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Kenya to receive 4 mountain bongos from European zoos

Lynet Otieno 3 Apr 2026
Rangers prepare to load a rhino into a crate at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary, Uganda. Image courtesy of UWA.

Decades after poaching drove them extinct, rhinos are back in the wild in Uganda

Benjamin Jumbe 31 Mar 2026
Pangolins are one of the most in-demand wildlife in Asia, used in traditional chinese medicine preparations. After Chinese pangolins plummeted by about 90% in the 2000s, traffickers shifted to African species.

Asia now hub of growing illegal wildlife trade across 100+ countries, study shows

Spoorthy Raman 30 Mar 2026

Zambia seizes half-ton of ivory in major illegal wildlife crime operation

Charles Mpaka 28 Mar 2026

Indonesia plan to rezone elephant reserve for carbon trading and tourism sparks backlash

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Mar 2026
A woman with her goats in the buffer area. Image by Tulsi Rauniyar for Mongabay.

Nepal’s rural women at increasing risk of human-wildlife conflict

Tulsi Rauniyar 18 Mar 2026

How elephants experience time, and what this tells us about protecting them

Mike DiGirolamo 10 Mar 2026
The electric current flowing through the fences not only endangers elephants but also humans and other wildlife.

Electrocution, conflict, poaching mark grim start to year for Sumatran elephants

Junaidi Hanafiah 9 Mar 2026

‘Ridiculous’ plan developed at Florida zoo saves wild rhino’s eyesight in Africa

Associated Press 18 Feb 2026
Banteng

Helicopter translocation brings isolated banteng to safer grounds in Cambodia

Carolyn Cowan 17 Feb 2026
A domesticated Sumatran elephant with its mahout in Tesso Nilo National Park.

Indonesia says intervention in notorious Sumatran national park part of new ‘model’

Suryadi 17 Feb 2026
Scientists Yanive Aluma and Odel Harve check on a subaquatic whale-recording device. Image courtesy of Project CETI.

Scientists call for ethics rules as AI fuels animal communication research

Mongabay.com 10 Feb 2026
A forest elephant near Ngounié, Gabon. Image by marcusgmeiner via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Poaching down but threats remain for forest elephants, recent population assessment finds

Spoorthy Raman 5 Jan 2026
Craig. Photo by Cristina Mittermeier

What Craig’s long life reveals about elephant conservation

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Jan 2026

Can anyone save the Sumatran rhino?

22 Dec 2025

Kenyan wildlife census reveals conservation wins and losses

Lynet Otieno 19 Dec 2025
A bull elephant strolls past a fenced rural homestead in Namibia that is on high alert. Risk of confrontation between elephant and people is high if people don't know how to handle the situation safely. Image courtesy of Abi Best.

How Southern African farmers & elephants can both adapt to coexist

Ryan Truscott 19 Dec 2025
The presence of Sumatran elephants is intended to help transport wood left over from the flood.

Tsunami veteran rescue elephants mobilized for Indonesia cyclone disaster relief

Junaidi Hanafiah 19 Dec 2025
A Southern giraffe in Africa.

New study splits giraffe experts on future wild captures for zoos

Shradha Triveni 18 Dec 2025
Previously undetected in other protected areas, a tigress known as SWT001F was the first individual tiger captured on camera in Thailand's Sisawat Non-Hunting Area in 2024. Panthera, Thailand's DNP and other partners are working to monitor and protect Indochinese tigers and their prey in this region where camera traps have shown tigers are using Sisawat forest as a corridor. Currently plans exist to propose the adjoining forest area to the east as an extension of Sisawat.

Hope for tigers grows as Thailand safeguards a key link in their habitat

Gloria Dickie 16 Dec 2025
Musofa arrived at the Javan Rhino Study and Conservation Area (JRSCA). Image courtesy of Ujung Kulon National Park Authority.

Indonesia’s 1st Javan rhino translocation ends in death, in conservation setback

Basten Gokkon 16 Dec 2025
A herd of elephants crosses the M10 highway en route to the Zambezi River, Zambia.

Corridors, not culls, offer solution to Southern Africa’s growing elephant population

Ryan Truscott 11 Dec 2025
Forest elephants

Wildlife and communities bear the cost as Simandou rail corridor advances across Guinea

Younoussa Naby Sylla 11 Dec 2025
Iain Douglas-Hamilton. Image courtesy Save the Elephants.

Iain Douglas-Hamilton, elephant protector, has died at 83

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Dec 2025
greater mouse-deer

Reforestation and wild pig decline spark surge in miniature deer in Singapore

Carolyn Cowan 8 Dec 2025
Banner image of a white rhino at Kruger National Park in South Africa, by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Rhino horns for sale?

Izzy Sasada 8 Dec 2025
Elephants in Botswana. Image by Joe Ross via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Botswana’s elephant hunting quota threatens to wipe out mature bulls: Report

Oscar Nkala 8 Dec 2025

As Sri Lanka continues new elephant drive, scientists warn against creating new conflicts

Malaka Rodrigo 26 Nov 2025
An Asian elephant in a forest in Bangladesh

Researchers find evidence of elephant poaching in remote Bangladesh forest

Bobby Bascomb 14 Nov 2025

Radioactive rhinos (cartoon)

Rohan Chakravarty 11 Nov 2025

Landmark conviction exposes Sri Lanka’s deep-rooted illegal elephant trade

Malaka Rodrigo 29 Oct 2025
Visitors to a safari park in Gazipur enjoy a ride on an elephant.

Bangladesh to reintroduce captive elephants to the wild

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Oct 2025

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