World Lemur Day: How can we save these primates’ forest homes?

David Brown 30 Oct 2026
A man carries a discarded television set that he bought in Tondo, Manila. Image © Greenpeace.

Philippines halts U.S. e-waste imports but struggles to police customs-free zones

Biena Magbitang, Helena Rodríguez Gómez, Louis Boyd-Madsen, Gabriele Di Donfrancesco 30 Oct 2026

Legal loopholes and weak enforcement leave India’s exotic pet trade hard to police

Mongabay.com 30 Oct 2026
A New Zealand long-tailed bat (Mystacina tuberculata). Image © hrubbo via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Bat Week: Celebrating ecologically important, poorly understood mammals

David Brown 30 Oct 2026

To help farmers in Southern Africa, scientists predict when to plant native nuts

Charles Mpaka 29 Oct 2026

Investigations into Singapore palm oil firm find family ties to Borneo deforesters

Robin Hicks 29 Oct 2026

India’s forgotten vegetables offer a glimpse into what global diets are missing

Mongabay.com 29 Oct 2026
Sunda pangolin

Pangolin scale lawsuit in Indonesia could shake up how wildlife traffickers pay

Carolyn Cowan 28 Oct 2026
Copper mine in Chile. Image by Tom Hegen

Photographer Tom Hegen’s aerial eye reveals the true scale of the critical mineral age

Carolyn Cowan 28 Oct 2026

Baby orangutans in India expose illegal wildlife trade as experts question a billionaire’s zoo

Associated Press 27 Oct 2026
A male great hornbill approaches the nest in which its mate stays with the eggs or chicks.

Bangladesh’s hornbills face hunting risk during breeding season

Sifayet Ullah 26 Oct 2026

International Gibbon Day: Stories of threats and survival  

Mongabay 24 Oct 2026

Sri Lanka mourns iconic tusker amid renewed calls to address human-elephant conflict

Malaka Rodrigo 24 Oct 2026

Death of iconic elephant in Sri Lanka pushes authorities to fast-track protection efforts

Kamanthi Wickramasinghe 23 Oct 2026

Mass sloth deaths prompt US bill calling for import ban

Bobby Bascomb 23 Oct 2026

Rare Indonesian maleo birds face new threat from international exotic pet trade

Mongabay.com 22 Oct 2026
Silky sharks like this one, seen in the Bahamas, occupy important roles high in the food chain, and their loss could spell trouble for oceans.

As silky sharks decline, Costa Rica’s dominant trade faces a reckoning

Alex Megerle 20 Oct 2026

Anatomy of a land grab: the law, likes, and legislator behind an Indigenous land invasion in Brazil

Aimee Gabay, Elisângela Mendonça 19 Oct 2026
Endemic to Colombia, Lehmann’s poison frog (Oophaga lehmanni) is a critically endangered species threatened by the pet trade.

Legal gaps allow rampant pet trade, poaching reptiles and amphibians towards extinction

Spoorthy Raman 16 Oct 2026

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