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rhino calves in Chitwan

For rescued rhino calves in Nepal, return to the wild is a fraught option

Abhaya Raj Joshi 22 Mar 2023
A wildlife ranger comforts Sudan, the last living male Northern White Rhino left on the planet, moments before he passed away March 19, 2018 at Ol Pejeta Wildlife Conservancy in northern Kenya. Photo courtesy of Ami Vitale.

Five years since the death of Sudan, new film highlights hope for rhinos

Mongabay.com 20 Mar 2023
Rhino tracker with their back to the camera in the foreground, looking at an alert black rhino in the middle ground. Image by Ultimate Safaris.

Namibian community protects its rhinos from poaching but could lose them to mining

Victoria Schneider 13 Mar 2023
An elephant.

Elephants promote jumbo trees, boosting the carbon stores in Africa’s forests

Malavika Vyawahare 27 Jan 2023

Sri Lanka seeks lasting solution as human-elephant conflict takes record toll

Malaka Rodrigo 26 Jan 2023
A greater one-horned rhino and her calf.

Rare case of rhino poaching jolts conservation community in Nepal

Abhaya Raj Joshi 23 Jan 2023

The least social of the African antelopes: the bushbuck | Candid Animal Cam

Romi Castagnino 29 Dec 2022
Wildebeest in the savannas.

Counterintuitive: Large wild herbivores may help slow climate change

Tim Vernimmen 13 Dec 2022
A tusker in the wild.

In Nepal, officials defend detusking to reduce human-elephant conflict

Abhaya Raj Joshi 28 Nov 2022

New protections for sharks, songbirds, frogs and more at CITES trade summit

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 25 Nov 2022

If there’s an elephant in the room, that’s because it’s not in a protected area

Jim Tan 21 Nov 2022

Stem cells may make ‘impossible possible’ for near-extinct Sumatran rhino

Basten Gokkon 15 Nov 2022

Report unveils ties between Indonesian conglomerate Sinar Mas and Canada’s Paper Excellence

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Nov 2022
Conservation Response Unit team in Cot Girek pose while also trying to control Marni the elephant.

Life in the awe-and-terror-inspiring vicinity of the Sumatran elephant

Philip Jacobson 20 Oct 2022
A black rhino recently dehorned.

Poaching surges in the birthplace of white rhino conservation

Jim Tan 14 Oct 2022
Elephant in Dong Nai Biosphere Reserve

In Vietnam, farmers show a willingness to work with the elephant in the room

Sean Mowbray 30 Sep 2022
Sumatran rhinos

New estimate of less than 50 Sumatran rhinos shows perilous population drop

Jeremy Hance 29 Sep 2022
Elephants in Zimbabwe.

As poachers poison wildlife, Zimbabwe finds an antidote in tougher laws

Ryan Truscott 12 Sep 2022
Drying fish on raised racks instead of the sand reduced the fish waste, a success of the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO). Photo by Robert Bociaga for Mongabay.

Human pressures strain Lake Tanganyika’s biodiversity and water quality

Robert Bociaga 9 Sep 2022
Sumatran elephants play in water.

With less than 10 years to save Sumatran elephants, what’s being done?

Mike DiGirolamo 6 Sep 2022
Clouded leopard

Southeast Asia’s big cats like their prey rare — as in really elusive

Carolyn Cowan 6 Sep 2022

Sumatran conservationist Rahmad Saleh Simbolon dies at 47

Elviza Diana, Lili Rambe 29 Aug 2022

Sri Lanka fuel shortage takes massive toll on efforts to save wildlife

Malaka Rodrigo 19 Aug 2022
Yasmin trails her son Junaidi on their farm.

Photos: Meet the Indonesians on the front lines of human-elephant conflict in Sumatra

Fieni Aprilia 11 Aug 2022
A herd of elephants in Cot Girek.

‘Chased from every side’: Sumatran elephants pinned down by forest loss

Dyna Rochmyaningsih 10 Aug 2022
An Asian elephant in a forest in Bangladesh

Bangladesh struggles to protect the last of its last wild elephants

Rafiqul Islam 9 Aug 2022

Saving Sumatran elephants starts with counting them. Indonesia won’t say how many are left

Dyna Rochmyaningsih 8 Aug 2022
A crane lifts an elephant into a truck.

Jumbo task as Malawi moves 263 elephants to restock a degraded national park

Charles Mpaka 5 Aug 2022
A white rhino browsing grass. Image by Brook Ward via Flickr (CC BY-NC-2.0)

Mozambique busts notorious rhino poacher

Estacio Valoi 1 Aug 2022
Thuza and Kusasa the white rhinos.

White rhino conservation project attempts paradigm shift by including local community

Ryan Truscott 19 Jul 2022
elephant nepal jungle

‘Unprecedented crisis’ for Nepal’s elephants: Q&A with conservationist Ashok Ram

Abhaya Raj Joshi 19 Jul 2022
A herd of elephants gets a drink in Botswana. Image by Roger Borgelid for Mongabay.

Twenty years since a massive ivory seizure, what lessons were learned? (commentary)

Julian Newman 27 Jun 2022

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